When did House M.D. premiere on the Fox network?

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

The medical drama was created by David Shore and centered on Dr. Gregory House, a brilliant but difficult diagnostician at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Its first episode introduced House’s unusual approach to medicine and established the diagnostic-team format that defined the series.

The show’s premiere date is sometimes confused with dates associated with later seasons or international broadcasts. Fox aired the pilot in the United States in November 2004, and the series ultimately ran for eight seasons. The finale aired in 2012, giving the program a long network run after its debut.

House M.D. was developed with a procedural structure, but its character drama was equally important. The premiere established House’s dependence on a cane, his distrust of easy explanations, and his team’s willingness to investigate rare causes when ordinary diagnoses failed.