Sliders - Seasons 1-5 - Episode Production Order

Season 1

1. Pilot
Airdate: 3/22/95
While working in his basement, Quinn Mallory opens the gateway to parallel worlds. For a
test run, Quinn invites co-worker Wade Welles and his teacher, Professor Arturo, along. Upon
opening the vortex, Quinn uses too much power, which causes the vortex to suck them in
along with Rembrandt “Crying Man” Brown, who happens to be driving by Quinn’s house.
The four arrive on a world that experienced an ecological disaster and they will have to
survive until the timer hits zero. After barely escaping the last world, the Sliders think they
are home. But to their horror, Quinn and Arturo learn they are not and have instead arrived
on a world where the Soviet Union rules America. Rembrandt has been arrested for trying
to use American money, and the only way to save him is for the others to help a group of
revolutionaries rescue their imprisoned leader.

2. Summer of Love
Airdate: 4/19/95
The Sliders are separated on a world where the Hippie movement of the ‘60s is still alive
and the U.S. is at war with Australia. Wade and Rembrandt are mistaken for extraterrestrial
prophets at a commune, while Quinn and Arturo race to fix a broken timer and rejoin the
others.

3. Prince of Wails
Airdate: 4/12/95
The Sliders arrive in the British States of America, and Arturo’s double is plotting to assassinate
a prince and take the throne. When the Sliders inadvertently foil the plot, they come into
contact with a group of rebels trying to bring freedom to America.

4. Fever
Airdate: 3/29/95
On a world where penicillin was never invented, Quinn is mistaken for his double, who is
believed to be the cause of a massive epidemic. While he is imprisoned by a health agency,
Wade shows signs of being infected and only Arturo can find the cure.

5. Last Days
Airdate: 4/5/95
The Sliders arrive on a world that will be destroyed by an asteroid before they are due to slide.
Arturo works with Bennish to develop an atom bomb to destroy the asteroid, and Rembrandt

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gets caught up in an end of the world celebration, while Quinn and Wade confront their
feelings for one another.

6. The Weaker Sex

Airdate: 5/3/95
The Sliders arrive on a world where roles are reversed with women holding the positions of
power. Arturo becomes a candidate for the mayoral race in San Francisco, trying to bring
about a “men’s rights” movement.

7. Eggheads
Airdate: 4/26/95
On a world where being smart is the equivalent of being a sports star, Quinn is a popular
college athlete and finds his double had underhanded dealings with gangsters. Meanwhile,
Arturo discovers his late wife is alive on this world and tries for reconciliation after learning
she is pressing for divorce.

8. The King is Back

Airdate: 5/10/95
Rembrandt has arrived on his dream world, where his double is as popular as Elvis, but has
been dead for eight years. As Rembrandt gets to enjoy the fame he’s long since wanted, an
old enemy plots to make sure he disappears for good.

9. Luck of the Draw

Airdate: 5/17/95
When the Sliders land on a seemingly ideal world, Wade wins the lottery. But Quinn discovers
that the lottery is population control and the winners are killed.

Season 2

10. Into the Mystic

Airdate: 3/1/96
After separating from Ryan and Henry the dog, the Sliders make a rough landing that reopens
Quinn’s bullet wound. On this world of mysticism and superstition, a witch doctor heals Quinn
and has brains on the mind when they can’t pay the bill. On the run from the bounty hunters,
the Sliders only hope is the mysterious Sorcerer, a man who could possibly get them home.

11. Time Again and World

Airdate: 4/5/96
Wade witnesses a murder just before the slide, but as the Sliders land on the next world, the
same murder is about to occur. This time, Wade intervenes and this gets the Sliders involved
with a disgraced federal judge and a United States under martial law.

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12. El Sid
Airdate: 3/29/96
While the Sliders wait to leave a world of violence, Quinn saves a woman from her criminal
boyfriend, Sid. Sid then goes after the Sliders through the vortex, where they all arrive on a
world where San Francisco is a maximum security prison.

13. Love Gods

Airdate: 3/8/96
On a world where a biological weapon wiped out most of the male population, Quinn,
Rembrandt and Arturo become objects of desire and are imprisoned by the government to be
breeders.

14. The Good, the Bad and the Wealthy

Airdate: 3/22/96
On a world where everything west of the Mississippi is part of the nation of Texas, corporate
lawyers carry on the gunslinging ways of the Old West. After Quinn gets mixed up in a
showdown, he gains the reputation for fastest draw in San Francisco and tries to prevent the
hostile takeover of a family-owned computer company.

15. As Time Goes By

Airdate: 7/12/96
The Sliders find themselves running into the same people on each new world, one of them
being Quinn’s former love, Daelin. After encounters on worlds where the Spanish rule
American and Daelin is an abused wife, the Sliders arrive on a world where time moves
backwards and they are accused of Daelin’s murder. Quinn wants to save her, but it could have
disastrous results.

16. Gillian of the Spirits

Airdate: 3/15/96
A lightning bolt strikes the vortex during a slide, damaging the timer and trapping Quinn on
the astral plane. Now the Sliders are stranded on a world with 1950s technology, and Quinn
cannot be seen by the others. He tries to get help from the only who can see or hear him, a
girl that has a history of hearing voices.

17. Obsession
Airdate: 5/24/96
Wade literally meets the man of her dreams on a world where ten percent of the population
possesses psychic abilities. It turns out he is a psychic and is next in line for the powerful
position of Prime Oracle. But the future gets grim fast as Rembrandt and Arturo become
prime suspects in a murder that hasn’t happened yet.

18. Invasion
Airdate: 6/28/96

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The Sliders land in the middle of a strange invasion and Quinn uses the timer to bring down
one of the ships. Before barely escaping, the Sliders learn these new villains can slide at will
and are soon captured on the next world. They learn their captors are the Kromaggs and are
intent on conquering every parallel world.

19. Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome

Airdate: 5/3/96
The Sliders have come to the most unexpected world of all... home. While Rembrandt and
Wade use their sliding adventures to kickstart their careers, Arturo steals the timer and claims
sliding as his invention. However, Quinn remains convinced they are not home.

20. In Dino Veritas

Airdate: 4/26/96
The Sliders land on a world where San Francisco is a national park dedicated to the
preservation of dinosaurs, including a deadly Allosaurus. A bad fall causes Arturo to injure
himself and lose the timer.

21. Greatfellas
Airdate: 5/31/96
On a world where Prohibition was never repealed, Rembrandt’s double is famous for fighting
crime and corruption. Unfortunately, the trouble starts when the Sliders land in the middle of
a wedding where the groom and bride are from mob organizations.

22. The Young and the Relentless

Airdate: 6/7/96
The Sliders arrive on a world where the young are in charge and Wade and Quinn’s doubles
are married corporate executives. Quinn winds up posing as his dead double and finds
questions regarding his death. Meanwhile, Arturo and Rembrandt find themselves in trouble
with the law and face jail time.

Season 3

23. Double Cross

Airdate: 9/27/96
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 who’s trying to develop sliding. However, they learn her plans for
sliding are far from noble.

24. Rules of the Game

Airdate: 9/20/96
The Sliders involuntarily become a part of a human war game where the only winners are the
ones that stay alive.

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25. Dead Man Sliding
Airdate: 11/29/96
On a world where the legal system is in the form of televised games shows, Quinn arrested,
tried and sentenced to death for the crimes of his double.

26. Electric Twister Acid Test

Airdate: 10/4/96
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.

27. The Guardian

Airdate: 10/11/96
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.

28. The Dream Masters

Airdate: 10/18/96
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.

29. Desert Storm

Airdate: 11/1/96
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.

30. Dragonslide
Airdate: 11/8/96
On a world of magic and dragons, Quinn is mistaken for a wizard and kidnapped by and 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.

31. The Fire Within

Airdate: 11/15/96
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 its own.

32. The Prince of Slides

Airdate: 11/22/96
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

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world, it’s the men who give birth to children.

33. State of the Art

Airdate: 12/6/96
The Sliders land on a world where the human race was wiped out by robots. Quinn and
Rembrandt are captured by the robots’ demented creator who has plans to use them in a
mind-transfer experiment.

34. Season’s Greedings

Airdate: 12/20/96
On a world where people are enticed by consumerism and giant malls in the sky, the Sliders
get jobs as mall employees in order to find the mother of an abandoned child. Arturo is a
reluctant Santa, Rembrandt and Wade are his elves, while Quinn gets an administrative job.
Meanwhile, Wade faces some strong emotions when she meets her sister and father.

35. Murder Most Foul

Airdate: 1/3/97
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.

36. Slide Like An Egyptian

Airdate: 1/17/97
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.

37. Paradise Lost

Airdate: 1/31/97
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.

38. Last of Eden

Airdate: 3/28/97
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.

39. The Exodus, Part I

Airdate: 2/21/97
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

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and they pool their resources with the U.S. government in a race to escape to a parallel earth.

40. The Exodus, Part II

Airdate: 2/28/97
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.

41. Sole Survivors

Airdate: 3/7/97
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.

42. The Other Slide of Darkness

Airdate: 4/11/97
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.

43. The Breeder

Airdate: 3/14/97
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.

44. Stoker
Airdate: 5/9/97
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.

45. Slither
Airdate: 4/25/97
While on vacation, Quinn and Rembrandt get mixed up in an illegal snake deal and find
themselves stuck in the middle of nowhere surrounded by deadly snakes. Meanwhile, Wade
and Maggie get involved with a shady man in their search for the others.

46. Dinoslide
Airdate: 5/2/97
The Sliders’ chase for Rickman takes them back to the world they helped colonize, the New
World. Only now they find that the colonists are being hunted by a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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47. This Slide of Paradise
Airdate: 5/16/97
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.

Season 4

48. Genesis
Airdate: 6/8/98
Home isn’t necessarily where the heart is when Quinn and Maggie discover that Earth Prime
has been taken over by warrior Kromaggs in their absence.

49. Prophets and Loss

Airdate: 6/8/98
The Sliders jump to the scary side of organized religion when they land in an eerily peaceful
Los Angeles ruled by an oracle that sends people to “the Other Side”.

50. Common Ground

Airdate: 6/15/98
The Sliders land in a world where the Kromaggs conduct ruthless experiments on humans,
but trusting a Kromagg commander may be their only way out.

51. Virtual Slide

Airdate: 6/22/98
Maggie’s sanity is in danger when she’s captured by a greedy businessman who uses virtual
reality scenarios to try to get her to reveal the secret to sliding.

52. World Killer

Airdate: 6/29/98
It’s double the trouble when the Sliders land in a world in which Quinn’s double has created a
device that has caused the rest of the human population to disappear.

53. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Airdate: 7/6/98
Quinn is finally reunited with his long-lost brother, Colin, but loses him again when he gets
caught up in a frozen corpse-smuggling scheme.

54. Just Say Yes

Airdate: 7/13/98
Colin and Maggie find out the hard way what drugs can do when they land in a drug- addled
society and accidentally become junkies themselves.

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55. The Alternateville Horror
Airdate: 7/20/98
One dark and stormy night the Sliders land in a haunted hotel, but the “ghosts” may be more
closely related to them than they first appear.

56. Slidecage
Airdate: 7/27/98
While trying to reach Quinn and Colin’s home world and their birth parents, the Sliders
become trapped in a lethal labyrinth with no way out.

57. Asylum
Airdate: 8/17/98
Rembrandt falls for a beautiful doctor who is Quinn’s only hope for survival, but her
dangerous secret could mean doom for everyone else.

58. California Reich

Airdate: 8/24/98
Rembrandt’s latest jump has him fearing for his life when the group lands in a dimension
where minorities are rounded up by the violent racist elite.

59. The Dying Fields

Airdate: 8/31/98
An Eden-like setting hides a fearful secret when the Sliders stumble across two Hu- maggs –
part Kromagg, part human – who are involved in a deadly game.

60. Lipschitz Live

Airdate: 11/30/98
It’s lights, camera, Colin when the Sliders land in a world where he is mistaken for his wealthy
double and the whole society seems to be tuned in to a ridiculous TV show.

61. Mother and Child

Airdate: 12/7/98
Maternal instinct causes trouble for the Sliders when they decide to help an escapee from a
breeding camp and her half-Kromagg offspring.

62. Net Worth

Airdate: 1/11/99
Virtual reality takes on new meaning when the Sliders are split up on a world addicted to an
Internet-addicted world and get caught up in a dangerous romance between an Online girl
and an Offliner.

63. Slide By Wire

Airdate: 1/18/99

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Maggie’s double seizes an opportunity to go to a different world with the unknowing Sliders,
while the real Maggie is left behind in a brutal military experiment.

64. Data World

Airdate: 3/19/99
The Sliders check in to a glamorous hotel with strict rules of decorum, but once the idyllic
retreat has “scanned” them, they find themselves encrypted in a computer program they can’t
escape.

65. Way Out West

Airdate: 3/26/99
The spirit of the West is alive and kicking when the Sliders land in an Old West town and face a
showdown with their old nemesis, Mr. K.

66. My Brother’s Keeper

Airdate: 4/2/99
Quinn’s body is not his own when the Sliders arrive in a world where he is expected to act as
an organ donor for his injured double.

67. The Chasm

Airdate: 4/9/99
The serene town of Middletown hides a deadly secret of human sacrifice that threatens to
claim Rembrandt and Maggie.

68. Roads Taken

Airdate: 4/16/99
An unusual slide forces Quinn and Maggie to prematurely age, and it’s up to Rembrandt to
find a cure before they are destroyed by life in a “bubble universe.”

69. Revelations
Airdate: 4/23/99
An aging sci-fi writer helps Quinn and Colin reunite with their birth parents, but the warm
family reunion is not what it seems.

Season 5

70. The Unstuck Man

Airdate: 6/11/99
A lab assistant absorbs Quinn's personality as the result of a malevolent scientist's experiment,
and helps the Sliders battle the scientist before he can carry out an experiment that will cause
the death of billions of innocent people.

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71. Applied Physics
Airdate: 6/18/99
Diana finds a powerful fusion generator with which she hopes to separate the two Quinns,
but instead she inadvertently brings the malevolent Dr. Geiger back into the world.

72. Strangers and Comrades

Airdate: 6/25/99
The Sliders find themselves trapped on a strange asteroid in hyperspace, waging a seemingly
endless war against their mortal enemies, the Kromaggs.

73. The Great Work

Airdate: 7/9/99
The Sliders travel to a remote island where a group of monk-like people keep the world's
knowledge safe from a race of barbarians who have taken over the planet.

74. New Gods For Old

Airdate: 7/19/99
Mallory becomes the leader of a strange cult whose members are controlled by a man- made
virus that takes away their individuality and transforms them into mere cells in a larger
spiritual entity.

75. Please Press One

Airdate: 7/23/99
Maggie is held prisoner in a computer-controlled society that treats human beings as bar
codes and measures their worth by credit debt.

76. A Current Affair

Airdate: 7/30/99
In a parallel Los Angeles, the press is only interested in tabloid trash, and Maggie becomes
embroiled in a phony affair with the President of the United States to cover up the very real
war America is waging against Switzerland.

77. The Java Jive

Airdate: 8/6/99
The Sliders leap into a prohibition-era America where caffeine is an illegal drug, cops are
controlled by mobsters and underground coffeehouses flourish.

78. The Return of Maggie Beckett

Airdate: 8/13/99
The Sliders land in a parallel of Maggie's hometown, where her duplicate is celebrated as a
heroic space traveller who had tragically disappeared on a flight to Mars.

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79. Easy Slider
Airdate: 8/20/99
In a vast desert wasteland where combustion engines have been outlawed, Mallory joins a
rebel gang of motorcycle riders that steal petroleum from a powerful conglomerate.

80. Requiem
Airdate: 9/10/99
Rembrandt becomes telepathically linked to a friend he lost long ago who is now being used
by the Kromaggs as a sinister kind of human computer to help them destroy the human race.

81. Map of the Mind

Airdate: 9/17/99
At a sinister health facility, Diana is subjected to a brain remapping procedure that gives her
strange telekinetic powers but also sends her mind into a kind of void, rendering her unable
to communicate with her friends.

82. A Thousand Deaths

Airdate: 9/24/99
The Sliders land at a high-tech pleasure resort which offers realistic games featuring action
scenarios, but they discover that the holographic people in the games are powered by real
human minds trapped by the sinister owner of the resort.

83. Heavy Metal

Airdate: 10/1/99
In a world where modern technology is unheard of and pirates still sail the open seas, the
Sliders must find their way back to the slide zone before time runs out.

84. To Catch a Slider

Airdate: 1/14/00
The Sliders arrive in the midst of a film festival with their timer severely malfunctioning, and
the only way to repair it is to steal a costly jewel worn by one of the wealthy celebrities at the
festival.

85. Dust
Airdate: 1/21/00
The Sliders come upon an archaeologist excavating ancient ruins and realise that the earth as
they know it was destroyed four hundred years ago in this world.

86. Eye of the Storm

Airdate: 1/28/00
The Sliders find themselves trapped in a world that is swiftly collapsing in on itself, having
been lured there by Diana's former mentor, Dr Oberon Geiger.

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87. The Seer
Airdate: 2/4/00
The Sliders discover they are the subjects of a fanatical religion known as Slidology, founded
by a man with psychic powers who has been able to follow them on their interdimensional
adventures in his mind.

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