Bruce Campbell is awesome. But there’s a reason those shows did not last. He was not so awesome as to make them great.

And Tin Man was a travesty.

As to the rest, apparently those involved in putting together the list felt that these movies were better than the other media they knew about. And a lot of the shows you mentioned I didn’t even recall, though they came on in my lifetime. I apparently didn’t think they were good enough to remember, so perhaps that’s the case with the others.

Though I do remember Jules Verne and thought it was a good show.

Going by the list you generated, I would say there are perhaps 3 that I would consider putting on a top 10 steampunk TV list. Whether they belong in this top ten, I’ll leave for readers to decide

Off the top of my head, I recalled The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, The Wild Wild West, Legend, The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr., Jack of All Trades, and the one-off pilot The Amazing Screw-On Head. A little Wikipedia adds QED, Tin Man, and Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. I know that Doctor Who has dabbled with it in individual episodes (I immediately think of “Tooth and Claw” and “The Girl in the Fireplace”). There are also series that I don’t know enough to make any sort of call: the new show Crusoe is sitting on my DVR, but it looks like it’ll have slightly anachronistic, slightly implausible, how-the-hell-did-you-build-that-alone-on-an-island aesthetic. (Because it’s set in the 18th century, I’m assuming that fits into steampunk, in a way that Gilligan’s Island doesn’t.) And Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World seems to fit in timeframe and subject matter, but I can’t for the life of me remember much at all about it.

Beyond that, I start batting up against mem-policing. A number of the series above are set in the “the American West,” and focusing on crossing sf and 19th century America nets a lot of space-western possibilities (Trigun, Firefly, etc.) but not all of them are always considered steampunk. Speaking of Trigun, I imagine there’s a lot of ground to cover in cartoons, though al that comes to mind initially is Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century.

So probably enough for a list, though there might have to be some justifications thrown in.

Also, I have to assume that television is going to be getting its own list, since you opted for the film Wild Wild West over the original series The Wild Wild West and because other obvious choices like The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne are absent.

Check out the Decemberists for what I think could easily be considered a true steampunk band. Songs like the “Mariner’s Lament,” “Eli the Barrowboy,” and “We Both Go Down Together” feature accordians instead of screaming guitars, clever lyrics, and Victorian tragedy.

Their website (www.decemberists.com) evokes an old time flair that MTV probably missed in its quest to hunt down Billy Corgan’s outfit from “Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness” for their VJ to wear. Oddly enough, the Decemberists don’t do steampunk videos or really proclaim any sort of affinity for it as far as I can tell.