By mixing the worlds of the nerdish everyman with CIA adventures, creators Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak was unlike anything else on broadcast networks, and it built up quite a following both while it was on the air and in the years since its final season.
In fact, fans started up something of a social media campaign to try to get Netflix to reverse its planning to eliminate Chuck from the library.
Running for five seasons from 2007-2012, Chuck gave Zachery Levi and Yvonne Strahovski some much-deserved room in the primetime spotlight on NBC.