Sliders - Seasons 1 & 2 (1995)

Sliders Season 1&2

By redman  Apr 19, 2007 | 1 out of 1 found this Sliders - Seasons 1 & 2 (1995) review helpful

Pros: Imaginative, good mix of humor and drama

Cons: None till the last season. Cast change and it went downhill from there.

Well another one of my favorite sci-fi seris is on DVD, "Sliders" Started watching it on Sci-Fi channel .

"Imagine what it would be like to travel another universe. Where it's the same place, the same time, but everything's different?"

Quinn Mallory, a graduate student of physics, creates a device capable of opening vortices to alternate universes. With a little help from his double from another world, he develops the technology to the extent that not only can he send items through the gateway he created,(or "slide through") but also, with the use of a timer, items can return to their point of origin. He uses himself as his first living "guinea pig," and on his second journey, best friend Wade Welles and his professor/mentor Maximillian Arturo join him.

The wormhole grows unstable and spirals out of control. Singer Rembrandt "Cryin' Man" Brown, driving his car by Quinn's house, is accidentally sucked through with them.
They land on an icy dead Earth and a tornado of ice and forces them to activate the timer ahead of more than four hours before it was scheduled to. It loses its original coordinates, and the Sliders cannot return home. This leaves them unable to control when the vortices open, or which world they lead to. Thus, the Sliders continue their journey, trying to find their way back home.
Starring Jerry O'Connell the show went well until he left and the last season I thought was lame. But all in all it's one of the best Sci-fi has to offer.

Sliders has held up good against rivals
such as Stargate, Farscape, even Star Trek. If you haven't seen it yet, put it on your list. Sliders is great!