Hugh Laurie, formerly known as the amiable twit Jeeves in Jeeves and Wooster, surprised everyone when he stepped onto our TV screens as Dr. Gregory House, the antisocial, pain-killer-addicted, brilliant, arrogant Chief of Diagnostic Medicine at PrincetonPlainsboro Teaching Hospital. Laurie won 2 Golden Globes; House, M.D., which ran for 8 critically praised seasons on Fox, earned 5 primetime Emmy® awards. 176 episodes, about 130 hrs, 41 DVDs, SDH.