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The Best Episodes of House

Every episode of House ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of House!

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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
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    House Season 4 Episode 16 - Wilson's Heart (2)
    9.1/10(54 votes)

    #1 - 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, David Foster

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  2. House Season 1 Episode 21 - Three Stories
    9.0/10(69 votes)

    #2 - Three Stories

    S1:E21

    House must decide whether to take the case of his ex-love's husband and he gives medical students a lecture they'll never forget.

    Director:Paris Barclay
    Writer:David Shore

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  3. House Season 6 Episode 21 - Help Me
    9.0/10(44 votes)

    #3 - Help Me

    S6:E21

    Cuddy, House and members of the team join forces with a search-and-rescue team to provide much-needed medical attention at the scene of an emergency.

    Director:Greg Yaitanes
    Writers:Russel Friend, Peter Blake, Garrett Lerner

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  4. House Season 6 Episode 1 - Broken
    8.9/10(49 votes)

    #4 - Broken

    S6:E1

    House is detoxing at a mental hospital and being held against his will by his attending physician, so he concocts an escape plan, aided by his roommate and a visitor named Lydia.

    Director:Katie Jacobs
    Writers:David Shore, Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, David Foster

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  5. House Season 5 Episode 24 - Both Sides Now
    8.8/10(44 votes)

    #5 - Both Sides Now

    S5:E24

    House and the team are intrigued by Scott, a man whose left brain and right brain operate independently, leaving him with two distinct personalities and no control over some of his actions. As the two sides of Scott’s brain struggle for dominance, his warring personalities make it increasingly difficult for the team to figure out what is causing the unique problem. The team is forced to use some unusual methods to get him to cooperate with their necessary testing. Meanwhile, when House refuses to make an appearance in the clinic, Cuddy takes an unconventional approach to force House to make up the time with a particular patient.

    Director:Greg Yaitanes
    Writer:Doris Egan

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  6. House Season 2 Episode 24 - No Reason
    8.7/10(54 votes)

    #6 - No Reason

    S2:E24

    House is shot by a former patient and must share a recovery room with the gunman.

    Director:David Shore
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. House Season 4 Episode 15 - House's Head (1)
    8.7/10(63 votes)

    #7 - 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
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. House Season 8 Episode 22 - Everybody Dies
    8.7/10(46 votes)

    #8 - Everybody Dies

    S8:E22

    Facing a 6-month jail term, and the realization that he won't be there for Wilson at the end, House finds himself examining his entire life while contemplating a dismal future without his best friend.

    Director:David Shore
    Writers:David Shore, Eli Attie, Peter Blake

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  9. House Season 6 Episode 20 - Baggage
    8.6/10(37 votes)

    #9 - Baggage

    S6:E20

    During a session with Dr. Nolan, House recounts the case of a woman who arrives at the Princeton Plainsboro emergency room with an unexplained illness and no recollection of who she is. While trying to solve the mystery of the woman's illness, House must also help her piece together her identity.

    Director:David Straiton
    Writers:Doris Egan, David Foster

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  10. House Season 5 Episode 22 - House Divided
    8.5/10(37 votes)

    #10 - House Divided

    S5:E22

    The team takes on the case of a deaf 14-year-old named Seth who collapsed after he started “hearing” explosions while competing in a wrestling match. When the team tries to test him for seizures, Seth loses vision in one eye, complicating House’s bunk theory of “Exploding Head Syndrome.” As his condition worsens, the team has an ethical disagreement about the patient and his mother’s adamant decision to forego cochlear implants to supplement his hearing. When the prospect of giving Seth the ability to hear for the first time in his life arises, House and the team are faced with a resounding decision. Meanwhile, House’s lack of sleep starts to play tricks on his mind, but he finds his insomnia may be a gift instead of a burden

    Director:Greg Yaitanes
    Writers:Liz Friedman, Matthew V. Lewis

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  11. House Season 5 Episode 23 - Under My Skin
    8.5/10(41 votes)

    #11 - Under My Skin

    S5:E23

    House and the team take on the case of a ballerina whose lungs collapse in the middle of a performance. When the treatment causes her skin to fall off, the dancer faces not only the prospect of never dancing again but also of dying an agonizing death. The team must use their imaginations to carefully choreograph ways to test and treat her delicate body without killing her. Meanwhile, House continues to suffer from what he thinks is insomnia, and he is willing to go to desperate measures to cure it.

    Director:David Straiton
    Writers:Pam Davis, Lawrence Kaplow

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  12. House Season 8 Episode 11 - Nobody's Fault
    8.5/10(41 votes)

    #12 - Nobody's Fault

    S8:E11

    House and his team are placed under review after a staff member gets hurt.

    Director:Greg Yaitanes
    Writers:Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, David Foster

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  13. House Season 2 Episode 20 - Euphoria (1)
    8.4/10(45 votes)

    #13 - Euphoria (1)

    S2:E20

    When a police officer with a gunshot wound to the head and uncontrollable laughter is admitted, House and the team are baffled. When Foreman begins showing the same symptoms, they race to determine the cause of the illness before Foreman's condition takes the same path.

    Director:Deran Sarafian
    Writer:Matthew V. Lewis

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  14. House Season 2 Episode 21 - Euphoria (2)
    8.4/10(44 votes)

    #14 - Euphoria (2)

    S2:E21

    Foreman continues to experience the same progression of symptoms as the police officer. When he realizes he may be facing imminent death, he calls his father who comes to his son's side. As it comes down to a race against time, House believes the solution to the illness is in the police officer's apartment.

    Director:Deran Sarafian
    Writers:David Shore, Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner

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  15. House Season 3 Episode 12 - One Day, One Room
    8.4/10(52 votes)

    #15 - One Day, One Room

    S3:E12

    While House is forced to work full-time in the clinic and deal with a rape victim who insists on confiding with him, Cameron deals with a terminal cancer patient trying to take advantage of her state of mind.

    Director:Juan José Campanella
    Writer:David Shore

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  16. House Season 4 Episode 11 - Frozen
    8.4/10(40 votes)

    #16 - 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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  17. House Season 5 Episode 19 - Locked In
    8.4/10(46 votes)

    #17 - Locked In

    S5:E19

    A man awakens in New York after a bicycle accident unable to move or communicate in any way. House, himself injured in a motorcycle mishap, occupies the hospital bed next to Lee and quickly annoys the doctors treating them both by insisting that Lee has “locked-in” syndrome.

    Director:Dan Attias
    Writers:Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, David Foster

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  18. House Season 6 Episode 3 - The Tyrant
    8.4/10(42 votes)

    #18 - The Tyrant

    S6:E3

    When a controversial African politician falls ill, he is brought to Princeton Plainsboro for treatment. The team struggles with whether to help a merciless dictator being subpoenaed for crimes against humanity in his country. Meanwhile, Wilson tries to make peace with a feuding neighbor, but House’s prying exacerbates the problem.

    Director:David Straiton
    Writer:Peter Blake

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  19. House Season 7 Episode 18 - The Dig
    8.4/10(34 votes)

    #19 - The Dig

    S7:E18

    Thirteen has been in prison for the past year, but the real mystery for House is what she did to get there. At the hospital, the team treats a science teacher suffering from severe respiratory illness. Taub tries to get back into the dating scene, but winds up retreating to his old habits.

    Director:Matt Shakman
    Writers:David Hoselton, Sara Hess

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  20. House Season 7 Episode 19 - Last Temptation
    8.4/10(34 votes)

    #20 - Last Temptation

    S7:E19

    Masters faces a career crossroads on her last day as a medical student and struggles with the choice to continue on the path to become a surgeon or to accept the rare opportunity to join House’s team officially. Meanwhile, the team treats a 16-year-old girl who inexplicably collapsed days before embarking on an ambitious sailing tour around the globe. Despite the patient's life-changing diagnosis, the patient's family insists on getting her back on the seas in time for her potentially record-breaking launch. But to the team's surprise, including House, Masters makes a bold decision regarding the patient’s treatment.

    Director:Tim Southam
    Writers:Liz Friedman, David Foster

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  21. House Season 8 Episode 1 - Twenty Vicodin
    8.4/10(38 votes)

    #21 - Twenty Vicodin

    S8:E1

    House is serving out a lengthy prison sentence for his various misdeeds, including his trip outside the country in an attempt to escape responsibility. Entirely cut off from his old life, House determines his current problems are the result of his inability to deal with people. Feeling he will never be able to practice medicine again, he plans instead to go back to university to earn a doctorate in physics - a field that will all but assure his isolation from other human beings.

    Director:Greg Yaitanes
    Writer:Peter Blake

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  22. House Season 4 Episode 5 - Mirror Mirror
    8.3/10(43 votes)

    #22 - 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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  23. House Season 5 Episode 17 - The Social Contract
    8.3/10(38 votes)

    #23 - The Social Contract

    S5:E17

    House and the team take on the case of Nick, a book editor who loses his inhibitions. The team realizes Nick has frontal lobe disinhibition, which causes him to speak his mind having no control over what he says and making him just like House. Meanwhile, House suspects Wilson and Taub are keeping something from him.

    Director:Andrew Bernstein
    Writer:Doris Egan

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  24. House Season 6 Episode 10 - The Down Low
    8.3/10(38 votes)

    #24 - The Down Low

    S6:E10

    When drug dealer Mickey mysteriously collapses while negotiating a sale, his partner-in-crime, Eddie, accompanies him to Princeton Plainsboro for treatment. But with a major deal pending, Mickey is not forthcoming with the necessary personal information the team needs to treat him. As Mickey's condition worsens, the team resorts to old-fashioned detective work to solve the case. Meanwhile, House and Wilson compete for the affection of a new neighbor, and Chase, Thirteen and Taub attempt to play a practical joke on Foreman.

    Director:Nick Gomez
    Writers:Liz Friedman, Sara Hess

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  25. House Season 7 Episode 2 - Selfish
    8.3/10(35 votes)

    #25 - Selfish

    S7:E2

    A seemingly healthy 14-year-old girl collapses during a skateboarding exhibition; House and Cuddy face the challenge of handling their romantic relationship at work.

    Director:Dan Attias
    Writer:Eli Attie

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Best Episodes Summary

"Wilson's Heart (2)" is the best rated episode of "House". It scored 9.1/10 based on 54 votes. Directed by Katie Jacobs and written by Russel Friend, Peter Blake, Garrett Lerner, David Foster, it aired on 5/19/2008. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Three Stories".