The Best Episodes of House Season 4
Every episode of House Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of House Season 4!
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
Season 4 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "House" season 4 is "Alone", rated 8.9/10 from 3923 user votes. It was directed by Deran Sarafian and written by David Shore, Peter Blake. "Alone" aired on 9/25/2007 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Right Stuff".
8.9/10 3,923 votes#1 - Alone
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2007
With his diagnostic team gone, House tries to diagnose a young woman who survived an office building collapse. With the condition getting worse, Cuddy puts pressure on House to hire a new team, but instead attempts a differential diagnosis with help from the janitor.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: David Shore, Peter Blake
8.7/10 3,482 votes#2 - The Right Stuff
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2007
House is secretly trying to treat a fighter pilot who is a candidate for NASA's astronaut training program. Her diagnosis will be the test to choose which ones of the 40 applicants are going to take the empty spots in his team.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Leonard Dick, Doris Egan
8.7/10 3,306 votes#3 - 97 Seconds
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2007
The candidates are now two teams of five women and five men, competing on diagnosing and treating a wheelchair-bound man. Meanwhile House does experiments on himself to test what happens after death, and Foreman, at another hospital, is treating his team in a House-like manner.
Director: David Platt
Writer: Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner
8.3/10 3,004 votes#4 - Guardian Angels
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/2007
House finds that some of his own fellowship students will do whatever it takes, when they deal with a woman who believes she can talk to the dead.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: David Hoselton
8.7/10 3,443 votes#5 - Mirror Mirror
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2007
House deals with a patient who mirrors the personality of anyone he meets. Meanwhile, Foreman is put in charge of overseeing the fellowship candidates.
Director: David Platt
Writer: David Foster
8.5/10 3,131 votes#6 - Whatever It Takes
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/2007
Based on practically no information and no medical history about a mystery patient sent by the CIA, House is using some unorthodox methods to diagnose and treat him. Meanwhile the remaining candidates are questioning Foreman's judgment.
Director: Juan José Campanella
Writer: Thomas L. Moran, Peter Blake
8.1/10 3,021 votes#7 - Ugly
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/2007
A film crew and the candidates are following around House distracting him while he is trying to diagnose a teenager who suffers from a heart attack prior to a serious plastic surgery.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Sean Whitesell
8.5/10 3,022 votes#8 - You Don't Want to Know
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/2007
House treats a magician but comes to believe he's faking illness to cover up his own incompetence. Meanwhile, House pits the fellows against each other in his version of an immunity challenge.
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: Sara Hess
8.5/10 3,160 votes#9 - Games
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/2007
Under Cuddy’s pressure to choose his team, House gives the candidates a case of a former punk rock star who is a drug user. Whoever diagnoses the patient is going to have a future as a member of House’s team.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Eli Attie
8.2/10 2,925 votes#10 - It's a Wonderful Lie
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 1/29/2008
A mother's sudden paralysis during a indoor rock-climbing incident leaves her daughter injured, and House's new team looking for a cure. Meanwhile, House organizes his new recruits' Secret Santa gift exchange... with a few twists of his own.
Director: Matt Shakman
Writer: Pam Davis
9.1/10 4,214 votes#11 - Frozen
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 2/3/2008
House and his team have to diagnose a case at a distance when a researcher at a South Pole base is taken ill.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Liz Friedman
7.9/10 2,886 votes#12 - Don't Ever Change
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 2/5/2008
House and his team must diagnose a Jewish bride who is taken ill at her wedding. However, House is more interested in analyzing Wilson's relationship with his new girlfriend.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Leonard Dick, Doris Egan
8.0/10 2,775 votes#13 - No More Mr. Nice Guy
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 4/28/2008
House copes with a patient whose symptoms conceal a greater problem, but spends much of his time dodging Cuddy's orders to give performance reviews, and fighting with Amber over who gets to spend more time with Wilson.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: David Shore, David Hoselton
8.1/10 2,869 votes#14 - Living the Dream
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 5/5/2008
House is convinced one of the actors on his favorite soap opera “Prescription Passion” has a serious medical condition after observing his symptoms on television. House decides to intervene and take matters into his own hands, but both the actor and House's own team dismiss House’s assessment and do not believe there is anything wrong with him.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Sara Hess, Liz Friedman
9.8/10 12,144 votes#15 - House's Head (1)
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 5/12/2008
A bus accident leaves House with serious head trauma and partial amnesia. He comes to believe that a patient on the bus had a life-threatening disease and struggles to recall who it was, and what they had.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, Peter Blake, Doris Egan, David Foster
9.7/10 11,064 votes#16 - Wilson's Heart (2)
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 5/19/2008
In the aftermath of the bus accident, House struggles with his head injuries and short-term memory loss, and must deal with a concerned Wilson who believes his friend's health may be in danger.
Director: Katie Jacobs
Writer: Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, Peter Blake, Doris Egan, David Foster