Episode 1
Aired Sep 26, 2004
Wofford Family
A widower with eight children has not had the time to make repairs on their three-bedroom house in California, so the design team lends a hand and in seven days transforms the house into a dream home.
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Episode 2
Aired Oct 3, 2004
Garay Family
The team transforms the home of a young couple with four children of their own, who took in his five siblings after their mother was killed by a stray bullet in a gang shooting.
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Episode 3
Aired Oct 10, 2004
Pope Family
The team transforms the home of a 13-year-old girl who has polymorphic light eruption, sun poisoning; during the makeover, the family vacations in Washington, D.C.
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Episode 4
Aired Oct 17, 2004
Grinnan Family
A California family that crusades for heart disease research and treatment gets a home makeover; country singer Lee Ann Womack surprises the family with some unusual gifts at the reveal.
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Episode 5
Aired Oct 24, 2004
Mackey Family
The team transforms the home of a woman in Granada Hills, Calif., who has helped people with disabilities for 25 years.
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Episode 6
Aired Oct 31, 2004
Ali Family
Family members from Jamaica, Queens, forced to live as urban refugees for two years because of a contractor's negligence, get the home of their dreams.
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Episode 7
Aired Nov 7, 2004
Vardon Family
Stefan Vardon, 14, writes an essay about his deaf parents and about his blind, autistic 12-year-old brother, winning the attention of the remodeling team.
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Episode 8
Aired Nov 7, 2004
Vardon Family
The Vardons return from vacation and find their remodeled home equipped with the latest assisted-living technology, and actress Marlee Matlin is there to present a college scholarship check to their 14-year-old son, Stephan.
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Episode 9
Aired Nov 21, 2004
Elcano Family
The makeover team and musician Randy Travis help Jennifer Elcano, a widowed mother of two young children, who can barely manage to maintain the family's farm and home.
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Episode 10
Aired Nov 28, 2004
Burns Family
Gerald and Ellen Burns get a makeover after spending most of their savings fighting a court order that separated them from their son, who has osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disorder that causes bones to break easily.
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Episode 11
Aired Dec 12, 2004
Broadbent Family
Patricia Broadbent, AIDS/HIV awareness activist, cancer survivor, and mother to three adopted girls with AIDS, has her home remodeled.
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Episode 12
Aired Jan 9, 2005
Dore Family
A struggling widow with three daughters whose house recently burned down, forcing her to move her family to a makeshift shelter, receives a new home.
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Episode 13
Aired Jan 16, 2005
Anderson Family
The design team begins renovating the home of Rodney Anderson, a 22-year-old former college basketball player who was paralyzed in a gang-related shooting in 2000.
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Episode 14
Aired Jan 16, 2005
Anderson Family
Contractors, designers and hundreds of workers continue renovating the home of Rodney Anderson but, for the first time, the team misses its deadline of seven days.
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Episode 15
Aired Jan 23, 2005
Sears Family
The team helps 17-year-old Jhyrve Sears who, after receiving chemotherapy for a rare genetic disorder, was unable to return to her family's mold-ridden home.
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Episode 16
Aired Feb 13, 2005
Correa/Medeiros
Two financially strapped Colorado families will live in a ranch-style duplex built from the ground up by the design team, renting the units until they are back on their feet, at which time other families in need will be allowed to live in the units.
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Episode 17
Aired Feb 13, 2005
Correa/Medeiros
Two financially strapped Colorado families will live in a new ranch-style duplex built by the design team, renting the units until they are back on their feet, at which time other families in need will be allowed to live in the units.
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Episode 18
Aired Feb 20, 2005
Harper Family
The team helps first-time homeowners turn their nightmare house into a dream home, as team leader Ty Pennington directs the action from a hospital bed.
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Episode 19
Aired Mar 6, 2005
Harris Sextuplets
While helping the Harris family, a family with a 9-year-old son and 2-year-old sextuplets, the team gets help from the Muppets and Florence Henderson.
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Episode 20
Aired Mar 13, 2005
Okvath Family and University Medical Center
Disney animators respond to an 8-year-old cancer patient's request for a makeover of the hospital ward where she and other children received treatment.
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Episode 21
Aired Mar 13, 2005
Okvath Family and University Medical Center
The Okvaths don't realize that the design team is building a new home for them while the renovation is taking place at Kassandra's hospital ward.
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Episode 22
Aired Mar 27, 2005
Leomiti-Higgins Family
The design team completely rebuilds a small house to accommodate an 11-member family, blended when the six Leomitis opened their hearts and home to the five Higgins children, whose parents died just months apart.
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Episode 23
Aired Apr 3, 2005
Leslie Family
After a car crash claims the life of her husband and oldest son, the team makes over the Louisiana home of a widow and her three surviving boys, including a backyard playground built with help from Mat "the Condor" Hoffman.
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Episode 24
Aired Apr 24, 2005
Harvey Family
A hard-working family of six heads to Niagara Falls while the design team transforms their two-bedroom Army barracks house into 4300 square feet of living space, including a special themed room for one of the children.
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Episode 25
Aired May 1, 2005
Dolan Family
James Dolan, blinded during a shooting at an electronics store where he worked, receives a remodeling of his ranch house into a home more suitable to his needs.
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Episode 26
Aired May 1, 2005
Dolan Family
James and Chrissy Dolan and their three children return from a vacation in Puerto Rico to inspect the improvements made to their Florida home.
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Episode 27
Aired May 8, 2005
Johnson Family
A Kansas City firefighter raising five children in a small ranch house gets a home makeover to give his family a fresh start.
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Episode 28
Aired May 15, 2005
Vitale Family
The design team begins renovation work on a small, two-bedroom house in St. James, N.Y., for a widower and his three toddler boys.
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Episode 29
Aired May 15, 2005
Vitale Family
More than 3,000 neighbors, friends and family members welcome John and his three sons, Jack, Adrian and Luke, to their renovated home.
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Episode 30
Aired May 22, 2005
Piestewa Family
The team fulfills the dream of Pfc. Lori Piestewa, killed in the attack that injured her friends Jessica Lynch and Shoshannah Johnson, to build a retirement home for her parents.
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Episode 31
Aired May 22, 2005
Piestewa Family
The children and parents of deceased soldier Lori Piestewa return from their vacation at Walt Disney World to see their new home in Flagstaff, Ariz.
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