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Sliders - Episode Guide

Season 1

Pilot

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Mar 22, 1995 (120 min)

Pilot

A physics accident sends physics student Quinn Mallory and his companions on an interdimensional roller-coaster ride that lands them in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco. After a narrow escape from death, the Sliders find themselves in a Soviet-ruled U.S., where their only hope of escape is to free an imprisoned revolutionary.

Fever

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Mar 29, 1995

Fever

When Wade is infected with a deadly virus on an Earth wracked by an epidemic, Rembrandt and Arturo race to find a cure and free Quinn from a Gestapo-like health agency.

Last Days

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Apr 5, 1995

Last Days

The salvation of a world facing certain destruction rests in the hands of Arturo and a young scientist. Meanwhile, Quinn and Wade begin to face their feelings for each other.

Prince of Wails

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Apr 12, 1995

Prince of Wails

The sliders land in a British-ruled U.S.---where England won the Revolutionary War---and find themselves embroiled in a plot involving the heir to the throne.

Summer of Love

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Apr 19, 1995

Summer of Love

The sliders find themselves in a San Francisco where the "Summer of Love" never ended---and Wade and Rembrandt are mistaken for extraterrestrial prophets.

Eggheads

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Apr 26, 1995

Eggheads

While Quinn struggles with fame in a world where intellectuals are treated like pro athletes, Arturo tries for a reconciliation with a long-lost love.

The Weaker Sex

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: May 3, 1995

The Weaker Sex

Arturo finds himself in a potentially deadly mayoral race in a world where men are considered second-class citizens and women hold the positions of power and respect.

The King Is Back

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: May 10, 1995

The King Is Back

Rembrandt is mistaken for a deceased rock legend, but an old enemy (Tom Pickett) would like to see the Crying Man disappear again---permanently.

Luck of the Draw

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: May 17, 1995

Luck of the Draw

Wade has money to burn when she wins the lottery in a seemingly utopian world, but she discovers that her silver cloud has a dark lining.

Season 2

Into the Mystic

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Mar 1, 1996

Into the Mystic

The intrepid quartet lands in a world mired in mysticism and ruled by a mysterious entity known as The Sorcerer.

Love Gods

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Mar 8, 1996

Love Gods

In a world where germ warfare has exterminated most of the male population, Quinn, Rembrandt and Arturo discover that they're unwitting fugitives.

Gillian of the Spirits

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Mar 15, 1996

Gillian of the Spirits

When a bizarre accident separates Quinn from the rest of the Sliders, the only hope for the remaining trio is to trust a girl with an ability to talk to spirits.

The Good, the Bad and the Wealthy

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Mar 22, 1996

The Good, the Bad and the Wealthy

Quinn finds himself at the center of some unorthodox corporate raiding when a gunfight earns him a reputation for being quick on the draw.

El Sid

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Mar 29, 1996

El Sid

When Quinn rescues a woman in distress in a world ruled by violence, her boyfriend swears vengeance for an imagined slight and follows the sliders through the vortex

Time Again and World

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Apr 5, 1996

Time Again and World

The sliders become involved in a plot involving a disgraced Federal judge, an underground resistance movement and an America under martial law.

In Dino Veritas

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Apr 26, 1996

In Dino Veritas

The Sliders find themselves face-to-jaw with a large (and angry) beast in a San Francisco that's been developed as a game preserve---for dinosaurs.

Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: May 3, 1996

Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome

When the sliders finally land in the one place that none of them want to leave---home---Quinn has doubts about their good fortune.

Obsession

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: May 24, 1996

Obsession

In a society dominated by psychics, Wade meets the man of her dreams---who wants her to remain with him at any cost.

Greatfellas

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: May 31, 1996

Greatfellas

The Sliders find themselves embroiled in a struggle among organized-crime families, corrupt government officials and dedicated G-men.

The Young and the Relentless

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Jun 7, 1996

The Young and the Relentless

The Sliders land in a world where Wade and Quinn's counterparts are executives up to their ears in a shady software deal.

Invasion

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Jun 28, 1996

Invasion

The sliders encounter a race of scientifically advanced aliens who hold a surprise for the quartet---they can slide at will, and intend to conquer every Earth in the dimensional spectrum.

As Time Goes By

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jul 12, 1996

As Time Goes By

The sliders find themselves in a perplexing situation: each time they slide into a new world they encounter the same people as in the previous world.

Season 3

Rules of the Game

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 20, 1996

Rules of the Game

Arturo is seriously injured when the Sliders become unwitting participants in a bloody activity known as "The Game," played in a world in which athletes must follow one rule to win: stay alive.

Double Cross

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1996

Double Cross

After landing in a city where supplies are scarce, the Sliders meet scientists who are trying to perfect sliding and whose seeming cooperation impress Quinn, Wade, Arturo and Rembrandt.

Electric Twister Acid Test

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1996

Electric Twister Acid Test

In a desert, the Sliders find a village plagued by tornadoes and presided over by a dictator who'll stop at nothing to keep his subjects under his iron rule.

The Guardian

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1996

The Guardian

Quinn is forced to relive painful childhood memories when a slide to 1980s San Francisco brings him face to face with his younger self.

The Dream Masters

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1996

The Dream Masters

Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) becomes the target of a group of dream terrorists, who control people through their ability to tinker with the victims' worst fears.

Desert Storm

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1996

Desert Storm

In a world in which water's scarce, the Sliders aid a young woman who's been the virtual slave of a thug because of her gift: an ability to find water.

Dragonslide

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1996

Dragonslide

The Sliders land in a mystical world where illusion and black magic are practiced and where Quinn is thought to come from a powerful line of wizards that must be eliminated.

The Fire Within

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1996

The Fire Within

In a world consumed by mysterious fires, the Sliders discover what might be the culprit: a single flame, which seems to have a mind and a will of its own.

The Prince of Slides

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1996

The Prince of Slides

After landing in an America ruled by a monarchy and where men have babies, Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) is mistaken for royalty---and prepped to give birth to the heir to the throne.

Dead Man Sliding

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1996

Dead Man Sliding

Quinn is mistakenly arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to death in a Hollywood where TV viewers determine the sentence and executions are televised live.

State of the Art

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1996

State of the Art

In a world run by highly intelligent robots, Quinn and Rembrandt become guinea pigs in a ghastly experiment.

Season's Greedings

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1996

Season's Greedings

All is not calm for the Sliders, whose Christmas is spent in a giant mall where customers run up bills, then become virtual prisoners while trying to pay them off.

Murder Most Foul

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1997

Murder Most Foul

Arturo is kidnapped and brainwashed into thinking he's a 19th-century detective investigating some real murders.

Slide Like an Egyptian

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1997

Slide Like an Egyptian

The sliders land in a world resembling ancient Egypt, where Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) is used for a life-after-death experiment, and the others are entombed inside a pyramid.

Paradise Lost

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1997

Paradise Lost

The Sliders land on a world where no one is over the age of 35, but soon realize the town's dirty secret. With Jerry O'Connell, John Rhys-Davies, Sabrina Lloyd and Cleavant Derricks.

The Exodus (1)

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1997

The Exodus (1)

In a militaristic America threatened by a deadly pulsar, a colonel (Roger Daltrey) decides who'll be saved---and who'll be left to die.

The Exodus (2)

Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Feb 28, 1997

The Exodus (2)

As doomsday looms, Quinn and Maggie race to find a suitable parallel world, but discover that Rickman has a deadly ulterior motive for finding such a world.

Sole Survivors

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1997

Sole Survivors

The Sliders encounter a world infected by bacteria that transforms inhabitants into flesh-eating creatures---one of which takes a bite out of Quinn.

The Breeder

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1997

The Breeder

Maggie's transporting an alien egg that's incubating inside her.

The Last of Eden

Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1997 (46 min)

The Last of Eden

On a world plagued by earthquakes and populated by primitive people, Wade stumbles upon a vast underground city overrun by nonhuman creatures.

The Other Slide of Darkness

Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Apr 11, 1997

The Other Slide of Darkness

The Sliders find evidence that Rickman may already be spreading his infection in a superstitious world.

Slither

Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Apr 25, 1997

Slither

While vacationing, the Sliders stumble across a scientist whose research involving supernatural snakes gets out of hand when one of the critters escapes from captivity.

Dinoslide

Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: May 2, 1997

Dinoslide

Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) is reunited with Malcolm, while Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) swears revenge against Rickman when the Sliders find the colonel on a world ruled by a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Stoker

Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: May 9, 1997

Stoker

Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) falls under the spell of a gothic-rock band's charismatic lead singer (Ryan Alosio), who---unbeknownst to Wade---is also a full-blooded vampire with a taste for young groupies.

This Slide of Paradise

Episode: 3x25 | Airdate: May 16, 1997

This Slide of Paradise

After cornering Rickman on a world inhabited by bizarre hybrids, the sliders finally have a chance to get home---until they meet a scientist (Michael York) who experiments with human DNA.

Season 4

Genesis

Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Jun 8, 1998

Genesis

After months of searching for Wade and Rembrandt, Quinn and Maggie (Jerry O'Connell, Kari Wuhrer) arrive on their home Earth---only to find it overrun by the Kromaggs.

Prophets and Loss

Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Jun 8, 1998

Prophets and Loss

The trio arrives on an Earth run by religious extremists, who extort followers for their possessions, promising passage to a nirvana world in return, a deal Quinn learns is a deadly sham.

Common Ground

Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Jun 15, 1998

Common Ground

Quinn, Maggie and Rembrandt arrive on an Earth used by the Kromaggs as a weapons-testing area, and are captured after Maggie saves the life of a Kromagg soldier.

Virtual Slide

Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Jun 22, 1998

Virtual Slide

After sliding onto a decrepit Earth, Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) becomes separated from Quinn and Rembrandt and is subjected to a virtual-reality device used to search her mind for slider technology.

World Killer

Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Jun 29, 1998

World Killer

Quinn meets his double in an alternate dimension where his experiments resulted in the wholesale transportation of humanity to another Earth, which is straining under the weight of the two populations.

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Jul 6, 1998

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

Quinn discovers his brother Colin (Charlie O'Connell)---a bright, naive young man---who joins the team and becomes involved with women who plan to steal a wealthy man's frozen body in order to claim his money.

Just Say Yes

Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Jul 13, 1998

Just Say Yes

Upon arrival on an Earth where drug use is mandatory, Maggie and Colin (Kari Wuhrer, Charlie O'Connell) are dosed with chemicals and induced to stay on their new world.

The Alternateville Horror

Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Jul 20, 1998

The Alternateville Horror

When the group arrives on an Earth decimated by acid rain, they escape the weather by checking into a version of the Chandler Hotel plagued by paranormal activity.

Slidecage

Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Jul 27, 1998

Slidecage

Quinn and Colin devise a way to slide to their Earth, but the group winds up trapped in a security zone in the midst of a bitter civil war between Kromagg and human refugees.

Asylum

Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Aug 17, 1998

Asylum

Rembrandt falls for a doctor who may hold the key to saving Quinn's life. Trouble is, Maggie discovers the woman is a Kromagg collaborator on the run from the British.

California Reich

Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Aug 24, 1998

California Reich

The group arrives on an Earth where California has been taken over by racists, who capture Rembrandt and place him in a prison camp used to turn non-whites into faceless slaves.

The Dying Fields

Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Aug 31, 1998

The Dying Fields

After the group arrives on an Earth where Kromagg warriors are trained to kill humans, Quinn tries to persuade a woman to help free Colin, who has been captured.

Lipschitz Live!

Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1998

Lipschitz Live!

The gang is separated during a slide to a parallel Earth, where a tabloid-TV show offers their only hope of a reunion. Also, Colin is mistaken for his counterpart and is betrothed to a woman as part of a business deal.

Mother and Child

Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Dec 7, 1998

Mother and Child

A woman and her half-Kromagg son join the gang as they travel to her home Earth, where an anti-Kromagg virus may prove deadly to the newborn.

Net Worth

Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Jan 11, 1999

Net Worth

The gang arrives on an Earth divided between computer-hackers and computer-lackers, and battles ruthless scavengers to unite a couple who fell in love on-line.

Slide by Wire

Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Jan 18, 1999

Slide by Wire

Maggie is stranded on a militaristic Earth when her double, a cyber-enhanced pilot, leaps with the others to a world that outlaws technology.

Data World

Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1999

Data World

The gang is transported to an Earth where the inhabitants live as computer data run by a nefarious programmer, who deletes the rebellious Maggie from the system.

Way Out West

Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Mar 26, 1999

Way Out West

The gang squares off against an old foe in a retro Earth frontier town after Colin is wounded and left for dead following a stagecoach ambush.

My Brother's Keeper

Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Apr 2, 1999

My Brother's Keeper

The gang travels to an Earth where clones are used to replace body parts and when Quinn is mistaken for the clone of his blinded counterpart, he is expected to donate his eyes.

The Chasm

Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1999

The Chasm

The gang arrives on a seemingly tranquil Earth that owes its serenity to chosen inhabitants who are brainwashed into sacrificing themselves by disappearing into a mysterious chasm in order to maintain their community's emotional well-being.

Roads Taken

Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: Apr 16, 1999

Roads Taken

A glitch in their slide leaves Maggie's and Quinn's souls split between dimensions, and as their health in one world deteriorates, they live an entire life together in another. Meanwhile, Colin and Rembrandt must trust a mysterious man to keep their friends from dying.

Revelations

Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: Apr 23, 1999

Revelations

An enigmatic science-fiction writer's novels have passages that seem to describe slider technology, and there's a reason: the man claims to know the Mallorys' parents.

Season 5

The Unstuck Man

Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Jun 11, 1999

The Unstuck Man

A megalomaniac plots to use the sliders and the time-altering vortex in a scheme for world domination.

Applied Physics

Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Jun 18, 1999

Applied Physics

Quantum leaps distress Diana, who encounters a troubled double of herself; and Mallory, who experiences flashbacks to Quinn's life that rack him physically and emotionally.

Strangers and Comrades

Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Jun 25, 1999

Strangers and Comrades

Warfare in an eerie realm engages the Sliders, who are recruited to fight the Kromaggs by an earthling sergeant with a closely guarded secret. It may hold the key to the Sliders' freedom.

The Great Work

Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Jul 9, 1999

The Great Work

On an island, the Sliders find refuge with a besieged monastic people.

New Gods for Old

Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Jul 16, 1999

New Gods for Old

A communal group of spiritual healers called the Believers tend to Mallory, who's been paralyzed in a hurried slide. But there's a catch to the cure: the patient loses individuality.

Please Press One

Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Jul 23, 1999

Please Press One

Maggie is kidnapped by an all-powerful conglomerate, which controls food, clothing and other essentials via a credit system that assigns citizens data codes.

A Current Affair

Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Jul 30, 1999

A Current Affair

A trumped-up sex scandal links Maggie to the President, whose chief of staff uses rumors of their alleged affair to distract the public from an ongoing war with Switzerland.

The Java Jive

Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Aug 6, 1999

The Java Jive

In a world reminiscent of the Roaring Twenties, the Sliders confront Rembrandt's evil double, a crooked cop tied to gangsters dealing in...bootleg coffee.

The Return of Maggie Beckett

Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Aug 13, 1999

The Return of Maggie Beckett

Peril awaits Maggie in her home town of Fresno, Cal., where she's mistaken for her double: a decorated astronaut who was presumably killed on a mission to Mars.

Easy Slider

Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Aug 20, 1999

Easy Slider

Mallory falls for a rebel with a cause. She's the driven, sensuous leader of a gang of motorcyclists combatting authority in a world where gas-powered vehicles are outlawed.

Requiem

Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Sep 10, 1999

Requiem

A beloved, long-lost Slider contacts Rembrandt, who subsequently winds up being used by the crafty Kromaggs in a biotechnological plot to eliminate all humans.

Map of the Mind

Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Sep 17, 1999

Map of the Mind

The vortex deposits the Sliders in a "neural remapping center," where Diana is mistaken for a patient: an internee prepped for brain surgery that quashes individuality.

A Thousand Deaths

Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1999

A Thousand Deaths

At a state-of-the-art entertainment center that offers role-playing scenarios, Maggie is thrust into a virtual-reality drama: a Civil War battlefield that traumatizes her.

Heavy Metal

Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1999

Heavy Metal

The sliders exit a vortex in the middle of the ocean, and must join the crew of a pirate ship in order to get back to California.

To Catch a Slider

Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Jan 14, 2000

To Catch a Slider

The sliders must find a gem needed to repair their malfunctioning timer.

Dust

Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Jan 21, 2000

Dust

The group lands on a world where Rembrandt is regarded as a deity.

Eye of the Storm

Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Jan 28, 2000

Eye of the Storm

In their final encounter with Dr. Geiger, the scientist reveals that he can separate Mallory from his double Quinn.

The Seer

Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Feb 4, 2000

The Seer

On a world with a television program based on the sliders' adventures, a psychic predicts the sliders' fate: they die in their next slide. He begs Rembrandt, Maggie, Diana and Mallory stay, although once again they do not want to stay. Their timer is destroyed and they have to find another way out, but there's a catch, only one can go.

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