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Sliders

Wed, Mar 22, 1995
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Synopsis

In his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite number of Earths. During a test run, Quinn invites co-worker Wade Welles and his teacher Professor Maximillian Arturo to see his new invention. But an increase in power and an early departure leave all three, plus a washed-up soul singer named Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown, lost in a parallel world. Now they must "slide" from world to world, not only adapting to their changing surroundings, but also trying to get back to their world. Will they ever make it home?

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Cast

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  • Cleavant Derricks
    Cleavant Derricks
    as Rembrandt Brown
  • Kari Wührer
    Kari Wührer
    as Maggie Beckett
  • Tembi Locke
    Tembi Locke
    as Diana Davis
  • Robert Floyd
    Robert Floyd
    as Quinn Mallory
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Episodes

5 seasons · 87 episodes

Ended · 87 aired
Season 1
9 episodes · 9 aired
▾
  • E1
    Pilot
    Aired · Wed, Mar 22, 1995 · 120m

    A physics accident sends physics student Quinn Mallory and his companions on an interdimensional roller-coaster ride that lands them in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco. After a narrow escape from death, the Sliders find themselves in a Soviet-ruled U.S., where their only hope of escape is to free an imprisoned revolutionary.

  • E2
    Fever
    Aired · Wed, Mar 29, 1995 · 60m

    When Wade is infected with a deadly virus on an Earth wracked by an epidemic, Rembrandt and Arturo race to find a cure and free Quinn from a Gestapo-like health agency.

  • E3
    Last Days
    Aired · Wed, Apr 5, 1995 · 60m

    The salvation of a world facing certain destruction rests in the hands of Arturo and a young scientist. Meanwhile, Quinn and Wade begin to face their feelings for each other.

  • E4
    Prince of Wails
    Aired · Wed, Apr 12, 1995 · 60m

    The sliders land in a British-ruled U.S.---where England won the Revolutionary War---and find themselves embroiled in a plot involving the heir to the throne.

  • E5
    Summer of Love
    Aired · Wed, Apr 19, 1995 · 60m

    The sliders find themselves in a San Francisco where the "Summer of Love" never ended---and Wade and Rembrandt are mistaken for extraterrestrial prophets.

  • E6
    Eggheads
    Aired · Wed, Apr 26, 1995 · 60m

    While Quinn struggles with fame in a world where intellectuals are treated like pro athletes, Arturo tries for a reconciliation with a long-lost love.

  • E7
    The Weaker Sex
    Aired · Wed, May 3, 1995 · 60m

    Arturo finds himself in a potentially deadly mayoral race in a world where men are considered second-class citizens and women hold the positions of power and respect.

  • E8
    The King Is Back
    Aired · Wed, May 10, 1995 · 60m

    Rembrandt is mistaken for a deceased rock legend, but an old enemy (Tom Pickett) would like to see the Crying Man disappear again---permanently.

  • E9
    Luck of the Draw
    Aired · Wed, May 17, 1995 · 60m

    Wade has money to burn when she wins the lottery in a seemingly utopian world, but she discovers that her silver cloud has a dark lining.

Season 2
13 episodes · 13 aired
▾
  • E1
    Into the Mystic
    Aired · Fri, Mar 1, 1996 · 60m

    The intrepid quartet lands in a world mired in mysticism and ruled by a mysterious entity known as The Sorcerer.

  • E2
    Love Gods
    Aired · Fri, Mar 8, 1996 · 60m

    In a world where germ warfare has exterminated most of the male population, Quinn, Rembrandt and Arturo discover that they're unwitting fugitives.

  • E3
    Gillian of the Spirits
    Aired · Fri, Mar 15, 1996 · 60m

    When a bizarre accident separates Quinn from the rest of the Sliders, the only hope for the remaining trio is to trust a girl with an ability to talk to spirits.

  • E4
    The Good, the Bad and the Wealthy
    Aired · Fri, Mar 22, 1996 · 60m

    Quinn finds himself at the center of some unorthodox corporate raiding when a gunfight earns him a reputation for being quick on the draw.

  • E5
    El Sid
    Aired · Fri, Mar 29, 1996 · 60m

    When Quinn rescues a woman in distress in a world ruled by violence, her boyfriend swears vengeance for an imagined slight and follows the sliders through the vortex

  • E6
    Time Again and World
    Aired · Fri, Apr 5, 1996 · 60m

    The sliders become involved in a plot involving a disgraced Federal judge, an underground resistance movement and an America under martial law.

  • E7
    In Dino Veritas
    Aired · Fri, Apr 26, 1996 · 60m

    The Sliders find themselves face-to-jaw with a large (and angry) beast in a San Francisco that's been developed as a game preserve---for dinosaurs.

  • E8
    Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome
    Aired · Fri, May 3, 1996 · 60m

    When the sliders finally land in the one place that none of them want to leave---home---Quinn has doubts about their good fortune.

  • E9
    Obsession
    Aired · Fri, May 24, 1996 · 60m

    In a society dominated by psychics, Wade meets the man of her dreams---who wants her to remain with him at any cost.

  • E10
    Greatfellas
    Aired · Fri, May 31, 1996 · 60m

    The Sliders find themselves embroiled in a struggle among organized-crime families, corrupt government officials and dedicated G-men.

  • E11
    The Young and the Relentless
    Aired · Fri, Jun 7, 1996 · 60m

    The Sliders land in a world where Wade and Quinn's counterparts are executives up to their ears in a shady software deal.

  • E12
    Invasion
    Aired · Fri, Jun 28, 1996 · 60m

    The sliders encounter a race of scientifically advanced aliens who hold a surprise for the quartet---they can slide at will, and intend to conquer every Earth in the dimensional spectrum.

  • E13
    As Time Goes By
    Aired · Fri, Jul 12, 1996 · 60m

    The sliders find themselves in a perplexing situation: each time they slide into a new world they encounter the same people as in the previous world.

Season 3
25 episodes · 25 aired
▾
  • E1
    Rules of the Game
    Aired · Fri, Sep 20, 1996 · 60m

    Arturo is seriously injured when the Sliders become unwitting participants in a bloody activity known as "The Game," played in a world in which athletes must follow one rule to win: stay alive.

  • E2
    Double Cross
    Aired · Fri, Sep 27, 1996 · 60m

    After landing in a city where supplies are scarce, the Sliders meet scientists who are trying to perfect sliding and whose seeming cooperation impress Quinn, Wade, Arturo and Rembrandt.

  • E3
    Electric Twister Acid Test
    Aired · Fri, Oct 4, 1996 · 60m

    In a desert, the Sliders find a village plagued by tornadoes and presided over by a dictator who'll stop at nothing to keep his subjects under his iron rule.

  • E4
    The Guardian
    Aired · Fri, Oct 11, 1996 · 60m

    Quinn is forced to relive painful childhood memories when a slide to 1980s San Francisco brings him face to face with his younger self.

  • E5
    The Dream Masters
    Aired · Fri, Oct 18, 1996 · 60m

    Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) becomes the target of a group of dream terrorists, who control people through their ability to tinker with the victims' worst fears.

  • E6
    Desert Storm
    Aired · Fri, Nov 1, 1996 · 60m

    In a world in which water's scarce, the Sliders aid a young woman who's been the virtual slave of a thug because of her gift: an ability to find water.

  • E7
    Dragonslide
    Aired · Fri, Nov 8, 1996 · 60m

    The Sliders land in a mystical world where illusion and black magic are practiced and where Quinn is thought to come from a powerful line of wizards that must be eliminated.

  • E8
    The Fire Within
    Aired · Fri, Nov 15, 1996 · 60m

    In a world consumed by mysterious fires, the Sliders discover what might be the culprit: a single flame, which seems to have a mind and a will of its own.

  • E9
    The Prince of Slides
    Aired · Fri, Nov 22, 1996 · 60m

    After landing in an America ruled by a monarchy and where men have babies, Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) is mistaken for royalty---and prepped to give birth to the heir to the throne.

  • E10
    Dead Man Sliding
    Aired · Fri, Nov 29, 1996 · 60m

    Quinn is mistakenly arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to death in a Hollywood where TV viewers determine the sentence and executions are televised live.

  • E11
    State of the Art
    Aired · Fri, Dec 6, 1996 · 60m

    In a world run by highly intelligent robots, Quinn and Rembrandt become guinea pigs in a ghastly experiment.

  • E12
    Season's Greedings
    Aired · Fri, Dec 20, 1996 · 60m

    All is not calm for the Sliders, whose Christmas is spent in a giant mall where customers run up bills, then become virtual prisoners while trying to pay them off.

  • E13
    Murder Most Foul
    Aired · Fri, Jan 3, 1997 · 60m

    Arturo is kidnapped and brainwashed into thinking he's a 19th-century detective investigating some real murders.

  • E14
    Slide Like an Egyptian
    Aired · Fri, Jan 17, 1997 · 60m

    The sliders land in a world resembling ancient Egypt, where Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) is used for a life-after-death experiment, and the others are entombed inside a pyramid.

  • E15
    Paradise Lost
    Aired · Fri, Jan 31, 1997 · 60m

    The Sliders land on a world where no one is over the age of 35, but soon realize the town's dirty secret. With Jerry O'Connell, John Rhys-Davies, Sabrina Lloyd and Cleavant Derricks.

  • E16
    The Exodus (1)
    Aired · Fri, Feb 21, 1997 · 60m

    In a militaristic America threatened by a deadly pulsar, a colonel (Roger Daltrey) decides who'll be saved---and who'll be left to die.

  • E17
    The Exodus (2)
    Aired · Fri, Feb 28, 1997 · 60m

    As doomsday looms, Quinn and Maggie race to find a suitable parallel world, but discover that Rickman has a deadly ulterior motive for finding such a world.

  • E18
    Sole Survivors
    Aired · Fri, Mar 7, 1997 · 60m

    The Sliders encounter a world infected by bacteria that transforms inhabitants into flesh-eating creatures---one of which takes a bite out of Quinn.

  • E19
    The Breeder
    Aired · Fri, Mar 14, 1997 · 60m

    Maggie's transporting an alien egg that's incubating inside her.

  • E20
    The Last of Eden
    Aired · Fri, Mar 28, 1997 · 60m

    On a world plagued by earthquakes and populated by primitive people, Wade stumbles upon a vast underground city overrun by nonhuman creatures.

  • E21
    The Other Slide of Darkness
    Aired · Fri, Apr 11, 1997 · 60m

    The Sliders find evidence that Rickman may already be spreading his infection in a superstitious world.

  • E22
    Slither
    Aired · Fri, Apr 25, 1997 · 60m

    While vacationing, the Sliders stumble across a scientist whose research involving supernatural snakes gets out of hand when one of the critters escapes from captivity.

  • E23
    Dinoslide
    Aired · Fri, May 2, 1997 · 60m

    Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) is reunited with Malcolm, while Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) swears revenge against Rickman when the Sliders find the colonel on a world ruled by a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

  • E24
    Stoker
    Aired · Fri, May 9, 1997 · 60m

    Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) falls under the spell of a gothic-rock band's charismatic lead singer (Ryan Alosio), who---unbeknownst to Wade---is also a full-blooded vampire with a taste for young groupies.

  • E25
    This Slide of Paradise
    Aired · Fri, May 16, 1997 · 60m

    After cornering Rickman on a world inhabited by bizarre hybrids, the sliders finally have a chance to get home---until they meet a scientist (Michael York) who experiments with human DNA.

Season 4
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    Genesis
    Aired · Mon, Jun 8, 1998 · 60m

    After months of searching for Wade and Rembrandt, Quinn and Maggie (Jerry O'Connell, Kari Wuhrer) arrive on their home Earth---only to find it overrun by the Kromaggs.

  • E2
    Prophets and Loss
    Aired · Mon, Jun 8, 1998 · 60m

    The trio arrives on an Earth run by religious extremists, who extort followers for their possessions, promising passage to a nirvana world in return, a deal Quinn learns is a deadly sham.

  • E3
    Common Ground
    Aired · Mon, Jun 15, 1998 · 60m

    Quinn, Maggie and Rembrandt arrive on an Earth used by the Kromaggs as a weapons-testing area, and are captured after Maggie saves the life of a Kromagg soldier.

  • E4
    Virtual Slide
    Aired · Mon, Jun 22, 1998 · 60m

    After sliding onto a decrepit Earth, Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) becomes separated from Quinn and Rembrandt and is subjected to a virtual-reality device used to search her mind for slider technology.

  • E5
    World Killer
    Aired · Mon, Jun 29, 1998 · 60m

    Quinn meets his double in an alternate dimension where his experiments resulted in the wholesale transportation of humanity to another Earth, which is straining under the weight of the two populations.

  • E6
    Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
    Aired · Mon, Jul 6, 1998 · 60m

    Quinn discovers his brother Colin (Charlie O'Connell)---a bright, naive young man---who joins the team and becomes involved with women who plan to steal a wealthy man's frozen body in order to claim his money.

  • E7
    Just Say Yes
    Aired · Mon, Jul 13, 1998 · 60m

    Upon arrival on an Earth where drug use is mandatory, Maggie and Colin (Kari Wuhrer, Charlie O'Connell) are dosed with chemicals and induced to stay on their new world.

  • E8
    The Alternateville Horror
    Aired · Mon, Jul 20, 1998 · 60m

    When the group arrives on an Earth decimated by acid rain, they escape the weather by checking into a version of the Chandler Hotel plagued by paranormal activity.

  • E9
    Slidecage
    Aired · Mon, Jul 27, 1998 · 60m

    Quinn and Colin devise a way to slide to their Earth, but the group winds up trapped in a security zone in the midst of a bitter civil war between Kromagg and human refugees.

  • E10
    Asylum
    Aired · Mon, Aug 17, 1998 · 60m

    Rembrandt falls for a doctor who may hold the key to saving Quinn's life. Trouble is, Maggie discovers the woman is a Kromagg collaborator on the run from the British.

  • E11
    California Reich
    Aired · Mon, Aug 24, 1998 · 60m

    The group arrives on an Earth where California has been taken over by racists, who capture Rembrandt and place him in a prison camp used to turn non-whites into faceless slaves.

  • E12
    The Dying Fields
    Aired · Mon, Aug 31, 1998 · 60m

    After the group arrives on an Earth where Kromagg warriors are trained to kill humans, Quinn tries to persuade a woman to help free Colin, who has been captured.

  • E13
    Lipschitz Live!
    Aired · Mon, Nov 30, 1998 · 60m

    The gang is separated during a slide to a parallel Earth, where a tabloid-TV show offers their only hope of a reunion. Also, Colin is mistaken for his counterpart and is betrothed to a woman as part of a business deal.

  • E14
    Mother and Child
    Aired · Mon, Dec 7, 1998 · 60m

    A woman and her half-Kromagg son join the gang as they travel to her home Earth, where an anti-Kromagg virus may prove deadly to the newborn.

  • E15
    Net Worth
    Aired · Mon, Jan 11, 1999 · 60m

    The gang arrives on an Earth divided between computer-hackers and computer-lackers, and battles ruthless scavengers to unite a couple who fell in love on-line.

  • E16
    Slide by Wire
    Aired · Mon, Jan 18, 1999 · 60m

    Maggie is stranded on a militaristic Earth when her double, a cyber-enhanced pilot, leaps with the others to a world that outlaws technology.

  • E17
    Data World
    Aired · Fri, Mar 19, 1999 · 60m

    The gang is transported to an Earth where the inhabitants live as computer data run by a nefarious programmer, who deletes the rebellious Maggie from the system.

  • E18
    Way Out West
    Aired · Fri, Mar 26, 1999 · 60m

    The gang squares off against an old foe in a retro Earth frontier town after Colin is wounded and left for dead following a stagecoach ambush.

  • E19
    My Brother's Keeper
    Aired · Fri, Apr 2, 1999 · 60m

    The gang travels to an Earth where clones are used to replace body parts and when Quinn is mistaken for the clone of his blinded counterpart, he is expected to donate his eyes.

  • E20
    The Chasm
    Aired · Fri, Apr 9, 1999 · 60m

    The gang arrives on a seemingly tranquil Earth that owes its serenity to chosen inhabitants who are brainwashed into sacrificing themselves by disappearing into a mysterious chasm in order to maintain their community's emotional well-being.

  • E21
    Roads Taken
    Aired · Fri, Apr 16, 1999 · 60m

    A glitch in their slide leaves Maggie's and Quinn's souls split between dimensions, and as their health in one world deteriorates, they live an entire life together in another. Meanwhile, Colin and Rembrandt must trust a mysterious man to keep their friends from dying.

  • E22
    Revelations
    Aired · Fri, Apr 23, 1999 · 60m

    An enigmatic science-fiction writer's novels have passages that seem to describe slider technology, and there's a reason: the man claims to know the Mallorys' parents.

Season 5
18 episodes · 18 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Unstuck Man
    Aired · Fri, Jun 11, 1999 · 60m

    A megalomaniac plots to use the sliders and the time-altering vortex in a scheme for world domination.

  • E2
    Applied Physics
    Aired · Fri, Jun 18, 1999 · 60m

    Quantum leaps distress Diana, who encounters a troubled double of herself; and Mallory, who experiences flashbacks to Quinn's life that rack him physically and emotionally.

  • E3
    Strangers and Comrades
    Aired · Fri, Jun 25, 1999 · 60m

    Warfare in an eerie realm engages the Sliders, who are recruited to fight the Kromaggs by an earthling sergeant with a closely guarded secret. It may hold the key to the Sliders' freedom.

  • E4
    The Great Work
    Aired · Fri, Jul 9, 1999 · 60m

    On an island, the Sliders find refuge with a besieged monastic people.

  • E5
    New Gods for Old
    Aired · Fri, Jul 16, 1999 · 60m

    A communal group of spiritual healers called the Believers tend to Mallory, who's been paralyzed in a hurried slide. But there's a catch to the cure: the patient loses individuality.

  • E6
    Please Press One
    Aired · Fri, Jul 23, 1999 · 60m

    Maggie is kidnapped by an all-powerful conglomerate, which controls food, clothing and other essentials via a credit system that assigns citizens data codes.

  • E7
    A Current Affair
    Aired · Fri, Jul 30, 1999 · 60m

    A trumped-up sex scandal links Maggie to the President, whose chief of staff uses rumors of their alleged affair to distract the public from an ongoing war with Switzerland.

  • E8
    The Java Jive
    Aired · Fri, Aug 6, 1999 · 60m

    In a world reminiscent of the Roaring Twenties, the Sliders confront Rembrandt's evil double, a crooked cop tied to gangsters dealing in...bootleg coffee.

  • E9
    The Return of Maggie Beckett
    Aired · Fri, Aug 13, 1999 · 60m

    Peril awaits Maggie in her home town of Fresno, Cal., where she's mistaken for her double: a decorated astronaut who was presumably killed on a mission to Mars.

  • E10
    Easy Slider
    Aired · Fri, Aug 20, 1999 · 60m

    Mallory falls for a rebel with a cause. She's the driven, sensuous leader of a gang of motorcyclists combatting authority in a world where gas-powered vehicles are outlawed.

  • E11
    Requiem
    Aired · Fri, Sep 10, 1999 · 60m

    A beloved, long-lost Slider contacts Rembrandt, who subsequently winds up being used by the crafty Kromaggs in a biotechnological plot to eliminate all humans.

  • E12
    Map of the Mind
    Aired · Fri, Sep 17, 1999 · 60m

    The vortex deposits the Sliders in a "neural remapping center," where Diana is mistaken for a patient: an internee prepped for brain surgery that quashes individuality.

  • E13
    A Thousand Deaths
    Aired · Fri, Sep 24, 1999 · 60m

    At a state-of-the-art entertainment center that offers role-playing scenarios, Maggie is thrust into a virtual-reality drama: a Civil War battlefield that traumatizes her.

  • E14
    Heavy Metal
    Aired · Fri, Oct 1, 1999 · 60m

    The sliders exit a vortex in the middle of the ocean, and must join the crew of a pirate ship in order to get back to California.

  • E15
    To Catch a Slider
    Aired · Fri, Jan 14, 2000 · 60m

    The sliders must find a gem needed to repair their malfunctioning timer.

  • E16
    Dust
    Aired · Fri, Jan 21, 2000 · 60m

    The group lands on a world where Rembrandt is regarded as a deity.

  • E17
    Eye of the Storm
    Aired · Fri, Jan 28, 2000 · 60m

    In their final encounter with Dr. Geiger, the scientist reveals that he can separate Mallory from his double Quinn.

  • E18
    The Seer
    Aired · Fri, Feb 4, 2000 · 60m

    On a world with a television program based on the sliders' adventures, a psychic predicts the sliders' fate: they die in their next slide. He begs Rembrandt, Maggie, Diana and Mallory stay, although once again they do not want to stay. Their timer is destroyed and they have to find another way out, but there's a catch, only one can go.