TV Guide: Hugh Laurie

Sex Kills

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Sat Oct 25 08:00 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.

Who's Your Daddy?

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:00:00 -0400

Sat Oct 25 07:00 PM USA A 16-year-old Hurricane Katrina victim goes into cardiac shock after having hallucinations on a plane. At the hospital, her heart's fine but she quickly deteriorates. The case is of personal interest to House because her dad (D.B. Sweeney)---who was only recently told he fathered her---is his former bandmate. House is skeptical about his old friend's paternity. He's also skeptical about Cuddy's decision to have a child by artificial insemination. And his leg hurts more than usual.

Deception

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:00:00 -0400

Sat Oct 25 06:00 PM USA House meets a hard-drinking, quick-thinking woman (Cynthia Nixon) at an offtrack betting parlor just before she has a seizure. Later, at the hospital, she seems strangely unconcerned when Cameron tells her that she has fast-killing pancreatic cancer. Meanwhile, in the wake of Chase's disciplinary hearing, Foreman is temporarily in charge of the unit, but that doesn't mean he'll get a lot of respect from his new underling House.

Autopsy

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:00:00 -0400

Sat Oct 25 05:00 PM USA A child cancer patient (Sasha Pieterse) hallucinates for no apparent reason, and bravely undergoes numerous procedures to determine the cause---too bravely, House suspects. He thinks her bravery could be a symptom of a brain tumor. Meanwhile, in the clinic, House must deal with a young man who unsuccessfully tried to alter his appearance. Elvis Costello covers Christina Aguilera's “Beautiful” for the show.

Family

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0400

Fri Oct 24 09:00 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

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Fri Oct 24 08:00 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.

Three Stories

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Thu Oct 23 08:00 PM USA Sela Ward guest stars as House's former girlfriend, a one-time lawyer at the hospital, who wants House to figure out what's ailing her husband. Meanwhile, the dour doc is persuaded to teach a med-school diagnostics course, and his lecture (“three guys walk into a clinic...their legs hurt”) is illustrated with fantasy sequences. Carmen Electra appears as one of the patients (herself).

Love Hurts

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Wed Oct 22 08:00 PM USA Cameron returns on one condition---that House goes on a date with her. In the clinic, meanwhile, House berates a young man (John Cho), who then has a stroke that will be the first of many. Also, House plays romantic referee to a seventysomething couple (June Squibb and Peter Graves). Annette: Christina Cox.

Kids

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:00:00 -0400

Tue Oct 21 10:00 PM USA During a meningitis outbreak that fills the hospital, a 12-year-old diver exhibits many of the disease's symptoms, and some other ones, too. Meanwhile, with Vogler out of the picture, House offers Cameron her job back.

Babies & Bathwater

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0400

Tue Oct 21 09:00 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.

Lucky Thirteen

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Tue Oct 21 08:00 PM FOX A woman with whom Thirteen had a one-night stand has a seizure at Thirteen's apartment, prompting intense curiosity (both professional and otherwise) about the women's personal lives from House and Foreman. Adding to the intrigue: Thirteen discovers why the woman wanted to sleep with her. Meanwhile, Lucas (Michael Weston) continues to snoop on Wilson.

Stuart Little

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:30:00 -0400

Tue Oct 21 06:30 AM MOMAXe

Heavy

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Mon Oct 20 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.

Son of Coma Guy

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:00:00 -0400

Sun Oct 19 10:00 PM USA House suspects that a patient's illness is genetic and needs a family history. But the man's only living relative, his father (John Larroquette), has been in a vegetative state for 10 years. Meanwhile, Wilson confronts House about stealing his prescription pad, and Tritter (David Morse) questions Cameron, Chase and Foreman in his effort to nail House on drug charges.

Que Sera Sera

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0400

Sun Oct 19 09:00 PM USA A 600-pound man (Pruitt Taylor Vince) is brought into the hospital in a coma. He wakes up soon enough, appears to have recovered and demands to be released. But the reason for the coma remains unclear. Meanwhile, House's troubles with Michael Tritter (David Morse), a patient he insulted in the clinic, get worse.

Fools for Love

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Sun Oct 19 08:00 PM USA A young interracial couple (Jurnee Smollett, Raviv Ullman) suffer acute abdominal pain shortly after he saves her from being raped during a holdup attempt at a diner. Then she goes into a coma. Meanwhile, House disapproves of the attention Wilson is showing a newly hired nurse. And Cuddy demands that House apologize to a clinic patient (David Morse) he treated disrespectfully.

Lines in the Sand

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:00:00 -0400

Sun Oct 19 07:00 PM USA A 10-year-old autistic boy clutches his chest and screams in pain, but test after test proves negative. Meanwhile, House disrupts hospital routine because Cuddy won't replace the carpeting installed in his office following the shooting. He wants the old bloody carpeting back. And Ali (Leighton Meester), the 17-year-old with a crush on House, is back in the clinic. She's suffering, she says, from a "rhino thing" and wants House to listen to her heart and lungs. So she takes off her shirt.

House

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:00:00 -0400

Fri Oct 17 11:00 PM USA

Airborne

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0400

Fri Oct 17 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.

Fetal Position

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Fri Oct 17 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.

Control

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Thu Oct 16 08:00 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.

Cursed

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Wed Oct 15 08:00 PM USA A 12-year-old who says he's cursed collapses after developing pneumonialike symptoms and a rash. He had been hanging out in a dusty attic and had scraped his arm. And none of the doctors are pleased to be around the sick boy's very rich and very demanding father (Nestor Carbonell). Meanwhile, Chase's father (Patrick Bauchau), an eminent rheumatologist, arrives from Australia, but Chase is not at all happy to see him. Sarah: Tracy Middendorf.

Sports Medicine

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:00:00 -0400

Tue Oct 14 10:00 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.

Detox

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:00:00 -0400

Tue Oct 14 09:00 PM USA A 16-year-old boy starts bleeding just before the car crash that lands him in the hospital, and the symptoms add up to nothing but a likely death. Meanwhile, Cuddy suggests an unorthodox approach to get House off his painkillers. He takes her up on it and what follows isn't likely to be pleasant for anybody.

Birthmarks

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Tue Oct 14 08:00 PM FOX House learns that his father (R. Lee Ermey) has died but must be coaxed into attending the funeral. Back at the hospital, the team struggles to treat a young Chinese-American adoptee who collapsed in China while searching for her birth parents, and House has to diagnose her over the phone. Meanwhile, flashbacks recall House's first meeting with Wilson. Blythe House: Diane Baker.

Histories

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Mon Oct 13 08:00 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.