About
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 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.
Cast
Ty Pennington
as Self - Host
Seasons
Season 1
This is a list of season 1 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
Season 2
This is a list of season 2 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
Season 3
This is a list of season 3 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
Season 4
This is a list of season 4 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
Season 5
This is a list of season 5 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
Season 6
This is a list of season 6 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
Season 7
This is a list of season 7 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
Season 8
This is a list of season 8 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
Season 9
The ninth and final season of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition started on Sunday September 25, 2011 at 8/7c. It aired four episodes and then moved to Fridays on October 21, 2011 at 8/7c. The new fantasy drama, Once Upon A Time took its old time slot. The series finale aired on January 13, 2012. This is a list of season 9 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
Episodes
Season 1
The Powers Family
The Powers had tried to make improvements to their fixer-upper home, but when youngest daughter Olivia was diagnosed with a life-threatening form of leukemia, caring for her became a family affair and took time away from working on the house. Now cured, Olivia got through her cancer treatment with the loving support of family and friends, including a special mural in the house her mother painted that reads: ""Take one day at a time…live, love & laugh…be strong, be you…breathe.""
The Woslum Family
When Trent Woslum, a sergeant in the California National Guard, was finally able to buy his family their first fixer-upper home as a Christmas present in 2002, little did he know that by Valentine's Day he would have to leave the house, his wife and three sons behind to serve a tour of duty in Iraq. Unbeknownst to wife Dawna and the three sons — Steven, 12; Nicholas, 7; and Alex, 5, who were sent on vacation to Disneyland for seven days while the house was being transformed, Trent returned home from Iraq.
The Cox Family
For years John Cox traveled worldwide to help churches and organizations. Meanwhile, to support her dedicated husband's endeavors, his wife, Wendy, quit her job as a nurse to stay at home and care for their three young daughters. When he received a permanent position as a youth minister, John was able to buy his family their very first home. Now their humble abode has received a complete renovation and been transformed into a real dream house.
The Mendoza Family
When Contessa Mendoza was 17 years old and still in high school, she made the tough decision to become a single mom. This exceptional young lady went on to become the valedictorian of her high school graduating class and eventually earned her masters degree. Despite enormous odds, Contessa, who is a social worker, has given everything of herself to raise her daughter and two foster kids. When it was decided that the Van Nuys, California house where Contessa Mendoza and her family live needed more space, the team of designers and workmen of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition stepped in and made some dramatic changes, including adding a second story to the house.
The McCrory Family
The McCrory Family is very large. They were living in a very small house. With two sons already, they found out the were going to get triplets. Can EM:HE give them a bigger home for their children?
The Harris Family
""Sweet Alice"" Harris is known for her kindness and watchful eye on the neighborhood. Her house went through some floods though and desperately needed a makeover. But, with the show title being Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, they got a great one.
The Zitek Family
Robert Gil's life and his family's was changed forever when he was involved in a car accident and left paralyzed form the neck down. They had a two-story house and Robert had no way to get up there. The design team, sweet as they are, added an elevator so that he could see the rest of his house.
The Hardin Family
Several years ago, when Freedman Hardin II lost track of his father, he decided to go looking for him. As luck would have it, he found him on Father's Day four years ago. Freedman II had a full family and no spare space for his father to sleep, his father lived in a fifth wheel trailer outside their house.
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