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November 19, 2008
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Synopsis
Earth Prime: Basically, this is our world. Everything that we know of life on Earth also exists on this world — its history, pop culture and laws are all the same. Some fans argue that this really isn't our world, in that on our world Quinn Mallory, Prof. Maximillian P. Arturo, Wade Kathleen Welles and Rembrandt Lee Brown would be actors on a television show, but for the sake of clarity, let's assume that we're watching a show about true events.
Elvis World: Very similar to Earth Prime, except for the global cooling, the ten-term President John F. Kennedy, Americans flocking to Mexico for jobs and some red light/green light confusion. Oh yeah, and compact discs lost out to vinyl. Still sound similar to you?
Tundra World: Nuclear winter or a shifting of the earth's axis? You be the judge, but the result is the same — frigid, uninhabitable wasteland.
Soviet World: The Domino Theory isn't just pizza in under 30 minutes — The Russians, and communism, have swept the globe after an American loss in the Korean war.
Public Transit World: Virtually identical to Earth Prime on the surface except for one small thing — Quinn's father is alive and well.
Spiderwasp World: Venezuelan labs are about as secure as you'd expect — unfortunately, that means that they've released deadly hybrid spiderwasps into the wild.
Hippie World: Who would've thought losing the Battle of the Coral Sea would push the peace movement back 30 years? Or lead to the election of Oliver North and the suspension of civil rights?
Waterworld: Sure, San Francisco may look dry, but that's during low tide. Wait for high tide and you'll see seven story tsunamis coming your way. Here the polar ice caps have melted leaving the city of San Francisco hundreds of feet underwater.
British World: He shoots, he scores. An assassin's bullet felled George Washington in the critical days of the American Revolution, leading to continued colonialism around the world by Old Europe.
Oil Boom World: San Francisco is sitting on top of a couple billion barrels of black gold, and the locals are whooping it up... complete with hillbilly Texan throwing his hat in the air.
Q World: A viral epidemic has engulfed the populace in fear. The disease, a streptomycin-like illness dubbed the Q, has driven the poor away to die while the rich live in sanitized protection.
Cannibal World: Here, San Francisco is a tropical environment complete with requisite people-eaters.
Asteroid World: You guessed it. An asteroid is set to strike the West Coast in a few days, and everyone has worked themselves into a hedonistic frenzy.
Feminist World: A world where woman are in a position of power while men are relegated to second-class citizens.
Tropicana World: The Sliders stay here for a nice vacation, with sun, sand, surf and a resort hotel full of boat drinks.
Einstein World: It's brains over brawn on a world where classical intellect and knowledge are the cornerstones of civilization.
Law and Order World: Don't try to spray paint a freeway overpass — Proposition 199 and a media-hungry judge could sentence you to death by lethal injection.
Cryin' Man World: Rembrandt's solo act was a bit more popular here. Akin to Elvis, The Cryin' Man was considered the de facto King of Rock and Roll until his mysterious death.
Ice Cream World: On this world, Rembrandt and Quinn have jobs as cycle salesmen for King Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts.
Paradise: The overall population of this Earth is less than half a billion people, and the pace of life is infinitely more relaxed.
Sitting Moose World: The Sliders, plus Ryan and Henry the dog, escape to this world from Paradise, but Quinn collapses in a heap after being shot in the back by a pursuant Lottery police officer.
Mystic World: The population here is deeply embedded in the occult and relies heavily on a mystical "Sorcerer" for commercial products. Quinn's double was initially a visitor here who went on to take up permanent residence.
Hoover Prime: How can four people stay on a world with zero civil liberties and not know it? Well, on this world women growing facial hair might serve as a distraction.
Hoover Double Prime: No Constitutional freedoms, out of control police oppression and J. Edgar Hoover in a skirt. Wait, am I talking about Earth Prime?
Battlefield Earth: The first, but certainly not the last. A world devastated by war, and the survivors are still taking it pretty personally.
Prison World: Seismic instability and a burgeoning prison population made the decision to convert downtown San Francisco into a massive federal penitentiary an easy decision.
Breedin' World: A biological weapon unleashed during the Gulf War has killed more than 90% of this earth's men.
Dust World: Little is known of this world except for Arturo's quip that they've come "from a world of dust to a world of dung" as he lands on the ground next to a horse stable.
Lone Star World: The state of Texas quietly took over the western portion of what is to us the United States while the North fought the South in the Civil War.
Nueva España: Or more specifically, San Francisco Republica de Nueva España (Republic of New Spain).
Lions World: San Francisco Lions Football rules! Quinn's family moved to Seattle in the 10th grade when his father got a job in aerospace. Now alt-Quinn is a graduate at the University of Washington.
Reverse World: Because time can just as easily move backwards.
Phone Booth World: A world layered with such subtlety and impact it is unlike anything seen before or since. A scene in which Quinn battles his inner demons... against the eerie backdrop of a Pacific Bell phone booth.
Noah's World: A place where severe thunderstorms are the norm. The Sliders trudge through a heavy forest to rendezvous at the gate location and their apparel, high quality rain gear, indicates that there is civilization in this area.
Fifties World: The nuclear holocaust at Hiroshima and Nagasaki plunged this world into a technophobic state. Technology here is feared and kept under tight control. The Quinn of this world died of polio.
Nude World: Sure, you may freeze your ass off, but at least you're naked.
India World: Cows, over-indulgent concierges, early morning vendors — it's all part of a San Francisco where India sailed east and colonized North America.
Psychic World: This America's Abraham Lincoln was warned of his assassination by a psychic; Lincoln's gratitude was to elevate the man to a post higher than the Presidency. What a guy!
Executive World: Whatever the world is like, Derek Bond doesn't like it.
Rollerblade World: The only information known about his world is that Rembrandt bought safety equipment — a helmet, knee and elbow pads — there for protection against the bumps and bruises incurred by sliding. He is wearing them when he enters the next world. This world also likely has legalized gambling in San Francisco, because Arturo asks Rembrandt to pay for something with winnings from the last casino.
Kromagg Outpost 66: On this world, the population has been either eradicated or imprisoned by the invading Kromagg Dynasty though the mentally ill have been left to roam free, possibly because they weren't deemed 'good stock' by the Kromaggs.
Nouvelle Versailles: North America, France-style. Vive la difference!
Kromagg Outpost 113: A barren prison planet. Aside from Kromagg terraforming, no significant life developed on this Earth.
Earth Double Prime: It'd be home if only the Golden Gate Bridge wasn't such an eye-pleasing blue...
Shrink World: The stress of the last slide forces Rembrandt to seek psychiatric evaluation.
Truth World: The citizens here are required by law to wear detector collars around their necks that send an electric shock through the body if the wearer tells a lie. The worse the lie, the bigger the shock and it is designed to eventually kill the habitual liar. On this world, it's a felony to remove the collars.
Dinosaur World: Dinosaurs have survived since pre-historic times (without any evolution, no less) thanks to a national effort to protect them in massive, city-sized wildlife preserves.
Fossil World: A place brimming with dinosaur fossils, so much so that archaeologists are scoopin' them out of Golden Gate Park!
Lawyer World: A suit-happy populace has driven law school attendance up to 84%.
Gangster World: Organized crime rules the west coast in a world where Prohibition was never repealed.
Youth World: Where no one of importance is over the age of 30 thanks to government overthrow by Howard Stern in 1980.
Shoe World: The only thing known about this world is that Rembrandt bought new boots and a shiny new suit that looks a lot like the one he wore in the Pilot.
San Angeles: Urbanization has overtaken the West Coast to the point where Los Angeles and San Francisco are boroughs of a 400-mile-long city called San Angeles.
Igloo World: A world that's, well, cold. The Sliders are wearing parkas and Quinn relishes the thought of going to "the beach."
Game World: Guns and gamesmanship are the order on this world. Win and live comfortably for life, lose and you're left to die and rot in the streets.
Buttonwillow World: Between here, Wasco World and Lemoore World, Arturo's had his fill of dreadfully dull pieces of dirt in California.
Justice World: The legal system has been supplanted by a revenue-earning series of Court TV shows.
Muppet World: A world inhabited by short, green and moldy "people."
Bobsled World: It may be summertime on Earth Prime, but bobsledding in California means it's likely a lot chillier here. Prize for winning the race? $10,000.
Twister World: Thar be twisters here! A scientific experiment gone awry has screwed up the electromagnetic spectrum on this Earth, giving rise to huge electric twisters that roam freely except in places with large lodestone deposits.
Medical World: Arturo's medical examination reveals he has a terminal illness.
Van Meer's World: As close to time travel as you can get without actually going anywhere. Events unfolding here are 12 years behind the events of Earth Prime.
Mardi Gras World: All-night partying and a Carnival atmosphere? All courtesy of a world where Napoleon never met his Waterloo.
Desertworld: A recent cataclysm has robbed the Earth of its oceans.
Magicworld: Magic is an everyday part of life on a world where the Mallory family was considered a benevolent clan of white wizards.
Baseball World: Rembrandt was on a hot streak in a game of Home Run Derby, and ready to take the crowd's bets against him.
Inferno: Arturo says it best: "This entire world is on fire!" possibly from extreme volcanic activity or natural gas deposits. It's barren of life, but home to a single Flame that is very much alive — which follows the four through the vortex. Some debate has raged over the fact that Quinn said at the end of the episode that they've "got to get [the Flame] home." Also, the Flame stated earlier that it had the power to send itself home. So it's likely that they came back, dropped it off and then went sliding randomly again.
Refinery World: Southern California must have been a popular vacation spot 65 million years ago on this world, too, since most of the dinosaurs died here instead of the Middle East, providing the locals with an abundance of gasoline (not to be confused with Oil World from Fever
Monarchy World: (not to be confused with Britain World) Rembrandt's double has married into the American royal family, and his son-to-be is fourth in line for the throne.
Angel World: Where little girls have wings and can fly — with a little help from their moms.
Android World: All of humankind (all of it) has been eradicated by a few thousand emotionally dysfunctional androids. Oh, and the sky is lilac for some reason.
Pygmy World: Whatever you do, don't smile at the locals — they'll want you to bear their children.
Mall World: Just when you think the Christmas consumer frenzy was bad, you end up here. Huge open malls that contain schools, lodging and everything a person could need to subsist are big business and a social ill. This gives "just another day at the mall" a whole new meaning.
Jim Varney World: This world has put Arturo in a very bad mood.
Corporate World: All work and no play turns our country's finest minds into complete nutcases in need of hypnotic vacations.
Egypt World: The Egyptian empire and its culture have spread all the way to the Pacific.
Worm World: A mining experiment gone awry has turned an innocuous worm into a flesh-eating immortal mutant.
Forest World: Wade has a nightmare about the past events that happened on Welles-Niven World. She recounts the events to Rembrandt, thus setting up the flashback.
Wells-Niven World: An intriguing world of artificial design that is populated by a simple tribe of humanoids on the surface and subhuman monsters amidst the technology far below.
Pulsar Prime: A rogue pulsar has entered the solar system and is threatening all life on Earth.
Biggest World: Honey, I shrunk the Sliders! Quinn and Maggie scout a world where everything is far larger in size than every other world they've been to, and the oversize rabbits there sport a serious set of fangs.
Pulsar Double Prime: A world eerily similar to Pulsar Prime, right down to a double of Maggie who's slightly more intelligent that a lump of coal.
Earth Triple Prime/Kromagg Outpost 161: Is Quinn home? He can smell Mrs. Randall's chicken soup and his mother found that necklace he bought her for her birthday...
Lost World: Maggie and Quinn pick this world for where the natives are restless and dinosaurs roam the plains for settlement. Quinn remarks that this world is a few hundred thousand years behind Earth Prime and Pulsar Prime.
Edison World: After Rickman escapes, the Sliders track him to this world where they discover his latest victim — an engineer running maintenance on a power plant.
Crucifix World: Did the vortex scare a bunch of locals into tying Quinn to a cross?
Zombie World: Where the general population has turned into flesh-eating zombies thanks to a weight loss product gone horribly wrong.
Fog World: A civilization reminiscent of the hillbillies of Appalachia have overrun an earth that belches hallucinogenic fog from the ground.
Parasite World: A tropical world where the primary life form is an aggressive parasite who reproduces by depositing a larvae into a host body.
Donor World: Government policy on this world is to harvest organs from people aged 18-25 in case someone older and more powerful needs one... quickly.
Vampire World: Kill a person, let their soul freak out and stay in the body, and you've got a vampire on this world.
No Smoking World: The climate of Southern California here is humid and tropical — the perfect place to grow acres and acres of tobacco, an illegal narcotic on this world. It is also part of a country called Delgado, not the United States.
Romani World: The classical architecture and nomadic nature of this world's inhabitants suggests a medieval society with a class of rootless travelers.
Hybrid World: Geological instability has turned California into a series of tropical island paradises — all up for sale to the highest bidder.
Future World: Large, futuristic buildings dot the landscape of San Francisco, and huge hovercraft fly through the night sky.
Indian Biker World: After ten worlds in the past three months, it comes as little surprise that Quinn and Maggie have angered the locals. Indian biker gangs rule and they aren't very happy since Quinn's no-good double burned down the bikers' casino at Little Big Horn.
ATM World: Rembrandt's double has some unexpected withdrawals.
Oracle World: A blend of right-wing politics and extreme fundamentalist religious dogma serves as the seat of government.
Samurai World: Far-east trappings are so prevalent on this world they even decorate their alleys.
Tropics World: Where you're always in time to hang with King Kalehana and maybe see a fertility feast or two.
Kromagg Outpost 147: The humans of this world fought the Kromaggs with everything they had, leaving the survivors irradiated from nuclear explosions and sick from chemicals unleashed in the atmosphere.
Tribal World: Don't look too longingly at the native population, especially if they're the chief's daughter.
VR World: Video interactivity takes on a whole new term on this world, where the populace is subjugated by virtual reality headsets that control their lifestyle.
Hangover World: Rembrandt makes a mean hangover remedy.
AFI World: The American Film Institute would kill to get their hands on a print of The Man Who Would be King with Humphrey Bogart and Clark Gable.
Empty World: Very similar to Earth Prime, with one small exception: there's no people.
Full World: The population of Empty World has been sent her by an errant Slidewave, resulting in 11 billion people scrambling to survive amidst the chaos.
Colin Prime: A primarily agricultural world similar to Pennsylvania Dutch communities, this world's only major technological breakthroughs exist thanks to dimensionally transplanted Colin Mallory.
Bone Graft World: Paper money has gone the way of the dodo as financial institutions will now only accept transactions via bone grafts and DNA identification.
OFF World: You may hate mosquitoes, but for God's sake, don't swat any. They're an endangered species here.
Drug World: Early 20th-century research into pharmacology by Sigmund Freud has led to state-sponsored drug usage to manage the highs and lows of human emotion.
Acid Rain World: Unusually heavy El Niño rainfall and toxic over-pollution via offshore oil drilling make for a nasty combination.
Relaxing World: A tropical paradise where the pace of living is more relaxed than usual and hedonism is compulsory.
Slidecage: A barren and toxic Earth with two moons is host to an impressive structure that captures all who try to reach Kromagg Prime.
Secession World: Southern California is seceding from Northern California. Commence obligatory aerial bombardment.
Former Kromagg Outpost 112: A Kromagg supply raid has decimated this earth, leaving its citizenry intact but without natural resources. California has formed its own nation in the aftermath.
White World: California's Proposition system has taken a turn for the worse on a world where members from any non-white race are rounded up and either converted into a slave labor force or shipped out of the country.
Black World: A world that at a glance seems to be populated entirely by black people.
Kromagg Outpost 88: A virtual paradise with one small problem — Kromaggs.
Lipschitz World: Weird media conglomerations have transformed a schlock daytime television host into the most watched entertainment/news personality in the world.
Kromagg Outpost 117: It's no place to raise a child, even if it is a Kromagg-human hybrid.
Former Kromagg Outpost 71: A viral countermand against the Kromaggs was unleashed into the atmosphere here, making it free from Kromagg rule. Dynasty Directive states travel to this world is punishable by death.
Cyber World: Internet technology run amok has created a caste society separating people based on their interaction with computers.
Pulsar Triple Prime: Highly similar to Pulsar Prime had it not encountered a rogue group of pulsars from a collapsing galaxy/globular cluster. The Cold War still burns red hot, leading the USAF to make some very strange staffing decisions.
Medieval World: A feudalistic world rebuilding itself from some kind of technological calamity, a horror that has made any modern devices an anathema to the public.
Data World: Man, it's so much easier on me when they spoonfeed the names to you. Those willing to loosen the mortal coil can live out their lives in digital resorts while their bodies decay out in the real world.
Cold World: A world where the mean temperature is closer to Ice Age than beach time.
Vega$ World: Old West-style values are alive and well on a world where gun slinging never died and Las Vegas is about to become the haven of corruption and sin that we know today.
Clone World: Advancements in medical technology have allowed cloning of actual people to suit their donor needs.
Chasm World: Theme park wars in Americaland. Isn't that would Uncle Walt would have wanted? (Hey, isn't he frozen, too?)
Navajo World: All that's known about this world is that Colin's laptop was dismantled by a shaman here, and that Quinn and Maggie escaped some kind of fight.
Microsoft World: I guess people realized that Windows wasn't such a great product. The collapse of the giant software concern crumbled the stock market, and Mexico decided to attack the U.S. in the confusion.
Bubbleverse: An extension of Quinn and Maggie's desire to have a normal life for once, this abnormality of space-time has split their psyches in half.
Big World: Maggie made quite an impression on one of the locals, where the entire world is comprised of people ten times the size of a normal human.
Gormak World: A dull pit where the Jackie Robinson made a mark of a different kind and where slider Isaac Clark has been exiled for his work with the Kromaggs.
Kromagg Double Prime: Humans here have waged a brutal war of genocide against a weaker and less advanced race of Kromagg.
Typical World: It'd be abnormal if there wasn't some Sliders gunfight going on.
Combine World: It's the end of the world, or at least Southern California, where the Combine — a machine that smooshes universes together — is wreaking havoc on the environment.
Divergence World: A world with significantly more advanced technology than Earth Prime, Diana adjusts the quantum matrix, "recalibrating" this world's Diana Davis from a warm single mother to a calculated military operative.
Grolsch World: It's medieval time again as the Chandler looks like it was built in the Dark Ages. The patrons of the bar are decked out in monastic robes.
Purgatory: The last battlefield for a group of elite warriors from Kromagg Prime.
Pabst Blue Ribbon World: Could very well be Grolsch World, but this time all the Sliders are mired in anguish over what they could have done with the Voraton device.
Beach World: A world where Maggie had been tied up in some very close and hot waters.
Volsang World: A unified world government collapsed by a ship full of barbaric raiders? You can't make this stuff up.
Bigger World: Once again, the Sliders visit a world where they're smaller than the competition.
BIR Prime: A world where nanotech engineering resulted in a bloody war between those who embraced it versus those who sought to control it.
BIR Double Prime: A broken world where the war with the Bureau of Internal Reconstruction ended with the Believers gaining control over the nanotechnology.
BIR Triple Prime: Nanotech was researched but never discovered on this world, and a peaceful society is the result.
Data Universal World: I'd call it just Data World, but that one's taken.
Tabloid World: Media outlets are almost as big of a joke here as they are on Earth Prime. Almost? Well, at least here tabloids don't take themselves seriously.
Caffeine World: A Prohibition-style United States where not only is caffeine outlawed, but red meat, alcohol and tobacco. Finally, someone's gotten it right!
UFO World: The Roswell incident wasn't covered up, leading to a more honest American government and extensive advances in technology.
Smoker World: The government may have outlawed internal combustion, but not polygamy!
Toxic Smog World: I guess it was a level four alert on the smog index in this parallel world.
Pleasant World: It's paradise, it's quiet, it's Starfleet Headquarters. Maybe Boothby is the one behind all of this...
Filler World: This universe actually only existed for the 45 minutes the Sliders were on it. It doesn't appear anywhere in the script, and nothing happens on it, so where did it come from?
Kromagg Outpost 50: The Kromaggs have developed a plague and a space folding technology to reconquer Kromagg Prime.
Colorless World: A corporate United States has removed all forms of free expression as a way of controlling the populace, and those who resist are rounded up and placed in asylums.
Brunch World: There's a bench, a restaurant and not much else.
MSG World: Price wars have been taken to another level on a world where fast food restaurants like Flannigan's and Burger Monarch will do anything — including gunfire — to beat the competition.
Fun World: Intricate VR simulations are cheap sources of entertainment on a world where people are completely absorbed in games, not work.
Heavy World: A lack of aluminum has stunted this world's aviation industry, prompting much of the shipping to remain in the hands of the maritime trade.
Boots World: Are we visiting the unseen world from Double Cross where Rembrandt got his new boots?
Glimpse World: Why Glimpse World? Because you only get a glimpse before the vortex opens and sucks the Sliders back in!
Chapare World: Similar to Boots World from the outset, this world has an overabundance of huge, vibrating crystals from the Chapare region in South America.
Apocalypse World: A parallel world approximately 400 years ahead of ours a la Van Meer World in The Guardian, this Earth suffered some kind of cataclysm that rendered the land between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn a desert, while regions like South America and Canada are temperate zones.
Backlot World: Is it Mallory's communication with Cajero, spirit of the heavens, that brought torrential flooding to this tiny Mexican village, or is it just part of the Universal Studios backlot tour? You be the judge.
Fragment: Oberon Geiger has sliced a section of a parallel world away and is containing it in the hopes of merging himself with someone else.
Hill Valley World: A DeLorean should be racing towards the clock tower any minute now.
Pork Soda World: Between that and giraffe burgers, it's a safe bet the people of this world have no taste.
Seer World: A man with a heart attack has been chronicling the Sliders exploits for years, turning their adventures into a religion called Slidology and a television show called, you guessed it, The Sliders.
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