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House M.D. Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2004 - 2005
Episode 1
Pilot
Tue, Nov 16, 200443 mins
Pretty 29-year-old kindergarten teacher Rebecca Adler collapses one morning as she teaches her young students, babbling incoherently and unintelligibly. When her physicians cannot diagnose her, Rebecca is sent to Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPH) in New Jersey to consult with the foremost diagnostician in America, Dr. Gregory House. House's small team of young specialists perform all of the initial testing, including the taking of patient histories, performing environmental studies at her classroom and, by breaking and entering, her home. House firmly believes that everybody lies. He jokes that Rebecca might be running a meth lab in her basement, so he does not want her team to ask her for her house keys. No meth lab is found but there is pork in her refrigerator. Rebecca questions the fact that she has met Dr. Eric Foreman, Dr. Allison Cameron and Dr. Robert Chase (House's entire team), PPH hospital administrator Dr. Lisa Cuddy, and Dr. James Wilson, PPH oncologist and House's best friend - all but Dr. House. She asks Wilson if House cares about his patients; Wilson cannot give her an easy answer. Rebecca asks Wilson if House cares about him, his best friend; when Wilson hesitates, the wise young teacher tells Wilson it is not what people say but, rather, what people do which determines whether they care; so, Wilson acknowledges House cares about him. The treatment Rebecca receives leads to strange side effects but her exact diagnosis eludes the doctors ... until it does not. House has problems with Cuddy, as she demands he work his share of time in the PPH clinic. House tells Cuddy he is a fan of the great philosopher, Mick Jagger; but, through subtle manipulation, Cuddy finds she can get what she needs. In the clinic, a married man who is orange shows up for treatment; House tells him to talk to a divorce attorney. A young man who has diagnosed himself from the Internet seeks House's advice, and House chastises the clueless mother who withholds her son's asthma inhaler. Finally, Rebecca faces her mortality and refuses all further treatment. House has an idea but cannot prove it without more treatment. If he wants to cure her, House will have to visit Rebecca in person and actually talk to her.
Episode 2
Paternity
Tue, Nov 23, 200443 mins
A 16-year old lacrosse player starts suffering from double vision, night terrors and frequent hallucinations. House and his team must diagnose the mystery brain condition which is causing all these symptoms before it progresses to a fatal stage. Meanwhile, in the clinic, House is being threatened with a lawsuit and a mother who doesn't believe in vaccinations.
Episode 3
Occam's Razor
Tue, Nov 30, 200444 mins
Student Brandon Merrell (22) is rushed to ER with seven symptoms. His college girlfriend Mindy fears she caused it by excessively passionate sex. No one syndrome fits all seven, so House postulates the improbable 10,000,000 to one occurrence of two simultaneous rare diseases, each explaining half, but tests not only disprove the theory, the treatments make him much sicker. The poor boy ends up in terrifying total isolation undergoing an agonizing biopsy. House now guesses his original symptom, a mere cough, was accidentally mistreated with gout medicine which caused the other six, but the pill theory hunt proves frustrating, and there is more to discover.
Episode 4
Maternity
Tue, Dec 7, 200443 mins
Two babies in separate delivery rooms delivered by separate staff become deathly ill within minutes of birth. Even though there's no way to explain how an infection could spread between them so quickly, the team must find some way to prevent an epidemic they can't yet identify. In chasing the killer, House must make a choice: give both babies the same treatment and lose both if he's wrong, or give them separate treatments to assure a positive ID of the illness, but also assuring that one of the babies will die.
Episode 5
Damned If You Do
Tue, Dec 14, 200444 mins
A nun arrives at the clinic with what appears to be a skin rash caused by an allergy, and starts to go into anaphylactic shock in reaction to the medication Dr. House gives her. When he then gives her an injection of epinephrine, she goes into cardiac arrest, leading Dr. Cuddy to assume that House gave her an accidental overdose. Absolutely sure that he gave the patient the correct dosage, House begins a series of unorthodox treatments to uncover the truth, and also does a bit of snooping into the sister's past.
Episode 6
The Socratic Method
Tue, Dec 21, 200444 mins
When it appears that Lucy Palmeiro, a schizophrenic mom with deep vein thrombosis, is lying about her alcohol intake, Dr. House is the lone voice of reason. Under the scrutiny of her hyper-vigilant teenage son, House takes Lucy off all her medications and secretly sends Foreman and Chase to search her apartment for clues.
Episode 7
Fidelity
Tue, Dec 28, 200444 mins
Loving hunky husband Ed Snow brings in Elise, who slapped him for pushing her to get up after three days in bed and admits she's out of control. Her hallucinations are just a side-effect of what works out must be a rare, hidden brain tumor or African sleeping disease, but either therapy is extremely dangerous. Samantha Campbell visits House's clinic with poisoning symptoms and fabulous breast implants 'for her husband's 40th birthday', but House elaborates his own theory... All possible causes for the African bug are excluded, except one: either spouse could catch it from adultery; when she reacts badly to the other therapy after both deny being a risk factor, Ed must decide whether to have her treated for it, and shows surprising instincts...
Episode 8
Poison
Tue, Jan 25, 200544 mins
A high school boy has hallucinations and collapses during an exam. When he does not respond to treatments, and the normal tests are negative, Foreman presents the case to House. Clinic Cases: A happy old lady.
Episode 9
DNR
Tue, Feb 1, 200543 mins
A famous jazz trumpeter, diagnosed with ALS, signs a DNR form, but because House believes the diagnosis wrong, he breaks the law by resuscitating him.
Episode 10
Histories
Tue, Feb 8, 200544 mins
A homeless woman collapses at an illegal rave house, Foreman blows off the consult Wilson asks for, and House is intrigued by Foreman's and Wilson's reactions. Clinic Cases: A mother with lots of kids. Since House pretends to be ill, Cuddy makes sure he ends up teaching med students about taking histories instead.
Episode 11
Detox
Tue, Feb 15, 200544 mins
A girl crashes a Porsche after her boyfriend starts coughing up blood and continues to have unexplained bleeds. Clinic Cases: Cuddy gives House a month off clinic duties if he can spend a week off his pain meds.
Episode 12
Sports Medicine
Tue, Feb 22, 200543 mins
A major league pitcher with a history of drug use and attempting a comeback mysteriously breaks his arm and begins to exhibit a variety of symptoms, including kidney failure. Although Addison's Disease is suspected, the team is unable to agree on a definitive diagnosis. After his wife volunteers to donate a kidney and is found to be pregnant, she wishes to abort in order to become an organ donor.
Episode 13
Cursed
Tue, Mar 1, 200545 mins
Twelve-year-old Gabriel 'Gabe' Reilich thinks he's cursed after collapsing when his name comes out of a Ouija board game played with mates, marking him for death. Dr. Robert Chase explores the abandoned meeting place of the boys' secret society and the suspicious substances found there. Gabe's scary mix of suddenly-appearing symptoms suggest anthrax and a rare, infectious tropical disease. Meanwhile, Chase refuses to have any personal contact with his visiting father, rheumatologist Rowan Chase, a world authority on auto-immune diseases who suddenly turns up and joins the diagnostic joust. House takes a stubborn interest in Rowan's reason to visit his estranged son, as well as in the past of Gabe's admired, separated father, Jeffrey Reilich.
Episode 14
Control
Tue, Mar 15, 200545 mins
A $100 million dollar donation brings along a new Chairman of the Board to the hospital, with both Cuddy and Wilson seeing a clash coming against House. Meanwhile, as Cameron exercises newly acquired manipulation skills on her colleagues, House and team take a look at a high-ranking business woman experiencing a severe leg pain. In the clinic, House meets a man rendered mute from knee surgery, who sued the hospital successfully. Both may be cured, but somewhat surreptitiously.
Episode 15
Mob Rules
Tue, Mar 22, 200544 mins
Before he's supposed to testify against the Mafia and get into a witness protection program, mobster Joey Arnello collapses. It's not sure whether he's faking it or if he's really in a coma and House gets court ordered to find out. While he and his team do their best to find out what's going on with Joey, and while Joey's brother Bill tries to keep Joey in the hospital so he won't testify, Cuddy tries to convince Vogler House is an essential part of the hospital. In the clinic, House comes across a kid who has stuck toys up his nose while his older brother wasn't watching.
Episode 16
Heavy
Tue, Mar 29, 200545 mins
A morbidly obese ten-year-old girl has a heart attack, and her mother insists that House and his team look past her weight to find the diagnosis. Meanwhile, Vogler pressures House to fire a member of his staff. Overweight woman with a 30-pound tumor on her ovaries who refuses to have it removed, because she worries she will be unattractive.
Episode 17
Role Model
Tue, Apr 12, 200555 mins
House is convinced a black presidential candidate has AIDS, but the senator's passion convinces him otherwise. Also, Vogler forces House to give a speech endorsing a new drug from Vogler's company, but House has plans of his own. Clinic Cases: A woman showing signs of having had a miscarriage claims she's not having sex despite a hickey and carpet burns on her backside.
Episode 18
Babies & Bathwater
Tue, Apr 19, 200544 mins
While driving a car with her husband Sean, the pregnant Naomi Randolph collapses and is moved to House's hospital. Edward Vogler is forcing the dismissal of House, pressing the board with his investment of one hundred million dollars in the hospital. The team finds that Naomi has small-cell lung cancer, needing to be submitted to radiation, but she refuses the caesarean section and the treatment to give a better chance of survival to the baby. Meanwhile, the baby of a young couple is losing weight, and House finds that the baby is being fed by the vegetarian parents only with a vegan diet. The direction of the hospital calls the social service and the police and the parents are arrested.
Episode 19
Kids
Tue, May 3, 200544 mins
Teenage competition diver Mary Carroll overcomes her fear and plunges to see all eyes are averted to one of the judges who collapsed bleeding. He's brought in and the pool and hospital quarantined, as his symptoms and soon those of a flood of others indicate a meningitis epidemic. Dr. Robert Chase may have the best ideas by far and the steadiest hand, he still is in the dog-house and gets landed with endless chores, including an epic Internet search after House found Mary's case is probably not just meningitis, while Foreman gets the interesting practice and even his breaks. Meanwhile Cuddy not only makes House stay and help screening the flood of possibly infected people like everyone else in such an emergency, but orders him and his only friend Wilson to interview candidates to replace Dr. Allison Cameron, but Gregory's creativity to reject even the most suitable on dubious 'indications' such as footwear makes James conclude it's all Freudian.
Episode 20
Love Hurts
Tue, May 10, 200544 mins
House apparently triggers a stroke in a clinic patient, but the major topic of discussion is House's imminent date with Cameron. The team must deal with the patient's odd lifestyle, overbearing "friend", and reluctant parents in order to stop the strokes and try to save his life.
Episode 21
Three Stories
Tue, May 17, 200544 mins
House's ex-girlfriend Stacy Warner returns-not for House but to get help for her ailing husband, Mark. While House decides whether or not to take her case, Cuddy forces him to present a lecture to a class of medical students. House gives a lecture the students will never forget.
Episode 22
Honeymoon
Tue, May 24, 200544 mins
As a favor to his former girlfriend Stacy Warner, House drugs her husband Mark who refused to be examined by him. He's diagnosed with brain symptoms that seem to fit encephalitis or Alzheimer, but tests prove inconclusive. Chase found that he took amphetamines. Then a row with Stacy causes Greg to discover that Mark has erratic memory loss. He concludes porphyria is likely, but the only test to justify dangerous therapy is perilous, especially as Mark refuses to take the attack-inducing cocktail.
