Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - Season 1 (2004)

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When the "extreme" nine-member Harris family from Birmingham, Alabama received the remarkable news that their house would get an "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," Chris and Diamond Harris were thankful that some of the exhaustion that stems from taking care of their toddler sextuplets and nine-year-old son DeWayne would finally be relieved.

Life changed dramatically two short years ago for 22-year-old Robert Gil and his family, when Robert was involved in a devastating car accident that resulted in him becoming paralyzed from the neck down. After the accident, Robert's mother, Pat Zitek, quit her job as a successful real estate agent to take care of her son full-time. Unfortunately, the family home in Ventura, California was not so accommodating. All that has now changed - after a team of designers took over the Zitek home for one week and worked their magic. Robert can now go everywhere in his house ...

Several years ago, when Freeman Hardin, Jr. lost track of his father, Freeman, Sr., he decided to go on a manhunt and started looking for him on the streets. As luck would have it, he found his dad on Father's Day four years ago and brought him to Phelan, California, to live with his family. Since there were no extra bedrooms in the Hardin household, Freeman, Sr. lived in a fifth-wheel trailer in the yard. More space was needed so Freeman, Sr. could stay in the main house, which was a run-down vacation home that had been on the real estate market for years. On this ...

As a young mother was preparing to put her 11-week-old daughter to bed, she looked out the window and saw an SUV speeding toward the front of her parents' house, where she was living. She jumped from the room into the hallway, just as the drunk driver's speeding vehicle came crashing into the front door! Fortunately her child was in the back of the house with her grandmother, but the blast from the impact left pieces of the house on top of the baby and all through the now uninhabitable home. The Tugwell family from Long Beach, California, became displaced, but "...

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Just months after a young, divorced mother of two got involved with a blood drive, she received a call that her marrow matched that of a baby girl with leukaemia. At the time, Brook Imbriani had no idea how her selfless donation would impact her own family's life, as well as the life of a sick child. But Brook turned a tragic situation into triumph, and appreciation for her generosity was shown when "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" literally knocked the Imbriani's neglected house to the ground and transformed it into a dream home.