Top 12 Nerd Shows
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}12. Weird Science. Based on the hit movie of the same name, the TV show followed two high school nerds who created a beautiful woman on a computer who then came to life. Nerd heaven. ( USA)
11. Big Bang Theory. Our only submission created in the past couple of years, this show is a sitcom about two theoretical physicists at Caltech. Would have loved to be a fly on the wall at the network pitch meeting for this one. Who knew nerds can be so persuasive? (CBS)
10. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy is so nerdy, there are cultural anthropology classes in some colleges devoted to Buffy Studies. Really. (WB)
9. Knight Rider. A Trans Am that talks to you, when the girls won't. That, and having David Hasselhoff's hair, is every nerd's dream. (NBC)
8. NOVA. A show all about science that's been running since 1974 on PBS? We call that a nerd training ground. (PBS)
7. NUMB3RS. See how there's a "3" instead of an "E" in the title? Talk about nerdy. Plus it's a backwards "3" in the real title, our computer just won't do that. Only a nerd's computer would do that. (CBS)
6. X-Files. Conspiracy theories and extraterrestrials dominated this nerdy pop culture phenomenon. Even nerdier, the protagonists only called each other by their last names. (FOX)
5. Mystery Science Theater 3000. A nerd and his robot pals watch bad science fiction movies and comment on them. Like taking a video of every nerd's living room after 11pm. The show even won a nerdy Peabody Award. (Best Brains)
4. Quantum Leap. Time travel is a big fantasy among nerds, as they often wish to be at any time period other than their own (the distant past with Medieval knights and fair maidens; the distant future with space aliens and phasers - you get the picture). Quantum Leap did both. (NBC)
3. Star Trek: Next Generation. Set 70 years in the future from the original Star Trek, it also ran several seasons longer than the original. Nerds have improved their stamina! (CBS)
2. Battlestar Galactica has been on TV and in theaters in numerous iterations over the years. Nerds like words like "iterations." (Sci Fi Channel)
1. Star Trek. The pre-eminent nerd show of all time, Star Trek was an action-adventure series set in the future, with each episode also encapsulating a moral parable. Working on multiple levels is very nerdy. ( CBS)