Season 4

Sci-Fi Channel turns a new page in its history and paves the way for its future with the addition of Sliders, the state-of-the-art science-fiction adventure series from Universal Television, to its original programming lineup beginning in January, 1998. Sci-Fi Channel has committed to 22 new, original episodes of the series, and has acquired the exclusive rights to all 48 previously produced hours. The announcement was made today by Rod Perth, President, USA Networks Entertainment.

Sliders, whch debuted on the FOX television network on March 22, 1995, and completed its third season on May 16, follows the adventures of a young team of explorers who "slide" through parallel dimensions of Earth using a timer which opens a sliding vortex. They explore Earth in the current year, taking the alternate route to personal and hstoric situations. Jerry O'Connell ("Jerry Maguire," "Scream 2" stars as Quinn Mallory; Charlie O'Connell stars as Colin Mallory; Cleavant Derricks ("Something Wilder") stars as Rembrandt Brown and Kari Wuhrer ("Anaconda") stars as Maggie Beckett.

The Episode Capsules

Simply the most comprehensive collection of information about Sliders episodes in the world. Capsules include detailed breakdowns of each episode, critical reviews, rare scripts, and other material you can't find elsewhere.

48. Genesis

Quinn and Maggie finally track Wade and Rembrandt's wormhole only to find their homecoming bittersweet, as Kromaggs have overrun their world. Quinn also learns a shocking discovery about his past that could help liberate his home world.

Written by: David Peckinpah
Directed by: Reza Badiyi
Edited by: Stewart Schill
Music by: Danny Lux

49. Prophets and Loss

When Quinn, Rembrandt and Maggie land on a world dominated by religious fundamentalism, their research into the Oracle's sliding technology reveals extortion and genocide of the people in return for passage to Paradise.

Written by: Bill Dial
Directed by: Mark Sobel
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux

50. Common Ground

When Maggie inadvertently saves the life of a high-ranking Kromagg, the Sliders must take advantage of his gratefulness to stop a powerful weapon capable of ripping humans apart — atom by atom.

Written by: Chris Black
Directed by: Reza Badiyi
Edited by: Stewart Schill
Music by: Danny Lux

51. Virtual Slide

Feelings for Quinn are brought to the surface and the secrets of sliding are stolen when Maggie finds herself immersed in an addictive virtual reality simulation.

Written by: Keith Damron
Directed by: Mark Sobel
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux

52. World Killer

Population control takes on a whole new meaning when the Sliders discover one of Quinn's doubles slid his world's population to another by accident.

Written by: Marc Scott Zicree
Directed by: Reza Badiyi
Edited by: Stewart Schill
Music by: Danny Lux

53. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

After tracking down Quinn's long-lost brother Colin, the Sliders take him along only to find his naivety may have gotten him involved in a bizarre criminal syndicate that steals cryogenically frozen bodies.

Teleplay by: Bill Dial & Marc Scott Zicree
Story by: Chris Black & David Peckinpah
Directed by: David Peckinpah
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux

54. Just Say Yes

Maggie's hot temper leads to her indoctrination into a world that mandates drug use.

Written by: Richard Manning
Directed by: Jefferson Kibbee
Edited by: Stewart Schill
Music by: Danny Lux

55. The Alternateville Horror

When the group arrives on an Earth decimated by acid rain, they escape the weather by checking into a version of the Chandler Hotel plagued by mysterious paranormal activity.

Written by: Chris Black
Directed by: David Grossman
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux

56. Slidecage

Quinn and Colin learn the coordinates to their home world, but find the route home is blocked by the Slidecage - a huge labyrinth that keeps anyone - human or Kromagg - from making it to Kromagg Prime.

Written by: Marc Scott Zicree
Directed by: Jerry O'Connell
Edited by: Stewart Schill
Music by: Danny Lux

57. Asylum

Rembrandt falls for a doctor who may hold the key to saving Quinn's life. Trouble is, Maggie discovers the woman is a Kromagg collaborator on the run from the British secret service.

Written by: Bill Dial
Directed by: Michael Miller
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux

58. California Reich

The group arrives on an Earth where California has been taken over by racists, who capture Rembrandt and place him in a prison camp used to turn non-whites into faceless slaves.

Written by: Scott Smith Miller
Directed by: Robert M, Williams, Jr.
Edited by: Stewart Schill
Music by: Danny Lux

59. The Dying Fields

The Sliders land in the middle of a training ground for Kromagg-human hybrids who are using people stolen from parallel earths as target practice.

Written by: William Bigelow
Directed by: David Peckinpah
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux

60. Lipschitz Live

The gang is separated during a slide to a world where a perpetually airing tabloid-TV show offers their only hope of a reunion. Also, Colin is mistaken for his double and is betrothed to a woman as part of a bizarre corporate merger.

Written by: Keith Damron
Directed by: Jerry O'Connell
Edited by: Stewart Schill
Music by: Danny Lux

61. Mother and Child

A woman and her half-Kromagg son join the gang as they travel to her home Earth, where an anti-Kromagg virus may prove deadly to the newborn.

Written by: Richard Manning
Directed by: Helaine Head
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux

62. Net Worth

The gang arrives on an Earth divided between computer-hackers and computer-lackers, and battles ruthless scavengers to unite a young couple who fell in love on-line.

Written by: Steven Stoliar
Directed by: Paul Lynch
Edited by: Stewart Schill
Music by: Danny Lux

63. Slide by Wire

When Maggie's double takes her place on the slide, Maggie must avoid becoming a glorified computer simulator while Quinn, Rembrandt and Colin unearth the mystery of their friend's radical new behavior.

Written by: Chris Black
Directed by: Robert A. Hudecek
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux

64. Data World

When the Sliders find themselves trapped in a completely virtual Chandler Hotel run by the enigmatic Archibald Chandler, they enlist the aid of a spirited hacker to escape and make their way back to the real world.

Written by: Joel Metzger
Directed by: Jerry O'Connell
Edited by: Stewart Schill
Music by: Danny Lux

65. Way Out West

The Sliders encounter an old foe on a frontier earth and uncover his land-grabbing scheme while searching for a wounded Colin.

Teleplay by: Chris Black
Story by: Jerry O'Connell
Directed by: David Peckinpah
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux

66. My Brother's Keeper

It's a battle of ideologies between Quinn and his father when Quinn is mistaken for an escaped clone of his double. While Maggie and Rembrandt look for an avenue of escape for their friend, Colin teaches the clone the meaning of family and sacrifice.

Written by: Doug Molitor
Directed by: Reza Badiyi
Edited by: Stewart Schill
Music by: Danny Lux

67. The Chasm

Rembrandt and Maggie are put to the test emotionally when a short slide lands them in a town where collective bad feelings are transferred to one person, and Quinn's newfound bliss isn't helping matters.

Written by: William Bigelow
Directed by: Robert Hudecek
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux

68. Roads Taken

When Quinn and Maggie are separated from Rembrandt and Colin during a weird slide, a mysterious stranger claiming to be their son in a parallel universe may hold the key to saving them from a bizarre malady.

Teleplay by: Bill Dial
Story by: Marc Scott Zicree
Directed by: Jerry O'Connell
Edited by: Stewart Schill
Music by: Danny Lux

69. Revelations

After discovering an exile from Quinn and Colin's home world, the Sliders travel to Kromagg Prime only to find that their homecoming isn't what they imagined it would be.

Teleplay by: Bill Dial
Story by: Marc Scott Zicree
Directed by: Robert M. Williams, Jr.
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux