Sliders 

A boy genius and his comrades travel to different parallel universes, trying to find their way back home.

Creators:

Tracy Tormé, Robert K. Weiss

Stars:

Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd, John Rhys-Davies

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
Cleavant Derricks	...	Rembrandt 'Crying Man' Brown / ... 87 episodes, 1995-2000
Jerry O'Connell	...	Quinn Mallory / ... 70 episodes, 1995-2000
Kari Wuhrer	...	Capt. Maggie Beckett / ... 49 episodes, 1997-2000
Sabrina Lloyd	...	Wade Welles 48 episodes, 1995-1999
John Rhys-Davies	...	Prof. Maximilian Arturo / ... 40 episodes, 1995-1997

Storyline

Quinn Mallory, while working on an anti-gravity machine, accidentally creates a portal to a parallel universe. Eventually, his friends and an unwilling participant accidentally get stuck traveling among parallel worlds, trying to survive, and learning that sliding can lead to fatal results. Meanwhile, among many changes in their group, they try to rescue the multiverse from the Kromagg Dynasty.

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Plot Keywords:

portal | parallel worlds | lost | time portal | young man | 

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Taglines:

If you saw a doorway leading into another dimension... Would you step through it?

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Genres:

Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 March 1995 (USA)

Also Known As:

Cesta do neznáma

Filming Locations:

Denver Street, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

St. Clare Entertainment, Studios USA Television, Universal Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min (87 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The device, used to activate the wormholes, to enable sliding, is an old modified Motorola cellphone, the MicroTAC. The new device acquired to slide in season three, appeared to be a common television remote control. The device used for sliding in "Exodus" parts I and II was a modified Sega Genesis controller.

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Goofs

The professor frequently calls people a "blistering idiot". The phrase should be "blithering idiot", in order words, someone who speaks nonsense. Of course, this could just be a character mistake.

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Quotes

Prof. Maximillian P. Arturo: That scoundrel! That intellectually impoverished knave wanted me to win his Nobel for him. As you can see, I told him nothing!
[points to sour looking face chalked on blackboard]

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Crazy Credits

The pilot episode end credits run over a TV screen showing The Spinning Tops singing 'Cry Like A Man'.

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Connections

Referenced in Nostalgia Critic: Dungeons and Dragons (2011)

User Reviews

A classic

SciFi has spent this week running episodes of Sliders from the early seasons, and man, did I forget how good they were.

The early episodes of the show, particularly the pilot, were fantastic-- the alternate worlds were well thought out, and I'd think about the plausibility of them as I lay in bed at night before drifting off to sleep.

Too bad they had to dumb it down and start ripping off movie plots in later seasons. I mourned the loss of John Rhys-Davies, his character was great. And to replace him with boobs-on-patrol Kari Wuhrer was pathetic. It was a completely obvious attempt to boost ratings by grabbing the eyeballs of the geek-horndog set that also lusted after Scully and Seven of Nine and religiously watched their respective shows.

To sum up, don't waste your time watching any episodes from the later seasons.