House
Alone
TV Flash files “Alone” as a desk essential hour — House (2004–2012) on Fox, season 4, episode 1, aired 2007-09-25, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E01: listed hour 71 of 176 in the House guide, first listed hour of season 4. It aired 2007-09-25 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Human Error” (S03E24). Next is “The Right Stuff” (S04E02).
Essential hour: “Alone”. Alone relaunches the diagnostic team as a personnel problem — Shore's procedural admitting the cult of House was also a staffing crisis.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
With his diagnostic team gone, House tries to diagnose Megan, a young woman who survived an office building collapse. Due to her injuries, Megan's only form of communication is blinking. With her condition worsening, Cuddy puts pressure on House to hire a new team, but instead, he attempts a differential diagnosis with help from the janitor. Wilson resorts to desperate measures by kidnapping House's guitar.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Alone sit in the House guide?
S04E01 is listed hour 71 of 176 — first listed hour of season 4, season 4 episode 1.
When did House S04E01 air?
Alone aired 2007-09-25 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is House just a medical ER soap?
No. It centers on diagnostic puzzles and an openly abrasive genius more than warm bedside ensemble comfort — Sherlock Holmes energy in a hospital.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Sherlock with a cane, Vicodin, and a whiteboard: Hugh Laurie became a U.S. megastar as diagnostician Gregory House, alienating everyone who loves him. David Shore's Fox procedural made "everybody lies" a catchphrase and medical mystery a personality cult. Case hooks and character toxicity in the same hour.
Flash: a cane, a whiteboard, and a British comic who walked onto Fox on November 16, 2004, and became a U.S. megastar without sanding the sneer. Gregory House solves impossible cases while alienating everyone who loves him — Sherlock with Vicodin, bedside manner as optional DLC. David Shore built the puzzle box; Hugh Laurie filled it with limp and monologue. Robert Sean Leonard's Wilson, Lisa Edelstein's Cuddy, Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer — a rotating team orbiting a personality cult. **Everybody…
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- Lisa Edelstein as Lisa Cuddy
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- Omar Epps as Eric Foreman
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