When did the medical drama House M.D. premiere on television?

House M.D. premiered on television on November 16, 2004. The Fox medical drama introduced viewers to Gregory House, a brilliant but unconventional diagnostician who led a team at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.

The series was created by David Shore and produced with a strong creative connection to medical mystery storytelling. Its format typically followed a difficult case, a series of changing diagnoses, and House’s efforts to identify the underlying illness.

The premiere date is sometimes confused with the date of the pilot’s production or with the start of a later international broadcast. In the United States, however, the series debut was the November 16, 2004, broadcast.

House ran for eight seasons and became one of Fox’s best-known scripted dramas. Its combination of hospital cases, dark humor, and character conflict helped distinguish it from more conventional medical series.