Sliders
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.
- Metascore58
- 1995-2000
- 5 seasons
- Fox Network
- Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
- TV-PG
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.
Season 5 Episode Guide
18 Episodes 1999 - 2000
Episode 1
The Unstuck Man
Fri, Jun 11, 1999 45 mins
The Mallory brothers become separated from the rest of the sliders when another person appears in the vortex with them. Quinn appears to have jumped into the body of himself in the world they arrived in, but the fate of his brother remains unknown.
Episode 2
Applied Physics
Fri, Jun 18, 1999 45 mins
The Sliders land on an Earth with a similar technology level to the one they just left. Dr Davis sets about trying to figure a way to separate the two Mallorys. She also has the unsettling experience of meeting herself in this new world. Beckett continues to struggle with the emotions of possibly losing her 'Mallory'.
Episode 3
Strangers and Comrades
Fri, Jun 25, 1999 45 mins
The Sliders find themselves trapped on Purgatory, an asteroid with a military garrison protecting a mysterious bounty that could liberate Rembrandt's world.
Episode 4
The Great Work
Fri, Jul 9, 1999 45 mins
The Sliders land on an island inhabited by monks. With Maggie suffering from a fever or infection the team seeks help from the islanders. There seems to be more going on than the monks are admitting too, and the sliders run the risk of missing their jump.
Episode 5
New Gods for Old
Fri, Jul 16, 1999 45 mins
During a slide, Mallory injures his back and is unable to walk. He hears of a group of faith healers who may be able to help him walk again. But to do so may come at an unacceptable cost.
Episode 6
Please Press One
Fri, Jul 23, 1999 45 mins
The Sliders arrive in a cashless world controlled by Data Universal. Maggie is kidnapped and begins to be processed by an automatic system so she can become part of the Data Universal world.
Episode 7
A Current Affair
Fri, Jul 30, 1999 45 mins
The Sliders jump into a world dominated by media outlets. A chance encounter between Maggie and the current US President leads to wide spread news reporting she is having an affair with the president.
Episode 8
The Java Jive
Fri, Aug 6, 1999 45 mins
The Sliders arrive in a new world just after a musician is shot dead by that world's Rembrandt. The local police seem uninterested in the case, the reason for which become apparent very quickly.
Episode 9
The Return of Maggie Beckett
Fri, Aug 13, 1999 45 mins
The Sliders arrive in a world in which Maggie is an internationally famous astronaut who died on a mission to Mars. Maggie initially enjoys the world until she is recognized and becomes the prize in an unusual tug of war.
Episode 10
Easy Slider
Fri, Aug 20, 1999 45 mins
The Sliders arrive in a world where internal combustion engines have been banned. Some on this world - The "Smokers" oppose the law and wage a war against one of the few surviving oil refineries.
Episode 11
Requiem
Fri, Sep 10, 1999 45 mins
Through a series of slides, Rembrandt begins to have hallucinations about former team mate, Wade. When the team begin to see random vortexes opening around them, Rembrandt becomes convinced Wade is still alive and the vortex can lead him to her.
Episode 12
Map of the Mind
Fri, Sep 17, 1999 45 mins
The Sliders land in a mental institution that is in the middle of a riot, on a world where creativity is banned. In the confusion they become separated and need to find each other before the vortex opens up again.
Episode 13
A Thousand Deaths
Fri, Sep 24, 1999 45 mins
The Sliders find themselves in a world seemingly devoted to gaming. They decide to take the opportunity to indulge themselves and have a holiday. They quickly discover the games are far more complex and dangerous than any of them realized.
Episode 14
Heavy Metal
Fri, Oct 1, 1999 45 mins
After sliding into the ocean, the team find that they need to make themselves useful to a group of modern day pirates in order to survive until their next slide.
Episode 15
To Catch a Slider
Fri, Jan 14, 2000 45 mins
The team discover their timer for slides has begun to malfunction and is in need of repair. They have 48 hours to figure out how it works and effect repairs or risk being stranded in their current world.
Episode 16
Dust
Fri, Jan 21, 2000 45 mins
The Sliders arrive in the middle of an archaeological dig. They discover they are in their old home town, however everything seems to have happened hundreds of years before. Then they find a fossilized timer.
Episode 17
Eye of the Storm
Fri, Jan 28, 2000 45 mins
The team find themselves sliding into a small area surrounded by a strange barrier. They encounter Professor Geiger who explains he's created the barrier and guided the sliders to this current world.
Episode 18
The Seer
Fri, Feb 4, 2000 45 mins
The sliders arrive in a world where their exploits are well known through the efforts of a man called the 'Seer'. As they prepare for their final jump home the Seer warns them that instant death awaits. Eventually they discover something is blocking their jumps. An alternate way is discovered, but only one of them can go. Rembrandt decides he will jump back to his home world to continue the fight against the Kromaggs.
