Sliders Article Archive
Here you’ll find the most comprehensive selection of Sliders articles collection online. These articles have been compiled from dozens of periodicals during the shows’ run, so enjoy!
Sliders Article Archive
Here you’ll find the most comprehensive selection of Sliders articles collection online. These articles have been compiled from dozens of periodicals during the shows’ run, so enjoy!
Articles
As Slider Quinn Mallory, Jerry O'Connell came to a sticky end at the start of the final season, but he's pulled himself together and joined the crew of Brain De Palma's Mission to Mars.
Starburst Special #42
1999/2000 Yearbook
1999/2000 Yearbook
Reaching the end of its fifth and final season early next year, Cleavant Derricks discusses his work playing the one remaining original slider, Rembrandt Brown. He discusses his favorite episode, losing lead actors and his hopes that it may one day return.
Xpose Special #10
Winter 1999
Winter 1999
Night Magazine interviews Kari Wuhrer in an extensive discussion.
Night Magazine #43
October 1999
October 1999
"It's the same year and you're the same person..." Or are you? As Sliders faces its final run, change is in the air...
Cult Times #49
October 1999
October 1999
The charismatic Tembi Locke has brightened up our screens for Sliders fifth season as the brilliant physicist Diana Davis. Xpose met with the actress during filming in Los Angeles.
Xpose #37
September 1999
September 1999
Jerry O'Connell may have been disintegrated mid-slide, but his newcomer is bound to win his own army of fans. Xpose chats to Robert Floyd, who plays Mallory.
Xpose #36
July 1999
July 1999
Meet the two new TV heroes jumping between alternate worlds.
Sci-Fi Teen #6
July 1999
July 1999
Kari Wuhrer isn't complaining, of course, but life as an actress isn’t remotely what she had in mind when she began this journey more than a decade ago.
San Antonio Express
June 11, 1999
June 11, 1999
Yes it's back—but there have been some changes! The Sliders emerge through the wormhole for their fifth season, but without two of their number. Executive producer Bill Dial briefs us on the new regular characters, and previews the upcoming episodes.
Starburst #250
June 1999
June 1999
Tembi Locke and Robert Floyd discover their own alternate reality.
Sci-Fi Entertainment
June 1999
June 1999
When the concept of a TV show is more the focus than its characters, it’s difficult to grow as an actor. That’s how Lloyd, who played Slider Wade Welles, felt when she called it quits.
Houston Chronicle
May 16, 1999
May 16, 1999
The only remaining original Slider looks back over four years of parallel worlds, and forward to a fifth season of exploration and adventure.
Xpose #29
December 1998
December 1998
Despite the departure of cast regulars John Rhys-Davies and Sabrina Lloyd, and a change of networks in America, Sliders has continued to evolve.
Dreamwatch #55
November 1998
November 1998
She spends her on-screen time as Maggie Beckett slipping through time and space, so what's Kari Wuhrer doing at Chateau Marmont—L.A.'s playpen to the stars?
TV Quest
October 7, 1998
October 7, 1998
In a very short time Jerry O'Connell has achieved a great deal in Hollywood. He's grateful for the opportunities Sliders has offered.
TV Zone #107
October 1998
October 1998
Universal slides Fox's cancelled SF show into a berth on its own Sci-Fi Channel.
Cinefantastique #56
September 1998
September 1998
Executive Producer David Peckinpah on rebuilding Sliders as it moves to the Sci-Fi Channel.
Cinefantastique #56
September 1998
September 1998
Charlie O'Connell headed West to visit big brother Jerry in Hollywood. Six months later, he realized that Los Angeles was his kind of town.
TV Guide Entertainment
August 10, 1998
August 10, 1998
Things are different on Sliders this year. For the first time, The Post Group in Hollywood has assumed control of the visual effects, dailies transfers, online, titling, and tape-to-tape color correction.
Millimeter Magazine
August 1998
August 1998
As Sliders explores the Sci-Fi Channel, Kari Wuhrer remains lost in the dimensions.
Starlog #253
August 1998
August 1998
In its fourth year, Sliders is really taking off. Producer Marc Scott Zicree tells Xpose how he feels about the show's progress.
Xpose #25
August 1998
August 1998
Jerry O'Connell talks about trying to do every single job in front of and behind the camera for the latest season of Sliders.
Cult Times #35
August 1998
August 1998
Kari Wuhrer came to the fourth season of Sliders with a mission— make tough army captain Maggie Beckett into a more likeable human being.
Cult Times #34
July 1998
July 1998
The Sliders get a second life in this dimension thanks to the Sci-Fi Channel.
OnSat Magazine #24
June 8, 1998
June 8, 1998
Learn how Charlie O'Connell wound up on his brother's television series, Sliders, which starts its fourth season on the Sci-Fi Channel. Oh, brother...
Chicago Tribune
June 2, 1998
June 2, 1998
A new slider, and one who is a relation on-screen and in real life, Charlie O'Connell.
TV Zone #103
June 1998
June 1998
Jerry O'Connell and company slide into a new season of Sliders on the Sci-Fi Channel.
Sci-Fi Universe #4
June 1998
June 1998
Sliders returns to the airwaves on June 8, and no one could possibly be happier than Jerry O’Connell, the series' star, producer and sometimes director.
Houston Chronicle
May 23, 1998
May 23, 1998
Jerry O'Connell talks to Starburst about the big changes in the new season of "Sliders" and his role in the hit movie "Scream 2."
Starburst #237
May 1998
May 1998
The cult show Sliders has found the best alternate dimension of all: renewed life on the Sci-Fi Channel.
Sci-Fi Entertainment
April 1998
April 1998
As the latest season of Sliders receives its world premiere on Sky 1, we talk to series creator Tracy Tormé.
Cult Times #31
April 1998
April 1998
Given that half of the original cast of Sliders has already left the series, it's a mite ironic that Cleavant Derricks is still traipsing from one parallel world to the next.
Houston Chronicle
March 1, 1998
March 1, 1998
One thing you cam say about science-fiction fans, when a project really appeals to them, they become devoted to it.
The State
February 8, 1998
February 8, 1998
Welcome to the wet, wild and slightly wacky world of Scream 2's sexy star Jerry O'Connell. Some stars just can't get enough attention.
Teen People
February 1998
February 1998
Now Sliders has reinvented itself on the Sci-Fi Channel, Joe Nazzaro meets creator Tracy Tormé and current producer Chris Black.
Starburst Special #37
1998
1998
John Rhys-Davies on the series "Sliders," his departure, and arrival in Star Trek: Voyager.
TV Zone #97
December 1997
December 1997
As the fate of the series swings to and fro, the latest cast member, Kari Wuhrer chats with TV Zone.
TV Zone #95
October 1997
October 1997
Jerry O'Connell has found new worlds to conquer—in front of the camera and behind it.
Parsec #3
Fall 1997
Fall 1997
In the two part story The Exodus, Kari Wuhrer made her debut as Maggie Beckett in Sliders. Stuart Banks caught up with her at the end of the season.
Dreamwatch #35
August 1997
August 1997
His days among the Sliders are over, and that's just fine with John Rhys-Davies.
Starlog #240
July 1997
July 1997
A look at Sliders' troubled history, and the changes made for the third season.
Cult Times #21
June 1997
June 1997
Jerry O'Connell, who plays Sliders' Quinn Mallory, spoke recently to Stuart Banks about his constantly changing life.
Dreamwatch #33
May 1997
May 1997
As Quinn Mallory, Jerry O'Connell visits new dimensions each week.
TV Zone #90
May 1997
May 1997
While Sliders quickly developed a loyal and sizeable fan following, the series has not been without its share of problems.
Dreamwatch #33
May 1997
May 1997
According to Star Trek, "In every revolution, there's one man with a vision"—and in the case of the Fox Network, they would prefer that he work somewhere else.
Sci-Fi Universe #24
May 1997
May 1997
Will Sliders be able to slide on to a fourth season? That’s the question producers and fans are wondering these days
USA Today
April 17, 1997
April 17, 1997
You're invited on an exclusive set visit with Sliders' dimension-hopping quartet of stars.
Sci-Fi Entertainment
April 1997
April 1997
Jerry O'Connell is enjoying success as he hops into parallel universes every week on Sliders.
TV Hits
April 1997
April 1997
Alternate worlds mean alternate special effects for Sliders' crew of illusionists.
Sci-Fi Entertainment
April 1997
April 1997
We slide to a parallel universe and hear from Sabrina Lloyd, who plays Slider Wade Wells.
TV Zone Special #24
March 1997
March 1997
Most people recognize him as Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown, but did you know Cleavant Derricks is a Tony and Drama Desk Award winner for Dreamgirls?
The New York Amsterdam News
February 8, 1997
February 8, 1997
Jerry O'Connell discusses the appeal of being one of the Sliders.
Cult Times #17
February 1997
February 1997
Plagued by mixed reviews, internal dissension, inconsistent ratings, and repeated rumors of cancellation following each of its first two seasons, Sliders plugs on.
TV Guide
December 7, 1996
December 7, 1996
Jerry O'Connell is riding high in a sci-fi series that just won't quit. And then there's his movie stint opposite Tom Cruise.
TV Guide
December 7, 1996
December 7, 1996
As Sliders shifts into a third year, Tracy Tormé considers the show's past, present and future.
Starlog #233
December 1996
December 1996
It was destined to be the also-ran. Now it's into its third season, seen off of its TV rivals and secured itself a worldwide audience, as Tracy Tormé tells Joe Nazarro.
SFX Magazine #18
November 1996
November 1996
Sliding from one world to another, Cleavant Derricks keeps on smiling even though he's the Crying Man.
Starlog #231
October 1996
October 1996
Now 22, O'Connell gets a different sort of attention. The strapping, 6'2" actor, currently best known as hunky physicist Quinn Mallory on the Fox sci-fi TV series Sliders, has countless admirers—including his costars.
People Magazine
July 15, 1996
July 15, 1996
After initial misgivings, Cleavant Derricks is happy with the path he followed.
Parsec Magazine #2
July 1996
July 1996
Tracy Tormé's innovative science fiction romp, "Sliders," returns.
Sci-Fi Universe #16
June 1996
June 1996
Everyone on Sliders says the same thing: Sabrina Lloyd is something special.
Starlog #226
May 1996
May 1996
Even though they're slipping into their second season, all endings are not happy for Sliders.
Starlog #225
April 1996
April 1996
Series co-creator Tracy Tormé assesses the strengths and weaknesses of Sliders.
Starlog #225
April 1996
April 1996
As universe-hopping hero Quinn Mallory on Fox's sci-fi Sliders, Jerry O'Connell is worlds away from the part that brought him to prominence.
Toronto Sun TV Magazine
March 10, 1996
March 10, 1996
Every week, Sabrina Lloyd's character Wade Wells finds herself in amazing and out-of-this-world situations on Fox's science-fiction series Sliders.
The Times Leader
March 1, 1996
March 1, 1996
Life on Sliders isn’t like being sentenced to the tedium treadmill. Just the opposite, says Jerry O’Connell, handsome young star of the lively sci-fi series that returns for a new season Friday on FOX.
The New Jersey Star-Ledger
February 29, 1996
February 29, 1996
It's sometimes hard to believe that the timid, cherub-faced kid from the 1986 film Stand By Me is now an action-adventure hero -- and a tall, pretty-damn-cute one at that.
Playgirl
February 1996
February 1996
Robert Weiss, co-creator of "Sliders," prepares to explore more worlds.
Sci-Fi Entertainment
December 1995
December 1995
Fox plays with history and time in a reality-bending adventure series.
Cinescape Science Fiction Yearbook
1995
1995
At last, Tracy Tormé is happy, sliding into new worlds of science fiction.
Starlog Science-Fiction Explorer #7
June 1995
June 1995
In Fox Television's Sliders, history is written in disappearing ink.
Sci-Fi Entertainment
June 1995
June 1995
Fun is the name of the game for Jerry O'Connell and his "Sliders."
Starlog #215
June 1995
June 1995
When Tracy Tormé cites his top three favorite science-fiction TV series of all time, his reverence for writer-dominated shows is clear.
Starlog Science-Fiction Explorer #7
June 1995
June 1995
A provocative sci-fi show poses 'What if?' each week and puts a new spin on planet Earth.
TV Guide
May 13, 1995
May 13, 1995
Glenn Kenny discusses the stars and the premise with series co-creator Tracy Tormé.
TV Guide
March 11, 1995
March 11, 1995