House M.D.: Season 5
Universal Studios (2008)
TV Series  /  Comedy, Drama, Mystery
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Seen ItYes
025195050340
IMDB   8.7
1060 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
Robert Sean Leonard Dr. James Wilson
Olivia Wilde Dr. Remy 'Thirteen' Hadley
Hugh Laurie Dr. Gregory House
Peter Jacobson Dr. Chris Taub
Jennifer Morrison Dr. Allison Cameron
Lisa Edelstein Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Omar Epps Dr. Eric Foreman
Jesse Spencer Dr. Robert Chase
Bobbin Bergstrom Nurse
Kal Penn Dr. Lawrence Kutner
Bob Ross Connor Allen
Anne Dudek Dr. Amber Volakis
Jennifer Crystal Foley Rachel Taub
Michael Weston Lucas Douglas
Meat Loaf Eddie
Lori Petty Janice Burke
R. Lee Ermey John House
Faune A. Chambers Molly
Natasha Gregson Wagner Sandra
Dominic Scott Kay Jackson Smith
Director
Daniel Attias
Deran Sarafian
Greg Yaitanes
Lesli Linka Glatter
Producer Bryan Singer
Leonard Dick
Paul Attanasio
David Foster
Writer Leonard Dick
David Foster
Eli Attie
David Hoselton
Cinematography Gale Tattersall
Cort Fey
James Dillinger
Musician Jon Ehrlich
Jason Derlatka


Go deeper into the medical mysterious of House, TV's most compelling drama. Hugh Laurie stars as the brilliant but sarcastic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. While his behavior can border on antisocial, Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving the medical puzzles that other doctors give up on. Together with his hand-picked team of young medical experts, he'll do whatever it takes in the race against the clock to solve the case.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/16/2008  1.  Dying Changes Everything
In the aftermath of personal tragedy, Wilson resigns from the hospital... and from his friendship with House. Meanwhile, Thirteen struggles with her personal medical problems while helping treat an executive assistant with a similar situation to her own.
Director:  Deran Sarafian  Writer:  Eli Attie 
Guest starring:  Christine Woods,  Jamie Rose, David Kagen, Paul Haitkin, Bob Sherer, Janet Song,  Bobbin Bergstrom
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/23/2008  2.  Not Cancer
The team deals with an organ donor whose organs prove fatal, and the two surviving patients. Meanwhile, House hires a private detective to spy on Wilson, but hears a few things about himself that he'd rather not.
Director:  David Straiton  Writer:  David Shore  / Lawrence Kaplow 
Guest starring:  Michael Weston, Felicia Day, Tom Conlon,  Elaine Kagan, Melissa Loprire, Christine Lucas, Denice Sealy, Tyler Patton, Eric Kaldor, Aimee Bell, Dennis Keiffer
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/30/2008  3.  Adverse Events
A painter's undiagnosed illness affects his work, and House and his team must look at the man's paintings to determine what's wrong with him.
Director:  Andrew Bernstein  Writer:  Carol Green  / Dustin Paddock 
Guest starring:  Jennifer Crystal FoleyMichael WestonBreckin Meyer, Drew Powell,  Marika Dominczyk, Sarah Knowlton
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/14/2008  4.  Birthmarks
While en route to his father's funeral, House must help the team with a differential diagnosis on a young Chinese girl who has collapsed under mysterious circumstances.
Director:  David Platt  Writer:  David Foster  / Doris Egan 
Guest starring:  Diane BakerR. Lee Ermey, Samantha Quan,  Scott Paulin, Christine Healy,  Jack Conley, Ho-Kwan Tse,  Raymond Ma, Esther Kwan, Jonathan Palmer,  Bobbin Bergstrom
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/21/2008  5.  Lucky Thirteen
Thirteen brings her one-night stand to the hospital after the woman has a seizure. However, the woman admits she slept with Thirteen just so she could get to House and have him diagnose her condition. Meanwhile, House continues to pay Lucas to spy on Wilson.
Director:  Greg Yaitanes  Writer:  Sara Hess  /  Liz Friedman 
Guest starring:  Michael Weston, Angela Gots, Al Damji, Helena Barrett,  Bobbin Bergstrom
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/28/2008  6.  Joy
An ailing man suffers from blackouts and sleepwalks, leading the team to wonder if his sleepwalking is a symptom, or how the man is becoming exposed to something else. When the man's daughter grows ill as well, the team must provide a diagnosis before both die. Meanwhile, Cuddy adopts a newborn but when the birth mother displays a rash, she has to make a decision between putting the mother or daughter at risk.
Director:  Deran Sarafian  Writer:  David Hoselton 
Guest starring:  Salvator Xuereb, Joanna Koulis, Vanessa Zima, Janice Allen,  Bobbin Bergstrom
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/11/2008  7.  The Itch
The team must treat an agoraphobic who refuses to leave his house, and have to work around Cuddy, who is less than thrilled at having hospital equipment relocated. Meanwhile, House is plagued by an itch, and Cameron and Chase have relationship issues.
Director:  Greg Yaitanes  Writer:  Peter Blake 
Guest starring:  Kelly Michaels (Guy), Diarra Kilpatrick (Sally), Frank Nobel (Hal), Phillip James Griffith (Frank), Jack J. Bennett (Fireman), Yoyao Hsueh (EMT), Marcus Eley (Larry Ruseckas), Todd Louiso (Nozick),  Jennifer Crystal Foley
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/18/2008  8.  Emancipation
While Foreman takes on a pediatric case on his own, the rest of the team deals with a 16-year-old factory manager and emancipated minor who collapses at work. When Foreman's patient takes a turn for the worse, he's forced to question whether he can deal with the situation on his own, or if he needs House's help.
Director:  James Hayman  Writer:  Leonard Dick  / Pamela Davis 
Guest starring:  Alexandra Lydon, Bob McCracken, Emily Rios, Kyle Silverstein, Liza Colon-Zayas,  Nathan Gamble
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/25/2008  9.  Last Resort
A man seeking the right diagnosis for his illness is willing to take on the hospital and the SWAT team to get it. He takes thirteen and several patients from the waiting room and puts them in Cuddy's office. To put an end to the crisis they must come up with the right diagnosis, treat the wounded, and hold off a SWAT team.
Director:  Katie Jacobs  Writer:  Eli Attie  / Matthew V. Lewis 
Guest starring:  Zeljko IvanekWood HarrisTracy Vilar, Evan Peters, Sarah Thompson, Alex Sol,  Natasha Gregson WagnerEvan Jones, Marcus Chait, Jack Guzman
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/2/2008  10.  Let Them Eat Cake
The team takes on the case of a fitness guru on an all-natural diet who collapsed while filming a video. Meanwhile, Foreman conducts Huntington's Disease drug trials and Thirteen signs on as a subject, Cuddy is forced to move into House's office, and Kutner uses House's name to run an online medical-advice website.
Director:  Deran Sarafian  Writer:  Russel Friend  / Garrett Lerner 
Guest starring:  Becky Baeling, Brad Grunberg, David Lengel, Christopher Stapleton, Nicole Cannon,  Lori Petty, Julia Putnam, Danielle Petty
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/9/2008  11.  Joy to the World
House and his team deal with a bullied girl who collapses during her school's Christmas program. Meanwhile, Foreman and Thirteen grow closer during the Huntington's disease drug trials, House gives a patient a gift, the staff wonder who gave House a special gift, and Cuddy gets an unexpected gift.
Director:  David Straiton  Writer:  Peter Blake 
Guest starring:  Marissa Ingrasci, Christopher Demaci, Alix Korey, Ben Shields, Taylor Dooley, Meaghan Jette Martin,  Bitsie TullochPhyllis Lyons, Lucas Till, Sherilyn Fenn, Michael Leydon Campbell, B.K. Cannon,  Lori Petty, John Forrest (II)
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/19/2009  12.  Painless
House and the team try to diagnose a man living with severe, chronic pain; Thirteen and Foreman explore their complicated relationship; Cuddy discovers that caring for her baby leaves her with little time to run the hospital.
Director:  Andrew Bernstein  Writer:  Eli Attie  / Thomas L. Moran 
Guest starring:  Martin Henderson, Sarah Danielle Madison,  Jake CherryLori Petty, Alex Fernandez, Anthony Montgomery,  James Ingersoll, Aisha Kabia,  Bobbin Bergstrom
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/26/2009  13.  Big Baby
Cuddy decides to spend more time at home to take care of her newly adopted baby and passes some of her day-to-day responsibilities off to Cameron, including supervising House. Cameron is forced to play House’s games and becomes involved in a power struggle as he and the team take on the case of a Special Education teacher who collapsed after spitting up blood in the middle of class. As House tests Cameron’s tolerance for his extreme measures, the patient continues to fall ill and House insists the teacher’s seemingly inherent goodness is actually a pathology.
Director:  Deran Sarafian  Writer:  David Foster  / Lawrence Kaplow 
Guest starring:  Erika Flores, Andy Scott Harris, Tammy Dahlstrom, Saige Ryan Cambell, Sam Gregory,  Bobbin Bergstrom
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/2/2009  14.  The Greater Good
House and the team take on the case of a woman who collapsed in the middle of a cooking class, and they soon learn she is a highly-renowned cancer researcher who recently gave up her entire career in order to pursue her own personal happiness. Though the team struggles to understand how the woman could give up saving lives for the sake of her own contentment, each grapple with the pursuit of happiness (or lack thereof) in their own lives. As the patient’s condition continues to worsen, so does Thirteen’s as she begins to suffer serious and life-threatening reactions to the experimental Huntington’s Disease clinical trial. Meanwhile, Cuddy attempts to make House’s life miserable for him in retaliation for his part in her own unhappiness.
Director:  Lesli Linka Glatter  Writer:  Sara Hess 
Guest starring:  Judith ScottJennifer Crystal Foley, David Purdham,  Bobbin Bergstrom
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/16/2009  15.  Unfaithful
When a priest who runs a homeless shelter sees a bleeding Jesus hovering at his doorstep, he is admitted to the ER. House takes on the case as a distraction for the team while he confronts Foreman and Thirteen about their relationship. The team soon learns the priest had been involved in a molestation scandal that caused him to lose his faith. However, just as they are about to dismiss his case, the patient’s condition takes a drastic turn for the worse, and House grapples with his past and his belief
Director:  Greg Yaitanes  Writer:  David Hoselton 
Guest starring:  Jimmi Simpson, Jake Thomas, Janet Haley, Terrance Ellis, Nick Josephs,  Bobbin Bergstrom
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/23/2009  16.  The Softer Side
A patient with both male and female DNA has the team stumped. Meanwhile, House starts acting nicely, raising Cuddy's and Wilson's suspicions that something is terribly wrong.
Director:  Deran Sarafian  Writer:  Liz Friedman 
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/9/2009  17.  The Social Contract
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 
Guest starring:  Jay Karnes, Susan Egan, Darcy Rose Byrnes, Jodi Harris, Devon Michaels, Carlos Arellano, Sheri Foster,  Bobbin Bergstrom
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/16/2009  18.  Here Kitty
Morgan works in a nursing home with a pet cat who only sleeps next to people if they are about to die – and does so with alarmingly accuracy. When it seems the cat has predicted her own death, Morgan, convinced she is about to die, fakes a seizure in order to get to House to have him diagnose her before it’s too late.
Director:  Juan J. Campanella  Writer:  Peter Blake 
Guest starring:  Judy Greer, Christopher Moynihan,  Jennifer Crystal Foley, Whitney Cummings, Charlie Carter, Lorene Noh,  Bobbin Bergstrom
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/30/2009  19.  Locked In
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:  Daniel Attias  Writer:  David Foster  / Russel Friend  / Garrett Lerner 
Guest starring:  Mos DefFaune A. Chambers
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/6/2009  20.  Simple Explanation
Charlotte, an older woman who has spent the last six months taking care of her dying husband Eddie, is rushed to Princeton Plainsboro after collapsing from respiratory failure. The couple becomes a double mystery for the team when Eddie begins to improve as Charlotte’s condition worsens. The previously unthinkable becomes real when it seems that Charlotte will die before Eddie, and the team will be forced to make a difficult decision.
Director:  Greg Yaitanes  Writer:  Leonard Dick 
Guest starring:  Meat Loaf
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/13/2009  21.  Saviors
Cameron postpones her vacation with Chase in order to ask House to accept the case of an environmental radical who collapsed at a protest with unexplainable symptoms. Although suspicious of her motives, House agrees. Since she pushed him to take the case so emphatically, House forces Cameron to take the lead and run many of the tests on the patient. Meanwhile, House is unsure of Wilson’s new healthy diet.
Director:  Matthew Penn  Writer:  Eli Attie  / Thomas L. Moran 
Guest starring:  Tim Rock
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/27/2009  22.  House Divided
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  Writer:  Liz Friedman  / Matthew V. Lewis 
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/4/2009  23.  Under My Skin
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  Writer:  Lawrence Kaplow  / Pamela Davis 
Guest starring:  Anne Dudek, Jamie Tisdale
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/11/2009  24.  Both Sides Now
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 
Guest starring:  Ashton HolmesMaria ThayerJennifer Crystal FoleyCarl Reiner
Edition Details
Edition The Complete Fifth Season
Series House M.D.
Distributor Universal Studios
Release Date 8/25/2009
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)
Subtitles English; Spanish
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 [English]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 5