Episode
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: The Okvath Family
Overview
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 redecorating the wards there. The crew are so impressed by this, that they decide to rennovate her house without telling the family.
Details
- Series
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 2005-03-13
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
The Okvath Family is Episode 17 in Season 2 of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. It aired on 2005-03-13. The runtime is 60 min.
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