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:

Avaruusluikkarit

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

Clinton Derricks-Carroll, the identical twin brother of Cleavant Derricks, played his character Rembrandt's alter ego in Sliders: The King Is Back (1995), Sliders: Greatfellas (1996), and Sliders: The Prince of Slides (1996). In their two second-season appearances together, more make-up was used to cause virtually no audience member to be able to tell them apart. Both times, Clevant and Clinton actually swapped roles during the final scenes, and no one was aware that Clinton was the one playing the Rembrandt who slid with the other main characters.

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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

Rembrandt Brown: She's supposed to be ugly? The Kromaggs ever look in a mirror? Eye-eating freaks!

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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

Once a pretty good show

I think most people familiar with the show would say that it started off as a really original and interesting show. The 'what if" concept really worked for it. But as time went on, the show became something worse than repetitive. It abandoned the original premise of the show. They stopped being mainly concerned with getting home and started being more concerned with these Kromag things. That's about where the original cast started to fall away one by one. They still show re-runs on the sci-fi channel, and I catch the early ones when I can. That's when the show was enjoyable. In the last half of the shows six seasons, it was unwatchable.