On what date did the American medical drama House M.D. premiere?

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

The series was created by David Shore and starred Hugh Laurie as the unconventional diagnostician Gregory House. Its first episode, “Pilot,” introduced House and his diagnostic team at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.

The premiere established the show’s recurring structure: a patient with an unusual illness, a team investigating competing diagnoses, and House using observation, medical knowledge, and risky reasoning to identify the cause. The medical mystery format helped distinguish the series from more conventional hospital dramas.

House M.D. ran for eight seasons and became one of Fox’s major international television successes. Its premiere date is sometimes confused with the date of the first season’s production or with the series finale, which aired in 2012.