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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!

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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.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    House Season 4 Episode 1 - Alone
    8.9/10(4679 votes)

    #1 - Alone

    S4:E1

    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
    Writers:David Shore, Peter Blake

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  2. House Season 4 Episode 2 - The Right Stuff
    8.7/10(4161 votes)

    #2 - The Right Stuff

    S4:E2

    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
    Writers:Leonard Dick, Doris Egan

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  3. House Season 4 Episode 3 - 97 Seconds
    8.6/10(3984 votes)

    #3 - 97 Seconds

    S4:E3

    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
    Writers:Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner

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  4. House Season 4 Episode 4 - Guardian Angels
    8.3/10(3609 votes)

    #4 - Guardian Angels

    S4:E4

    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

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  5. House Season 4 Episode 5 - Mirror Mirror
    8.7/10(4123 votes)

    #5 - Mirror Mirror

    S4:E5

    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

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  6. House Season 4 Episode 6 - Whatever It Takes
    8.5/10(3770 votes)

    #6 - Whatever It Takes

    S4:E6

    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
    Writers:Thomas L. Moran, Peter Blake

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  7. House Season 4 Episode 7 - Ugly
    8.1/10(3652 votes)

    #7 - Ugly

    S4:E7

    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

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  8. House Season 4 Episode 8 - You Don't Want to Know
    8.5/10(3651 votes)

    #8 - You Don't Want to Know

    S4:E8

    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

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  9. House Season 4 Episode 9 - Games
    8.5/10(3766 votes)

    #9 - Games

    S4:E9

    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

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  10. House Season 4 Episode 10 - It's a Wonderful Lie
    8.2/10(3511 votes)

    #10 - It's a Wonderful Lie

    S4:E10

    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

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  11. House Season 4 Episode 11 - Frozen
    9.1/10(4995 votes)

    #11 - Frozen

    S4:E11

    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

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  12. House Season 4 Episode 12 - Don't Ever Change
    7.9/10(3484 votes)

    #12 - Don't Ever Change

    S4:E12

    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
    Writers:Leonard Dick, Doris Egan

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  13. House Season 4 Episode 13 - No More Mr. Nice Guy
    7.9/10(3356 votes)

    #13 - No More Mr. Nice Guy

    S4:E13

    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
    Writers:David Hoselton, David Shore

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  14. House Season 4 Episode 14 - Living the Dream
    8.1/10(3461 votes)

    #14 - Living the Dream

    S4:E14

    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
    Writers:Liz Friedman, Sara Hess

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  15. House Season 4 Episode 15 - House's Head (1)
    9.7/10(14747 votes)

    #15 - House's Head (1)

    S4:E15

    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
    Writers:Russel Friend, Peter Blake, Garrett Lerner, Doris Egan, David Foster

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  16. House Season 4 Episode 16 - Wilson's Heart (2)
    9.7/10(13338 votes)

    #16 - Wilson's Heart (2)

    S4:E16

    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
    Writers:Russel Friend, Peter Blake, Garrett Lerner, Doris Egan, David Foster

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Alone" is the best rated episode of "House" season 4. It scored 8.9/10 based on 4679 votes. Directed by Deran Sarafian and written by David Shore, Peter Blake, it aired on 9/25/2007. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Right Stuff".