TV Land announced its lineup for The 50 Greatest TV Icons of all time. And right in there with the beauties (Jennifer Aniston's ranked No. 39, Sarah Jessica Parker comes in at No. 31) and the funnymen (David Letterman at No. 16 and Jerry Seinfeld, No. 8) are the geeks.
Here's who's representin':
Coming in at No. 49 on the TV Land list is Jimmy Smits, the award-winning actor of hits like NYPD Blue and The West Wing. Geek cred: He played Senator Bail Organa in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and* Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.*
Sarah Michelle Gellar (No. 45) is a beauty and a geek. After seven seasons slaying vampires on Buffy, she joined up with Seth Green and Matthew Senreich to do voice-overs for Robot Chicken.
Squeezing into the top 40 is George Clooney, at No. 37. His geek cred: Batman. And it doesn't get much geekier than that ... oh wait, yes, it does. See: William Shatner.
No one could have rocked the Delorean better than __Michael J. Fox __(No. 35) in Back to the Future.
The Fonz is the anti-geek but Henry Winkler (No. 32) loves his gadgets. In the '80s and '90s he was a frequent producer for MacGyver, and he even tried to create a spinoff in 2003, titled Young MacGyver, but to no success.
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William Shatner __(No. 18) is by far the geekiest of the geeks in TV Land's Top 50. We just can't get enough Captain Kirk.
The highest-ranked geek on the list: reporter Walter Cronkite (No. 5). Although he's never portrayed an alien or astronaut, Cronkite's got major space-lust and was the voice -- or more accurately, the speechless smile -- that announced man's arrival on the moon in '69.
The 50 Greatest TV Icons premieres Friday at 8 p.m. on TV Land.
