Season Five

Facts & Rumors

Major Spoilers Below

Last Updated: 10/21/98
Updated/Added: Another Revision for Oblivion [along with a big piece of advice]; a tidbit
Disclaimer: Please be advised that the following is information culled from reliable sources about the upcoming fifth season of Sliders. None of this information should be taken as solid fact nor should it serve as the final word as to what the fifth season will hold.
NOTE: Due to some sort of Geocities Screw Up (is there any other kind?) there may be numerous typos littered throughout this document. There is nothing I can do about. This stupid system erases and replaces text at random when I try to save it. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- The Expert

1. ????????
f.k.a. Redemption.
Maggie and Remmy exit the wormhole and look back, waiting for Quinn and Colin to join them. The two are shocked to see Colin get blown to bits inside the vortex. Luckily, Quinn slides out safely.
But it doesn't look like Quinn.
The others are dumbfounded.
Quinn can't understand why the others don't recognize him, but later it's learned that during the sliding accident, Quinn was melded with someone else [possibly named Derek Quade] who was sliding at the same time. The man before them is still Quinn, retaining all Quinn's memories, but he's changed.

Soon, the sliders discover that their timer is friend and that they've landed on a world in chaos.

Wild winds are blowing, people are looting the stores and a lone preacher yells from atop a soapbox.
The sliders then make haste in getting to their hotel.
Just then, the sun comes out.
All around them, people stop and look up at the sun.

Later, the three meet up with a woman who has a new timer.

NOTES: Wade is at least mentioned in this episode. As of 9/30/98 the script for Redemption was completed and was gearing up to be produced.

UPDATE: as of 10/9/98 the script had been adjusted and retooled to reflect changes made regarding the new characters.
UPDATE: as of 10/16/98 the title of the script had changed and the characters had been revised. In the earlier version, , initially called Redemption, had Maggie and Remmy waiting for Quinn and Colin to slide out -- but they didn't.
The remainder of the plot was as follows: Rembrandt says that he can't understand why the two brothers did not arrive, especially because the Mallorys had entered the vortex first on the last world.
Just then, the timer tracks a vortex in progress. Remmy and Maggie slide to follow it, thinking that it might be them, but it's not -- the vortex was made by a 27-year old African American scientist named Melissa Hunter (the original name for the Diana Davis character).
After meeting her, they discover that her timer was fried on entry. It seems that Melissa was searching for her home world but activated the timer too early (as Quinn did in the pilot) and burnt it out.
Maggie and Remmy decide to take Melissa with them to help her find her home.
The three then slide out of this world and right into a world that is currently in World War Three.
Soon, they come across a young man in his teens named Derek Quade who is incarcerated in a jail cell. Derek, having grown up in a war, doesn't think he can trust anyone. The sliders rescue him but Derek turns around and steals the timer and runs off.
Soon, the sliders track Derek down, get the timer back and offer to take Derek off of this world.
He accepts and the four new sliders slide off together.


Of course, the above has been retooled and reworked and as of 10/20/98 there was no word on what, if any, of the original plot remained in the final version.

2. De Ja Slide
Remmy decides to set the timer to revisit his young friend, Malcolm (The Exodus), but is shocked to find the world the sliders arrive at taken over by Kromaggs.

3. Enigma
On exit from the vortex, Rembrandt smacks his head on the side of a tree and comes down with amnesia). After this accident, he finds himself trying to come to terms with the idea of sliding.

NOTES: this was originally supposed to be the first of a two-parter called Amnesia, but the project was rewritten and changed into a one-shot episode so another episode could be fitted in the schedule.

4. Conquest
The sliders enter a world where Rembrandt never joined the Spinning Topps and he is distraught and shocked to learn that the Topps have made millions. Wondering what went wrong here, Remmy searches for his "shady" double.

NOTES: This is another episode that was originally commissioned for season four.

5. God in the Machine

NOTES: This was an episode that was written for last season but was shelved for year five due to a scheduling crunch. It was formerly known as "God's Country."

According to MSZ the episode deals with "a gestalt mind and one's personal connection to God." Formerly known as God's Country. Outline written by David Gerrold. "Deals with a gestalt mind and one's personal connection to God."
Earlier this month, Marc Scott Zicree had this to say about this episode: "I've been talking to both Chris Black and David Gerrold, advocating that they do the story ... which dealt with a gestalt mind and the issue of personal relationship to God. It will take some retooling now that the leads are different, but will still make a terrific episode, I think. The reason we didn't do it last season was that it held a certain similarity to one of our other episodes, so we couldn't do them too closely together. I'd say it's a good bet it will get made this year," says Zicree who rewrote Gerrold's original outline for the script.

6. Detour
The sliders land smack in the middle of a Kromagg breeding camp in an open field with small tents surrounded by a large fence.
In a search for more information, Diana hacks into the Kromagg computers, while the others keep watch. As she is scrolling pages, Remmy tells her to stop -- after recognizing Wade's picture. The information that follows tells the sliders that Wade is currently on Earth 274.
Rembrandt sets the timer's coordinates and the group slides in pursuit of Wade.
When they land, the sliders discover that they have been tricked. There is a Kromagg trap waiting for them on the other side of the vortex and the four are taken prisoner. It seems that the 'maggs planted the Wade information in the hopes that the sliders would bite. It seems to have worked.
The Kromaggs immediately separate the quartet ... a dangerous turn of events considering that there's only about 48 hours left until the next slide.
Later, while Remmy is in his cell, a Kromagg questions him. He demands to see Wade, but the Kromagg simply slams him against a wall and leaves.
Meanwhile, Maggie and Diana have been shipped to yet another Earth (for breeding purposes no doubt).
Back in his cell, Rembrandt speaks with his cellmate, who has had his eyes plucked out. Remmy tells the man of his plight and the man responds by revealing that Quinn, Wade [and, initially, Colin] were in the compound less than a week ago. Unfortunately, they were taken to another Earth for slave labor.
The next day, while working in a slave camp, Michael attempts an escape. He attacks one of the Kromagg guards and steals the master key from him. He later gets Remmy out of his cell and offers to take along the other blind prisoner. The man declines, saying that he would rather stay and die.
Remmy and Michael find the timer and discover Maggie and Diana's coordinates. The enter the coordinates, slide, and discover the women locked in a Kromagg cell. Using the master key, they release them and slide off of the world.
At the end of the episode, the scene shows a Kromagg meeting room where a group of Kromaggs witness the sliders sliding out. The head Kromagg exclaims that the four will soon meet their end ... and the Kromaggs plan to use Wade to accomplish that.

7. Ascension
Written by Marc Scott Zicree.
The sliders land in a space shuttle that is just about to take off from Earth. Soon they discover that they have landed smack dab into a space mission to Mars.

8. Sliding With the Enemy
On a seemingly fine world, Maggie, Remmy and Diana encourage Michael to go off to have some fun and he does. He meets a guy named Jeremy and the two become fast friends.
Later, when the group slides out of this world, Michael secretly brings Jeremy along on the slide. When the others find out (on the next world where the Industrial Revolution is going full steam) Maggie is really angry with Michael and tell him that Jeremy is going back to his world the next day when the vortex opens again.
Later still, Jeremy convinces Michael to help him steal the timer so the two can go off sliding by themselves. Michael agrees and they steal the timer while the others are sleeping. Unfortunately, Jeremy double-crosses Michael and knocks his lights out just before opening the vortex. Jeremy slides ... but Michael is able to follow him.
The world the boys land on is a jungle environment where cannibals thrive. Soon, Michael is captured by the flesh eaters and is designated as a sacrifice for their leader.
Back in the Industrial Revolution, Maggie is ticked. She surmizes that the only way the sliders can get off this world is by having Diana fix her burnt timer. Using whatever supplies she can muster on this technologically-challenged world, Diana does just that -- and just barely. Amazingly, her timer now has the slight ability to barely track worm holes. They track Michael and Jeremy's sliding signature and follow them into cannibal world.
Upon entry, Diana's timer burns up to a crisp and is now useless.
Soon, the others find Michael and rescue him from the sacrifice. As the cannibals give chase, they stumble onto Jeremy.
Michael, now really angry, gets into a fight with his faux friend and eventually wins the timer back.
The sliders slide out of this world, leaving Jeremy behind. As the vortex closes, Jeremy is dragged away by the cannibals.

NOTE: as of 10/19/98 there was as rumor that the character of Jeremy would be replaced with a double of Quinn's father.

UPDATE: as of 10/20/98 this script was being reworked.

9. When Darkness Falls
The sliders land on a world where, after the full moon rises, the population turns into werewolves.

10. Dynasty
The sliders set up camp in a cave to hide from the Kromaggs. After they are settled, Michael offers to go in search of food.
Later, Michael returns with an amazing claim: he says that he saw Rembrandt's friend, Wade, being executed by the Kromaggs.
Remmy is shocked and returns to the execution site to see for himself. When he gets there he finds only the mutilated remains of a body. He hopes against hope that it is not Wade but then discovers a tattoo on the body that Wade once showed him.
He accepts the obvious, that Wade is dead, and the sliders bury her body nearby.
. As he did for Arturo's memorial, Rembrandt sings a song over Wade's grave site.

NOTES: Sabrina Lloyd will not appear in this episode.

11. The Fugitive
Remmy becomes an outlaw after he unknowingly breaks the rules on a world where music has been outlawed.

NOTES: as of 10/6/98, this script by Chris Black, was being rejigged

12. Twofold
On [yet another] war-torn world, the sliders endeavor to slide out as soon as possible. Unfortunately, Diana claims that the timer doesn't have enough power to slide the entire quartet.
Like the adventurers that they are, the sliders risk it -- only to find that the vortex has split, sending Remmy and Michael to one world and Diana and Maggie to another.
And that's not good, because the timer is fried.

NOTES: Being written by Chris Black. The script should be completed by the middle of October (between Oct. 12 and 16.)

13. Insomnia
14. ????????
15. Sci-Fi-Slide
a.k.a SciFiSlide
The intrepid quartet lands on an alternate Earth where the 1947 (?) Roswell landing in New Mexico changed the way society looked at Science-Fiction and technology.
After the landing, scientists learned from the alien technology and were able to create hover cars. Later, television adapted an all-Sci-Fi lineup
The sliders soon discover all of this and decided to head to the Chandler -- but it's not there.
Instead, the four check into the Craters Hotel and Remmy sits down to watch some TV. He's amazed to find over 1000 channels, all Sci-Fi, and flips through programs like Star Trek (now in it's 33rd season), The X-Files and, of course, Star Trek: The Next Generation. But he also discovers Melrose Planet and Gilligan's Space Station.
Soon, Maggie suggests that they all go out for a bite to eat and, agreeing, they all head down to the bar.
Unfortunately, someone left the timer in the room and the maid, upon seeing it, picks it up and puts it in her pocket when they're gone. She brings the timer to a local lab where scientists begin investigating it. When the FBI learns about this, they head off to the Craters to intercept the sliders, who have already returned to their room to find the timer missing.
The sliders immediately call 9-1-2 (not 9-1-1 here) but the FBI bursts in and takes them back to the scientist's lab where they are thought to be aliens and are used as test subjects.
Later, one scientist demands to know what planet Remmy is from. He tells him the truth -- that he's from a parallel version of Earth.
Just then, the timer hits zero and the scientists are dumbfounded when a big vortex opens up in their lab. In their amazement, Maggie is able to push the scientists aside, rescue rembrandt, grab the timer and leap into the vortex.
They don't realize, however, that the scientists have followed them.
On the next world, which consists of simply blue sky and sand, the sliders realize that the white-coats have followed. They also realize that they only have minutes to stay here and try to explain to their 'guests' that they must get home.
The scientists understand and follow the four back to Sci-Fi World where the sliders drop them off and slide out again.
After the sliders are gone, the male scientist walks over to the woman scientist and says, "Did you track them?"
He then pulls off his 'human' mask, revealing himself to be an alien. The female then pulls off her face.
"Yes," she says.
Fade out.

NOTES: according to one report, the writer of this episode says: "it's wacky, fun, and something new. I thought the show needed a little [more] spirit to it, more sci-fi, and so I wrote this episode, which i hope everybody will love."

16. The Final Sacrifice
After a bumpy slide into a new world, the sliders discover that they have to wait more than a month until the next slide.
Soon they learn that this world recently ended a war against the dreaded Kromaggs by defeating them.
Amazed, the sliders head off to rent a room at the Chandler. Meanwhile, Remmy gets himself a job building houses while Michael gets a gig as a gas jockey.
In the meantime, Maggie and Diana make friends with a few locals and learn that on this world, a man named vincent Turk is responsible for inventing the weapon that killed all of this world's Kromaggs. It seems that the weapon initiates an invisible plague that only affects the 'Maggs. It causes the Kromagg brain to hemorrhage by sending blood into their heads at an accelerated rate. The plague was launched by a sending a laser beam into the air which contained the virus. The Kromaggs died within seconds of that launch.
Remmy takes it upon himself to set off to find this Vincent. Soon, he traces him to an beat up old house and convinces the man to give him the schematics and blueprints for the weapon. Remmy then brings them back to Diana.
By building a special microchip, Diana soon modifies the timer into one of these super weapons.

Later, Vincent brings the sliders a lap-top computer that was once owned by the Kromaggs, complaining that he can't seem to find a way to activate it. Michael then remembers the master key he stole (from Detour) and uses it on the computer which boots up immediately.
With a few keystrokes, the co-ordinates for every Kromagg-controlled world come up on screen. In total, there are no less than 304 worlds that the Kromaggs have taken over.
Just then, on Earth 170, the 'Maggs detect an unauthorize computer entry and track the co-ordinates, learning that the signal is coming from the world that defeated the Kromaggs controlling it. The head Kromaggs promptly sends out a warning to all Kromagg computers through a special transmission.

Back on the sliders' Earth, Diana creates a vortex into a Kromagg-controlled world. When the vortex opens, she points the timer/weapon into it and fires. On the other side of the wormhole, hundreds of 'Maggs fall to the ground, dying. That vortex closes but another one opens right away. Out of that vortex falls the Head Kromagg. He limply crawls toward the sliders and the weapon by dies before he is able to make it.
The sliders wait for the timer to get another readout. When it does, it reads 10 seconds. With little time to spare, the sliders prepare for another adventure ... and slide out.

17. Fates Beckoning
On an intensely hot world with two suns, the sliders are thankful when they are just about to slide out after two days, that is until Rembrandt spots a figure from his past -- the conniving Logan St. Clair (Zoe McClellan), [who is really a female version of Quinn], who claims that she has been trapped on this world ever since Quinn pushed her through the vortex in the episode Double Cross.

18. Oblivion
On a Depression-era world, the sliders are upset after Michael collapses and slips into a coma...evidently from some sort of tumor.
Diana realizes that the only way to save him is to separate Quinn from Derek via a special device that she created on another world. With that as seemingly the only hope, Diana slides off to retrieve the device. She returns a few days later.
The sliders attempt to separate the two using the device. As they do, Quinn's voice can be heard saying that he will, indeed, get them home. Then his soul turns into a vortex -- and the sliders slide through it...with Derek now fully himself.
They're next world is Rembrandt's Home World. Everyone is happy that they've made it home until they learn that Conrad Bennish here used Quinn's sliding equiptment to do a little experimenting...and that the FBI has gone with him.
Regretfully, Rembrandt and the others slide off in search of them.

NOTES 10/21/98: Well, a revison yet again (this is getting ridiculous). Actually, it's getting so ridiculous that I would ask everyone to hold off commenting and making judgments on this season finale until much later in the game. It looks like everything is still in the very early planning stages and I would hate for Sliders to lose viewers based on purported stories. Keep in mind that what is written on this entire page is not necessarily how it will end up on screen. In fact, it's conceivable that this episode itself, won't be finished filming until April, 1999 and likely won't air until January of 2000. Lots of time to finalize.

Anyway, with that said:
The purported second early revison for this episode had the plot going something like this:

The sliders discover that they have landed on Rembrandt real home world -- the one from the pilot episode -- but soon Maggie discovers that she has become (somehow) impregnated by a Kromagg.
Later, Diana is killed by a new super villain that is actually just her own double that has become mutated via a sliding mishap.
Meanwhile, Michael and Remmy are sucked through a new vortex and land on a desolate world inhabited by a species of creature that hasn't fully evolved yet. With 20 seconds to spare, the two prepare to slide, but the timer is grabbed by one of these creatures and destroyed.
Back on home world, Maggie is left alone with her unborn child.
Ta da, cliffhanger.

NOTES: 10/20/98 The above new plot is culled from a very early draft. Things may change.

This is the fifth season finale, it may end up being called Journey's End (depending on the proposed sixth season pick up). The above description is reportedly from an outline of the script. Things may change.
UPDATE: as of 10/9/98 the script had been completed with a few minor changes to the format.
UPDATE: as 10/20/98 the script had undergone some major overhauls. Before the changes, the script plot had gone something like this:

Diana becomes certain that the sliders have landed on her Home World because everything is exactly as it is supposed to be and exactly as it was when she left -- including this Earth's history.
She says farewell to her new friends and the sliders prepare to leave this world without Diana.
Just then, Rembrandt is hauled away by the FBI.
While Maggie and Michael miss the slide to get Remmy back, Maggie collapses -- unable to breath.
Elsewhere, the feds question the Cryin' Man as to his disappearance five years earlier. They demand to know the whereabouts of Quinn Mallory, Wade Welles, and Professor Maximillian P. Arturo. Rembrandt can't believe his ears when he's told that the San Francisco newspaper ran a story back in 1994 with the headline "Cryin' Man Does Not Show for Anthem." Remmy soon comes to believe that he is really (really, this time) Home, and that the other world that was overtaken by Kromaggs wasn't Earth Prime after all.
Soon, Michael tracks down Rembrandt and tells him that Maggie is in the hospital. Remmy is released by the FBI and he and Michael go off to see Maggie who has been given some sort of shot that enables her to breath now.
Later, Diana meets back up with the sliders still claiming that this is, in fact, her Earth, but that it is also Remmy's Earth. It seems they were from the same place all along.
Realizing this, the sliders go back to Diana's house. With the timer now useless for another 29 years, they get rid of it and decide to sit down for a big supper that Diana has offered to cook.
Just as they're getting ready to eat at the table, a huge vortex opens above them. With looks of shock and dismay, the vortex pulls the sliders up and into itself and closes.

Fade to black.

No word on what, if any, elements from the original premise will remain in the final draft.

??. Sleepless in San Francisco
While settling down on a world where the sliders have to stay for two months, Remmy gets a gig singing in a local club for some extra money while Maggie meets a new beau named Harvey.
The two hit it off an strike up a romance which goes on for a few weeks, after she moves in with him, and begins to gain momentum. But out of the blue, Harvey asks Maggie to marry him.
Maggie is floored and doesn't know how to respond. She decides to move back into the sliders' rented apartment and spends a couple of days alone in order to think things through.
Remmy tells Maggie that while he would miss her, she should follow her heart.
With two days left before the slide, Maggie returns to Harvey, in tears, and explains to him that she cannot marry him because she has another commitment (she doesn't tell him that that commitment happens to be a pending wormhole to another dimension).
Harvey urges Maggie to reconsider but her mind is made up. She kisses Harvey goodbye and heads back to the apartment where the others are getting ready to slide.
Remmy is relieved at the news and the four slide together.

NOTES: as of 10/7/98 this was only a story floating around the production office. It has yet to be scripted.

Note that the above order is a production order and not necessarily an air order.
Other Tid Bits
  • I've received information that Jason Gaffney has signed on for four episodes as Conrad Bennish, the final one being the season finale.
  • It seems that as production has now gotten under way, some of the early script ideas have been either scrapped or heavily revised.
    Two such changes have to do with the characters themselves. The Derek Quade character has been renamed Michael. Why? It seems that the character will now be a "melded" double of Quinn and a sliding scientist (played by Robert Floyd). Really, the character is still Quinn Mallory, but the others call him Michael (evidently Quinn's middle name, after his father). Michael will have all of Quinn's memories as well as those of the fellow he "melded" with.
    This revision goes along with the casting of Floyd, who bears a resemblance to Jerry O'Connell and is much older than the proposed teen-year-old character of Derek.
    Meanwhile, the female character, Melissa Hunter, has been renamed Diana Davis and she will not appear until later in the season.
  • The actors' first day back on-set was October 16, 1998.
  • It looks like word of a sixth season will not come down until next September (1999) and it also looks like TV GEN was wrong. The fifth season is likely going to premiere in June, as the fourth season did.
  • Jerry O'Connell will sport a full beard and moustache in the upcoming NBC mini-series The Sixties. Those scenes will have to do with the Woodstock era of the film.
  • There's an unlikely rumor going around that the fifth season budget had been slashed and that the 18-episode order had been cut back to 16; take it with a grain.
  • There's a 90 % chance Bennish (Jason Gaffney) will return for season five. [Thanks to Cresty for the info.]
  • There's a rumor that USA Network may be interested in a sixth season if Sci-Fi isn't.
  • TV Guide reports that season five may begin as early as January.
  • A recent (Oct. 12) article in Variety implied that there was a slight possibility that Sci-Fi was going to back out of its commitment to bankroll Season Five after it was learned that Jerry and Charlie O'Connell would not be involved. Obviously, that wasn't the case.
  • Sci-Fi wire reports that actress Tembi Locke (Claude's Crib) has been cast as a regular in Sliders' fifth season.
  • Someone on the net who calls himself/herself Homeworld_Innkeeper claims that the missing titles for the above episode list are The Perfect Candidate, Kung Fu Slide and Beyond the Barrier. Doesn't look like this is true, however.
  • The buzz around Sci-Fi is that Season Five will, indeed, be Sliders' last.
  • It's official, Robert Floyd has been cast as Derek (according to the Hollywood Reporter). While Floyd is 28, the character of Derek is said to be 19, but the explanation is that it's not uncommon in Hollywood for older actors to be playing teenagers. Look at Beverly Hills 90210, or more recently, Scott Wolf, who is in his thirties, plays a 19-year-old on Party of Five.
  • Marc Scott Zicree (or someone claiming to be him) recently posted on the Sci-Fi Channel's Dominion Sliders Board that one episode in Season Five is a world where Quinn actually did invent an anti-gravity machine (what he was really trying to invent before he accidentally invented sliding). On that world, the press hounded Quinn about his discovery to the point where Quinn had to run away. On this world, also, there are flying cars.
    Update: While it seems as though someone at the Sci-Fi board denounced this MSZ, the person was adamant that he was, in fact, MSZ. Recent revelations regarding an episode with flying cars may now prove that it was MSZ.
  • As expected, the rumor about Jerry and Charlie filming a scene turned out to be false.
  • It has been learned that Marc Scott Zicree will pen a script that will introduce a new kind of sliding technology.
  • One source has written the USCWS saying that actor Robert Floyd, 28, has been cast as Derek. Waiting for confirmation.
  • Production began today on the fifth season in Los Angeles, one day ahead of schedule.
  • There's a highly unlikely rumor going around that Jerry and Charlie O'Connell were on-set in L.A. filming at least one scene for the season opener. Take that with a grain of salt.
  • A poster on the Babylon 5 News Group claims that Bab 5 star Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari on Babylon 5) will appear in three episodes of Sliders' season five.
  • Sources say that Zoe McClellan has been signed to reprise her Logan St. Clair character in an episode entitled Fates Beckoning. Logan first appeared in the third season episode Double Cross.
  • Rumor has it that Eddie Mills has been cast (or is close to being cast) as Derek. Mills guest starred on Sliders in the third season episode State of the Art. The rumor leaves some wondering if the Derek character is actually a double of DERIC (Mills' character in that episode). This is not confirmed.
  • Charlie O'Connell has already found work. The actor has filmed a guest appearance for an episode of the new Pamela Lee syndicated actioner "V.I.P." One writer who worked on that show, Steve Kriozere (who also says he wrote the Sliders episode "Sole Survivors" e-mailed me with this comment: "Charlie plays "Jimmy Keane" a college basketball player soon to enter the NBA draft. [Charlie] was great to work with and did an excellent job. The episode will air sometime in the fall." -- Thanks, Steve.
  • Production on season five is slated to begin Wednesday, October 7, 1998 and run to Friday, March 19, 1998.
  • Sci-Fi Channel has ordered 18 episodes for season five for airing sometime in 1999.
  • Jerry and Charlie O'Connell are not returning for season five. That much is confirmed.
  • John Rhys-Davies will not return to Sliders this season That is confirmed.
  • The Wade Welles storyline will not be cleared up until later on this season.
  • Producers were looking to have Sabrina Lloyd guest star in one episode this season all by herself. The plot would have focused entirely on Wade [alone, without the other characters] showing that she is okay. However, Sabrina wanted upwards of $40,000 to do this sort of thing so the idea was scraped. Instead, producers plan to have more than a few minor characters introduced that have met Wade and can tell the sliders that she's doing just fine.
    Though the Wade Episode has been nixed, the script for a Wade-themed episode has been sold to Sliders by Michael Reaves, who won an Emmy for the animated Batman series, and the script was "fine-tuned" by Marc Scott Zicree.
    "The story will answer a question the fans have been asking for some time," Zicree says.
  • The Kromaggs are slated to appear in at least three episodes in season five.
  • Marc Scott Zicree says he is prepared to write at least a couple of episodes next year.
  • Consulting producer David Peckinpah, who's moving to the CBS drama Turks this fall, will also likely write an episode for year five.
  • As of 9/30/98, Chris Black had written four of the 18 scripts for year five.
  • The budget for Sliders will remain roughly the same for its fifth season, according to sources, which may note bode well for one rumor that had season five ending in a monster, two-hour movie episode that depicts an Earth Prime war between the humans and, likely, the Kromaggs.
  • Bill Dial is the Executive Producer, Chris Black is the Producer and David Peckinpah is the Creative Consultant. Marc Zicree won't be back as producer this season.
  • For those that care, Kari Wuhrer will earn a reported $19,404 per episode this season, or roughly $350,000 for the year.
  • Although earlier reports stated that this will be the final season for Sliders, sources claim that Sci-Fi is considering the possibility of a Season Six due to better-than-expected ratings. The source claims that while negotiating his Year Five deal, Cleavant Derricks expressed interest in starring in a proposed sixth season.
    If you have anything to add to this list, Please E-Mail Me. But please note that I have left out some inconsequential things that are beyond rumor and gossip and/or have no foundation.
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