B5

It certainly wasn't a perfect show, but it attempted - and to some degree succeeded - going where no show had gone before, with a multi-year plot where the random foreshadowing in some first season one episode actually had a payoff four seasons later. The realities of dealing with low budgets, threatened cancellation, actors moving on, and all of the other difficulties inherent in such a project certainly dented the quality of the final product, but it managed to succeed in its vision at a time when "make a series so it can be seen in any order in syndication" was the normal way of doing things.