House (tV Series)
The volume had been given to him the previous Christmas by Wilson, who included the message “Greg, made me think of you.” Before acknowledging that he gave the book to House, Wilson tells two of the team members that its source was a patient, Irene Adler. The series finale also pays homage to Holmes’s apparent death in “The Final Problem”, the 1893 story with which Conan Doyle originally intended to conclude the Holmes chronicles. Bryan Singer directed the pilot episode and the third episode, “Occam’s Razor”. Season 7 episode 3 includes a young adult boyhood detective book series written by the patient, whose final unpublished volume ends in an ambiguous end to the main character reminiscent of “The Final Problem”.
During production, the show’s writers dismissed a single candidate per episode; as a result, said Jacobs, neither the producers nor the cast knew who was going to be hired until the last minute. Kutner was written out of the series in episode 20 of season 5 after Penn took a position in the Obama White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs. While Penn and Wilde had higher profiles than the actors who played the other finalists, Jacobs said they went through an identical audition process and stayed with the show based on the writers’ interest in their characters. Remy “Thirteen” Hadley (Olivia Wilde).
House was a co-production of Heel and Toe Films, Shore Z Productions, and Bad Hat Harry Productions in association with Universal Network Television for Fox. Paul Attanasio and Katie Jacobs, the heads of Heel and Toe Films; David Shore, the head of Shore Z Productions; and Bryan Singer, the head of Bad Hat Harry Productions, were executive producers of the program for its entirety. Lawrence Kaplow, Peter Blake, and Thomas L. Moran joined the staff as writers at the beginning of the first season after the making of the pilot episode.
In the season two finale, House is shot by a crazed gunman credited as “Moriarty”, the name of Holmes’s nemesis. In another season five episode, “Joy to the World”, House, in an attempt to fool his team, uses a book by Joseph Bell, Conan Doyle’s inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. In the season four episode “It’s a Wonderful Lie”, House receives a “second-edition Conan Doyle” as a Christmas gift. In the season five episode “The Itch”, House is seen picking up his keys and Vicodin from the top of a copy of Conan Doyle’s The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Leonard thought the Numb3rs script was “kind of cool” and planned to audition for the show. He believed that his House audition was not particularly good, but that his lengthy friendship with Singer helped win him the part of Dr. Wilson. However, he decided that the character he was up for, Charlie Eppes, was in too many scenes; he later observed, “The less I work, the happier I am”. Singer had enjoyed Lisa Edelstein’s portrayal of a prostitute on The West Wing, and sent her a copy of the pilot script.
During the first three seasons, House’s diagnostic team consists of Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) and Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps). Chase and Cameron continue to appear occasionally in different roles at the hospital. At the end of the third season, this team disbands. Rejoined by Foreman, House gradually selects three new team members: Dr. Remy “Thirteen” Hadley (Olivia Wilde), Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson) and Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn).
