The second season of ''

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'' premiered on September 13, 2005 and ended on May 23, 2006. During the season, House tries to cope with his feelings for his ex-girlfriend Stacy Warner, who, after he diagnosed her husband with

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, has taken a job in the legal department of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Sela Ward's chemistry with

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in the final two episodes of the first season was strong enough to have her character return in seven episodes of the second season.

Cast and characters

Main cast

as Dr. Gregory House * Lisa Edelstein as Dr. Lisa Cuddy *

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as Dr. Eric Foreman * Robert Sean Leonard as Dr. James Wilson * Jennifer Morrison as Dr. Allison Cameron *

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as Dr. Robert Chase

Recurring cast

* Sela Ward as Stacy Warner *Stephanie Venditto as Nurse Brenda Previn * Currie Graham as Mark Warner * Diane Baker as Blythe House *

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as John House * Charles S. Dutton as Rodney Foreman * Ron Perkins as Dr. Ron Simpson

Guest cast

Laura Allen, Yareli Arizmendi, Matthew John Armstrong,

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, Christine Avila,

Marshall Bell Archibald Marshall Bell (born September 28, 1942) is an American character actor. He has appeared in many character roles in movies and television. He is known for roles in '' A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge'' (1985), '' Stand b ...

, Peter Birkenhead, Tamara Braun, Yvette Nicole Brown, Dan Butler, Scott Michael Campbell, Christopher Carley, Jewel Christian,

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, Aasha Davis, Thomas Dekker, Stephanie Erb,

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, Bruce French, Erica Gimpel, Greg Grunberg, Wings Hauser, Taraji P. Henson,

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, Wil Horneff, Ryan Hurst, James Immekus,

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, William Katt, Mimi Kennedy, Edward Kerr, Elias Koteas, Nathan Kress, Tom Lenk,

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, Jayma Mays, Eddie Mills,

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Michael O'Keefe Michael O'Keefe (born Raymond Peter O'Keefe Jr.; April 24, 1955) is an American actor known for his roles as Danny Noonan in '' Caddyshack''; Ben Meechum in '' The Great Santini,'' for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Bes ...

, America Olivo, Kip Pardue, Randall Park,

Sasha Pieterse Sasha Pieterse Sheaffer (; born February 17, 1996) is a South African and American actress and singer. She is known for portraying Alison DiLaurentis in the Freeform (TV channel), Freeform series ''Pretty Little Liars'' (2010–2017), and its sp ...

, Kristoffer Polaha, Clifton Powell,

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, Cameron Richardson, Charlie Robinson, Ignacio Serricchio, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Allison Smith, Christie Lynn Smith, D. B. Sweeney, Chris Tallman, Michelle Trachtenberg, Hillary Tuck, Alanna Ubach, Stephanie Venditto, Tom Verica, J.R. Villarreal and Julie Warner.

Reception

The season gained high

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; "No Reason" was watched by 25.47 million viewers, the show's biggest audience ever at that point. Season two averaged 17.3 million viewers an episode, outperforming season one by 30%. The number of viewers made it the tenth most-watched show of the 2005–2006 television season. Writer Lawrence Kaplow won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for the episode "Autopsy".

Episodes

DVD releases

References

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