Which House M.D. episode won the series’ first Primetime Emmy Award?

“Three Stories” won House M.D.’s first Primetime Emmy Award.

The episode is the series’ twenty-first episode and served as the season-one finale. It uses a teaching-hospital lecture as a framing device while House recounts three apparently separate patient cases. The stories gradually reveal how his own chronic leg injury occurred, giving the episode unusual structure and character depth.

David Shore wrote “Three Stories,” and the episode received the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series at the 57th Primetime Emmy Awards. That award was the show’s first Primetime Emmy win, although House M.D. later received additional nominations and victories in acting, writing, directing, and technical categories.

Viewers sometimes confuse “Three Stories” with “Everybody Dies,” the series finale, or “House’s Head,” a notable fourth-season episode. The Emmy-winning episode is specifically the first-season finale, originally broadcast in May 2005.