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Freaks and Geeks
1999–2000
· TV Show
· 45 min episodes
· 1 season
A
MEANRANK
89/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5
- IMDb #45
- Google retired #14
- Metacritic #8
- RatingGraph #23
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3
+4 more
- Metacritic Critics #13
- Metacritic Audience #25
- Criticker #14
- Trakt #86
Every rating
77–100
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 77, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 100.
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Details
- Created by
- Paul Feig
- Released
- 25 September 1999
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Episode length
- 45 min
- Rated
- TV-14
- Episodes
- 18 across 1 season
- Awards
- 1 win, 4 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 5 →1 major award won · 1 win from 5 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Primetime Emmy Award 2000 | Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series | Allison Jones | Winner |
| Primetime Emmy Award 2001 | Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series | Nominee | |
| TCA Heritage Award 2011 | TCA Heritage Award | Nominee | |
| TCA Award 2000 | Outstanding New Program | Nominee | |
| TCA Award 2000 | Outstanding Achievement in Drama | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Primetime Emmy Award
2 nominations, 1 won
| Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series | Allison Jones | Winner |
| Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series | Nominee |
TCA Award
2 nominations
| Outstanding Achievement in Drama | Nominee | |
| Outstanding New Program | Nominee |
TCA Heritage Award
1 nomination
| TCA Heritage Award | Nominee |