About this season
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?
Episodes (25)
1. Rules of the Game
8.0Aired 20 September 1996 • 43 min
The Sliders become involuntarily apart of a human war game where the only winners are the ones that stay alive.
2. Double Cross
8.0Aired 27 September 1996 • 43 min
On a world quickly running out of natural resources, Rembrandt meets his number one fan but finds her to be a little too friendly. Meanwhile, Quinn and the others meet Logan, a scientist at Prototronics that's trying to develop sliding. However, they learn her plans for sliding are far from noble.
3. Electric Twister Acid Test
6.0Aired 4 October 1996 • 43 min
The Sliders arrive on a world where electric tornadoes have almost completely wiped out the population. They find a secluded village somehow protected from the tornadoes and a dictator that may prevent the team from ever sliding again.
4. The Guardian
7.0Aired 11 October 1996 • 43 min
The Sliders arrive on a world just like their own, only time is moving at a rate of twelve years slower than normal. There, Quinn encounters his young double and tries to change an upcoming event in his life, despite the other Sliders' warnings.
5. The Dream Masters
6.5Aired 18 October 1996 • 43 min
On a world where a group of social misfits have learned to torture people by entering their dreams, Wade becomes a target of the group's leader.
6. Desert Storm
6.5Aired 1 November 1996 • 43 min
The Sliders land on a world with little water and come to the aid of a mysterious young woman whose gift to find water is being exploited by a group of thugs.
7. Dragonslide
6.5Aired 8 November 1996 • 43 min
On a world of magic and dragons, Quinn is mistaken for a wizard and kidnapped by an evil warlock bent on immortality. Meanwhile, Wade tries to help Rembrandt's love troubles with a love potion, but it backfires and makes Rembrandt fall in love with her.
8. The Fire Within
6.5Aired 15 November 1996 • 43 min
After barely escaping a world engulfed in flames, the Sliders now find themselves in a Los Angeles dependent on the sale and production of oil. Unfortunately, they learn they've brought along a piece of the fire from the last world and that it has a mind of it's own.
9. The Prince of Slides
6.0Aired 22 November 1996 • 43 min
On a world where the American government is a monarchy, Rembrandt is mistaken for his double and discovers that he is about to be a father of royalty. The only problem is, on this world, it's the men who give birth to children.
10. Dead Man Sliding
7.0Aired 29 November 1996 • 43 min
On a world where the legal system is in the form of televised game shows, Quinn is arrested, tried and sentenced to death for the crimes of his double.
11. State of the A.R.T.
6.5Aired 6 December 1996 • 43 min
The Sliders land on a world where the human race was wiped out by robots. Quinn and Rembrandt are captured by the robot's demented creator and are going to be used in a mind-transfer experiment.
12. Season's Greedings
6.5Aired 20 December 1996 • 43 min
On a world where people are enticed by consumerism and giant malls in the sky, the Sliders get jobs as mall employees to find the mother of an abandoned child. Arturo is a reluctant Santa, Rembrandt and Wade his elves while Quinn gets an administrative job. Meanwhile, Wade faces some strong emotions when she meets her sister and father.
13. Murder Most Foul
6.5Aired 3 January 1997 • 43 min
On an over-worked world with an uptight population, Arturo is thought to be a fracture and is sent to a fantasy camp for a form of relaxation. When the others find him, they see he has been brainwashed into thinking he is a great detective on the trail of a Jack the Ripper-like murderer.
14. Slide Like an Egyptian
6.5Aired 17 January 1997 • 43 min
On a world ruled by Egyptian culture, Quinn is used in a life-after-death experiment and thought dead. The others miss the slide when trying to save a woman from a sacrifice and become trapped in a pyramid with a big scarab.
15. Paradise Lost
6.5Aired 31 January 1997 • 43 min
The Sliders arrive in a small community, where the citizens are all young and fearful of outsiders. They don't expect much trouble, until they uncover a deadly secret.
16. The Exodus (1)
7.0Aired 21 February 1997 • 43 min
Things don't look good for the Sliders when they slide to a world that's about to be eradicated by a rogue pulsar. Soon they discover that this world has been developing sliding technology and pool their resources with the U.S. government in a race to escape to a parallel Earth.
17. The Exodus (2)
7.0Aired 28 February 1997 • 43 min
Quinn and Maggie return to her world with Earth Prime's coordinates stored in Jensen's timer. As Wade makes the final list for those who can slide to safety, Arturo races to modify the new timer to slide more people. Unfortunately for them, an unexpected danger lurks the base and one Slider will not make it to the next world.
18. Sole Survivors
6.5Aired 7 March 1997 • 43 min
The Sliders arrive on a world where a strange bacteria transformed the inhabitants into flesh-eating zombies. When Quinn is bitten, he begins to turn into one of them.
19. The Breeder
5.5Aired 14 March 1997 • 43 min
A creature embeds a parasite in Maggie just before the slide, which takes the Sliders to a world where young adults are used in a mandatory organ-donor program. The others will have to find Maggie before she finds the perfect mate and lays her eggs.
20. The Last of Eden
6.0Aired 28 March 1997 • 43 min
Wade and Rembrandt recall their slide to a world plagued by earthquakes and populated by primitive people. Wade falls into a deep chasm and Quinn goes to rescue her, while Rembrandt learns of Arturo's illness.
21. The Other Slide of Darkness
6.0Aired 11 April 1997 • 43 min
The Sliders track Rickman to a superstitious town. Their search is further complicated when Quinn and Maggie are captured by natives living in a mysterious fog. There, Quinn runs into someone from his past--himself.
22. Slither
5.5Aired 25 April 1997 • 43 min
While on vacation, Quinn and Rembrandt get mixed up in an illegal snake deal and find themselves stuck in the middle of no where surrounded by deadly snakes. Meanwhile, Wade and Maggie get involved with a shady man in their search for the others.
23. Dinoslide
6.0Aired 2 May 1997 • 43 min
The Sliders' chase for Rickman takes them back to the world they helped colonize, the New World. Only they find that the colonists are being hunted by a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex.
24. Stoker
6.0Aired 9 May 1997 • 43 min
Wade falls under the spell of a rock band's charismatic lead singer, who is really a vampire and looking to use Wade to get the timer. Meanwhile, the others try to track down Rickman.
25. This Slide of Paradise
5.5Aired 16 May 1997 • 43 min
The Sliders track Rickman to a world where a mad scientist has been experimenting with genetic testing and has created a race of human hybrids.