House M.D. broadcast 177 episodes over eight seasons.
The series premiered in 2004 and concluded in 2012. Its episode total includes the regular one-hour installments that followed Gregory House and his colleagues through difficult diagnostic cases, hospital politics, and personal conflicts.
Episode counts can vary in casual references when viewers count specials or combine two-part stories differently. The standard series total listed for House M.D. is 177 episodes. The show’s final season contained 22 episodes, while earlier seasons generally had longer broadcast runs.
The program’s format made the total especially notable: many episodes centered on a new patient case, but continuing character arcs connected the seasons. The finale, “Everybody Dies,” is counted among the 177 scripted episodes; the retrospective “Swan Song” is treated separately as a special.