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Season 1 Episode Guide

Episode 1 - Pilot

Young genius Quinn Mallory discovers the means to traveling to parallel dimensions of Earth via a portal wormhole he creates in his basement laboratory. Quinn's physics teach, Professor Maximillian Arturo, and his friend Wade Wells visit Quinn at home, and together they decide to travel into the next dimension of Earth. When the threesome start up the wormhole's energy for the journey, the strength of it accidentally inhales Rembrandt Brown, a washed-up Rhythm & Blues singer en route to Candlestick Park in San Francisco to sing the National Anthem, who happens to drive by Quinn's house. The four "sliders" travel first to a San Francisco submerged under ice and then to a San Francisco ruled by the Soviets. After experiencing these dimensions of Earth, the sliders try to return to their original world, only to discover that they can't, in this pilot episode of Sliders.
Episode 1 - Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

The sliders' first jump lands them in an ice-aged San Francisco and then onto an Earth where Wade's (Sabrina Lloyd) ally is the head of a rebel group. Part 1.
Episode 2 - Season 1, Episode 2: Fever

The sliders find themselves in paradise parallel Earth. But they must move on and this time they are in a disease-ravaged environment with no medicine to cure the Q virus. They are on an Earth where antibiotics were never discovered, and a raging bacterial infection threatens to wipe out the population.
Episode 2 - Fever

The sliders find themselves in paradise parallel earth. But they must move on and this time they are in a disease-ravaged environment with no medicine to cure the Q virus. They are on an earth where antibiotics were never discovered, and a raging bacterial infection threatens to wipe out the population in this Sliders episode entitled "Fever".
Episode 3 - Season 1, Episode 3: Last Days

The group slides to a parallel dimension where an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, and Einstein never allowed nuclear weapons to be created. With only 48 hours until "Dooms Day", and 72 hours until the next slide, they work feverishly to recreate Einstein's equation for the atomic bomb.
Episode 3 - Last Days

The group slides to a parallel dimension where an asteroid is on a collision course with earth, and Einstein never allowed nuclear weapons to be created. With only 48 hours until "Dooms Day", and 72 hours until the next slide, they work feverishly to recreate Einstein's equation for the atomic bomb in this Sliders episode entitled "Last Days".
Episode 4 - The Prince of Wails

The group slides from a parallel world where San Francisco is about to go underwater to a world where the British won the Revolution, and the "ruling monarch", Britain's Crown Prince Harold, gets a crash course in democracy to save his colony in this Sliders episode entitled "Prince of Wails".
Episode 4 - Season 1, Episode 4: The Prince of Wails

The group slides from a parallel world where San Francisco is about to go underwater to a world where the British won the Revolution, and the "ruling monarch", Britain's Crown Prince Harold, gets a crash course in democracy to save his colony.
Episode 5 - Season 1, Episode 5: Summer of Love

The Sliders travel to a parallel world where Oliver North is President, the U.S. is involved in a bitter Civil War in Australia and hippies from the 1960's roam the streets of San Francisco, while Rembrandt finds out he would have lived in misery as a henpecked husband if he married his childhood sweetheart.
Episode 5 - Summer of Love

The sliders travel to a parallel world where Oliver North is President, the U.S. is involved in a bitter Civil War in Australia and hippies from the 1960's roam the streets of San Francisco, while Rembrandt finds out he would have lived in misery as henpecked husband if he married his childhood sweetheart in this Slider's episode entitled "Summer of Love".
Episode 6 - Eggheads

The Sliders land on an Earth where being intelligent is more popular than being a famous athlete. Guest stars William B. Davis, Karen Austin and Gabrielle Rose. With John Rhys-Davies.
Episode 6 - Season 1, Episode 6: Eggheads

The Sliders travel to a world where academians, not athletes, are the national heroes, and Quinn's double has achieved superstar status. With the possibility that this earth's Quinn and Arturo have also unlocked the key to sliding, the real Quinn and Arturo assume the identities of their doubles.
Episode 7 - Season 1, Episode 7: The Weaker Sex

Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) decides to run for mayor when the sliders land in a town where the women are the stronger sex. Guest stars Joe Maffel, Jill Teed, Sara Botsford and Liza Huget.
Episode 7 - The Weaker Sex

Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) decides to run for mayor when the sliders land in a town where the women are the stronger sex. Guest stars Joe Maffel, Jill Teed, Sara Botsford and Liza Huget.
Episode 8 - Season 1, Episode 8: The King Is Back

The travelers slide to a world where Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown is as huge as Elvis in our world, but after a mysterious "death" eight years ago, this world has had to make do with "Crying Man" impersonators. Rembrandt's appearance creates havoc and his former manager, Captain Jack, tries to cash in on his miraculous reincarnation with a mega-bucks concert.
Episode 8 - The King Is Back

The travelers slide to a world where Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown is as huge as Elvis in our world, but after a mysterious "death" eight years ago, this world has had to make do with "Crying Man" impersonators.
Episode 9 - The Luck of the Draw

The Sliders travel to a parallel dimension, which at first glance seems like paradise. Money is given to play the lottery, streets are quiet... it's life in the slow lane and very pleasant.
Episode 9 - Season 1, Episode 9: The Luck of the Draw

The Sliders travel to a parallel dimension, which at first glance seems like paradise. Money is given to play the lottery, streets are quiet... it's life in the slow lane and very pleasant. But when Wade wins the lottery, paradise turns to hell. Lottery winners are treated like royalty and given anything they want but the twist is that in order to maintain the most important thing in this dimension - controlled population - they must die.
Episode 10 - Season 2, Episode 1: Into the Mystic

When sliding into the next world, Quinn is hurt. The sliders (John Rhys-Davies, Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd, Cleavant Derricks) set out on a journey to find the castle of an all-powerful sorcerer on a witch doctor's advice. He is the only one who can help Quinn and lives on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge and refuses to see anyone.
Episode 11 - Season 2, Episode 2: Love Gods

On a world where males have been rendered impotent, females eager to repopulate greet the male Sliders (John Rhys-Davies, Jerry O'Connell, Cleavant Derricks) as "love gods." They are taken into custody by women police officers and taken to the "Re-Population Center" where they are held captive with other men and are being prepared to become breeders. With Sabrina Lloyd.
Episode 12 - Season 2, Episode 3: Gillian of the Spirits

During a slide, the wormhole is hit by lightning. When they land, Quinn is nowhere to be found and the timer has been damaged. Trapped and separated from the other Sliders, Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) finds himself on an astral plane where only a young girl named Gillian (guest star Deanna Milligan) can see or hear him. With John Rhys-Davies.
Episode 13 - Season 2, Episode 4: The Good, The Bad, And the Wealthy

Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) is mistaken for a gunslinger in a world where the code of the Wild West still prevails. Business deals are made by corporate cowboys over poker games and gunfights. Quinn interferes with a "business deal" and ends up shooting a man but instead of being arrested for murder he is seen as the greatest gunfighter that ever lived. With John Rhys-Davies, Sabrina Lloyd and Cleavant Derricks.
Episode 14 - Season 2, Episode 5: El Sid

The vengeful and vicious El Sid (Jeffery Dean Morgan) follows the Sliders (John Rhys-Davies, Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd and Cleavant Derricks) to a world where San Francisco is a prison facility. The Sliders are considered prisoners and must protect themselves from El Sid and other prisoners before the next slide.
Episode 15 - Season 2, Episode 6: Time Again and World

A world that seems to mirror the previous world the Sliders encountered gives Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) the chance to prevent a series of murders. The group soon find themselves in the middle of a dangerous and mysterious plot. With John Rhys-Davies, Jerry O'Connell and Cleavant Derricks
Episode 16 - Season 2, Episode 7: In Dino Veritas

The slide brings the Sliders to a primeval forest and dumps them into a giant egg-filled nest, irritating the mother allosaurus nearby. As they flee from the rampaging dinosaur to a cave, one of them gets hurt and drops the timer. Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) leaves the safety of the cave and faces the man-eating allosaurus in an attempt to retrieve the timer. With John Rhys-Davies, Sabrina Lloyd and Cleavant Derricks.
Episode 17 - Season 2, Episode 8: Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome

Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) must prove something is very wrong when the Sliders return to their own Earth and all become successful. He notices things that make him wonder if they are actually home and is stunned when he finds the professor giving a press conference taking credit for his invention. With John Rhys-Davies, Sabrina Lloyd.
Episode 18 - Season 2, Episode 9: Obsession

Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) is haunted by dreams that show her in a different time and place and involved with a handsome stranger. When they land in the next world her dream man becomes a nightmare when his attention to her becomes obsessive and he tries to prevent her from sliding. He holds her captive until the other Sliders can rescue her. Guest star: James Patrick Stuart.
Episode 19 - Season 2, Episode 10: Greatfellas

Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown (Cleavant Derricks) becomes the Feds' No. 1 crimebuster on a world where San Francisco is dominated by rival gangster families. With John Rhys-Davies, Jerry O'Connell and Sabrina Lloyd.
Episode 20 - Season 2, Episode 11: The Young and the Relentless

The group find themselves sliding into the backyard of an estate which belongs to the alternate Quinn and Wade of this world. They have entered a world where society's young people command all the power and respect, where older workers are forced to retire at 30 to make way. With John Rhys-Davies, Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd and Cleavant Derricks.
Episode 21 - Season 2, Episode 12: Invasion

The Sliders land in the thick of an invasion. A desolate world greets them, graffiti litters the ravaged walls announcing the coming of the "Kromaggs". An electrical field is being projected from an alien ship on the same wavelength as the timer. Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) is able to use it to jam the ship's controls causing the vessel to crash. Arturo and Quinn enter the damaged vessel only to find things are not as they appear. With John Rhys-Davies.
Episode 22 - Season 2, Episode 13: As Times Go By

The Sliders land in another dimension of San Francisco where Spain appears to have won the Spanish American War. They are all captured except Quinn who escapes pursuit and hides in a mansion where the alternate of his childhood sweetheart works. He is in a world where he could be forever reunited with Daelin (guest star Brooke Langton), his long-lost love. With John Rhys-Davies, Sabrina Lloyd and Cleavant Derricks.
Episode 23 - Season 3, Episode 1: Rules of the Game

The wormhole opens onboard a plane in midair, as the Sliders leap in from Eskimo world. They find a party going on, but when turbulence forces the plane into a nose-dive, the Sliders find no crew in the cockpit. They are doomed. The Sliders discover it is a simulation, and the passengers -- all strong, young types -- disembark into a warehouse. A video screen announces the beginning of "the game," as the passengers choose from a selection of weapons. The Sliders elect not to join the game, but overbearing heat from panels built into the ceiling forces them out!
Episode 24 - Season 3, Episode 2: Double Cross

While the Sliders explore an Earth nearly depleted of natural resources, a beautiful woman, Monique (Mari Morrow), mistakes Rembrandt for his double and flies him to Los Angeles, agreeing to return him before the next Slide. Later, the remaining three are chased by a group of motorcycles, and one motorcyclist, Logan St. Clair (Zoe McLellan), knows they are Sliders.
Episode 25 - Season 3, Episode 3: Electric Twister Acid Test

A peaceful desert is shattered as the wormhole opens and a bobsled shoots out, bearing the Sliders. When they come to a stop, Quinn (Jerry O’Connell) notices the timer is malfunctioning. A short distance away, Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) sees a small boy jump into a tornado, "surfing" it. When he slips, Quinn jumps in to save the boy, who runs off and vanishes. The group crosses the desert and spots another twister, which disappears in a flash of lightning. Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) theorizes the planet is electrically charged, creating these tornadoes and causing the timer to malfunction.
Episode 26 - Season 3, Episode 4: The Guardian

After an examination at a hospital, Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) tells Quinn (Jerry O’Connell) that he has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Quinn convinces him to continue sliding with the group, and they land in a San Francisco of the mid-1980’s. They have not gone back in time; this Earth rotates faster, causing a slowing of time. Quinn sees a funeral in progress, and realizes it is his father’s. Then he recognizes a boy as a younger version of himself.
Episode 27 - Season 3, Episode 5: The Dream Masters

The Sliders slide from a Mardi Gras dimension into an amusement park and witness an accident between a skater and a bicyclist. The biker, Gerald (Zach Ward), touches the skater and tells him to drop dead. Moments later the skater dies. The Sliders rush to help him, but when a policewoman sees who the biker is, she cancels the ambulance. When the Sliders complain, the policewoman tells them to leave, that they are only causing problems. As they go, the biker, Gerald, stops Wade (Sabrina Lloyd), telling her that he will see her "in your dreams."
Episode 28 - Season 3, Episode 6: Desert Storm

As the Sliders cross a desert, Quinn (Jerry O’Connell) asks Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) about his failing health, and is told to keep quiet. They enter a small town, looking for water, and see a girl, Devin (Gina Phillips), being abducted. As Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) watches this, the girl sends her a telepathic message: "help me."
Episode 29 - Season 3, Episode 7: Dragon Slide

Skuldar (Max Grodenchik), a gnome-like man, chases the beautiful Melinda (Michelle Rene Thomas) through a forest. Just as he knocks her unconscious, the vortex opens and Quinn (Jerry O’Connell) smashes into him. When Skuldar hears that Quinn’s last name is Mallory, he turns into a hawk and flies away. Skuldar reports to Gareth (Gregory Martin), a powerful Druid. Thinking there were no Mallorys left, Gareth supposes Quinn must be a wizard.
Episode 30 - Season 3, Episode 8: The Fire Within

Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) is in a batting cage trying to win a wager when the other Sliders enter, telling him it is time. They jump into the wormhole, and end up, for a few seconds, in a world of fire. Quinn (Jerry O’Connell) sees a small flame moving toward them, then they slide. Landing near an oil refinery, they head toward town in search of money, since Rembrandt had bet all their money on the aborted game. The small flame follows them...
Episode 31 - Season 3, Episode 9: The Prince of Slides

While waiting at a hospital, Rembrandt (Cleavant Derrick) is mistaken for the Duke (Clinton Derricks-Carroll) by the pregnant Duchess Danielle (Victoria Mahoney). Thinking she needs a transfusion, he goes into surgery with her. Only later do Quinn (Jerry O’Connell) and Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) find out that it’s not a transfusion, but a transference of the fetus.
Episode 32 - Season 3, Episode 10: Dead Man Sliding

The Sliders arrive on Hollywood Boulevard, and while walking along, come across a wallet on the sidewalk. Everyone seems wary of approaching it, but when Quinn (Jerry O’Connell) reaches for it, a woman, Taryn Miller (Perrey Reeves), fires a dart at him, but misses. The Sliders run, evading Taryn. At a bar, they discover that in this world, crime is almost nonexistent, due to a game show that has replaced lawyers and courts to determine criminals’ fates. Taryn shows up, arrests Quinn and takes him to the studios, turning him over to "The Show’s" sleazy producer, Phil (Fredric Lane).
Episode 33 - Season 3, Episode 11: State of the a.R.T.

The Sliders land in city devoid of people, with a purple sky. Coming across a wrecked robot, they see a truck chasing two men, firing laser bolts at them. The Sliders run, also, and just after the men are gunned down, Quinn (Jerry O’Connell) is shot. The truck driver, Paul (Jerry Rector), scans the runners and Quinn. No signs of life...
Episode 34 - Season 3, Episode 12: Season's Greedings

The Sliders slide onto a church yard from a world ruled by pygmies. In the church, a woman asks Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) to hold her baby as she prays. She then runs off, and as the Sliders give chase, they see her board an employee bus to the Sky High Plaza. Before the priest turns the child over to welfare, Arturo asks for two days to search for the mother. The Sliders ride an escalator up to the Sky High Plaza, a city-within-a-mall that floats in the sky, where shoppers are urged to spend, spend, spend.
Episode 35 - Season 3, Episode 13: Murder Most Foul

In a world governed by the corporate world, the Sliders find themselves standing out in the business suit crowd by their casual dress. Arturo (John Rhys-Davies), enraged when someone spills coffee on him, is quickly accosted by several people in suits, who sedate him and take him away. Arturo is placed under the care of Dr. Bolivar (David Purdham), who brainwashes him into thinking he is Reginald Doyle, a Sherlock Holmes-type detective.
Episode 36 - Season 3, Episode 14: Slide Like an Egyptian

In the shadows of the Los Angeles pyramids, the Sliders find a world where Egyptian dynasties never ended. A procession of guards escorting a large crate approaches the group, when something in the crate bursts free, attacking a young woman. Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) and Quinn (Jerry O’Connell) rescue Sheila (Claudette Mink) from a giant insect's claw, but they are arrested for touching the sacred scarab. Quinn, injured in the attack, is sent to a hospital, and Wade and Sheila are sent to the pyramid...
Episode 37 - Season 3, Episode 15: Paradise Lost

On the coast, a seismologist phones his supervisor with news about some strange readings. That evening, he is abducted by three men and taken to a deserted cove. They strand him down there and something tunneling underground pulls him down beneath the sand. The Sliders land on a beach outside the town of Paradise. While walking to town, Quinn (Jerry O’Connell) intervenes when he sees a man about to attack a young woman, and scares him away. The woman, Laurie (Lara Steinick), is looking for her assistant, Michael (Todd Babcock). She sent him there to conduct geological surveys of the area and he hasn’t checked in since last night...
Episode 38 - Season 3, Episode 16: The Exodus, Pt. 1

The Sliders land in a city besieged by looters, as defense sirens wail. They come across a vagrant, who blames the Russians. Apparently, the Cold War has not ended in this dimension. Suddenly, a car races around the corner, flipping and exploding. The Sliders try to rescue the driver, who mumbles something about a trajectory being wrong. As he dies, the Sliders notice blood seeping from a gunshot wound. Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) recognizes the man as Dr. Jariabek, a noted cosmologist.
Episode 39 - Season 3, Episode 17: The Exodus, Pt. 2

As Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) listens to radio broadcasts from the dying world, Quinn (Jerry O’Connell) slides into the military base's lab with an unconscious Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) in his arms -- and the Slider's home coordinates recorded in the timer. The other Sliders show up, excited about the news that they can go home, but Quinn tells them that they must wait until they have finished the sliding device he promised in order to save some of these people.
Episode 40 - Season 3, Episode 18: Sole Survivors

The Sliders land in an eerie, dark alley, stumbling across dead bodies. Examining the corpses, they find a half-eaten body and determine it was devoured by other humans. Suddenly, one of the dead comes to life and bites Quinn (Jerry O’Connell) on the leg...
Episode 41 - Season 3, Episode 19: The Breeder

As the Sliders escape from a jungle world where flying parasites are swarming over them, Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) is attacked by one. Quinn (Jerry O’Connell) rips it away, and they slide to the next world, where Maggie collapses with green foam bubbling from her mouth. Paramedics soon arrive on the scene, blasting Maggie's body with frozen nitrogen. Now in suspended animation, they take her away to a hospital where Dr. Sylvius (Dawnn Lewis) is put in charge of the frozen Maggie.
Episode 42 - Season 3, Episode 20: The Last of Eden

In an idyllic but dying land, the Sliders encounter a technologically--deficient people and the creatures who live beneath them.
Episode 43 - Season 3, Episode 21: The Other Slide of Darkness

A man wearing a gas mask picks flowering plants from a foggy forest, when he is set upon by a group of the natives. They cut the hose, and watch him die, gasping. Shortly, the Sliders land in the forest and all but Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) start coughing and gasping. She leads them out of the fog, while the natives, accompanied by Colonel Rickman (Neil Dickson), watch their struggle...
Episode 44 - Season 3, Episode 22: Slither

On a world where California is part of Mexico, Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) and Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) take a "vacation" to Zamora. When they are bumped from their flight back, they luck onto a plane chartered by Kyra (Julie St. Claire). As they takeoff, a military Jeep chases them, shooting at the plane. In flight to Los Angeles (now called Delgado), Kyra tells them the crates she's transporting contain two poisonous tri-adders, whose venom will be used to cure diseases.
Episode 45 - Season 3, Episode 23: Dinoslide

The Sliders land in a gypsy village, to find several comatose or dead victims. Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) realizes Rickman is acting desperately, and they follow him to a world they've visited before -- the world Maggie's people arrived in to escape the destruction of their world. Upon arrival, they encounter huge, plant-eating dinosaurs. Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) is excited about the dinosaurs, but Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) is more excited that he will once again see Malcolm, the boy whose life he saved.
Episode 46 - Season 3, Episode 24: Stoker

As a packed crowd waits for the Gothic band Stoker to take the stage, a stagehand introduces a lovely girl, Mina (Leslie Monique Soule), to the band. The lead singer, Morgan (Ryan Alosio), takes her to the side and buries his fangs in her neck. Later, out in the crowd gathered for the performance, Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) watches the band. In the morning, Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) suggests that they split up to find Rickman (Neil Dickson); Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) agrees, though he's curious about all the missing girls in this city.
Episode 47 - Season 3, Episode 25: This Slide of Paradise

The Sliders land in the ocean, and swim to the nearby beach, where they realize California has become a chain of islands. They enter the dense undergrowth, feeling that something is watching them. They're right: something chases them....
Episode 48 - Season 4, Episode 1: Genesis

Quinn and Maggie anxiously leave a world of motorcycle-riding cowboys and Indians, and after three months of searching, finally land in Quinn's home dimension, Earth Prime. Maggie quickly realizes that, somehow, she has adapted to the air of Quinn's Earth -- but the place is not as he left it. Earth is ravaged, war-torn... the Kromaggs, a dimension traveling warrior race from a parallel world, have enslaved the planet, as they do with every world they find.
Episode 49 - Season 4, Episode 2: Prophets and Loss

The Sliders land in a Los Angeles that seems too clean and friendly. Newspapers only extol the virtues of "The Oracle," and discredit the "Radical Rationalists." The three Sliders, however, were secretly observed landing by Cadmus, Chief Counselor of the Oracle Center. Deciding to find out more about the Oracle, the Sliders enter an assembly, and Maggie is immediately befriended by Jane, a "welcomer" with the Center, who tells them that they will be fortunate enough to watch four welcomers being sent to the "Other Side".
Episode 50 - Season 4, Episode 3: Common Ground

Landing in war-torn Los Angeles, Maggie spots a semi-conscious figure, and drags him to safety as artillery shells explode around them. Only after the Sliders remove his visor do they realize that he is a Kromagg commander, Kromanus. Before they have time to react, they are captured by the evil Kromagg officer Krolak and his soldiers.
Episode 51 - Season 4, Episode 4: Virtual Slide

The Sliders land in a demolition site, and Maggie is caught near an explosion. She seems to revive in a hospital -- then revives again, healthy but confused, in a military complex. General Randall Simmons informs her that she and the others have indeed landed on Quinn's home world, Earth Prime, which has finally vanquished the Kromaggs. Earth has been liberated, and scientists have mastered the Kromagg's sliding technology. Quinn and Rembrandt are excited about this news, but Maggie has grown suspicious.
Episode 52 - Season 4, Episode 5: World Killer

Landing in San Francisco, the Sliders are amazed to find the city in ruins; not due to a Kromagg attack, but to complete abandonment. They discover that everyone has disappeared. When the Sliders head to Quinn's home, they find it empty like everywhere else. The difference: apparently the Quinn of this world built a machine that, when he threw the switch, wiped out every human being on Earth.
Episode 53 - Season 4, Episode 6: Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

The Sliders finally reach the world of Quinn's brother but only have two hours to find him. They soon see a glider crash into some trees, and Colin Mallory steps from the wreckage. The Sliders are forced to defend him when a group of farmers tries to kill him. Colin, the resident genius of this technology-deficient world, is oblivious to the townspeople's hatred of him. Most residents believe his inventions are works of the devil.
Episode 54 - Season 4, Episode 7: Just Say Yes

As the Sliders land in a new world, Quinn and Maggie continue an argument that started before they jumped. A hotel bar patron, Damon, takes note of the bickering couple and offers to help. When they ignore him, he pulls a pistol out and shoots Maggie... with a tranquilizer dart. Damon is a licensed "Facilitator" who keeps people correctly dosed.
Episode 55 - Season 4, Episode 8: Alternateville Horror

The Sliders land in world that seems idyllic -- until black clouds form and people scramble for cover. The Sliders soon learn why: the rain is acid rain. They take shelter in the Chandler Hotel, but are alarmed to see guests rushing out to brave the rain, rather than spend a night there. The overly-friendly clerk, Kelly, gladly checks the Sliders into the Presidential suite at a discount price; it seems the hotel has a hard time keeping rooms booked...
Episode 56 - Season 4, Episode 9: Slidecage

Quinn calculates the coordinates to his and Colin's home world; now they will finally meet their birth parents -- and find out how to defeat the Kromaggs. When they leap into the vortex, however, they land in a labyrinth on a barren, alien world. They discover that the timer has stopped counting down and has frozen at 00:00. The Sliders soon come across a video presentation by Michael Mallory, Quinn and Colin's father. He explains that they have been deposited here by the "Slidecage" mechanism, which cloaks the homeworld from further invasion by the Kromaggs. Unfortunately, it also keeps them from ever leaving.
Episode 57 - Season 4, Episode 10: Asylum

Onboard a plane zooming through a war zone, the Sliders have seconds to slide when a missile destroys the tail of the plane. Quinn and Rembrandt are knocked unconscious. With the parachutes destroyed, Maggie opens the vortex outside the plane, and she and Colin, dragging the other two, leap into it. When they land in another world, Maggie quickly realizes that Quinn may be dying and sends Colin to find help. He reaches the city, finding it to be normal -- except that there are no gas-driven vehicles and everyone is armed.
Episode 58 - Season 4, Episode 11: California Reich

As the Sliders land in a new dimension, a van roars up. Rembrandt is hauled into the van by a group of "Stompers," and it races away. Colin quickly reacts by commandeering another truck, and the remaining three give chase. The pursuit ends when a garbage truck blocks their path --and they are startled to see that the garbage workers are robot-like faceless humans. Rembrandt and two other prisoners are taken to a detention camp... since Governor Schick passed the Racial Repatriation Act, minorities have been abducted to "save" American jobs.
Episode 59 - Season 4, Episode 12: The Dying Fields

The image of a peaceful, Garden of Eden world is shattered when the Sliders find the skeleton of a human, a gaping hole in the chest and the right hand missing. A noise in the bushes causes them to hide, and they see another man being pursued by two Hu-Maggs -- part human, part Kromagg. They soon come upon a firing range but take cover when a Humvee passes by, carrying General Kronos. Then they discover Jenny, who tells them she and six other humans were forced into this "game." If they survive twenty days, the Kromaggs will let them go; she is on day eighteen.
Episode 60 - Season 4, Episode 13: Lipschitz Live

A vortex appears and releases Quinn, then reappears elsewhere to drop off Colin, then leaves Rembrandt and Maggie dangling from a window-washing unit hundreds of feet above ground. The two climb to safety, and even see Colin wandering the street, far below -- but lose track of him once they reach the ground. Quinn, meanwhile, heads for the hotel, hoping to meet the others in the three hours they have before the next slide. On the way, he notes a society mindlessly devoted to the only show on television: "Lipschitz Live,: a combination newscast/talk show, hosted by the irrepressible Barry Lipschitz.
Episode 61 - Season 4, Episode 14: Mother and Child

Less than an hour before the vortex is to open, the Sliders are on the move, trying to avoid the Kromaggs they have encountered on this world. Taking refuge in a cave outside the demolished city, they see a woman, Christina, struggling along with an infant. When they help her back to the cave, she recognizes their names: while she was imprisoned here in a Kromagg breeding camp, she became friends with Wade Wells. Thrilled to find out that Wade is alive, Rembrandt wants to go rescue her, but Christina stops him: Wade was shipped out yesterday with all the others.
Episode 62 - Season 4, Episode 15: Net Worth

The vortex deposits Quinn and Rembrandt inside a building, and Colin and Maggie outside. The Sliders find themselves split up on a world addicted to - and divided by - the internet.
Episode 63 - Season 4, Episode 16: Slide By Wire

In a military base, Maggie accesses a lab, where she finds a man hooked up to machinery. She swiftly exchanges a computer chip implanted in his skull with one she has brought, but an alarm sounds, and she bolts. She makes it outside, where the other Sliders await her return to slide. When she appears, they all leap into the vortex... and moments later the real Maggie escapes from the base!
Episode 64 - Season 4, Episode 17: Data World

The vortex leaves the Sliders on a desolate world, where they soon find dazed citizens wandering the streets lifelessly. As the zombies converge on them, the Sliders take refuge in the hotel. As they step into the hotel, four new zombies that are identical to the Sliders appear on the road...
Episode 65 - Season 4, Episode 18: Way Out West

Hours of trudging along through a rolling prairie find the Sliders close to exhaustion. A passing stagecoach pulls over to give them a ride, but the driver is cautious -- they are traveling through "Mr. K's" territory. One of the passengers, Ben, flirts with Maggie but the calm is broken by gunfire as four desperadoes ambush them!
Episode 66 - Season 4, Episode 19: My Brother's Keeper

Quinn is immediately greeted on a new world by college friends who mistake him for his double. The Sliders visit the college, where Quinn's double figures equations on a blackboard. The equations are wrong, though, and when he activates his device, it explodes, damaging his eyes. Quinn and Colin rush to save him, but Quinn is intercepted by security guards... since his eyes will be needed to replace Quinn 2's.
Episode 67 - Season 4, Episode 20: The Chasm

The Sliders arrive in what is literally the happiest place on Earth. But in this small community, a little girl witnessed her grandfather leap into a mysterious chasm and begins to feel an overwhelming sorrow. Worse yet, it soon spreads to Rembrandt and Maggie.
Episode 68 - Season 4, Episode 21: Roads Taken

The vortex, oddly distorted and wracked with lightning, deposits Colin and Rembrandt in a battle zone in the city, but the other two are nowhere to be found. As they puzzle over their situation, the vortex -- now normal -- opens again, and Quinn and Maggie arrive but are unaware that the slide was unusual.
Episode 69 - Season 4, Episode 22: Revelations

The Sliders land in a barren field outside some small town, primed for another adventure - until they learn that they are stuck on this world for 26 days. Several days later, boredom and frustration set in: Quinn and Colin resort to tinkering with a truck at a deserted gas station. Maggie, the only Slider to have found a paying job in this desolate place, has been fired. Rembrandt scavenges some reading material, and as they all relax, he pores over a science fiction novel. He points out some similarities between it and their adventures: inter-dimensional travel, Kromagg-like creatures; and a biological weapon developed to destroy them. This world may be more interesting than originally thought.
Episode 70 - Season 5, Episode 1: The Unstuck Man

In the laboratory of Dr. Geiger (Peter Jurasik), his lab assistant (Robert Floyd) is preparing for a mysterious experiment. A laser gun fires at him and he vanishes. At the same time, Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks), Maggie (Kari Wuhrer), Quinn and Colin are getting ready to slide out of a dangerous situation, but something goes wrong in the vortex...
Episode 71 - Season 5, Episode 2: Applied Physics

The Sliders find themselves on a college campus. Diana (Tembi Locke) is startled when a little girl, Nadine (Aeriel Watkins), approaches her and thinks she's her mother. She hears a familiar voice calling Nadine's name, and Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) blocks her just in time to prevent her duplicate, who has come to collect the child, from seeing her. They go to the Chandler Hotel, but in this world, it is a Las Vegas-style adult playground. Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) is excited; they'd visited a hotel like this in another world and she had fun.
Episode 72 - Season 5, Episode 3: Strangers and Comrades

The Sliders arrive in a remote military compound, which seems to be abandoned. Scanning the landscape, Diana (Tembi Locke) believes they're not on Earth, but on a planet that exists in hyperspace. As they investigate their surroundings, they are unaware that soldiers in tattered uniforms are watching them surreptitiously...
Episode 73 - Season 5, Episode 4: The Great Work

The Sliders arrive on a freezing, desolate island. Having just come from a tropical climate, their clothes are barely adequate, and Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) is unconscious and burning up with fever. They take her to a nearby monastery to seek help and are admitted by Seth (Austin Nichols), a young man whose father, Keeper Abraham (Granville van Dusen), is angry that he let the outsiders in. Keeper James (Bob Youngblood) is the monastery’s physician, and he takes Maggie to the infirmary. At dinner, Abraham explains to the travelers that the people who live on this remote island are the keepers of peace and harmony, living simple lives in this sanctuary away from the evil elements of the world.
Episode 74 - Season 5, Episode 5: New Gods for Old

The Sliders are being pursued through a totalitarian world ruled by a military group known as the Bureau of Internal Reconstruction (BIR). The soldiers are led by General Krislov (Stephen Macht), an efficient, cruel-looking martinet. A civilian mob, led by a bitter young woman, Jill (Angela Bettis), is crying for their blood. The vortex opens and they leap inside, but Mallory (Robert Floyd) is hit by a soldier's laser gun. They arrive in a world similar to the one they just left, but in this one, the BIR has been overthrown.
Episode 75 - Season 5, Episode 6: Please Press One

The Sliders arrive in a peaceful small town and see that a company named Data Universal seems to own everything. Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) tries to use a vending machine, but it doesn't take cash. Instead, an electronic voice asks for her data number. When she presses a button, a laser beam scans her. Suddenly a driverless van pulls up and she is propelled into it by the force of the laser!
Episode 76 - Season 5, Episode 7: A Current Affair

In a parallel Los Angeles, President Jefferson Williams (Eric Pierpoint) is giving a speech. As reporters anxiously ask him vapid questions about his sex life, a scruffy but earnest young man, Bobby Hawks (Michael Manasseri), wants to know about America's war with Switzerland. When the Sliders arrive, Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) is pushed into Williams' arms. As he holds her tight, cameras flash, and soon her face is splashed on the television news, being identified as the woman with whom Williams has been having a secret affair.
Episode 77 - Season 5, Episode 8: The Java Jive

In a world reminiscent of America in the roaring '20s, Harrell ( Shane Stevens) encounters Brownie (Cleavant Derricks), a cop, in the alley outside the Hippo Club where he plays the piano. Brownie shoots him with his service revolver and searches his pockets. Unable to find what he's looking for, he leaves in disgust. Nearby, the vortex opens, and the Sliders emerge. A scream pierces the air, and they hurry to the alley to find Angie Morgan (Jennifer Leigh Warren), owner of the Hippo Club, kneeling over Harrell's body.
Episode 78 - Season 5, Episode 9: The Return of Maggie Beckett

The Sliders arrive in Fresno, California, Maggie's (Kari Wuhrer) birthplace. She is shocked to see that streets and public parks have been named after her. A sculpture in the courthouse square is dedicated to Lieutenant Colonel Margaret Beckett, a heroic astronaut. They visit the Maggie Beckett Museum, where they are greeted by Mr. Xybo (Rob LaBelle), who tells them the astronaut's story...
Episode 79 - Season 5, Episode 10: Easy Slider

The Sliders drop into an open desert. Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) gives them the bad news that they're stuck here for three days, so they trudge off in search of civilization. On a two-lane highway, they flag down a bus with the name Kincaid Petroleum, Inc., painted on its side. Inside, all the passengers appear to be workers for the company. Mallory (Robert Floyd) sits next to Sam (Lisa Akey), an attractive woman who says they're on their way to their work site. When they arrive, two officers with the Air Quality Management District show up with the body of a man, known as a Smoker, in their truck.
Episode 80 - Season 5, Episode 11: Requiem

The Sliders find themselves in a beautiful Japanese garden, but Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) finds himself in a swirling void, separate from the others, even though they're right there with him. He thinks he can see Wade (Maria Stanton), a friend they lost to the evil Kromaggs many slides ago, and he calls out her name. Diana (Tembi Locke) suggests he may be hallucinating as the result of too many slides, and he remains in a kind of trance. When they slide again, they find themselves in a room at the Chandler Hotel, and Rembrandt sleeps. He dreams of the time he and Wade spent in the Kromagg prison.
Episode 81 - Season 5, Episode 12: Map of the Mind

The Sliders arrive at Oakwood Institute, which appears to be a sort of mental hospital. The patients are roaming the grounds without supervision, and one of them, a man who plays a violin without strings (Paul Sand), says they're having a riot. Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) and Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) decide to look around. Suddenly police cars pull up and helmeted officers order the patients to return to their rooms. Everyone begins running toward the building. Diana (Tembi Locke) and Mallory (Robert Floyd), unsure of what to do, follow along. Rembrandt and Maggie see a sign on the front gate identifying the place as a neural remapping institute. Not sure what it means, but certain it can't be good, they slip through the gate as it begins to close.
Episode 82 - Season 5, Episode 13: A Thousand Deaths

The Sliders land at the Einman Resort Hotel, an adult playground that features highly realistic games putting guests into simulated environments in which they must use their wits and skill to survive. Mallory (Robert Floyd) wants to fight in the Civil War, while Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) opts for a 1970s-style urban detective scenario. Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) and Diana (Tembi Locke) want to skip the games and relax in the Roman Spa.
Episode 83 - Season 5, Episode 14: Heavy Metal

The Sliders land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and are rescued by a merchant vessel. Diana (Tembi Locke) is disturbed. The timer has been programmed so that they are only supposed to slide onto dry land in a 400-mile radius of Southern California, yet her readings show that they are headed for Hawaii. She worries that the timer is malfunctioning and wonders what will happen when they slide again. They must get back to the mainland before the next slide... or they could end up even farther off course.
Episode 84 - Season 5, Episode 15: To Catch a Slider

The Sliders are relieved to find themselves in a normal world, but Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) notices that the timer is malfunctioning. It keeps counting down, then up, then down again. Suddenly, the vortex opens and they are thrust inside. When they are thrown back into an alley, Diana (Tembi Locke) sees that the timer appears to be working normally again, but is worried that it could malfunction again at any moment. Rembrandt admits that it is not the original timer invented by Quinn...
Episode 85 - Season 5, Episode 16: Dust

Landing in a desert, the Sliders search for signs of civilization. They locate an archaeological dig, headed by Dr. Jack Bigelow (Ken Jenkins), a paleontologist, and Gwen Palmer (Elizabeth Lackey), his student assistant. Bigelow says they are excavating an ancient site. The Sliders notice that their tools and methods are old-fashioned, and they are assisted by workers who are as simple as those who toil in Egyptian ruins. This desert is known as the Badlands, and Bigelow welcomes them to stay as long as they help him with the dig. He leads them to a cave to show what he has uncovered so far, and they realize with shock that it is the Chandler Hotel, covered with centuries of dust.
Episode 86 - Season 5, Episode 17: Eye of the Storm

The Sliders arrive in a strange, stormy city that appears to be deserted. They see a lone figure hurrying down the street and they follow him down an alley. They are shocked to find themselves stopped by a huge wall of energy, and when the stranger turns to face them, they see that he is their old nemesis Dr. Oberon Geiger (Peter Jurasik), but he doesn't seem to recognize them. In a frightened voice, he tells them that death brought them here, but not even death can help them escape.
Episode 87 - Season 5, Episode 18: The Seer

Just before they slide, Diana (Tembi Locke) tells the others that the time will soon be right to be able to send them all back to their own worlds. Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) is wistful, wishing he could go home with something to help battle the Kromaggs. They arrive on the steps of an old courthouse, and are met by a cheering mob carrying welcome signs. Claire LeBeau (Jennifer Hetrick) steps forward to greet them with her father, Marc (Roy Dotrice), also known as the Seer. In Marc's home, the walls are covered with uncannily accurate paintings of the Sliders in their various adventures.


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