“Three Stories” was the title of House M.D.’s Emmy-winning season-one episode about three patients. It is the 21st episode of the first season and uses a framing device in which House lectures medical students.
The episode presents three diagnostic cases, with House gradually revealing how each case connects to his own medical history. Its structure moves between the lecture and flashbacks, making the episode different from the show’s usual single-patient format.
“Three Stories” won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. The episode is widely regarded as one of the series’ most inventive early installments and helped establish House as both an unusual doctor and an unreliable storyteller.
Its title is sometimes confused with other early episodes because House M.D. frequently used short, memorable titles. The exact title is “Three Stories,” not a description of the number of cases in a typical episode.