Season 3

Sliders is an ambitious, satirical and state-of-the-art adventure series which follows four explorers who discover a gateway to parallel dimensions of Earth. Returning for the third season, Sliders stars Jerry O'Connell, John Rhys-Davies, Sabrina Lloyd and Cleavant Derricks.

Sliders chronicles the adventures of four explorers who have figured out how to "slide" through parallel dimensions of Earth using a timer which opens a sliding vortex. They explore present-day Earth, taking the alternate route to personal and historical situations each time they slide into parallel dimensions.

The Sliders expand their world of sliding when the timer is altered to allows them to slide to exotic locals beyond San Francisco. They encounter worlds devastated by tornadoes, where the judicial system operates like a game show and one where Los Angeles and San Francisco have become one big resource hog. While each world appears normal to the Sliders initially, it doesn't take long for them to realize that they are still not home.

The Episode Capsules

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23. Double Cross

On a world that redefines urban sprawl, the Sliders befriend a beautiful woman who has the technology to send them home... but for a price.

Written by: Tony Blake & Paul Jackson
Directed by: Richard Compton
Edited by: Michael B. Hoggan, A.C.E.
Music by: Stephen Graziano

24. Rules of the Game

Arturo is seriously injured when the Sliders become unwitting participants in a bloody game in which there is only one rule: stay alive.

Written by: Josef Anderson
Directed by: Oscar L. Costo
Edited by: Edward Salier, A.C.E.
Music by: Danny Lux

25. Dead Man Sliding

In a case of mistaken identity, Quinn is arrested, tried and sentenced to death on TV, leaving the other Sliders scrambling to find the real culprit — Quinn's double.

Written by: Nan Hagen
Directed by: Richard Compton
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Stephen Graziano

26. Electric Twister Acid Test

When the timer's connection to a series of mysterious tornados sends the Sliders to a rural community, they discover the town's leader might hold the key to sliding out, if they can survive his despotic rule.

Written by: Scott Smith Miller
Directed by: Oscar L. Costo
Edited by: Michael B. Hoggan, A.C.E.
Music by: Stephen Graziano

27. The Guardian

Quinn is forced to relive painful childhood memories when a slide to 1980s San Francisco brings him face to face with his younger self. But his efforts to change the future are hampered by the other Sliders, who warn that any tampering will produce grave consequences.

Written by: Tracy Tormé
Directed by: Adam Nimoy
Edited by: Edward Salier, A.C.E.
Music by: Danny Lux

28. The Dream Masters

Wade becomes the target of a group of dream terrorists, who control people with their ability to tinker with the victim's innermost fears.

Teleplay by: Melinda Snodgrass
Story by: Scott Smith Miller and Melinda Snodgrass
Directed by: Jefery Levy
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux

29. Desert Storm

After landing on a desert Earth with very little water, the Sliders become embroiled in a kidnapping scheme involving a water witch, a band of renegades and a man who may hold the key to Aquarius.

Written by: Matt Dearborn
Directed by: Jim Johnston
Edited by: Michael b. Hoggan, A.C.E.
Music by: Stephen Graziano

30. Dragonslide

In a mystical world whose belief system consists of magic potions, dragons and illusions, a practitioner thinks Quinn comes from a powerful line of wizards — and must be eliminated.

Written by: Tony Blake & Paul Jackson
Directed by: David Livingston
Edited by: Edward Salier, A.C.E.
Music by: Danny Lux

31. The Fire Within

In a world consumed by mysterious fires, the Sliders discover what might be the culprit: a single flame, which seems to have a mind and a will of its own.

Written by: Josef Anderson
Directed by: Jefery Levy
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Stephen Graziano

32. The Prince of Slides

When Rembrandt is mistaken for his royal double and impregnated with the heir to the throne, the Sliders have to help him give birth while outwitting an assassin who's cutting down the royal ranks one by one.

Written by: Eleah Horwitz
Directed by: Richard Compton
Edited by: Michael B. Hoggan, A.C.E.
Music by: Danny Lux

33. State of the Art

In a world ruled by automatons who've made humans obsolete, Quinn and Rembrandt become the guinea pigs in a ghastly experiment: the transplantation of their brains into robotic hosts.

Teleplay by: Nan Hagen
Story by: Schuyler Kent
Directed by: John Kretchmer
Edited by: Edward Salier, A.C.E.
Music by: Stephen Graziano

34. Season's Greedings

All is not calm for the Sliders, whose Christmas is spent in a giant mall where customers run up outlandish bills, then become virtual prisoners while trying to pay them off.

Written by: Eleah Horwitz
Directed by: Richard Compton
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux

35. Murder Most Foul

Arturo is kidnapped and brainwashed into thinking he's a great 19th-century detective investigating real murders in a world where assuming different identities is the norm.

Written by: David Peckinpah
Directed by: Jeff Woolnough
Edited by: Michael B. Hoggan, A.C.E.
Music by: Stephen Graziano

36. Slide Like an Egyptian

The Sliders land in a world resembling ancient Egypt, where Quinn is used for a life-after-death experiment, and the others are entombed inside a pyramid.

Written by: Scott Smith Miller
Directed by: Adam Nimoy
Edited by: Edward Salier, A.C.E.
Music by: Danny Lux

37. Paradise Lost

The Sliders touch down on a seemingly idyllic town where the residents all look young but seem fearful of their new visitors, who soon discover the dirty secret to their hosts' youth.

Written by: Steven Stoliar
Directed by: Jim Johnston
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Stephen Graziano

38. The Last of Eden

On a world plagued by earthquakes and populated by primitive people, Wade stumbles upon a vast, deserted underground city overrun by a race of nonhuman creatures.

Written by: Josef Anderson
Directed by: Allan Eastman
Edited by: Michael B. Hoggan, A.C.E.
Music by: Danny Lux

39. The Exodus, part I

In a militaristic America threatened with irradiation by a pulsar, a colonel decides who'll be saved — and who'll be left to die.

Teleplay by: Tony Blake & Paul Jackson
Story by: John Rhys-Davies
Directed by: Jim Charleston
Edited by: Edward Salier, A.C.E.
Music by: Stephen Graziano

40. The Exodus, part II

As doomsday looms, Quinn and Maggie race to find a suitable parallel world, but discover that Rickman has a deadly ulterior motive for finding such a world.

Written by: Josef Anderson and Tony Blake & Paul Jackson
Directed by: Jefery Levy
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux

41. Sole Survivors

The Sliders encounter a world infected by bacteria that transforms the inhabitants into flesh-eating zombie-like creatures — one of which takes a bite out of Quinn.

Written by: Steven Kriozere
Directed by: David Peckinpah
Edited by: Michael B. Hoggan, A.C.E.
Music by: Stephen Graziano

42. The Other Slide of Darkness

Hot on Rickman's trail, the Sliders encounter an old acquaintance who may have unleashed the devastation of the Kromagg Dynasty.

Written by: Nan Hagen & Scott Smith Miller
Directed by: Jeff Woolnough
Edited by: Edward Salier, A.C.E.
Music by: Stephen Graziano

43. The Breeder

On a world with a mandatory organ donor program, the Sliders race to cure Maggie of a parasite from another world that has taken control of her body for the purposes of reproducing.

Written by: Eleah Horwitz
Directed by: Paris Barclay
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux

44. Stoker

Wade falls under the spell of a gothic-rock band's charismatic lead singer, who — unbeknownst to Wade — is also a full-blooded vampire with a taste for young groupies.

Written by: Josef Anderson
Directed by: Jerry O'Connell
Edited by: Michael B. Hoggan, A.C.E.
Music by: Danny Lux

45. Slither

Quinn and Rembrandt must race to reunite with Maggie and Wade after a vacation from hell separates them in tropical Southern California with a crooked researcher and a pair of psychic snakes.

Written by: Tony Blake & Paul Jackson
Directed by: Jim Johnston
Edited by: Edward Salier, A.C.E.
Music by: Stephen Graziano

46. Dinoslide

Tracking Rickman leads the Sliders back to the colony set up in The Exodus, part II, only to find it's been ravaged by dinosaurs as well as the colonel.

Written by: David Peckinpah
Directed by: Richard Compton
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux

47. This Slide of Paradise

The final showdown between the Sliders and Colonel Rickman takes place on an island inhabited by bizarre hybrid creatures created by a mad scientist.

Written by: Nan Hagen
Directed by: Jim Johnston
Edited by: Benjamin D. Stokes
Music by: Stephen Graziano