On what date did House M.D. premiere on the Fox television network?

House M.D. premiered on Fox on November 16, 2004.

The first episode introduced Gregory House, his diagnostic team, and the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. The series was created by David Shore and developed for television with a format built around difficult medical cases, with House acting as a detective whose clues were symptoms and test results.

The premiere established several features that became central to the show: House’s reluctance to see patients in the clinic, his reliance on a cane because of chronic leg pain, and the tension between his brilliance and his disregard for hospital rules. The episode’s case involved a kindergarten teacher whose illness challenged the team.

The date is sometimes confused with the start of production or with the beginning of a later season. November 16, 2004, is the U.S. network premiere date for the series itself. Fox broadcast the program during the 2004–05 television season.