[The Beastmaster]

I would have to vote for Babylon 5 as well.
No other SciFi series has come as close to a cohesive compelling saga as this one did.
Making the story from projecting Biblical stories, UFO speculations, etc. from our own understanding and crafting it all into a SciFi story line was quite clever and well done. And even if I don't agree fully with the ideas behind the show, I still love it for it's ability to maintain a fairly tight and interesting story line, in which doesn't stray much over the 5 years... bar the first telepath leaving the show.

- Star Trek (the original) is had to compare anything else to it, considering Lost in Space was it's same time/age comparison. It still holds up fairly well today, even though a bit simplistic. If we didn't have this show, how many people would really be SciFi fans today?.. in that, SciFi is much more accepted in the mainstream today because of this show. As I recall, to people in the early 70s still thought of SciFi fans as geeks, etc. Today it's not only acceptable, it's a sign of character.
- Star Trek TNG and deep space 9, etc. all have had their moments of greatness in parts, but the parts don't live up to the sum of the whole for me, not as well as the original Star Trek did.
- Farscape was very interesting to me in the first year, but it quickly got to be too cheesy for my tastes in a final years of Xena sort of way, if you know what I mean.

Just my two cents, gonna stop here. Too many other shows to comment on, but wanted to vote for babylon 5.