Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (2003)
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is an American reality television series providing home improvements for less fortunate families and community schools. The show is hosted by former model, carpenter and veteran television personality Ty Pennington. Each episode features a family that has faced some sort of recent or ongoing hardship such as a natural disaster or a family member with a life-threatening illness, in need of new hope. The show's producers coordinate with a local construction contractor, which then coordinates with various companies in the building trades for a makeover of the family's home. This includes interior, exterior and landscaping, performed in seven days while the family is on vacation and documented in the episode. If the house is beyond repair, they replace it entirely. The show's producers and crew film set and perform the makeover but do not pay for it. The materials and labor are donated. Many skilled and unskilled volunteers assist in the rapid construction of the house. EM:HE is considered a spinoff of Extreme Makeover, an earlier series providing personal makeovers to selected individuals, which the Home Edition has now outlasted. This show displays extreme changes to help recreate someone's space. However, the format differs considerably; in the original Extreme Makeover, for instance, participants were not necessarily chosen based on any recent hardship, whereas the family's backstory is an important component of Home Edition. EM:HE also has similarities to other home renovation series such as Trading Spaces, on which Pennington was previously a key personality.
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Episode 1 - Boys Hope/Girls Hope
Release Date: 2010-09-26Ty Pennington and his design team, including new designers Xzibit and Jillian Harris, traveled to Baltimore, Maryland, to surprise the students of Boys Hope/Girls Hope in a unique way and reveal to them that their lives were about to change. For the first time in the history of the show, the recipients were surprised on live television when the "EM: HE" team greeted the students with the good news. Another first in the show's 170-plus episode history came unannounced, courtesy of Mother Nature, when an epic rainstorm threatened to knock the 11,000 square foot build off its strict seven-day schedule
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Episode 2 - Lutz Family
Release Date: 2010-10-03The team rebuilds a house for a man and a woman who returned home after the death of their parents to care for six siblings with Down syndrome.
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Episode 3 - Johnson Family
Release Date: 2010-10-10Cedric the Entertainer, Tommy Davidson, Ralphie May, Paul Rodriguez and Brooklyn Decker help the makeover team renovate the home of a couple whose marriage seminars keep children from growing up in broken homes.
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Episode 4 - Arboleda Family
Release Date: 2010-10-17The design team pairs up with some of the dancers from ``Dancing With the Stars'' to renovate the home of a man who has made it a mission to battle childhood obesity
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Episode 5 - Urban Family
Release Date: 2010-10-24The Extreme Team is off to Hamburg, Pennsylvania to meet Trisha Urban, who was blindsided by the untimely death of her husband. Trisha is looking to turn the page and move forward with her one-year-old daughter, Cora. She's been trying to turn the tragedy of her husband's death into a positive through work with the American Heart Association. This is one special lady. Leigh Anne Tuohy knows a little something about "The Blind Side" of life. She's onboard as the newest permanent member of the design team. Can she help make Trisha's longtime dream of turning their 300-year-old crumbling cabin into a fairy tale home come true? Let's find out!
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Episode 6 - Oregon School for the Deaf
Release Date: 2010-10-31The team must make the basement safe at Oregon School for the Deaf in time for the school's annual Halloween haunted-house fundraiser.
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Episode 7 - Marshall-Spreier Family
Release Date: 2010-11-07After surviving a battle with cancer, a single mother of nine loses her home to a fire; Kylie Minogue performs.
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Episode 8 - Lighthouse School/Sweatt Family
Release Date: 2010-11-14The team assists a Tennessee family whose school was swept away in flooding earlier this year, but who still found time and resources to assist other struggling families in the region; Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban and LeAnn Rimes help out.
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Episode 9 - Anderson Family
Release Date: 2010-12-05Andre and Jasmine Anderson are both blind because of their diabetes. That hasn't ever slowed them down; as they are they are the driving force behind the Disability Awareness Center in their hometown of Maple Heights, Ohio. They have two sons: 13-year-old Jaison (who is hearing impaired) and 7-year-old Jahzion. They live in a cramped, structurally-dangerous home with their trusty guide dog, Valentine. Well, that dangerous home is about to become a "smart" house once Ty and the Extreme Team roll into town.
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Episode 10 - Gaston Family
Release Date: 2010-12-12Ty and the team rebuild a home for a cheerleading coach who left college to care for his family after the death of his mother; singer Mariah Carey and Olympian Dominique Dawes make special appearances.
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Episode 11 - Grommesh Family
Release Date: 2011-01-02The team builds a handicapped accessible home for the family of a wheelchair-bound 10-year-old; the old home, moved to a new location, will house another family.
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Episode 12 - Lampe Family
Release Date: 2011-01-09Ty and the team rebuild a home for a beloved family of eight that mentors children and runs a now-struggling tree service.
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Episode 13 - Simpson Family
Release Date: 2011-01-16Ty and the team head south to Savannah where the Simpson family is in dire need of a brand new home. Carmen and Jim Simpson have three beautiful kids. Their son, Isaac, is eight. Daughter, Katelyn, is four. Youngest son, Zoe, is two. Zoe has had a slew of medical problems from the moment he was born. He wasn't even supposed to live. Thankfully, Zoe didn't know that. His heart never even skipped a beat when doctors took him off the respirator. He was called the Miracle Baby! And even though Zoe is an incredible boy, he still needs a lot of assistance. His family needs help in the form of a new home. Well, help is on the way!
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Episode 14 - Graham Family
Release Date: 2011-01-23The team helps build a home for a single mother of two who divides her time among family, work, college, and volunteering for the Girl Scouts.
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Episode 15 - Brown Family
Release Date: 2011-01-30The team heads to Texas to build a home for a family who lost a teenager in a car accident; singer Justin Bieber and actress Emma Roberts volunteer.
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Episode 16 - Hurston Family
Release Date: 2011-02-13Ty and the team rebuild a house for a Florida family of five that flies to disasters all over the world to deliver water purifiers, medical supplies and food to those in need.
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Episode 17 - Zeigler/hansen Family
Release Date: 2011-02-20The team builds a home for a soldier, who was wounded in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, and his fiance; ventriloquist Terry Fator, comic Dane Cook and fashion designer Monique Lhuillier volunteer.
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Episode 18 - Hall Family
Release Date: 2011-04-17A car accident man leaves a man paralyzed from the shoulders down; now he, his wife and four children receive a new home.
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Episode 19 - Hill Family
Release Date: 2011-04-24The team helps rebuild the home of a woman who has dedicated herself to her community and her six adopted daughters.
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Episode 20 - Dickinson Family
Release Date: 2011-05-01The team assists the family of a Marine whose home's condition is continually depreciating due to spreading mold and flood damage.
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Episode 21 - Prewitt Brewer Family
Release Date: 2011-05-08The team helps build a new home for a volleyball coach and the three sisters she has taken in; beach volleyball player Misty May helps out.
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Episode 22 - Sharrock Family
Release Date: 2011-05-15The team builds a safe home for a lively 9-year-old who has brittle-bone disease and his family.