The one that started it all. What if FOX had instilled some faith in Sliders from day one and nursed it into a cult phenomenon akin to The X-Files? Earth 210 chronicles the show as it should have been — a successful cornerstone of the FOX network. Read all six seasons here.
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"We set out to create a show that would intrigue people and create an open dialogue of some of the issues we have in our own society, and we have succeeded. When I look back at the past six seasons of Sliders, I can honestly say that it's a show that I'm very proud of."
"However, Bob [Weiss] and I believe that the show has explored as many avenues of parallel culture as we feel necessary, and despite fan protests, have decided to end production of Sliders at the end of the sixth season."
So spoke Tracy Tormé in a press conference February 9, 2000 on Earth 210, a world where Sliders was an unqualified hit.
Internet buzz was swift and fierce, with the fan base petitioning the FOX network to renew the show and finish after seven seasons, as is the convention for most science fiction shows.
"We are sad to see Sliders go," said E210 FOX president Les Moonves in a press release. "It's been an integral part of our rise to prominence as one of the three big networks, but the cast and crew are adamant that the quality of the show has reached its peak and feel the concept would be more successful on the silver screen."
Sliders will end its run with a three-part mini-series that crosses over with other popular FOX mainstay The X-Files.
"The fans won't be disappointed," Tormé-210 said. "We wrap everything up but leave the door open for feature films."
But what of the fifth season finale, which left Quinn with the painful decision between saving the life of an old flame or watching the multiverse disappear?
"We wrote ourselves into a corner with that one," co-creator Robert K. Weiss admits. "I'd always tried to stay away from the time travel concept, but fan demand for it was so overwhelming that we broke our own rules, so to speak.
"One of the driving forces of the final season is that Quinn's changed the past, and what does that do to the present? The Sliders never slid to some worlds, and now have experiences that we've never seen as a result.
"And there's a new Slider."
Tormé-210, hopeful that his vision can live on in another universe, has provided Earth Prime with tapes of episodes which have never aired in this dimension. Check out what Sliders would have been like... in season 6.
Deviation occurred from Earth Standard on approximately March 22, 1995, when FOX's drama "Party of Five" was not pre-empted to premiere Sliders. Instead, FOX aired the two-hour pilot on Friday, March 24, pre-empting the popular "X-Files" and later airing directly afterwards.
FOX also marketed the interdimensional television show towards an adult, intellectual market, and the crowd that made the X-Files a cult hit soon migrated to Sliders as well.