House, M.D. premiered on Fox in 2004.
The series debuted on November 16, 2004, with the episode “Everybody Lies.” It was created by David Shore and centered on Dr. Gregory House, a brilliant but difficult diagnostician at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
The show arrived during a period when American television was increasingly featuring medical dramas with distinctive central characters. House stood apart by focusing on unusual diagnostic puzzles and on House’s unconventional methods rather than primarily on emergency-room action.
The title is commonly shortened to House, although its official stylization is House, M.D. The series continued for eight seasons and became one of Fox’s best-known scripted dramas. Its final episode aired in 2012, making the 2004 premiere year the start of an eight-year television run.