Sliders Scripts | Earth Prime

The Script Archive has been created as a one stop shop for dozens of Sliders scripts from throughout the show's run. Each script is downloadable as a text-searchable PDF file and is virtually identical to what production used to film the episodes.

Some of the scripts are exceedingly rare (like Steve Kriozere's Arturo draft of Sole Survivors), and many episodes have several drafts so that you can chart the story's development. Feel free to download them, read them or keep them for your collection.

More scripts will be added as time permits. If you don't see an episode represented below, have a script for it and would like to donate it to the Archive, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Sliders

While researching anti-gravity, brilliant grad student Quinn Mallory accidentally opens an inter-dimensional portal which sends him and three companions on a cosmic roller-coaster ride to parallel Earths.

Summer of Love

The Sliders find themselves in a present-day San Francisco where the "Summer of Love" never ended – and Wade and Rembrandt are mistaken for extraterrestrial prophets.

Prince of Wails

In a world where England won the Revolutionary War, the Sliders are embroiled in an assassination plot involving the heir to the throne and an evil Sheriff of San Francisco.

Fever

When Wade is infected with a deadly virus on an Earth wracked by an epidemic, Rembrandt and Arturo race to find a cure and free Quinn from a Gestapo-like health agency.

Luck of the Draw

Wade finds that she has money to burn when she wins the lottery in a seemingly utopian world, but she soon discovers that her silver cloud has a very dark lining.

Notes: Jon Povill's Writer's Draft is the earliest known draft for this episode, and contains expanded romance between Quinn and Wade, Richard Simmons, and a vastly different ending and explanation for this world's take on population control. The 2nd Yellow Revisions includes the hilarious "Amazing Discoveries" infomercial for death products that was ultimately cut for time considerations.

Into the Mystic

The intrepid quartet lands in a world mired in mysticism and superstition, all ruled by a mysterious entity known as The Sorcerer.

Notes: The Blue Revisions for "Into the Mystic" has the "Greatfellas" teaser tacked on to it because of FOX's indecisiveness towards paying off the first season cliffhanger.

El Sid

When Quinn rescues a beautiful young woman in distress on a world ruled by violence, her homicidal boyfriend, swearing vengeance for an imagined slight, follows the sliders through the vortex.

Love Gods

In a world where germ warfare has exterminated most of the male population, Quinn, Rembrandt, and Arturo discover that they've been pegged as runaway "breeders," and every nation of the world wants to capture them.

Obsession

When the Sliders land in a world dominated by psychics, Wade encounters the man of her dreams, a powerful seer who may have loved Wade in a different life.

Invasion

The Sliders encounter a vicious race of technologically advanced aliens who hold a nasty surprise for the quartet — they can slide at will, and intend to conquer every Earth in the dimensional spectrum.

Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome

The Sliders finally land in the one place that none of them wants to leave — home — but Quinn is the only one that has doubts about their good fortune. Meanwhile, Arturo hatches a plan to use Quinn's discoveries to win a Nobel prize, regardless of the cost to the rest of his traveling companions.

In Dino Veritas

The sliders find themselves face-to-jaw with an extremely large (and angry) beast when they lose Quinn and the timer, in a San Francisco that's been developed as a game preserve — for dinosaurs.

Notes: The Production Draft for this episode features Geraldo Rivera prominently as a fifth Slider who follows the gang from Truth World only to be eaten by dinosaurs during a candid interview with Quinn.

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.

Notes: Vastly different from what aired, the Production Draft has Quinn moving into his double's house, Arturo getting engaged and more pseudoscience than you can shake a stick at.

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.

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.

Notes: This script is titled with the episode's original name, "The Once and Future King."

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.

Notes: This draft is saddled with a timer malfunction subplot that is never adequately resolved on the page (which is probably why it was cut in the first place).

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.

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.

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.

Notes: For a show whose basis is steeped in "what if?," this script is the ultimate in what could have been.

Sole Survivors was one of several scripts originally commissioned and written with Professor Arturo in mind. However, when John Rhys-Davies was fired, it needed to be radically retooled to remove Arturo and replace it with the character of Maggie Beckett (Kari Wuhrer). Obviously, the dynamic of the story would need to change as well — Maggie had no prior knowledge that could help Quinn's infection. Until now, just how much the story changed was unknown. We liken it to Fever on speed, with Arturo again rushing to develop a cure for that world's plague so that Quinn can be saved. The alt-history is a little smarter, the zombie effects a little less horrific. There's even some dry humor that Sliders fans should appreciate. See for yourself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Notes: This draft doesn't feature the bizarre time paradox viewers ended up seeing in the finished version.

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.

Notes: The Production Draft of "Revelations" doesn't feature the Colin-as-spy resolution we were looking for, but it does include an effeminate librarian in love with Quinn's... intellect.

The Unstuck Man

Colin is lost and Quinn is merged with his fraternal double when a scientist working on combining dimensions traps the Sliders in part of his scheme.

Applied Physics

Mallory and Quinn begin to fight for dominance in one body, and Diana's attempts to stabilize them unleashes an unexpected side effect — the anchoring of her mentor Dr. Geiger in another world. She and Geiger then team up to change the life of Diana's double for the better, but Geiger has another agenda in mind.

Strangers and Comrades

The Sliders find themselves trapped on Purgatory, an asteroid with a military garrison protecting a mysterious bounty that could liberate Rembrandt's world.

New Gods for Old

When Mallory is paralyzed escaping from a anti-nanotech society, his only salvation lies on a similar world where that nanotech has been embraced for its communal properties and healing powers.

Please Press One

Maggie is kidnapped by a corporate conglomerate that controls all food, shelter and clothing through individual data codes.

A Current Affair

Maggie is accused of having a steamy affair with the President in order to distract the public from a war with Switzerland.

The Java Jive

On a world where even red meat has a Prohibition, Rembrandt steps in as a jazz singer in a notorious speakeasy after his crooked cop double kills the owner's pianist.

The Return of Maggie Beckett

Maggie's feeling's for her father are tested when she lands on a world where her double was a famous astronaut... and her father is responsible for covering up her death.

Requiem

When Rembrandt is contacted by long-lost Slider Wade, the Sliders follow her trail to a Kromagg compound that is using the human brain as computers to launch a deadly assault on Kromagg Prime.

Notes: This rare Writer's Draft of "Requiem" is entitled "Mind Games" and features Michael Reaves' big budget Manta Dreadnought invasion of Kromagg Prime, a "slidewash" effect and Wade's clearly defined sacrifice to save the multiverse.

Heavy Metal

When the timer malfunctions and throws the Sliders into the middle of the Pacific, they must befriend a pirate crew to return to the mainland and slide from inside the timer's radius.

To Catch a Slider

The Sliders scheme to steal a precious gem in a desperate bid to repair the malfunctioning timer.

The Seer

The Sliders discover they are the subjects of a fanatical religion known as Slidology, founded by a man with psychic powers who has been able to follow them on their interdimensional adventures in his mind.