2004 · FOX · Drama
How long does it take to watch House?
House takes about 130 hours to watch: 176 episodes across 8 seasons, 7,779 minutes in all.
Updated October 2, 2026
- Episodes
- 176
- Seasons
- 8
- Per episode
- 44 min
- Status
- Ended in 2012
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton, Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
Season by season
| Season | Length | Hours | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 16.1h | 22 eps | |
| Season 2 | 17.6h | 24 eps | |
| Season 3 | 17.6h | 24 eps | |
| Season 4 | 11.7h | 16 eps | |
| Season 5 | 17.6h | 24 eps | |
| Season 6 | 16.2h | 21 eps | |
| Season 7 | 16.8h | 23 eps | |
| Season 8 | 16.1h | 22 eps |
Longest: season 2, 17.6 hours. Shortest: season 4, 11.7 hours.
At your pace
- 1 episode a night
- 176 nights, about 6 months
- 3 episodes a night
- 59 nights, about 8 weeks
- Weekend binges, 8 hours a day
- 9 weekends
- Straight through, no sleep
- 5 days, 9 hours
Counts aired regular-season episodes only; specials are excluded. Runtimes come from TMDB, so totals can differ from other sources.
How it holds up
- Best-rated season
- Season 4 8.0
- Lowest-rated season
- Season 1 7.7
- The finale
- Rated 8.7 against a 7.9 series average
Season scores are vote-weighted averages of TMDB episode ratings.
The details
- Status
- Ended in 2012
- Network
- FOX
- Genres
- Drama
- First aired
- 2004
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