Is anyone here a fan of Sliders?

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It was the 1995-2000 sci-fi action-adventure series about explorers who visited parallel universes (where history had evolved differently along alternate timelines).

Starred: Cleavant Derricks, Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd, Kari Wuhrer, John Rhys-Davies, Robert Floyd, Charlie O'Connell, and Tembi Locke.

Was a great medium for social commentary...created by Tracy Torme, the son of Mel Torme.

I myself am a major Sliders FREAK. Just wanted to know if there were any others out there?

[neuvocat]

1. It was great.

I remember the one with the diet pill so effective that people were always hungry and their bodies withered so bad that they were like the living dead and would feed upon the living. Pretty ingenious.

[La_Serpiente]

2. I used to watch sliders

there were shows like men in a matriarchial society and other as well.

I don't watch it anymore though.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. Lot of fun! A pretty good Sci-fi series.

I think it started suffering when they broke up the original cast.

[Deja Q]

12. John Rhies-Davis was fired, and Sabrina Lloyd left

John was ridiculed by FOX staff.

So was Tracy Torme, who had to fight to get the best season 2 episodes aired as he wanted them. "Invasion" nearly didn't air at all.

Sabrina got tired of playing a cardboard part, which started okay but was mishandled in season 3...

[alexwcovington]

4. It was cool

I'd watch it when I caught in in a channel surf -- never did figure out just when it was on.

[chiburb]

5. I thought you meant White Castle burgers...

Which are called Sliders because, well, never mind...

Yes, I always watched that show. But I did not enjoy the 'mentor' guy... he reminded me of Mr. French who used to babysit Jody and Buffy.

[Catfish]

10. I thought so too n/t

[ronzo]

17. sliders, gut bombs or my favorite nickname....

..Rib climbers.



Been vegetarian for nearly four years, but God bless the late night sliders. I'd take a dozen.

[Catfish]

25. They look like

the burgers at Krystal or is Crystal? It's a chain in the South, last one I saw was in Tennessee. Last time I ate them was about 8 years ago on a trip from WV to New Orleans, they kept me going for a few more hours of driving but my stomach wasn't very happy later. I quit eating beef when Dubya was elected, I don't trust Repubs. to regulate and inspect the meatpacking industry. Must admit I didn't eat all that much beef anyway so I doubt if the industry would care.

[Catshrink]

22. Me too!

Sliders will always be belly-bombers to me.

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. Absolutely!

I loved it! When it went to the Sci-Fi channel, I was bummed (I don't get that channel).

[newyawker99]

21. Hi lumberjack_jeff!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Kat45]

7. I loved that show when it was first on!

Then in later years, they got into too much of weird fantasy-type worlds, instead of their original concept of a world that was a normal kind of world that just evolved differently, and sometimes only slightly so. For example, one time they way everything was going, they thought they were home, then much later in the show they see the Golden Gate Bridge, and it's blue instead of gold. And I think there was one where Texas was a country and it was a lawless cowboy type of place. Those shows were pretty cool.

[Terwilliger]

8. I was interested until Rhys-davies left

it was never really the same after that

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. Does anybody remember the last episode?

Just how did it end? Did they make it home?

[election_2004]

15. a rather complicated explanation....

Actually, they made it home several times prior to the series finale.

First, they made it back to Earth Prime (their homeworld) for about a minute at the end of the episode "Into the Mystic." However, since they had only a minute to determine whether or not they'd made it home, they assumed it wasn't their world because the gate to Quinn's house didn't squeak and a newspaper headline had O.J. Simpson's acquittal on its cover. So they slid on, unaware that they'd actually made it home.

The second time they made it home was in Part 1 of "The Exodus," when Quinn and Maggie were scouting out worlds to find a livable home to transfer the refugees from Maggie's homeworld (which was about to be destroyed by pulsars) to. Quinn and Maggie landed in front of Quinn's house where Quinn was reunited with his mother - - but then they had to slide out because Maggie couldn't breathe on Earth Prime.

The third time was after Quinn pushed Rembrandt and Wade through the vortex at the end of "This Slide of Paradise." Wade and Remmy ended up on Earth Prime (after obtaining the coordinates from Rickman's timer), where they were stranded for 3 months while Quinn and Maggie tracked their photon trail, searching for them.

Three months later, when Quinn and Maggie made it back to Earth Prime (Maggie's lungs had adjusted from so much sliding, allowing her to breathe on Earth Prime), only to find out that the Kromaggs had invaded. They rescued Rembrandt from a Kromagg "reeducation" center, but learned that Wade had been shipped off to a Kromagg breeder camp (due to Sabrina Lloyd's departure from the series). This is also when Quinn found out he had actually been born on Kromagg Prime (the Kromaggs' homeworld where humans and Kromaggs had once coexisted in peace but where eventually driven apart by civil war, resulting in the Kromaggs' banishment from their homeworld - - and that he had a brother who had been left on another parallel Earth).

The sliders decided to continue sliding, hoping to find a weapon to drive the Kromaggs off of Earth Prime.

In the series finale, entitled "The Seer," Rembrandt is the only original slider remaining in the group. The new quartet of sliders (the fourth combination of them during the series) lands on a world where they are revered as heroes due to the telecognitive abilities of a psychic who has been following their adventures through remote viewing.

At the conclusion of this episode, the series ends with Rembrandt jumping through an unstable vortex after having injected himself with an anti-Kromagg virus, hoping that he will arrive back on Earth Prime and can use the virus to eradicate the Kromaggs. Maggie, Diana, and Mallory (Quinn's fraternal double) are left stranded on Seer World.

That's how it ended.

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. Wow. Well, atleast they had a chance to come up with an ending.

I'm still pissed that SOAP was never given the opportunity it deserved. And don't get me started on Farscape.

[election_2004]

20. They had a chance, but...

they blew it, since they made the series finale of Sliders into a permanent cliffhanger (we never find out what happened to Rembrandt after he goes through the wormhole alone).

[Deja Q]

11. Oh, you won't find a bigger fan here...

"Invasion" was a classic. So was "Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome", I think it was called. Personally, I feel the impostor Arturo slid with the group.

Both seasons 1 and 2 are GREAT, though 2 took a more serious approach with less outright comedic humor.

It freakin' ruled.

I originally hated "Luck of the Draw" as I felt it plagerized a 1960s short story. However, upon rewatching it, I feel it is one of THE best ever made. It took the concept of the short story, yes, but it applied the concept in a way never envisioned by the short story's writer - and it packed a punch too. LotD is a classic and it's a society I'd rather live in, actually. And it pissed off the anti-abortion people because of the use of the term "right to life". And the ending had me in tears. Originally, yummy Jerry O'Connell was going to quit - so they introduced his replacement, who was Wade's love interest throughout the story. But Jerry stayed, until the end of season 4 where he decided he was better off doing movies. That's when "Tomcats" came along, and since has had nothing better than small, inconsequential roles in skanky movies. Pity.

And the character interplay was a novelty for modern sci-fi. Wow, characters that stayed together only out of necessity and argued all the time? And well written, usually. Cleavant Derricks had to deal with some sad B-material or cliched stuff at times though, though at other times the character of Rembrandt Brown was done very well indeed.

I recall how people hated the pilot episode because they thought it supported communism. ARGH!! All the right-wingers hated the seris. And don't forget, Tracy Torme is a LIBERTARIAN. (said so in a book interview with him.)

On the other hand, you know there's a problem when America DOES understand sci-fi, so it's reassuring that they didn't have a clue, even though the pilot clearly goes out of its way to show the idea of "parallel worlds".

Season 3 stunk as FOX turned the show into a weekly "let's rip off a major hit movie". The Mad Max ripoff ep was one of the worst... But "Double Cross" was one of THE best. Very novel approach to meeting your parallel universe double...

Season 4 also turned the Kromaggs from something mysterious and cool into a militaristic force and also made the series revolve around them. Then came other stupid revelations and just couldn't watch anymore. Season 4 did have a few good ones, like the VR episode where everybody got addicted to VR headset machines. That was great. There were a couple of others that were good, but I don't recall them... :-(

[toddzilla]

13. i'll watch just about anything with kari wuhrer in it..

*drool*

[youngred]

14. Hell Ya!

it was a great show. Catch it on Sci Fi when I can. They had a lot of great plots there and I semi-believe in the what if nature of splinter universe's so it explored a lot of things I was very interested in

[PVnRT]

18. The first three seasons

were magnificent. Then something happened, they basically just started ripping off movies, and I stopped watching it. But for a while, it was an awesome show.

I liked the one where the Soviets had taken over America, and the Oakland Raiders were a band of rebels in the Bay Area.

[Lindsey]

19. I loved it when I watched it

but didn't get to see it that often due to school/work schedule. I thought the premise was incredible (especially since I believe in the concept of parallel live.

[CanuckAmok]

23. I worked on Season 1 in Vancouver...

Great cast--really excellent people, which is sadly rare in Episodic TV.

Jerry O'Connell is one of the nicest, most polite people I've ever met. He's the kind of guy who would know the name of every person on the crew, no matter how "insignificant" they were, and he's remember months later. He used to bring his parents to set, and they were this tiny, lovely little Mid-West couple--you could see where he got his manners.

[Astarho]

24. I loved Sliders

Although It lost something when John Rhys-Davies left. And when it was recast at the end. Robert Floyd never caught on with me.

Also considering what they gave Cleavant Derricks at the begining he did a great job with it and carried the show through the last season IMHO.

I seem to recall Mel Torme guested once.

I've heard rumors of a feature movie being thrown around. Anyone else hear anything?

[TexasMexican]

26. yes.

I loved it but as the seasons wore on it got progressively worse.

The last season sucked.