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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!

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.
Genres:DramaMysteryComedy
Network:FOX

Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Alone" is the best rated episode of "House" season 4. It scored 8.9/10 based on 4027 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".

  • Alone
    8.9/104,027 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

  • The Right Stuff
    8.7/103,570 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: Doris Egan, Leonard Dick

  • 97 Seconds
    8.6/103,396 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: Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend

  • Guardian Angels
    8.3/103,083 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

  • Mirror Mirror
    8.7/103,535 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

  • Whatever It Takes
    8.5/103,219 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: Peter Blake, Thomas L. Moran

  • Ugly
    8.1/103,106 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

  • You Don't Want to Know
    8.5/103,110 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

  • Games
    8.5/103,247 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

  • It's a Wonderful Lie
    8.2/103,000 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

  • Frozen
    9.1/104,324 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

  • Don't Ever Change
    7.9/102,963 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: Doris Egan, Leonard Dick

  • No More Mr. Nice Guy
    8.0/102,853 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

  • Living the Dream
    8.1/102,945 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

  • House's Head (1)
    9.8/1012,456 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: Peter Blake, Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend, Doris Egan, David Foster

  • Wilson's Heart (2)
    9.7/1011,333 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: Peter Blake, Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend, Doris Egan, David Foster