[sparklite2]

Not too bad. But I’d drop Dr Who to around number 30 for its cheesy production values and elevate Babylon 5 to number 3 or 4 for its ground breaking visuals.

[Dr. Sivana]

I’d drop Dr Who to around number 30 for its cheesy production values

Dr. Who is like the George Blanda or Satchel Paige of the genre. It gets Hall of Fame points just for sticking around. Besides, ANYthing before the 1980s was going to have cheesy production values, ESPECIALLY BBC.

Besides the $5 weather balloons cast as Rover (the big ball) in "The Prisoner", unconvincing models to change perspective in various Twilight Zone episodes (Mickey Rooney as a giant jockey) and the puppetry in the original Thunderbirds, you just have to go with it sometimes. The best of them make you chuckle lightly and play along. I don't even like Dr. Who, but the casting of a phone booth or whatever as the Tardis was brilliant.

[x]

Not too bad. But I’d drop Dr Who to around number 30 for its cheesy production values ...

The show and its fanbase always came across as more adolescent than is usual for SF (and that's saying a lot).

It may be an English thing: I had the same problem with Torchwood.

[Gideon7]

I’d drop Dr Who to around number 30 for its cheesy production values

.. and its dumb time-travel non-plots. The TARDIS was just an excuse to get the characters to where ever they needed to be. Pop in, do whatever, then pop out.

For more dramatic consequences of what might actually happen if someone started messing with actual time travel, see Steins;Gate, a series that deserves to be on this list. (Hint: It's huge.)