Best of What You Didn't Know Was Online - 2009

Video programming is spreading through the web like wildfire. This is great news for you, but it could also be moving so fast that it's passing you by! It's hard to keep track of what's getting thrown online these days, but we've got a list of nominees that will blow your mind (or at least make you say, "I didn't know that was online!") See what won!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the television series created by Joss Whedon which follows slayer Buffy Anne Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), her friends Willow and Xander, and fellow slayer Faith (Eliza Dushku). Buffy is the ...
2009 Winner
The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show is the classic CBS sitcom starring Andy Griffith as a widowed sheriff, with dimwitted deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts), Barney's sweetheart Thelma Lou (Betty Lynn), housekeeper Aunt Bee (Frances Bavie...
2009 Finalist
Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars is the now-cancelled CW series starring Kristen Bell as a plucky detective solving crimes in her High School. After her best friend is murdered and she is the victim of date rape, Veronica decides to take mat...
2009 Finalist
Spaced
Spaced is the cult classic British television show from the late 90s that first brought attention to comedian/actors Nick Frost and Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright, who have since gone on to make 'Shaun of the Dead,' ...
2009 Finalist
The Larry Sanders Show
The Larry Sanders Show is Garry Shandling's HBO sitcom about the comedy and drama behind the scenes of a late night talk show. Celebrity guests and comedian cameos abound, this is a modern day classic. With his sidekick...
2009 Finalist
Melrose Place
Melrose Place is a 90s TV show that aired on Fox and was produced by Aaron Spelling as the second series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise. The show is about an apartment complex in West Hollywood and its residents, Dr...
3rd Rock from the Sun
3rd Rock from the Sun, easily one of the finest sit-coms of the late-90s, centers around a group of aliens living in Rutherford, Ohio as they observe humanity in the interests of science. The stellar comedic cast includes...
Beverly Hills 90210
Beverly Hills 90210, starring Jennie Garth, Luke Perry, Ian Ziering, Jason Priestly, Shannen Doherty, Tori Spelling, Gabrielle Carteris, and Brian Austin Green, originally focuses on Brenda and Brandon Walsh, who move to B...
MacGyver
MacGyver is the action adventure TV series that brought us Angus MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson), and the eternal question "What Would MacGyver Do?" MacGyver, or Mac for short, is an action hero who prefers to use non-vi...
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks is a 1990s television serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, following FBI agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) and his investigation of the murder of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), a popular teenager fr...
CHiPs
CHiPs is the classic ABC TV show which follows the adventures of two Los Angeles motorcycle police officers of the California Highway Patrol, Officer Francis "Ponch" Poncherello (Eric Estrada) and Jonathan "Jon" Baker (Lar...
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman is a television series that aired on ABC from 1993 to 1997 following the adventures of Superman, but with an emphasis on the romance between Clark Kent (Dean Cain) and Lois La...
The A-Team
The A-Team is an action adventure series about a crack commando unit consisting of Col. John "Hannibal" Smith (George Peppard), Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck (Dirk Benedict), Capt. H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock (Dwight Schultz...
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is a television series on the WB that puts the legacy of Wonder Woman into episodes. Invented back in the 1940's and representing ideals of love, peace and sexual equality, Wonder Woman's mission to fight evil...
Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O is the codename for the elite unit of Hawaiian police, leader Steve McGarrett, and under him Danny "Danno" Williams, Duke Lukela, Chin Ho Kelly, Kono Kalakaua, and Ben Kokua. Set against the tropical backdro...
Life
Life is a police drama TV series developed by NBC that follows Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis), a Los Angeles police detective just released after serving twelve years of a life sentence, where he was beaten regularly by the ...
Gilligan's Island
Gilligan's Island is the story of the S.S. Minnow and it's crew Gilligan and the Skipper, their passengers millionaire Thurston Howell III, his wife Lovey Howell, movie star Ginger Grant, The Professor, and Mary Ann. What...
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Beverly Hillbillies is the classic TV sitcom about the Clampett Family - Jed (Buddy Ebsen), Daisy May "Granny" Moshes (Irene Ryan), Elly May (Donna Douglas), and Jethro Bodine, a backwoods family who hit's oil, strikes...
Strangers with Candy
Strangers with Candy is the Comedy Central that follows 46 year old dropout Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) as she returns to high school, joining faculty like history teacher Chuck Noblet (Stephen Colbert) and students like Tam...
Peep Show
Peep Show is a British comedy television series starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as two friends in their late twenties living normal lives in England. David Mitchell plays Mark who is employed as a loan officer whil...
The Ben Stiller Show
The Ben Stiller Show is the groundbreaking early nineties sketch comedy show, now available on TheWB.com, that launched Ben Stiller into stardom, along with comics Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick, and Bob Odenkirk. It original...
Stella
Stella is a comedy series on Comedy Central that follows the absurd lives of David Wain, Michael Showalter, and Michael Ian Black. The trio, (who play themselves) live together in a Manhattan apartment where they always w...
The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone is a television serried created by Ron Serling, with episodes written by Serling as well as Charles Beaumont, and Richard Matheson. The episodes are disconnected and usually the isolated story involved fa...
Hollywood Squares, The (1966)
The Hollywood Squares is a classic 1966 game show that mixes trivia with the classic strategy game, tic-tac-toe. Two contestants go head-to-head to try to get three Xs or Os in a row on a giant tic-tac-toe board. But it's ...
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