Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: Season 9
The ninth and final season of the American reality television series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition began airing on Sunday, September 25, 2011, at 8/7c. After broadcasting four episodes in its initial time slot, the series moved to Fridays on October 21, 2011, at 8/7c, while the fantasy drama Once Upon A Time took over its former Sunday time slot. The ninth season represents the final run of the original 2003 to 2012
Season 9 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 provides home improvements for less fortunate families and community schools.
- The series originally ran from 2003 to 2012, with the ninth season marking its final year on the air during that initial run.
- The show features a format centered around large-scale home renovations for individuals in need.
- The series is hosted by a carpenter and veteran television personality.
Season overview
The ninth and final season of the American reality television series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition began airing on Sunday, September 25, 2011, at 8/7c. After broadcasting four episodes in its initial time slot, the series moved to Fridays on October 21, 2011, at 8/7c, while the fantasy drama Once Upon A Time took over its former Sunday time slot. The ninth season represents the final run of the original 2003 to 2012 broadcast of the series, which provides home improvements for less fortunate families and community schools. The series finale of this ninth season aired on January 13, 2012.
Episode Guide
Season 9 Progress Shield
Jubilee/Marshall Family
Sep 25, 2011 · 60 min
First Lady Michelle Obama makes an appearance in the ninth-season opener in which the Steps-N-Stages Jubilee House for homeless female veterans in Fayetteville, N.C., founded by Na
Gomez Family
Oct 2, 2011 · 60 min
The team builds a new home for a woman whose young son has a blood disorder.
Rucker Family
Oct 9, 2011 · 60 min
The team helps build a home for the family of a 9-year-old girl whose leg was amputated as a result of injuries incurred while saving her sister from
Korpai Family
Oct 16, 2011 · 60 min
The team helps build a home for the family of a girl with dwarfism.
Keefer Family
Oct 21, 2011 · 60 min
The team helps build a home for the family of a man who quit his job to take care of his paralyzed adult son.
McPhail Family
Oct 28, 2011 · 60 min
The “EM:HE” crew travels to Medford, Oregon to help the McPhail Family, who started a local nonprofit to help children with special needs, never dreaming that someday their own two
Hill Family
Nov 4, 2011 · 60 min
Award-winning actress Glenn Close personally nominated the Hill family and appears in this episode. The patriarch, Staff Sergeant Allen Hill, an Iraqi war vet who suffers from crip
A Veterans Day Special
Nov 11, 2011 · 60 min
“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and the Entertainment Industry Foundation are joining forces for a one-hour special fundraising event entitled.” Host Ty Pennington and singer/song
Dunning Family
Nov 18, 2011 · 60 min
The team builds a new home and storage facility for a family devoted to providing food, shelter and support to those in need; game-show host Meredith Vieira and chef Michel Symon v
Walker Family
Dec 2, 2011 · 60 min
The team helps build a home for the family of an 11-year-old who took his own life due to bullying.
Johnson-Goslee Families
Dec 9, 2011 · 60 min
The team helps build a home for the family of a teenager who lost his hand while trying to do work on their current house.
Rhodes Family
Dec 16, 2011 · 60 min
The team helps Columbus, Ohio, grandparents who care for their adult daughter, who has a brain tumor, and her children in their small house that's home to seven people.
Gibbs Family
Jan 6, 2012 · 60 min
Ty and the team head to Fayette County, Iowa to surprise the Gibbs family! Audrey Gibbs is a mother, a widow, a farm owner and a maternal optimist who won't let anything stop her f
Joplin Families
Jan 13, 2012 · 60 min
Ty and the team make their way to tornado-ravaged Joplin, Missouri, for the series finale of one of the most life-changing show in TV history! On May 22, 2011, a catastrophic torna