House
It's from 2004, before you were born.
- Network
- FOX
- Genre
- Medical drama
- Star
- Hugh Laurie
- Premiered
- 2004
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About
As of 2026, it's 22 years old.
House was a medical drama built around one delightful contradiction: its genius doctor was a miserable, pill-popping, deeply rude misanthrope who solved impossible cases precisely because he treated everyone, including patients, with open contempt. 'Everybody lies' was his motto and his diagnostic strategy.
Every episode followed the same satisfying ritual — wrong diagnosis, wrong diagnosis, last-minute epiphany — but Hugh Laurie's magnetic grump made the formula irresistible.
Sharp, cynical, and weirdly comforting, House is the show that proved audiences will happily root for a brilliant jerk as long as he's right by the final act.
House season by season
House ran for 8 seasons (2004–2011) across 176 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.



