Cult television, like cult film and cult radio, attracts a hardy band of aficionados who have diverse opinions as to the cult status or otherwise of particular offerings. (For a fuller discussion of this sense of "cult", see cult film.)
A list of programmes that achieved cult television status might include:
- The A-Team
- The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr
- Babylon 5
- Battlestar Galactica
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Cleopatra 2525
- Digimon
- Doctor Who
- Dragonball Z
- ''Dream On
- Farscape
- Firefly
- Futurama
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
- Lexx
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- Prisoner
- Robotech
- Sailor Moon
- Sealab 2021
- The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
- Seven Days
- The Prisoner
- The Simpsons
- Star Trek
- Stargate SG-1
- Tremors movies and the series
- Twin Peaks
- The X-Files
- Xena: Warrior Princess