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Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: Season 2

24 episodes Premiered Sep 26, 2004 Updated Nov 6, 2026

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is an American reality television series that provides home improvements for less fortunate families and community schools. This season consists of a list of episodes documenting these home improvement efforts. The original television run of the series spanned from 2003 to 2012, featuring reality-based renovation projects. Produced by Endemol Shine North America and Hello Sunshine in as

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Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is an American reality television series that originally ran from 2003 to 2012.
  • ⚡ The core premise of the show involves providing home improvements for less fortunate families and community schools.
  • ⚡ The series is produced by Endemol Shine North America and Hello Sunshine in association with Walt Disney Television Alternative.
  • ⚡ The show features designers who work on transformative renovation projects for people in need.
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Season overview

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is an American reality television series that provides home improvements for less fortunate families and community schools. This season consists of a list of episodes documenting these home improvement efforts. The original television run of the series spanned from 2003 to 2012, featuring reality-based renovation projects. Produced by Endemol Shine North America and Hello Sunshine in association with Walt Disney Television Alternative, the program focuses on heartfelt renovations and community-driven projects. The series format centers on transforming living spaces for people in need, capturing emotional moments and interactions involving the show's designers, participants, and communities throughout the production process.

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Season 2 Episodes

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S2·E1 Mytharc

The Wofford Family

Sep 26, 2004 · 60 min

When Brian Wofford’s wife passed away four years ago, he dedicated himself to making it possible for his children to pursue their dreams. Today the kids are involved in lots of act

S2·E2 Core

The Garay Family

Oct 3, 2004 · 60 min

Veronica and Johnny have 4 kids. Once while Johnny's mother was visiting, she was killed by a gangster and Johnny was forced to take in his younger siblings. Social Services are th

S2·E3 Core

The Pope Family

Oct 10, 2004 · 60 min

Shelby Pope is a 12 year old girl who is allergic to sun-light. The team sets out to make Shelby and the entire Pope family feel less like prisoners in their own home.

S2·E4 Core

The Grinnan Family

Oct 17, 2004 · 60 min

A girl named Hannah has a weak immune system and had a heart transplant at only 11 days old. She has to take $1,000 medicine every day and that is what weakens her immune system. W

S2·E5 Core

The Mackey Family

Oct 24, 2004 · 60 min

A woman who runs an organization to help the needy lives in a very run-down and small house with family and extended family. The design team has a challenge ahead of them but gives

S2·E6 Core

The Ali Family

Oct 31, 2004 · 60 min

Two boys, Paul and Kuran, were born to a crack-addicted mother. Lucy Ali adopted them as infants so she could give them a better life. As the boys were getting older, she decided i

S2·E7 Core

The Vardon Family

Nov 7, 2004 · 60 min

The Family: Mom (Deaf), Dad (Deaf), 12 year old boy (autistic/blind), 14 year old boy with a heart of gold. Everyone in the family has special needs (except the 14 year old) and

S2·E8 Core

The Elcano Family

Nov 21, 2004 · 60 min

A few months ago, Jennier Elcano lost her husband, Glen, in an auto accident and has really had her hands full running the family farm and raising 11-year-old son Michael and 6-yea

S2·E9 Core

The Burns Family

Nov 28, 2004 · 60 min

When Benjamin Burns was born in 1997, he was an apparently healthy baby boy. Six months later, Benjamin's sister was playing with her baby brother and, when he started to fall, she

S2·E10 Core

The Broadbent Family

Dec 12, 2004 · 60 min

A courageous mother, Patricia Broadbent, has helped three of her adopted children and many others face AIDS with hope, teaching them that life is here for the living. Her own recen

S2·E11 Core

The Dore Family

Jan 9, 2005 · 60 min

As a struggling widow of three daughters, Roseanne Dore is no stranger to hardship. The family was dealt a tremendous blow when their Kingston, Washington home, originally built by

S2·E12 Core

The Anderson Family

Jan 16, 2005 · 60 min

For the first time in the history of the popular reality series, design team leader Ty Pennington had to call the vacationing Anderson Family to tell them that the show had missed

S2·E13 Core

The Sears Family

Jan 23, 2005 · 60 min

Martinez, CA - The Sears family are given an extreme makeover. In February 2004 the 17-year old Jhyrve was diagnosed with a rare gen related disease. The team builds the family a n

S2·E14 Core

The Correa/Medeiros Families

Feb 13, 2005 · 60 min

"Correa/Medeiros Families, Parts 1 & 2" - For the first time, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" will stretch beyond one house and one family. Two families from Arvada, Colorado - wh

S2·E15 Core

The Harper Family

Feb 20, 2005 · 60 min

While design team leader Ty Pennington was preparing to film this episode in his hometown of Atlanta, he underwent emergency surgery for a perforated appendix. Although he was stil

S2·E16 Core

The Harris Family

Mar 6, 2005 · 60 min

Six children live in a home that is falling apart. They need the EMHE's team to help them.

S2·E17 Core

The Okvath Family

Mar 13, 2005 · 60 min

The crew decide to help out an eight year old girl suffering from cancer. However, she doesn't want her house made over, she wants to help her friends at her hospital by redecorati

S2·E18 Core

The Leomiti-Higgins Family

Mar 27, 2005 · 60 min

In 2004 the mother of Charles, Michael, Sharis, Joshua og Jeremiah Higgins died of breast cancer. 2 months later their father died of heart complications. Then the Leomiti family,

S2·E19 Core

The Leslie Family

Apr 3, 2005 · 60 min

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 bui

S2·E20 Core

The Harvey Family

Apr 24, 2005 · 60 min

The Harvey family living in hurricane ravished Florida, are living in a termite infested home with water logged ceilings. Mr Harvey, having been diagnosed with adult epilepsy, cann

S2·E21 Core

The Dolan Family

May 1, 2005 · 60 min

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.

S2·E22 Core

The Johnson Family

May 8, 2005 · 60 min

Steve Johnson is a firefighter who helped to save a MAST firefighter from a terrible shooting in Kansas City, MO. The MAST firefighter is the one who nominated Steve to an Extreme

S2·E23 Mytharc

The Vitale Family

May 15, 2005 · 60 min

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.

S2·E24 Mytharc

The Piestewa Family

May 22, 2005 · 60 min

The Piestewa family are given an extreme makeover. Lori Piestewa was in Iraq and her dream was to build a house for herself and her parents. But unfortunately she was the first Ame

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