The Best Technology TV Shows on Free Services

What it's about: In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. Partially inspired by Mike Judge’s own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late ‘80s, Silicon Valley is an American sitcom that centers around six programmers who are living together and trying to make it big in the Silicon Valley.

Where to Watch: 53 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (HBO). 53 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (HBO). 53 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular TV everywhere service (HBO). 53 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).

What it's about: UK Comedy series about two I.T. nerds and their clueless female manager, who work in the basement of a very successful company. When they are called on for help, they are never treated with any respect at all.

Where to Watch: 1 episodes (4%) are available to watch free online (Tubi). 24 episodes (96%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix). 25 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: Twelve-year-old Gon Freecss one day discovers that the father he had always been told was dead was alive and well. His Father, Ging, is a Hunter—a member of society's elite with a license to go anywhere or do almost anything. Gon, determined to follow in his father's footsteps, decides to take the Hunter Examination and eventually find his father to prove himself as a Hunter in his own right. But on the way, he learns that there is more to becoming a Hunter than previously thought, and the challenges that he must face are considered the toughest in the world.

Where to Watch: 151 episodes (55%) are available to watch free online (Adult Swim, Crunchyroll, Tubi & 1 other). 134 episodes (49%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix & Hulu). 23 episodes (8%) are available to stream on a TV everywhere service (Adult Swim). 154 episodes (56%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).

What it's about: The year is 2048. By mandate, every cop must partner with a robot. Detective John Kennex returns to work after waking up from a 17-month coma. As he adjusts to working with his new partner, Dorian, a discontinued android with unexpected emotional responses, John also must learn to get along with his new colleagues.

Where to Watch: 13 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (IMDb TV). 13 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Google Play & YouTube).

What it's about: Revolution focuses on the struggle to survive 15 years after a global blackout.

Where to Watch: 42 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (IMDb TV). 42 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).

What it's about: In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a piece of technology called Nerve Gear. One day, players discover they cannot log out, as the game creator is holding them captive unless they reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if they die in the game, they die in real life. Their struggle for survival starts now...

Where to Watch: 89 episodes (75%) are available to watch free online (Crunchyroll). 87 episodes (73%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix, Hulu, Crunchyroll & 2 others). 26 episodes (22%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 2 services (iTunes & Google Play).

What it's about: In the year 2138, virtual reality gaming is booming. Yggdrasil, a popular online game is quietly shut down one day. However, one player named Momonga decides to not log out. Momonga is then transformed into the image of a skeleton as "the most powerful wizard." The world continues to change, with non-player characters (NPCs) beginning to feel emotion. Having no parents, friends, or place in society, this ordinary young man Momonga then strives to take over the new world the game has become.

Where to Watch: 39 episodes (98%) are available to watch free online (Crunchyroll). 40 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu, Crunchyroll & Funimation). 39 episodes (98%) are available to rent or buy from $0.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: Ergo Proxy is a science fiction suspense anime television series, produced by Manglobe, which premiered across Japan on 25 February 2006 on the WOWOW satellite network. It is directed by Shukō Murase, with screenplay by Dai Satō et al.. Ergo Proxy has been described as a dark sciencefiction mystery with philosophical underpinnings. It features a combination of 2D digital cel animation, 3D computer modeling, and digital special effects.

Where to Watch: 23 episodes (96%) are available to watch free online (Crunchyroll & Tubi). 24 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu & Funimation). 23 episodes (96%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 2 services (iTunes & Prime Video).

What it's about: 20-something Angus MacGyver creates a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening.

Where to Watch: 5 episodes (7%) are available to watch free online (CBS). 74 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a subscription service (CBS All Access & fuboTV). 74 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).

What it's about: Andromeda is a Canadian/American science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett. It starred Kevin Sorbo as High Guard Captain Dylan Hunt. The series premiered on October 2, 2000 and ended on May 13, 2005.Andromeda was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and produced by Tribune Entertainment and Fireworks Entertainment. It was distributed by Global TV in Canada and syndicated in the United States on WGN and other channels. It was picked up by the Sci-Fi Channel in the U.S. halfway through season four. Andromeda is one of two TV series based upon concepts Roddenberry had created as early as the 1960s and 1970s. The name Dylan Hunt had also been used for the hero of two TV movie pilots Roddenberry had produced in the mid-1970s, Genesis II and Planet Earth, which had a similar premise. The other series posthumously created from Roddenberry's notes is Earth: Final Conflict.

Where to Watch: 110 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu). 110 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Google Play & YouTube).

What it's about: The story begins when 30,000 Japanese gamers are trapped in the fantasy online game world Elder Tale. What was once a sword-and-sorcery world is now the real world. The main lead Shiroe attempts to survive with his old friend Naotsugu and the beautiful assassin Akatsuki.

Where to Watch: 50 episodes (98%) are available to watch free online (Crunchyroll). 51 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu). 50 episodes (98%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Google Play & YouTube).

What it's about: Sorata Kanda, a high school sophomore living in Sakurasou, the den of their academy's problem children, spends his days being dragged around by the strange residents, swearing he's going to escape Sakurasou one day.

Where to Watch: 24 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (Crunchyroll). 24 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 1 service (iTunes).

What it's about: Kaname Chidori’s one of the most popular girls at her high school – unfortunately, it’s her growing popularity off campus she should be worrying about. Unbeknownst to Kaname, terrorists are plotting her abduction, believing she possesses the rare and coveted abilities of “the Whispered.” That’s where Sousuke Sagara enters the picture. He’s a hotshot soldier from the clandestine counter-terrorist organization known as Mithril – and he’s going undercover at Kaname’s school to try and keep her safe. He may be an ace in the cockpit of an Arm Slave mech, but there’s no training in the world that could prepare him for the warzone of high school.

Where to Watch: 36 episodes (59%) are available to watch free online (Crunchyroll & Tubi). 61 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu & Funimation). 61 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: HISTORY’s longest-running series moves to H2. Modern Marvels celebrates the ingenuity, invention and imagination found in the world around us. From commonplace items like ink and coffee to architectural masterpieces and engineering disasters, the hit series goes beyond the basics to provide insight and history into things we wonder about and that impact our lives. This series tells fascinating stories of the doers, the dreamers and sometime-schemers that create everyday items, technological breakthroughs and manmade wonders. The hit series goes deep to explore the leading edge of human inspiration and ambition.

Where to Watch: 1 episodes (0%) are available to watch free online (History). 12 episodes (2%) are available to stream on a subscription service (History Vault). 212 episodes (27%) are available to stream on a TV everywhere service (History). 155 episodes (19%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Prime Video & 2 others).

What it's about: K.C. Cooper, a high school math whiz and karate black-belt, learns that her parents are spies when they recruit her to join them in the secret government agency, The Organization. While she now has the latest spy gadgets at her disposal, K.C. has a lot to learn about being a spy, including keeping her new gig a secret from her best friend Marisa. Together, K.C. and her parents, Craig and Kira, and her younger siblings, Ernie and Judy (a humanoid robot), try to balance everyday family life while on undercover missions, near and far, to save the world.

Where to Watch: 3 episodes (3%) are available to watch free online (Disney & DisneyNOW). 80 episodes (89%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu & Disney+). 2 episodes (2%) are available to stream on a TV everywhere service (DisneyNOW). 84 episodes (93%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: After failing his college entrance exams, 18 year-old Tsukasa Mizugaki is offered a position at the renowned SAI Corporation, known for its production and management of Giftia, androids that possess human emotions. Tsukasa’s position is in the terminal service department where the main job is to recover Giftias that are close to their expiration, a graveyard department in every sense. To make matters worse, Tsukasa is ordered to work with Isla, a female Giftia who is never given any responsibility other than serving tea to co-workers.

Where to Watch: 13 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (Crunchyroll). 13 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu).

What it's about: In 1972, the Apollo 17 mission discovered a hypergate to Mars on the surface of the moon. Soon a war breaks out between Earth and Mars, and Martian soldiers begin to descend from the sky, riding steel giants, intent on exterminating humanity.

Where to Watch: 24 episodes (67%) are available to watch free online (Crunchyroll). 25 episodes (69%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix & Funimation).

What it's about: Outlaw Star follows the outlaw Gene Starwind and his eleven year-old business associate, Jim Hawking. Together they run a small jack-of-all-trades business on the backwater planet Sentinel III. After the two take a job as bodyguards for a mysterious outlaw, they find themselves the owners of the XGP15A-II, a highly advanced prototype spacecraft, and the caretakers of a bio-android named Melfina, The series follows the exploits of the slowly growing ragtag crew.

Where to Watch: 26 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (Crunchyroll). 26 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu & Funimation). 26 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $0.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Google Play & YouTube).

What it's about: While fighting an intense inter-galactic war, a mecha pilot is accidentally warped into a space-time neither he nor his computer recognize. After waking up from a long-time hibernation, he finds himself trapped on a planet, with human residents talking in an unknown form of language, using inferior technologies, and - most shocking to him - naturally breathable air.

Where to Watch: 13 episodes (76%) are available to watch free online (Crunchyroll). 13 episodes (76%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix & Hulu). 13 episodes (76%) are available to rent or buy from $0.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).

What it's about: A short, overweight student uses the Neuro Link, an evolution of the Nerve Gear, to escape himself from the reality. But his skills in the virtual world brings him to the attention of Kuroyukihime, a popular student who introduces him to the Brain Burst.

Where to Watch: 24 episodes (92%) are available to watch free online (Crunchyroll & Tubi). 24 episodes (92%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu). 24 episodes (92%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: A year after the events that took place during the "Final Battle" and after the destruction of Omnitrix, 16-year-old Ben Tennyson has to face new enemies.

Where to Watch: 2 episodes (1%) are available to watch free online (Cartoon Network). 80 episodes (53%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu & fuboTV). 1 episodes (1%) are available to stream on a TV everywhere service (Cartoon Network). 120 episodes (79%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: Nothing on Midorijima has been the same since the powerful Tour Konzern forced the original population into the old residential district and converted the rest of the island into the ... »

Where to Watch: 12 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (Crunchyroll).

What it's about: Explore the impact of A.I. and how it is transforming the way we live and work -- both now and in the future, featuring some of the brightest minds in science, philosophy, technology, engineering, medicine, futurism, entertainment and the arts to tell the dynamic story of A.I.

Where to Watch: 8 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (YouTube Premium).

What it's about: Humanity has found a way to achieve infinite energy by using coils to draw it from the fourth plane: dimension "W". With the production of coils having been monopolized by the New Tesla energy company, freelance collectors are hired to find and remove any illegal, unofficial coils. This is the story of collector Kyōma, who also happens to have a huge hatred towards coils. During one of his missions he stumbles upon a female android that perceives herself as being human, leading the two to enter an unlikely partnership.

Where to Watch: 12 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (Tubi). 12 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu & Funimation). 12 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: Set in the future, a giant fighting machine called the Aquarion is humanity's only effective weapon in the fight against the technologically advanced species called the Shadow Angels.

Where to Watch: 49 episodes (59%) are available to watch free online (Crunchyroll & Tubi). 52 episodes (63%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu & Funimation). 66 episodes (80%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: After graduating high school, Suzukaze Aoba joins Eagle Jump, the game company that developed Fairies Story, the game she obsessed over as a kid. On her first day as a working member of society, Aoba heads to work swaying in a packed, morning rush hour train. She manages to get to the office building all right but hesitates, wondering if it was really okay for her to take that last step and go inside. That's when a senior member of staff, Toyama Rin, shows up at work and safely leads Aoba inside the offices of Eagle Jump.

Where to Watch: 24 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (Crunchyroll). 24 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $0.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: .hack follows several young players as they navigate the vast, mysterious MMORPG known as “The World” – a place, it turns out, that is sometimes impossible to leave.

Where to Watch: 61 episodes (95%) are available to watch free online (Tubi). 62 episodes (97%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu & Funimation). 38 episodes (59%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 1 service (iTunes).

What it's about: Alexis Conran & Marcus Brigstocke put all manner of hi- and lo- tech gadgets to the test in their own inimitable way. Every episode takes on a different element of a modern man's life as gadget geek Alexis attempts to persuade the more ‘traditional' Marcus that technology is always best. There's non-stop back and forth as the boys battle it out to prove one of them is right in a series of scenarios, from lazy Sundays to winter sports.

Where to Watch: 10 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (IMDb TV).

What it's about: The adventures of an inventive boy named Zack and his best friend, a young duck called Quack. Resourceful friend and neighbour, Kira, joins the dazzling duo on each adventure and is on hand to fix any paper problem with her expert pop-up tool kit.

Where to Watch: 18 episodes (23%) are available to watch free online (Nick Jr). 15 episodes (19%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: For thousands of years after its development, mankind used the written word for communication between people and generations. As millenia passed and technology became more prevalent, writing - and thus, communication as a whole - diminished, until it could only be found on cell phones and computer screens. Seeing an opportunity, the sorcerer Sogan Kenzaki starts infecting words with the Nesta Virus, which brings them to life and turns them into monsters called MJBK (Menace of Japanese with Biological Kinetic energy). To counter this attack against humanity, an organization known as DEAVA (Division of EArth Verbalism Ability) assembles a group of youths with the ability of "Verbalism". They have to pilot the vector machines, which are used to form the mechas dubbed "Aquarions". The one wild card in the situation is the self-dubbed "savior", a young man who is the direct relative of a famous calligrapher, named Akira Kaibuki.

Where to Watch: 26 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (Tubi). 26 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a subscription service (Funimation). 26 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $0.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).