House M.D.
At the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey, Dr. Gregory House, an acerbic infectious disease specialist, solves medical puzzles with the help of a team of young diagnosticians. Flawless instincts and unconventional thinking help earn House great respect, despite his brutal honesty and antisocial tendencies.
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- 2004-2012
- 8 seasons
- Fox Network
- Drama
- TV-14
At the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey, Dr. Gregory House, an acerbic infectious disease specialist, solves medical puzzles with the help of a team of young diagnosticians. Flawless instincts and unconventional thinking help earn House great respect, despite his brutal honesty and antisocial tendencies.
Season 3 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2006 - 2007
Episode 1
Meaning
Tue, Sep 5, 2006 44 mins
A paralyzed husband and father living with brain cancer, drives his wheelchair into a pool at a family BBQ. Everyone, but his son, thinks that it was suicide from the pain, but Dr. House will stop at nothing to figure out his true ailment. At the same time, House and staff deal with another baffling paralysis case involving a young woman who, although paralyzed below the neck, can still feel pain and touch.
Episode 2
Cane and Able
Tue, Sep 12, 2006 44 mins
Clancy, a 7 year old boy, who believes he is being tortured by aliens comes to the hospital because of rectal bleeding. When House, who thinks he did not solve his last case and it's affecting him physically, finds a metal object in his neck where Clancy claims a chip has been planted and when a cell with different DNA is found, the team has to give his alien theory more credit. But House's humiliation from his last case and worsening leg pain cause him to back out, forcing Cuddy, who lied to House about curing his last patient, to rethink her decision to withhold the information.
Episode 3
Informed Consent
Tue, Sep 19, 2006 44 mins
Ezra Powell, a renowned pioneer in the field of medical research, collapses in his lab. House is struggling after the ketamine treatment wore off and doesn't want to talk about it. When the team put Ezra through rigorous diagnostic tests and don't come up with anything conclusive Ezra demands the team to help him end his life. Now the team goes through twists and turns of the moral dilemma of ignoring his wishes or to assist in his suicide and abide by Ezra's wishes.
Episode 4
Lines in the Sand
Tue, Sep 26, 2006 44 mins
House meets a young boy with Autism named Adam. Plagued with the inability to communicate verbally with the child, House must find other ways to communicate. Lastly, House has a young 17-year-old girl who is in love with him following him around. Cuddy demands that he puts an end to it.
Episode 5
Fools for Love
Tue, Oct 31, 2006 44 mins
A husband and wife being treated cause Foreman to ponder the strength of true love, and House abuses one too many patients with potentially devastating repercussions.
Episode 6
Que Será Será
Tue, Nov 7, 2006 44 mins
An obese man in a coma presents treatment challenges, but finding out what's wrong with him may be the most challenging test of all. Elsewhere, Tritter ramps up his vendetta against House.
Episode 7
Son of Coma Guy
Tue, Nov 14, 2006 44 mins
When a man begins to seizure while visiting his comatose father, House, believing the son's problems are due to a genetic condition, revives the father (the only living relative) to determine the source. Meanwhile, Michael Tritter continues his retaliation against House by questioning Foreman, Cameron and Chase.
Episode 8
Whac-A-Mole
Tue, Nov 21, 2006 44 mins
A young man collapses at his job, and House makes a game of establishing the diagnosis until things turn critical, and Tritter increases the pressure on Wilson.
Episode 9
Finding Judas
Tue, Nov 28, 2006 44 mins
While a little girl's life and limbs are in jeopardy, Tritter becomes more manipulative and House suffers withdrawal.
Episode 10
Merry Little Christmas
Tue, Dec 12, 2006 44 mins
Dr. Wilson has made a deal with detective Tritter and now House has a choice: Jail or Rehab. While actively ignoring these options House takes a clinic case from Dr. Cuddy about a dwarf with ear infections. Dr. Cuddy and Dr. Wilson take away House's pain medication hoping to force him to take the deal taking him off of the case while he detoxes. Stuck in his apartment and trying to deal with the pain, the rest of the team with the addition of Cuddy and Wilson stumble while trying to solve the case without House. Foreman and Cameron both visit House on separate occasions to ask for help. The pain becomes to much and House eventually takes painkillers from one of Wilson's patients that has passed away. House solves the case while high on the painkillers proving that the dwarf had growth hormone deficiency. When the bottle of pain medication is empty House goes to Tritter to take the deal, but in Tritter's glee he finds House's mistake and is preparing to take him down.
Episode 11
Words and Deeds
Tue, Jan 9, 2007 44 mins
House checks himself into rehab just before his trial, but a different game entirely may be afoot. Elsewhere, the team attempts to treat a firefighter who can't stop shivering.
Episode 12
One Day, One Room
Tue, Jan 30, 2007 44 mins
Stuck with clinic duty, House almost wishes he had the boring patients back after he encounters a young woman with an STD and the need to talk.
Episode 13
Needle in a Haystack
Tue, Feb 6, 2007 44 mins
Foreman bonds with the patient of the week, a 16-year-old Romani boy admitted after suddenly becoming unable to breathe during a make-out session with his girlfriend. Meanwhile, House loses his parking space to a new research doctor, Dr. Whitner, and makes a wager with Cuddy to get it back.
Episode 14
Insensitive
Tue, Feb 13, 2007 44 mins
When teenager Hannah Morganthal brings in her wounded mother Abby after a car accident, House spots that she must be afflicted by an extremely rare condition. She cannot feel pain and this is a constant problem as she could be injured without noticing. He has a hard time getting her committed, but she soon gets acute medical problems. In order to diagnose the cause, Chase comes up with a House-like method: expose her to such extreme pain even she may feel it. Meanwhile Valentine's Day dating lays bare team members' relational problems.
Episode 15
Half-Wit
Tue, Mar 6, 2007 44 mins
Musical savant Patrick Obyedkov ends up at Princeton-Plainsboro care after he suffers muscle spasms in his left hand during a piano concert. House learns that Patrick was in a terrible bus accident at age 10, which resulted in severe brain damage - and a sudden, inexplicable ability to play the piano perfectly despite having had no musical training. House and his team race to find the cause of Patrick's rare movement disorder and bleeding problems in time to save the savant's life. Meanwhile, Cuddy suspects that House has applied for a job with another hospital in Massachussetts, only to learn that he was really applying to be a patient in a clinical trial studying brain cancer.
Episode 16
Top Secret
Tue, Mar 27, 2007 44 mins
A patient whose relative has called in a favor with Cuddy presents with nonspecific minor symptoms that turn life-threatening, but House is distracted by a dream and an inability to urinate.
Episode 17
Fetal Position
Tue, Apr 3, 2007 44 mins
When a pregnant woman has a stroke, the team is at a loss after all tests reveal nothing, but when her organs start shutting down Cuddy takes over the case.
Episode 18
Airborne
Tue, Apr 10, 2007 44 mins
House and Cuddy are flying back to the US from an international conference in Singapore. While en route a mysterious disease strikes one passenger and an epidemic unfolds, causing House to diagnose in midair since they have missed the halfway mark by passing the north pole.
Episode 19
Act Your Age
Tue, Apr 17, 2007 44 mins
A young girl is ailed with diseases that usually strike people much older than her 6 years of age. But before House can diagnose her, her brother starts exhibiting the same symptoms she was admitted with. During all of this House gives Wilson tickets that a patient had given to him for a play.
Episode 20
House Training
Tue, Apr 24, 2007 44 mins
After elimination to two plausible diagnosis it seems the only obvious treatment for Lupe, who fainted in the street and developed life-threatening symptoms at an alarming rate, is suppressing her immune system. Once that's done, she is found to have an infection, which is now untreatable. Foreman, who systematically avoids his family, especially his mother, convinced House to make her sign consent over. House digs into the case of Wilson's second ex-wife Bonnie, who wants him to take their dog. He learns from her, posing as a real estate client, what it takes to prevent a 'serial husband' to repeat-offend.
Episode 21
Family
Tue, May 1, 2007 44 mins
Wilson is preparing his 14-year-old patient, Nick, for a bone marrow transplant when the donor, Nick's younger brother Matty, suddenly starts sneezing. Since Nick's immune system has been destroyed by the chemotherapy for his cancer, he cannot risk a marrow donation from Matty while Matty is ill.
Episode 22
Resignation
Tue, May 8, 2007 44 mins
A 19-year-old college student, Addie, starts coughing up blood during karate class and ends up one of House's cases. Foreman hands in his resignation before treating the woman and refuses to explain why. Although her symptoms show no signs of it, House is convinced that an infection is causing Addie's bleeding. Her lungs start filling with fluid and House's team believes a toxin or cancer is to blame for Addie's illness but are unable to change House's mind. Addie continues to get worse and House wants to do an extremely risky life-or-death treatment in order to confirm his diagnosis; the team starts to ask whether House cares about making a diagnosis more than Addie's own life. Meanwhile, House becomes interested in Honey, a young, attractive nutritionist who brought her boyfriend to the clinic for treatment. He gets her to fill out an employment application (for Foreman's soon-to-be vacated position) and arranges to meet her again in a more casual situation.
Episode 23
The Jerk
Tue, May 15, 2007 44 mins
When a teenage chess player assaults his opponent, the team struggles to determine whether the problem is organic or psychological. Clinic Cases: Spotted sunburn.
Episode 24
Human Error
Tue, May 29, 2007 44 mins
A woman and her husband are rescued from the middle of the ocean when their trip from Cuba to the US goes awry. While in air the man conveys that his wife is sick and that they need to see Dr. House. Unfortunately the medical records of the man's wife were lost at sea when the Guard made him leave the suitcase that contained them in the ocean. Tensions rise high in the Diagnostics department on the eve of Foreman's departure and the almost Sci-fi case that they are working. At the very end House is left with an immense conflict to be resolved in the next season.
