Elementary, Dr. House

Studio 360
The World

For eight seasons, House, M.D. has been diagnosing patients with the same reason, deduction, and flair that Holmes relied upon to solve crimes. And that’s no accident: the show’s creator, David Shore, tells Kurt that his series was originally conceived as a police procedural in a hospital where germs are the suspects.
(Originally aired: December 25, 2009)

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