TV Guide: Omar Epps

Let Them Eat Cake

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:00:00 -0500

Fri Dec 12 11:00 PM USA A fitness guru known for her "natural" lifestyle collapses while shooting an infomercial. Meanwhile, Thirteen participates in a clinical drug trial for Huntington's disease led by Foreman; Kutner operates an online medical-advice clinic under House's name; and Cuddy moves into House's office while hers is being repaired, much to House's dismay.

Sports Medicine

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:00:00 -0500

Fri Dec 12 09:00 PM USA A major-league pitcher with a history of drug abuse (Scott Foley) develops brittle bones. Steroids could be the cause, but he insists he's clean, and tests back him up. He doesn't appear to have cancer, either. And in the clinic, House treats, if that's the word for it, five patients in three minutes. Meanwhile, Foreman is seeing an attractive drug rep, and House and Cameron share a social evening: They attend a monster-truck rally. Lola: Meredith Monroe.

DNR

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0500

Fri Dec 12 08:00 PM USA A jazz musician (Harry Lennix), who's already paralyzed from the waist down, collapses at a recording session (which features a cameo by Brandy). His L.A. doctor (David Conrad) is treating him for ALS, and he signs a “do not resuscitate” order. But that's not about to stop House. Meanwhile, that doctor offers Foreman a job. Cora: Chloe Webb.

Love & Basketball

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:00:00 -0500

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Fidelity

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:00:00 -0500

Thu Dec 11 10:00 PM USA A 31-year-old woman (Myndy Crist) sleeps 18 hours a day, and when she's awake she's irritable. It isn't depression, but it will be fatal if House doesn't figure out what it is. Ed: Dominic Purcell. Samantha: Clementine Ford.

Histories

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:00:00 -0500

Thu Dec 11 09:00 PM USA A homeless Jane Doe (Leslie Hope) collapses while confronting police at an all-night rave, then has a seizure in the hospital. She turns out to be a talented cartoonist, who's diabetic and has a twitch. Wilson suspects ovarian cancer, and Foreman thinks she's faking. House, of course, has another view. He also has another audience: two medical students (Smith Cho, Ogy Durham), who are learning to take case histories.

Pilot Episode

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0500

Thu Dec 11 08:00 PM USA In the series pilot, a 29-year-old kindergarten teacher (Robin Tunney) suffers from mysterious seizures that no one on Dr. Greg House's diagnostic-medicine team can explain. Hugh Laurie, Linda Edelstein, Robert Sean Leonard.

Damned if You Do

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 10 08:00 PM USA At Christmastime, a nun (Elizabeth Mitchell) arrives at the clinic with symptoms resembling stigmata, and House's initital treatment (for an allergic reaction) nearly kills her. Subsequent efforts don't work either, and lead to much soul-searching. Meanwhile, House has a highly unusual remedy for a man (Dakin Matthews) with an inflamed bowel. Sister Mary Eucharist: Lucinda Jenney. Sister Mary Pius: Lori Rom. Mother Superior: Ann Dowd.

Occam's Razor

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:00:00 -0500

Tue Dec 9 10:00 PM USA A 22-year-old man who had just called out sick from work loses consciousness after having sex with his fiancée. So he really is sick, but with what? “We've had six symptoms that don't add up to anything,” House (Hugh Laurie) smirks. “Now we have seven. Who's excited?” Meanwhile, House tries out his gruff and sarcastic bedside manner on all the clinic patients at once. Brandon: Kevin Zegers. Mindy: Alexis Thorpe. Becky Merrell: Faith Prince. Robert Merrell: John Kelly.

Paternity

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:00:00 -0500

Tue Dec 9 09:00 PM USA A 16-year-old boy has night terrors after getting hit on the head by a lacrosse ball, and House (Hugh Laurie) immediately suspects he's a victim of sexual abuse. Later, he changes the diagnosis to MS, and that night the youth disappears from his hospital bed. In the clinic, House treats a baby whose mother has an aversion to inoculation, and a man with an infected knee who's almost as obnoxious as House is. Dan: Scott Mechlowicz. Andy: Robin Thomas. Paula: Wendy Gazelle. Funsten: Alex Skuby. Young Mother: Kylee Cochran.

Joy to the World

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0500

Tue Dec 9 08:00 PM FOX A troubled teen collapses during her high-school Christmas program; Foreman and Thirteen learn more about each other as they work together on the Huntington's disease drug trial; House gives and receives holiday gifts, leading to team speculation; and Cuddy receives a gift as well. Janice: Lori Petty.

Clueless

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:00:00 -0500

Sun Dec 7 10:00 PM USA A man stops breathing during rough sex with his wife (Samantha Mathis), then he develops an agonizingly itchy rash, but those symptoms belie his test results. Meanwhile, House diagnoses a Wall Street workaholic with herpes. The man swears he had sex only with his wife, who swears (loudly to Cuddy) that she hasn't been cheating, either. And Wilson, who's soon to be single again, moves in with House. They make an odd couple indeed.

Sex Kills

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:00:00 -0500

Sun Dec 7 09:00 PM USA A man (Howard Hesseman) suffers a seizure, then bacteria attack his heart, and he needs a transplant immediately. But the only potential donor was suffering from a mysterious illness that renders her heart unusable. At least that's what the protocols say. House isn't about to let that---or standard medical ethics---get in his way.

Skin Deep

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0500

Sun Dec 7 08:00 PM USA A 15-year-old supermodel collapses on a catwalk after seeing double and inexplicably attacking another model. At the hospital, she has short-term memory loss, and a tox screen finds heroin in her system. But could the drug be masking her illness? Meanwhile, no amount of Vicodin can mask House's worsening leg pain. Alex: Cameron Richardson. Martin: Tom Verica.

Distractions

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Sun Dec 7 07:00 PM USA A 16-year-old who crashes his ATV suffers severe burns. Then he develops heart trouble and brain dysfunction, and has a seizure as well. Meanwhile, it's payback time for a doctor who ratted out House for cheating in med school 20 years ago: The doc has come up with a migraine therapy House thinks is bogus, and he sets out to prove it---by experimenting on himself.

Babies & Bathwater

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:00:00 -0500

Sat Dec 6 10:00 PM USA It's payback time for Vogler (Chi McBride) after House's speech, leading to boardroom sessions that would make Donald Trump blanch. But House is focused on his patients: a pregnant 39-year-old who has trouble swallowing; and a low-weight baby whose parents have been feeding her a vegan diet. According to social-services authorities that constitutes child abuse.

Role Model

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:00:00 -0500

Sat Dec 6 09:00 PM USA Vogler offers House a way out of his personnel problem. Meanwhile, a senator (Joe Morton) with presidential ambitions doesn't believe it when House tells him he has AIDS. And a clinic patient (Mindy Crider) doesn't believe it when House tells her she had a miscarriage. She says that she hasn't had sex in a year.

Heavy

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0500

Sat Dec 6 08:00 PM USA Vogler (Chi McBride) is forcing House to fire one member of his team. Which one? He lets them fight it out as they struggle to save an obese 10-year-old who had a heart attack. Meanwhile, a woman with a huge belly won't hear of it when House tells her she's pregnant.

Mob Rules

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:00:00 -0500

Sat Dec 6 07:00 PM USA A mobster about to enter the Witness Protection Program collapses before testifying. His coma doesn't last long, but there's something seriously wrong with his liver. Meanwhile, Vogler leans on Cuddy to fire House while House tries to find out who ratted him out to Vogler about his lie to the transplant committee. And in the clinic, House must deal with a 2-year-old who keeps getting things stuck up his nose. Vogler: Chi McBride. Bill: Danny Nucci. Joey: Joseph Lyle Taylor.

Control

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:00:00 -0500

Sat Dec 6 06:00 PM USA While House treats a 32-year-old cosmetics CEO whose leg pain turns much more serious, the hospital welcomes its new board chairman (Chi McBride). He's donated $100 million to the Princeton-Plainsboro, and now wants to run it. Not surprisingly, he isn't happy with House or his department. Carly Forlano: Sarah Clarke.

Last Resort

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:00:00 -0500

Fri Dec 5 11:00 PM USA A gun-wielding clinic patient (Zeljko Ivanek) takes House, Thirteen and several other patients hostage in Cuddy's waiting room and demands that House diagnose and treat him. The hostage taker also demands that House use other patients as guinea pigs for any medication he is going to receive. Thirteen volunteers for the treatment.

Airborne

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:00:00 -0500

Fri Dec 5 09:00 PM USA House and Cuddy have an airborne medical crisis while returning from a symposium in Singapore. It begins when a first-class passenger becomes violently ill. House suspects meningitis, and soon others become sick, Cuddy among them. Back at the hospital, Chase, Cameron, Foreman and Wilson struggle to determine what's killing a 58-year-old woman who collapsed just before having sex with a high-end prostitute.

Half-wit

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0500

Fri Dec 5 08:00 PM USA Dave Matthews guest stars as a 35-year-old savant whose hand constricts during a piano recital. As the patient's condition quickly deteriorates at the hospital, House makes plans (unannounced, of course) to go to Boston. The doc has also been furtively ordering blood tests for a patient named Luke N. Laura. Dr. Obyedkov: Kurtwood Smith.

Insensitive

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:00:00 -0500

Thu Dec 4 10:00 PM USA A 16-year-old car-crash victim is insensitive to pain. She's also very headstrong, and concerned about her mother, who was injured more seriously in the crash. Perhaps not surprisingly, House takes a particular interest in the girl. He also takes an interest in Cuddy's date with a man she met online and keeps finding ways to interrupt it. And Foreman's girlfriend, Nurse Wendy, has a Valentine's Day getaway planned for the two of them.

Resignation

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:00:00 -0500

Thu Dec 4 09:00 PM USA A 19-year-old (Lyndsy Fonseca) coughs up blood and her condition soon deteriorates. House surmises that her body is “confused” and thinks she has an infection, though none can be found. He clings to the diagnosis more stubbornly than usual, and behaves oddly in other ways, too. Meanwhile, Foreman makes his resignation official; and House treats a patient who's cheating on his vegan girlfriend (Piper Perabo). “He's not cheating with another woman,” House tells her, but “with another food group.”

Family

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0500

Thu Dec 4 08:00 PM USA A 14-year-old with leukemia needs a bone-marrow transplant from his 10-year-old brother to save his life, but the brother develops an infection that not only prevents him from donating but could kill him as well. Meanwhile, House is criticizing Wilson about his handling of the boys' parents. And at home, House's new roommate---Wilson's former dog Hector---is chewing on just about everything in sight.

House Training

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 10:00 PM USA All the doctors try to find what's wrong with a 28-year-old con artist who collapses after her brain “freezes,” but the case becomes personal for Foreman. The patient tells him she thinks he doesn't regard her very highly because they have similar backgrounds---from which he escaped and she didn't. Meanwhile, Foreman's parents (Charles S. Dutton and Beverly Todd) arrive unexpectedly; House plays mind games with one of Wilson's ex-wives (Jane Adams); and Wilson and Cuddy go on another date.

Top Secret

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 09:00 PM USA Cuddy assigns House to treat an Iraq vet complaining of Gulf War syndrome who happens to be a nephew of a big hospital donor. House recognizes the patient's face---from a nightmare he had the night before. Meanwhile, House is having trouble going to the bathroom, and Cameron and Chase engage in “uncomplicated sex.”

Fetal Position

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 08:00 PM USA A pregnant 42-year-old celebrity photographer (Anne Ramsay) suffers a stroke while shooting a rock star (All-American Rejects' Tyson Ritter), and soon her kidneys and liver begin to fail as well. House suspects the fetus is the culprit, but the mother won't hear of an abortion and Cuddy backs her unequivocally. Meanwhile, House decides he wants to take a vacation; and Cuddy has a word with Cameron about her relationship with Chase.