Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Mar 22, 1995 (120 min)
A physics accident sends physics student Quinn Mallory and his companions on an interdimensional roller-coaster ride that lands them in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco. After a narrow escape from death, the Sliders find themselves in a Soviet-ruled U.S., where their only hope of escape is to free an imprisoned revolutionary.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Mar 29, 1995
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.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Apr 5, 1995
The salvation of a world facing certain destruction rests in the hands of Arturo and a young scientist. Meanwhile, Quinn and Wade begin to face their feelings for each other.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Apr 12, 1995
The sliders land in a British-ruled U.S.---where England won the Revolutionary War---and find themselves embroiled in a plot involving the heir to the throne.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Apr 19, 1995
The sliders find themselves in a San Francisco where the "Summer of Love" never ended---and Wade and Rembrandt are mistaken for extraterrestrial prophets.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Apr 26, 1995
While Quinn struggles with fame in a world where intellectuals are treated like pro athletes, Arturo tries for a reconciliation with a long-lost love.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: May 3, 1995
Arturo finds himself in a potentially deadly mayoral race in a world where men are considered second-class citizens and women hold the positions of power and respect.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: May 10, 1995
Rembrandt is mistaken for a deceased rock legend, but an old enemy (Tom Pickett) would like to see the Crying Man disappear again---permanently.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: May 17, 1995
Wade has money to burn when she wins the lottery in a seemingly utopian world, but she discovers that her silver cloud has a dark lining.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Mar 1, 1996
The intrepid quartet lands in a world mired in mysticism and ruled by a mysterious entity known as The Sorcerer.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Mar 8, 1996
In a world where germ warfare has exterminated most of the male population, Quinn, Rembrandt and Arturo discover that they're unwitting fugitives.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Mar 15, 1996
When a bizarre accident separates Quinn from the rest of the Sliders, the only hope for the remaining trio is to trust a girl with an ability to talk to spirits.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Mar 22, 1996
Quinn finds himself at the center of some unorthodox corporate raiding when a gunfight earns him a reputation for being quick on the draw.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Mar 29, 1996
When Quinn rescues a woman in distress in a world ruled by violence, her boyfriend swears vengeance for an imagined slight and follows the sliders through the vortex
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Apr 5, 1996
The sliders become involved in a plot involving a disgraced Federal judge, an underground resistance movement and an America under martial law.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Apr 26, 1996
The Sliders find themselves face-to-jaw with a large (and angry) beast in a San Francisco that's been developed as a game preserve---for dinosaurs.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: May 3, 1996
When the sliders finally land in the one place that none of them want to leave---home---Quinn has doubts about their good fortune.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: May 24, 1996
In a society dominated by psychics, Wade meets the man of her dreams---who wants her to remain with him at any cost.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: May 31, 1996
The Sliders find themselves embroiled in a struggle among organized-crime families, corrupt government officials and dedicated G-men.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Jun 7, 1996
The Sliders land in a world where Wade and Quinn's counterparts are executives up to their ears in a shady software deal.
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Jun 28, 1996
The sliders encounter a race of scientifically advanced aliens who hold a surprise for the quartet---they can slide at will, and intend to conquer every Earth in the dimensional spectrum.
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jul 12, 1996
The sliders find themselves in a perplexing situation: each time they slide into a new world they encounter the same people as in the previous world.
Season 3
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 20, 1996
Arturo is seriously injured when the Sliders become unwitting participants in a bloody activity known as "The Game," played in a world in which athletes must follow one rule to win: stay alive.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1996
After landing in a city where supplies are scarce, the Sliders meet scientists who are trying to perfect sliding and whose seeming cooperation impress Quinn, Wade, Arturo and Rembrandt.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1996
In a desert, the Sliders find a village plagued by tornadoes and presided over by a dictator who'll stop at nothing to keep his subjects under his iron rule.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1996
Quinn is forced to relive painful childhood memories when a slide to 1980s San Francisco brings him face to face with his younger self.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1996
Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) becomes the target of a group of dream terrorists, who control people through their ability to tinker with the victims' worst fears.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1996
In a world in which water's scarce, the Sliders aid a young woman who's been the virtual slave of a thug because of her gift: an ability to find water.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1996
The Sliders land in a mystical world where illusion and black magic are practiced and where Quinn is thought to come from a powerful line of wizards that must be eliminated.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1996
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.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1996
After landing in an America ruled by a monarchy and where men have babies, Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) is mistaken for royalty---and prepped to give birth to the heir to the throne.
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1996
Quinn is mistakenly arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to death in a Hollywood where TV viewers determine the sentence and executions are televised live.
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1996
In a world run by highly intelligent robots, Quinn and Rembrandt become guinea pigs in a ghastly experiment.
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1996
All is not calm for the Sliders, whose Christmas is spent in a giant mall where customers run up bills, then become virtual prisoners while trying to pay them off.
Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1997
Arturo is kidnapped and brainwashed into thinking he's a 19th-century detective investigating some real murders.
Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1997
The sliders land in a world resembling ancient Egypt, where Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) is used for a life-after-death experiment, and the others are entombed inside a pyramid.
Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1997
The Sliders land on a world where no one is over the age of 35, but soon realize the town's dirty secret. With Jerry O'Connell, John Rhys-Davies, Sabrina Lloyd and Cleavant Derricks.
Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1997
In a militaristic America threatened by a deadly pulsar, a colonel (Roger Daltrey) decides who'll be saved---and who'll be left to die.
Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Feb 28, 1997
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.
Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1997
The Sliders encounter a world infected by bacteria that transforms inhabitants into flesh-eating creatures---one of which takes a bite out of Quinn.
Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1997
Maggie's transporting an alien egg that's incubating inside her.
Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1997
On a world plagued by earthquakes and populated by primitive people, Wade stumbles upon a vast underground city overrun by nonhuman creatures.
Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Apr 11, 1997
The Sliders find evidence that Rickman may already be spreading his infection in a superstitious world.
Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Apr 25, 1997
While vacationing, the Sliders stumble across a scientist whose research involving supernatural snakes gets out of hand when one of the critters escapes from captivity.
Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: May 2, 1997
Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) is reunited with Malcolm, while Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) swears revenge against Rickman when the Sliders find the colonel on a world ruled by a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: May 9, 1997
Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) falls under the spell of a gothic-rock band's charismatic lead singer (Ryan Alosio), who---unbeknownst to Wade---is also a full-blooded vampire with a taste for young groupies.
Episode: 3x25 | Airdate: May 16, 1997
After cornering Rickman on a world inhabited by bizarre hybrids, the sliders finally have a chance to get home---until they meet a scientist (Michael York) who experiments with human DNA.
Season 4
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Jun 8, 1998
After months of searching for Wade and Rembrandt, Quinn and Maggie (Jerry O'Connell, Kari Wuhrer) arrive on their home Earth---only to find it overrun by the Kromaggs.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Jun 8, 1998
The trio arrives on an Earth run by religious extremists, who extort followers for their possessions, promising passage to a nirvana world in return, a deal Quinn learns is a deadly sham.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Jun 15, 1998
Quinn, Maggie and Rembrandt arrive on an Earth used by the Kromaggs as a weapons-testing area, and are captured after Maggie saves the life of a Kromagg soldier.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Jun 22, 1998
After sliding onto a decrepit Earth, Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) becomes separated from Quinn and Rembrandt and is subjected to a virtual-reality device used to search her mind for slider technology.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Jun 29, 1998
Quinn meets his double in an alternate dimension where his experiments resulted in the wholesale transportation of humanity to another Earth, which is straining under the weight of the two populations.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Jul 6, 1998
Quinn discovers his brother Colin (Charlie O'Connell)---a bright, naive young man---who joins the team and becomes involved with women who plan to steal a wealthy man's frozen body in order to claim his money.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Jul 13, 1998
Upon arrival on an Earth where drug use is mandatory, Maggie and Colin (Kari Wuhrer, Charlie O'Connell) are dosed with chemicals and induced to stay on their new world.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Jul 20, 1998
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 paranormal activity.
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Jul 27, 1998
Quinn and Colin devise a way to slide to their Earth, but the group winds up trapped in a security zone in the midst of a bitter civil war between Kromagg and human refugees.
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Aug 17, 1998
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.
Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Aug 24, 1998
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.
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Aug 31, 1998
After the group arrives on an Earth where Kromagg warriors are trained to kill humans, Quinn tries to persuade a woman to help free Colin, who has been captured.
Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1998
The gang is separated during a slide to a parallel Earth, where a tabloid-TV show offers their only hope of a reunion. Also, Colin is mistaken for his counterpart and is betrothed to a woman as part of a business deal.
Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Dec 7, 1998
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.
Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Jan 11, 1999
The gang arrives on an Earth divided between computer-hackers and computer-lackers, and battles ruthless scavengers to unite a couple who fell in love on-line.
Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Jan 18, 1999
Maggie is stranded on a militaristic Earth when her double, a cyber-enhanced pilot, leaps with the others to a world that outlaws technology.
Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1999
The gang is transported to an Earth where the inhabitants live as computer data run by a nefarious programmer, who deletes the rebellious Maggie from the system.
Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Mar 26, 1999
The gang squares off against an old foe in a retro Earth frontier town after Colin is wounded and left for dead following a stagecoach ambush.
Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Apr 2, 1999
The gang travels to an Earth where clones are used to replace body parts and when Quinn is mistaken for the clone of his blinded counterpart, he is expected to donate his eyes.
Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1999
The gang arrives on a seemingly tranquil Earth that owes its serenity to chosen inhabitants who are brainwashed into sacrificing themselves by disappearing into a mysterious chasm in order to maintain their community's emotional well-being.
Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: Apr 16, 1999
A glitch in their slide leaves Maggie's and Quinn's souls split between dimensions, and as their health in one world deteriorates, they live an entire life together in another. Meanwhile, Colin and Rembrandt must trust a mysterious man to keep their friends from dying.
Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: Apr 23, 1999
An enigmatic science-fiction writer's novels have passages that seem to describe slider technology, and there's a reason: the man claims to know the Mallorys' parents.
Season 5
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Jun 11, 1999
A megalomaniac plots to use the sliders and the time-altering vortex in a scheme for world domination.
Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Jun 18, 1999
Quantum leaps distress Diana, who encounters a troubled double of herself; and Mallory, who experiences flashbacks to Quinn's life that rack him physically and emotionally.
Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Jun 25, 1999
Warfare in an eerie realm engages the Sliders, who are recruited to fight the Kromaggs by an earthling sergeant with a closely guarded secret. It may hold the key to the Sliders' freedom.
Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Jul 9, 1999
On an island, the Sliders find refuge with a besieged monastic people.
Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Jul 16, 1999
A communal group of spiritual healers called the Believers tend to Mallory, who's been paralyzed in a hurried slide. But there's a catch to the cure: the patient loses individuality.
Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Jul 23, 1999
Maggie is kidnapped by an all-powerful conglomerate, which controls food, clothing and other essentials via a credit system that assigns citizens data codes.
Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Jul 30, 1999
A trumped-up sex scandal links Maggie to the President, whose chief of staff uses rumors of their alleged affair to distract the public from an ongoing war with Switzerland.
Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Aug 6, 1999
In a world reminiscent of the Roaring Twenties, the Sliders confront Rembrandt's evil double, a crooked cop tied to gangsters dealing in...bootleg coffee.
Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Aug 13, 1999
Peril awaits Maggie in her home town of Fresno, Cal., where she's mistaken for her double: a decorated astronaut who was presumably killed on a mission to Mars.
Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Aug 20, 1999
Mallory falls for a rebel with a cause. She's the driven, sensuous leader of a gang of motorcyclists combatting authority in a world where gas-powered vehicles are outlawed.
Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Sep 10, 1999
A beloved, long-lost Slider contacts Rembrandt, who subsequently winds up being used by the crafty Kromaggs in a biotechnological plot to eliminate all humans.
Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Sep 17, 1999
The vortex deposits the Sliders in a "neural remapping center," where Diana is mistaken for a patient: an internee prepped for brain surgery that quashes individuality.
Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1999
At a state-of-the-art entertainment center that offers role-playing scenarios, Maggie is thrust into a virtual-reality drama: a Civil War battlefield that traumatizes her.
Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1999
The sliders exit a vortex in the middle of the ocean, and must join the crew of a pirate ship in order to get back to California.
Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Jan 14, 2000
The sliders must find a gem needed to repair their malfunctioning timer.
Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Jan 21, 2000
The group lands on a world where Rembrandt is regarded as a deity.
Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Jan 28, 2000
In their final encounter with Dr. Geiger, the scientist reveals that he can separate Mallory from his double Quinn.
Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Feb 4, 2000
On a world with a television program based on the sliders' adventures, a psychic predicts the sliders' fate: they die in their next slide. He begs Rembrandt, Maggie, Diana and Mallory stay, although once again they do not want to stay. Their timer is destroyed and they have to find another way out, but there's a catch, only one can go.