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The first three seasons of Sliders were shown by the FOX Network. It was originally cancelled after the first season, which was broadcast from March 22, 1995 to May 17, 1995, but was brought back for a second season after much fan protest, from March 1, 1996 to July 12, 1996. A third season was broadcast from September 20, 1996 to May 16, 1997. The Sci Fi Channel produced the fourth season (June 8, 1998—April 23, 1999) and fifth season (from June 11, 1999—February 4, 2000), but announced in July 1999 that Sliders had been cancelled, and that there would not be a sixth season. The last new episode first aired on December 29, 1999 in the United Kingdom and finally aired on the Sci-Fi Channel on February 4, 2000. FOX redirects here. ... is the 81st day of the year (82nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 137th day of the year (138th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 193rd day of the year (194th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 136th day of the year (137th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... SCI FI (originally The Sci-Fi Channel, sometimes rendered SCI FI Channel when part of a longer phrase) is an American cable television channel, launched on September 24, 1992, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal programming. ... is the 159th day of the year (160th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 113th day of the year (114th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... is the 162nd day of the year (163rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... SCI FI (originally The Sci-Fi Channel, sometimes rendered SCI FI Channel when part of a longer phrase) is an American cable television channel, launched on September 24, 1992, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal programming. ... is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...

The show was produced by Robert K. Weiss and Tracy Tormé, son of singer Mel Tormé (Mel Tormé appeared in an episode as an alternate version of himself). Robert K. Weiss is an American film and television producer. ... Tracy R. Tormé, the son of Mel Tormé, is a screenwriter and producer of such works as Saturday Night Live, Odyssey 5, Sliders, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Fire in the Sky. ... Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, is best known as one of the great male jazz singers. ...

The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in its first two seasons. The filming of the show moved to Los Angeles, California for the last three seasons. For other uses, see Vancouver (disambiguation). ... Motto: Splendor sine occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English (de facto) Government Lieutenant-Governor Steven Point Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament House seats 36 Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area  Ranked 5th Total 944... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ...

Changing themes

The nature of the show changed throughout the seasons. The first two seasons focused on alternate histories and social norms, with the consensus amongst the creative team maintaining these two seasons to be largely superior to what would come later on during the series' third season.^[1][2] These stories explored what would have happened, for example, if America was conquered by the Soviet Union, or if Britain had won the American War of Independence, or if penicillin had not been invented, or if men were subservient to women. Alternate history (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... This article is about military actions only. ... For the Japanese rock band, see Penicillin (band). ... Matriarchy is a gynocentric form of society, in which power is with the female and especially with the mothers of a community. ...

The third season introduced the first significant changes to the premise of Sliders. As a result of increased FOX Network oversight (and forced reduction of day-to-day creative control by creator Tracy Tormé), episodes became far more action-oriented, even going so far as to devolve into riffs on major genre feature-films (including Species, Twister, and Anaconda). To the series' creators, this was the beginning of a downward creative trend, culminating with the firing of John Rhys-Davies by the network (in an attempt to attract a "younger" audience-demographic via the Maggie Beckett character), and Tracy Tormé deciding not to contractually continue with the series he himself created, in light of the massive creative interference he was receiving from the network executives.^[3] The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network in the United States. ... Tracy R. Tormé, the son of Mel Tormé, is a screenwriter and producer of such works as Saturday Night Live, Odyssey 5, Sliders, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Fire in the Sky. ... Species is a 1995 science fiction thriller. ... Twister is a 1996 disaster film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as storm chasers researching tornadoes. ... Anaconda (1997) is a thriller film. ...

The fourth and fifth seasons saw the series moved to the Sci-Fi Channel, and a restoration of the series creators' original "alternate history" premise; the other major storyline (begun at the end of the second season, but de-emphasized during Season Three) involved the growing war against the Kromaggs. SCI FI (originally The Sci-Fi Channel, sometimes rendered SCI FI Channel when part of a longer phrase) is an American cable television channel, launched on September 24, 1992, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal programming. ... The Kromaggs are a species of primates on the fictional television show Sliders. ...

Plot

Main article: List of Sliders episodes

The following is a list of episodes for the Fox and Sci Fi Channel original series, Sliders. ...

Season one

Episodes 1 - 10

Quinn Mallory, a graduate student of physics specializing in string theory, creates a device capable of opening vortices to alternate universes. With a little help from his double from another universe, he develops the technology to the extent that not only can he send items through the gateway he created, but also, with the use of a timer, to return them to their point of origin. He uses himself as his first living "guinea pig." Quinn Mallory (born January 24, 1973) is a fictional character on the television show Sliders. ... Interaction in the subatomic world: world lines of pointlike particles in the Standard Model or a world sheet swept up by closed strings in string theory This box:      String theory is a model of fundamental physics, whose building blocks are one-dimensional extended objects called strings, rather than the zero... Parallel universe or alternate reality in science fiction and fantasy is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with our own. ...

His best friend Wade Welles and his professor/mentor Maximillian Arturo join him on his second test. However, the wormhole grows unstable and spirals out of control. Singer Rembrandt "Cryin' Man" Brown, driving by Quinn's house, is accidentally sucked through with them. When the timer is activated ahead of time, more than four hours before it was scheduled to, it loses its original coordinates, and the Sliders cannot return home. This leaves them unable to control when the vortices open, or which universe they lead to. The Sliders continue moving from universe to universe, trying to find their way back home. Professor Maximillian P. Arturo (often called the professor or just Professor or occasionally Max during the third season) is a fictional character on the science fiction television show Sliders. ...

Common themes during this season include the exploration of political issues, and the appearances of recurring characters' alternate selves, showing how their situations had changed in various realities.

Season two

Episodes 11 – 23

The team actually gets home at the end of the second-season premiere episode "Into the Mystic", but only has seconds to decide whether or not to stay. Quinn's gate that had always squeaked does not squeak, so they leave, not knowing that the gardener had recently oiled it. Other than this two-minute visit to their original world Earth Prime, the Sliders are still no closer to returning home. The Sliders encounter the Kromaggs for the very first time, in the episode "Invasion". Their presence is short-lived, but they become part of the main plot of the series in later seasons. Earth Prime, a term used in the television show Sliders, is the name of the alternate Earth where the four original sliders (Quinn Mallory, Wade Welles, Rembrandt Brown, and Maximillian Arturo) started their journey. ... A Kromagg General from the episode: The Dying Fields The Kromaggs (also known pejoratively as Maggs and Maggots by Humans), are a species of humanoid primates from the science fiction television show, Sliders. ... Invasion is the twelfth episode for the second season of the science fiction television show Sliders. ...

Season three

Episodes 24 – 48

The third season takes a more bizarre twist, producing a series of one-off episodes, most of which are "homages" to existing plotlines previously seen in major genre feature films. Additionally, the production of the series was moved from Vancouver, Canada to Los Angeles, California (due to an increased desire for oversight by FOX Network executives), necessitating a creative adjustment in the climatology of future stories — whereas Vancouver was very "green" and lush, the Los Angeles filming environments brought a much "brighter" color palette to the series, including (for the first time) desert location-shooting. This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ...

Early in the season, Quinn meets a woman named Logan St. Clair, who is working on sliding technology herself, and decides to help her. It is later discovered that she is not only a female double of Quinn himself, but also one with nefarious purposes. As a result of their interaction, a key part of the timer, which normally ensures that characters slide within a two-mile radius, has been replaced with a version that causes them to slide anywhere within 400 miles. Before this, their slides took them to alternate versions of San Francisco. Afterwards, they could arrive in many varied locations, but most episodes take place in alternate versions of Los Angeles. San Francisco redirects here. ...

In the middle of the season, the Sliders do not slide when their timer reaches zero, which means the timer cannot open a vortex for another 29 years. However, they later find a replacement timer, and are able to continue sliding^[4]. A little bit later in the season, Quinn mentions that his timer has a 500-mile radius, which presumably could be the radius of the new timer^[5]. However, later in Season Four, Maggie says that the timer has a 400-mile radius^[6].

During a slide to a world that is soon to be destroyed by fragments of a pulsar, the Sliders help the inhabitants develop sliding technology to evacuate their best and brightest to a new homeworld. It is on this planet that they encounter Captain Maggie Beckett and the murderous Colonel Rickman, a veteran of the Gulf War on that world, who contracted a strange disease which attacks his brain, thus making donor tissue necessary; Rickman kills both Maggie's husband and Professor Arturo. It has been suggested that Radio pulsar be merged into this article or section. ... Maggie E. Beckett is a fictional character on the television show Sliders, played by Kari Wührer. ... A number of characters reoccured on Sliders, the science fiction show. ... For other uses, see Iraq war (disambiguation). ...

The Sliders now have a new mission — to find Rickman. Maggie wants revenge on Rickman, and the other Sliders want his timer so they can slide to Earth Prime, and so they can stop Rickman from harming anyone else. They continue to chase Rickman until he meets his demise in the season finale. They find Rickman's timer, which holds the correct coordinates that will take them home, and the episode ends when Quinn shoves Wade and Rembrandt into the vortex, while he stays behind for Maggie. Quinn and Maggie slide using their timer, which has been tracking Rickman's slides. However, due to damage to the timer, Quinn and Maggie end up on a different world, and are not able to return to Earth Prime.

Season four

Episodes 49 – 70

After three months and ten worlds, Quinn and Maggie finally arrive on (the supposed) Earth Prime, and discover Rembrandt in a Kromagg prison (clues in the episode potentially make this another alternate Earth). Earth Prime had been attacked by the Kromaggs, and Rembrandt and Wade were separated (she had been sent to a Kromagg breeder-camp on an alternate Earth). Quinn's imprisoned mother tells him that he is, in fact, her adopted son, and is actually from another, parallel world — the Earth on which the Kromaggs originated. The three Sliders escape to find the Kromagg homeworld, in order to take possession of a weapon with which to liberate Earth Prime. Earth Prime, a term used in the television show Sliders, is the name of the alternate Earth where the four original sliders (Quinn Mallory, Wade Welles, Rembrandt Brown, and Maximillian Arturo) started their journey. ... Kromagg Prime is the fictional alternate universe of the Kromaggs on the sci-fi TV show Sliders. ...

They find Quinn's brother Colin on another world, their parents having sent them to different worlds for their protection after their home was attacked by Kromaggs, which was no longer safe. Colin becomes the sixth Slider, and they try to track down their birth-parents, hoping they have the answers they seek, and the means to defeat the Kromaggs. This war with the Kromaggs is the primary theme throughout the season.

Season five

Episodes 71 – 88

With Jerry and Charlie O'Connell stricken from the cast list, the writers decided to simply lose Colin in the vortex, and fuse Quinn with his counterpart on the new world, who is the only duplicate to not look anything like Quinn (other than Logan St. Clair, the female double of Quinn, in a season three episode, "Double Cross"). Mallory has the combined personality of himself and the original Slider Quinn. He stays with the group throughout the season. Whilst Mallory showed initial signs of acting like Quinn, this largely took a backseat to his own personality traits; the dual-identity crisis was reduced immensely until its resolution in "Eye of the Storm". Double Cross is the first produced, but the second aired, episode for the third season of the science fiction television show Sliders. ...

In the same episode ("The Unstuck Man"), scientist Doctor Diana Davis becomes the final Slider, feeling responsible for what happened to Mallory. They discover that the weapon created by Quinn's father, Michael Mallory, to defeat the Kromaggs on Kromagg Prime had the unintended consequence of destroying that planet's ecosystem, making its use on Earth Prime impractical. Earth Prime, a term used in the television show Sliders, is the name of the alternate Earth where the four original sliders (Quinn Mallory, Wade Welles, Rembrandt Brown, and Maximillian Arturo) started their journey. ...

In the middle of the fifth season, Wade telepathically communicates with Rembrandt, and is able to transport him and the other Sliders to the world that the Kromaggs are keeping her on. Wade was being used as an experiment by the Kromaggs in an attempt to liberate their homeworld. Rembrandt is unable to save Wade, but Wade is able to sabotage the experiment. Rembrandt reveals that he senses that Wade is gone.

The series concludes when Rembrandt (the only surviving original Slider) slides alone with a virus in his blood to fight the Kromaggs on his homeworld. Whether or not Rembrandt succeeds is never revealed.

Cast

Main article: List of Sliders actors

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Main cast

• Quinn Mallory (seasons 1-4), played by Jerry O'Connell
• Wade Kathleen Welles, (seasons 1-3, voice of Wade in "Requiem", S5e11), played by Sabrina Lloyd
• Rembrandt Lee "Crying Man" Brown, played by Cleavant Derricks
• Professor Maximillian P. Arturo, (seasons 1-3), played by John Rhys-Davies
• Maggie Beckett, (seasons 3-5), played by Kari Wührer

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Supporting cast

• Colin Mallory, (season 4), played by Charlie O'Connell
• Quinn Mallory (2) a.k.a. Mallory, (season 5), played by Robert Floyd
• Diana Davis, (season 5), played by Tembi Locke

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Recurring guest stars

Main article: Recurring characters of Sliders

• Colonel Angus Rickman, played by Roger Daltrey ("The Exodus" parts 1 and 2 (S3e16–17)) and Neil Dickson (episodes "The Other Slide of Darkness", "Dinoslide", "Stoker" and "This Slide of Paradise" (S3e21, S3e23–25))
• Elston Diggs, played by Lester Barrie (episodes "Double Cross", "The Dream Masters", "Desert Storm", "Dragonslide", "Murder Most Foul", and "The Breeder" (S3e2, S3e5–7, S3e13, S3e19))
• Doctor Oberon Geiger, played by Peter Jurasik (episodes "The Unstuck Man", "Applied Physics", and "Eye of the Storm" (S5e1–2, S5e17))

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Changing cast

Cleavant Derricks (Rembrandt Brown) is the only cast member to stay with the series throughout its entire run, while Derricks and Linda Henning (Mrs. Mallory) are the only actors to appear in both the first and last episodes of the series. Many rumors persist on fan web pages about why some of these casting changes occurred. Cleavant Derricks is best known as a star of the television series Sliders and should not be confused with the prolific songwriter Cleavant Derricks. ... Rembrandt Brown (born March 4, 1955) was a fictional character played by Cleavant Derricks on the science fiction television show Sliders. ... Linda Kaye Henning (born September 16, 1944, in Los Angeles) is an American singer and actor. ...

Changing staff

The series co-creator, Tracy Tormé, has often been critical of the direction the series took in the third season^[7]. David Peckinpah was brought onto the series in the third season (around the time when Tracy Tormé started to criticize the show). Peckinpah has been criticized by fans of the show, who argue that his involvement caused the show to "jump the shark." ^[8] Tracy R. Tormé, the son of Mel Tormé, is a screenwriter and producer of such works as Saturday Night Live, Odyssey 5, Sliders, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Fire in the Sky. ... David Ernest Peckinpah (born September 5, 1951 – died April 23, 2006) was a television writer, producer and director. ... Jumping the shark is a slang term used by television critics since the 1990s. ...

Seasons four and five have their fanbases; some even said season four improved on three (largely due to new executive producer Marc Scott Zicree's decision to restore Tracy Tormé's original "alternate history" premise for the series).^{[citation needed]} Marc Scott Zicree (born 1955) is an American science fiction author, television writer, and screenwriter. ...

Episodes aired out-of-order

The original filmed order for Season 1 episodes is as follows:

1. "Sliders" (two-hour pilot episode)
2. "Summer of Love"
3. "Prince of Wails"
4. "Fever"
5. "Last Days"
6. "The Weaker Sex"
7. "Eggheads"
8. "The King is Back"
9. "Luck of the Draw"

The FOX Network aired the episodes in a different order to best capitalize on potential ratings-winning episodes, thus causing some continuity errors. For instance, the timer is first set to count down not in the pilot episode, but in "Summer of Love" — since FOX aired "Fever" after the pilot episode, though, many viewers were left confused as to why the Sliders suddenly had to leave within a very specific period of time. Similarly, the cliffhanger at the end of "Summer of Love" leads directly into the opening of "Prince of Wails" — which FOX had actually aired a week earlier. ^[9]

For Season Two, FOX did not want to resolve the cliffhanger at the end of "Luck of the Draw," preferring to focus instead on brand-new storylines. Thus, in "Time Again and World" (the first episode filmed for Season Two), Arturo makes a brief passing reference to the events of "Luck of the Draw." Tracy Tormé successfully petitioned for a chance to resolve the cliffhanger, though, which is briefly dealt with in the opening minutes of "Into the Mystic" (the third episode filmed, but the first to air that season). "Time Again and World" ended up airing sixth in the rotation. ^[9]

"Double Cross" was filmed as the premiere for Season Three. In this episode, the audience learns why the Sliders will now be able to slide anywhere between San Francisco and L.A. However, FOX opted to air "Rules of the Game" first, since it was a more action-oriented episode. ^[9]

"The Last of Eden" was filmed before John Rhys-Davies (Prof. Arturo) left the show. However, FOX chose to air the episode for the first time on March 28, a full month after Arturo had been written off the show, requiring a new opening scene be added to frame the story as a flashback. ^[9]

When the show began airing in reruns on the Sci-Fi Channel, Sci-Fi restored the original filmed order for Season One. However, when the DVDs were released, Universal used the aired order for Season One and the subsequent seasons. SCI FI (originally The Sci-Fi Channel, sometimes rendered SCI FI Channel when part of a longer phrase) is an American cable television channel, launched on September 24, 1992, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal programming. ...

Show concepts

Timer

The original timer.

The timer is a handheld device that resembles a mobile phone or remote control. The Sliders had a finite amount of time to stay in each world, a time which was beyond their control, and was revealed on the timer's display upon arriving on the parallel Earth. The only time they were able to leave a parallel Earth was when the timer hit "zero." If they did not slide at that time, they would not have another opportunity to slide for another 29.7 years. In the episode "Rules of the Game", it is first stated that the Sliders must wait 29 years for the next slide, if they miss it when the timer hits zero. It is mentioned again in several more episodes. The timer has frequently been lost, stolen, or damaged during the slides. However, it is almost always recovered, repaired, or replaced before they are scheduled to slide. Image File history File links Sliders_-_Timer. ... Image File history File links Sliders_-_Timer. ... This article or section reads like an advertisement. ... For other uses, see Remote control (disambiguation). ...

Different timers have different countdown times — if you miss the window on one timer, you could still slide out with another.

Doubles

One of the concepts of the show was the concept of doubles. On many parallel Earths, there would be alternate versions of the same person. The Sliders frequently encountered alternate versions of themselves. Sometimes, the doubles of the Sliders had similar personality traits and interests (for example, many doubles of Quinn Mallory had invented sliding, or were in the process of inventing sliding). Sometimes, however, the personality traits of the Sliders were entirely different. Gender and appearance of doubles was also somewhat fluid, although this was only seen in a few cases.

Some of the doubles the Sliders encountered were doubles of people they knew from Earth Prime, such as Quinn's classmate Conrad Bennish, Jr. In the episodes "Dragonslide" and "The Prince of Slides," Rembrandt met doubles of girlfriends from Earth Prime, and in the episode "Eggheads," Arturo met a double of his late wife. Sometimes doubles of the family members of the Sliders were found during sliding; Quinn often encountered doubles of his parents, and in the episode "Season's Greedings," Wade met doubles of her father and sister. Earth Prime, a term used in the television show Sliders, is the name of the alternate Earth where the four original sliders (Quinn Mallory, Wade Welles, Rembrandt Brown, and Maximillian Arturo) started their journey. ... The Prince of Slides is the ninth episode of the third season for the science fiction television show Sliders. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into List of Sliders episodes. ...

On some of the alternate Earths that the Sliders visited, there were alternate versions of celebrities and politicians of Earth Prime. However, celebrities on these alternate Earths sometimes had different levels of fame than their Earth Prime counterparts. In addition, some of the alternate versions of Earth Prime politicians hold different offices. For example, the Sliders found alternate Earths where Oliver North, Hillary Clinton, Jocelyn Elders, and even B-movie filmmaker Ed Wood^[10] were at one time in their respective worlds, president of the United States. In the pilot episode, the former cast of The People's Court guest starred as their own doubles in a Soviet-styled parody of the show. Oliver Laurence North (born October 7, 1943 in San Antonio, Texas) is most well known for his involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair. ... REDIRECT Hillary Rodham Clinton   This is a redirect from a title with another method of capitalisation. ... Minnie Joycelyn Elders (born August 13, 1933) was the United States Surgeon General from September 8, 1993 to December 31, 1994, most famous for her outspokenness on sensitive issues of public health. ... Edward Davis Wood, Jr. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas  US Government Portal      For other uses, see President of the United States (disambiguation). ... Sliders is the title of the pilot episode of the science fiction television show Sliders. ... Judge Joseph Wapner, who presided over cases from 1981 to 1993. ... Soviet redirects here. ...

Cleavant Derricks's identical twin brother, Clinton Derricks-Carroll, occasionally appeared on the show, in the episodes "The King Is Back," "Greatfellas," and "The Prince of Slides," when there was a need for Rembrandt and his double to interact. Cleavant Derricks is best known as a star of the television series Sliders and should not be confused with the prolific songwriter Cleavant Derricks. ... For other uses, see Twin (disambiguation). ... Actor, Musician. ... The King Is Back is the ninth episode of the science fiction television show Sliders. ... The following is a list of episodes for the Fox and Sci Fi Channel original series, Sliders. ... The Prince of Slides is the ninth episode of the third season for the science fiction television show Sliders. ...

Vortex

A Vortex (ERP bridge)

The vortex, a wormhole opened by the timer that the Sliders carried around, was the means by which the Sliders travel from one parallel universe to another. In the pilot and several other episodes, Quinn referred to the vortex as an "Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky bridge," a fictitious term that may have arisen out of a confusion between the actual term Einstein-Rosen bridge (a type of wormhole in physics) and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox (a famous thought-experiment in quantum mechanics, which is unrelated to wormholes). The look of the vortex changed throughout the series. From the first to third season, the vortex was a bluish whirlpool, and was somewhat transparent. In the fourth and fifth seasons, the vortex appeared as a mostly-blue whirlpool with some blue-green, and was entirely opaque. Image File history File links Sliders_-_Vortex. ... Image File history File links Sliders_-_Vortex. ... For other uses, see Wormhole (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Wormhole (disambiguation). ... In quantum mechanics, the EPR paradox is a thought experiment which challenged long-held ideas about the relation between the observed values of physical quantities and the values that can be accounted for by a physical theory. ... For a less technical and generally accessible introduction to the topic, see Introduction to quantum mechanics. ...

In the episode "Gillian of the Spirits", Arturo said the vortex would close itself automatically after being open for sixty seconds. However, in several episodes — including "Gillian of the Spirits" — the vortex was open well beyond sixty seconds.

Hotel

The Sliders would often stay at the same hotel on different worlds, and in a recurring plot device, would usually stay in the same room. In Season One, this was Room 12 at the Motel 12 in San Francisco. In Season Two, it was the Dominion Hotel in San Francisco (this may just have been a different name for the Motel 12, as they were often both managed by the same person, Gomez Calhoun). In Season Three, they stayed at the Chancellor Hotel in Los Angeles; however, the real-life Chancellor Hotel in San Francisco objected to the use of the name, so in Seasons Four and Five, they stayed at the Chandler Hotel, in Los Angeles. A number of characters reoccured on Sliders, the science fiction show. ...

Intro

The beginning credits started by watching a spiral of earths and a monologue describing the premise of the show:

• Season One: "What if you can find brand new worlds, right here on Earth, where anything is possible: same planet, different dimensions? I found the gateway!"
• Season Two: "What if you could travel to parallel worlds? The same year, the same Earth, only different dimensions? A world where the Russians ruled America? Or where your dreams of being a superstar came true? Or where San Francisco was a maximum security prison? My friends and I found the gateway. Now, the problem is: finding a way back home."
• Seasons Three, Four, and Five: "What if you found a portal to a parallel universe? What if you could slide into a thousand different worlds? Where it's the same year, and you're the same person, but everything else is different? And what if you can't find your way home?"

In the first through fourth seasons, Quinn spoke the monologue. Rembrandt spoke the monologue in the fifth season, after Quinn had left the show. The monologue was followed by music, without lyrics. The first and second seasons had music that were unique to each season, and the third to fifth seasons had roughly the same music. For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... For other uses, see Celebrity (disambiguation). ...

Connection to other works

Some people believe the series may have been inspired by the book The Homeward Bounders by Diana Wynne Jones, in which a young boy from Earth "bounds" between parallel worlds, searching for his home. Others believe it to be inspired by Piers Anthony's "Mode" series of novels. However, a possible inspiration that seems very close may have been George R.R. Martin's 1992 ABC pilot Doorways, in which the main cast were fugitives fleeing through parallel worlds, while carrying a device that tells them where and when the next Doorway opens. Although ABC commissioned six additional scripts after the pilot film was completed, Doorways never went to series, as ABC decided to launch Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman in the fall of 1993, instead. At the time of Sliders' launch, some TV critics noted the similarities to Doorways, and Martin claimed that Sliders creator Tracy Tormé applied for a writing position on the show, although Tormé later denied this. The Homeward Bounders is a fantasy novel by Diana Wynne Jones with the chilling premise that there is a vast series of parallel universes, all of which serve as the game-boards for a race of demons that delight in war-games and fantasy-games. ... Diana Wynne Jones (born London August 16, 1934) is a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction. ... Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born August 6, 1934 in Oxford, England) is an American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. ... George R. R. Martin, circa 1986 George Raymond Richard Martin (born September 20, 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, and also a screenwriter and producer. ... This article is about the American broadcast network. ... Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was a live-action television series based on the Superman comic books. ...

Maggie Beckett may have gotten her name because Sliders was often compared to the Quantum Leap television series that starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Samuel Beckett. In the Season Five episode "The Return of Maggie Beckett," Maggie's father was revealed to be a career military officer named Thomas; Dr. Beckett's brother was also a career military officer named Thomas. Maggie E. Beckett is a fictional character on the television show Sliders, played by Kari Wührer. ... Quantum Leap is a science fiction television series that ran for 97 episodes from March 1989 to May 1993 on NBC. It follows the adventures of Dr. Samuel Beckett (played by Scott Bakula), a brilliant scientist who after researching time-travel, and doing experiments in something he calls The Imaging... Scott Stewart Bakula (born October 9, 1954) is an American actor who played leading roles in two science fiction television series: Quantum Leap and Star Trek: Enterprise. ...

DVD releases

DVD Name	Cover Art	Region 1	Region 2	Special Features
The First and Second Seasons		August 3, 2004	December 27, 2004	"Making Of" documentary, with interviews from Cleavant Derricks and Jerry O'Connell. Audio commentary on the pilot episode by series creators Robert K. Weiss and Tracy Tormé.
The Third Season		July 19, 2005	October 31, 2005	Gag reel (Region 1 Only)

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Sliders in other media

• The pilot episode of Sliders was novelized by science-fiction writer Brad Linaweaver, and was released in the spring of 1996, one year after the series originally premiered. Linaweaver's novelization incorporates several deleted scenes from the original pilot episode production script, along with Linaweaver's own additions to the plot.

• Linaweaver also later compiled an episodic guide to the show, Sliders: The Classic Episodes, which contained information only on Seasons One through Three.

• Dennis McCarthy produced a Sliders soundtrack with select orchestrated music from season one of the series. ^[11]

• Sliders has also been spun-off into a comic book series published by Acclaim Comics. This comics series had no direct input from series creators Tracy Tormé and Robert K. Weiss, but Tracy Tormé did pass along several notes detailing stories that went unproduced. Series star Jerry O'Connell also personally authored one special issue of this comic series. While advertised and solicited for advance order, the final Sliders comic, titled Get a Life, never made it to store shelves; but artist Rags Morales completed art for 14 pages of the comic before production was stopped. ^[12]

• After the changes of the DC Comics event mini-series Zero Hour, the artistic design of time travel was changed and first introduced in Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 3 number 74. During the issue, Superboy comments that this new artistic design of time travel is similar to the tunnel effect on Sliders. ^[13] This new artistic design for time travel has been used by DC Comics from the 1995 debut through to its last appearance in 2005 in the Teen Titans/Legion Special.

• In 1997, the Desktop Images production company released a training video on the subject of Organic Modeling and Animation hosted by David Lombardi. This how-to video gave a special behind the scenes look at the special effects process used on the Sliders season three episodes Paradise Lost and Dinoslide. ^[14]

• In the comic strip FoxTrot by Bill Amend, Paige is condemned by a sort of Ghost of Christmas Past figure for watching Sliders instead of Frosty the Snowman.

• Released in 1999, a Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel, The Gatekeeper Vol 3: Sons of Entropy, featured characters Angel and Oz discussing Sliders in relation to their current situation.

• During the year 2000, Private Media Group produced pornography titled Sex Slider Shag-a-rama which was based on Sliders.

• Marvel's Exiles features several Marvel characters who have been pulled from their own realities to fix problems in alternate ones. Series creator Judd Winick has stated that Sliders was part of the inspiration for the series. ^[15]

• Starting October 15, 2002, the webcomic Real Life featured an epic interdimensional adventure based upon and referencing Sliders. ^[16]

• During the week of June 13, 2003, the Unshelved comics strip character Dewey recalls Sliders when he discovers the library has been re-modeled overnight. ^[17]

• In 2003, Vivendi Universal produced a Hulk game for Nintendo GameCube and Xbox which featured the Sliders season one theme song produced by Mark Mothersbaugh. The Mothersbaugh theme song is featured during the level of the game titled Reckoning 2 which is one of the final levels of the game.

• Released February, 2005, Marvel Knights 4 issue 15 features the Human Torch fondly remembering Sliders as the fantastic team prepares to embark on a time travel mission. ^[18]

• Damien Broderick's 2005 novel Godplayers mentions Sliders on page 47. The reference is in comparison to the novel's own dimension hopping heroes.

• Released December 20, 2005, the ADV Films dub of Ghost Stories features a Sliders reference in Episode 8 at time stamp 6:01. Satsuki says; "[Leo] hasn't been this disappointed since they canceled Sliders."

• The July 16, 2007 Small Market Sports comics strip uses the opening monologue of Sliders to demonstrate how David Beckham is creating a parallel world where soccer is popular in the United States. ^[19]

• Sliders has been the subject of several trivia questions on game shows such as Jeopardy!, The Weakest Link, Hollywood Showdown and Beat the Geeks.

• The September 14, 2007 issue of online comic VGCats (#239: Bizzaro!) features Leo mentioning Sliders, followed by a scene in a parallel universe into which the original line-up (Rembrandt, Arturo, Quinn and Wade) slide. The Timer states they are there for three years.

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