Outer space

A surprisingly small number of series take place in outer space. And they generally use the spaceship merely to go between planets

1976-1977	Space 1999	The moon (w/moonbase alpha) is blown into space, meets many crazy things	Later they get a shape-changing alien (the camera zooms into here eye w/image of her new shape) Images
1977	Quark	A comedy with odd aliens	The double-mint twins as clones, a talking plant, Tim Thomerson. Movie star Richard Benjamin as the captain
1978	BattleStar Galactica	Ship with last humans flees from Cylons	They look for the mythical planet earth. Cylons has cool chrome suits and a single back-and-forth red eye. Led by a human!
1979:2sns	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century	Another from Glen A.Larson
1988-??	Red Dwarf	A whacky crew stuck in an off-course spaceship	Hologram, evolved cat. BBC, this is roughly when it could be seen on many PBS's
1993-1997	Babylon-5	Huge space station w/many alien races has intrigue	PsyCorps, Vorlons, conquered Norns. Early example of an on-going story arc
1995-1996	Space:Above&Beyond	wormholes, space marines fight aliens
1997-2006	StarGate	Elite team saves humans from alien overlords	Based on the movie. Expands to good aliens, evil AI nanobots, fake gods. Every planet except earth is in the middle ages
1999-2002	FarScape	Human lost in alernate dimension w/crazy aliens	A tiger-man who lost his wife and son, mystic blue woman w/dark past, living spaceship; "peace-keepers" who look a lot like humans
2000-2005	Andromeda	Kevin Sorbo w/quirky team and mega-AI/spaceship fix the galaxy	Based on an idea by Gene Roddenberry. Not terrible -- some good ideas mixed with very silly ones
2004-2008	StarGate:Atlantis	Spin off featuring life-sucking space vampires	As usual, has a "Scotty" who can MacGuyver anything
2002	FireFly	Space-western. Misfit crew on FireFly ship tries to survive and do good	Josh Whedon
2017-2019	The Orville	Pretty much Star Trek, with comedy	Seth McFarlane as the captain