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House season 5

House's season of series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ169086 ↗
Source-derived summary

The fifth season of House, also known as House, M.D., premiered September 16, 2008 and ended May 11, 2009. It began to air in a new time slot from September to December: Tuesday 8:00 pm. Starting January 19, 2009, House moved to Mondays at 8:00 pm.

Cast and characters

Main cast

Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House

Lisa Edelstein as Dr. Lisa Cuddy

Omar Epps as Dr. Eric Foreman

Robert Sean Leonard as Dr. James Wilson (episodes 1–2 and 4–24)

Jennifer Morrison as Dr. Allison Cameron (episodes 1, 4–13, 15 and 19–24)

Jesse Spencer as Dr. Robert Chase (episodes 1–13, 15 and 17–24)

Peter Jacobson as Dr.

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This entry incorporates text from “House season 5” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.