8.0/103 votes#1 - Into the Mystic
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/1/1996
After separating from Ryan and Henry the dog, the Sliders make a rough landing that reopens Quinn's bullet wound. On this world of mysticism and superstition, a witch doctor heals Quinn and has brains on the mind when they can't pay the bill. On the run from bounty hunters, the Sliders only hope is the mysterious Sorcerer, a man who could possibly get them home.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Tracy Tormé
8.0/102 votes#2 - Double Cross
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1996
On a world quickly running out of natural resources, Rembrandt meets his number one fan but finds her to be a little too friendly. Meanwhile, Quinn and the others meet Logan, a scientist at Prototronics that's trying to develop sliding. However, they learn her plans for sliding are far from noble.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Tony Blake
8.0/101 votes#3 - The Assassin
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/1985
The State Department asks Hooker's help in tracking down a man whom he served alongside in Vietnam - a disillusioned, mentally unstable trained executioner – who is planning to assassinate the head of a visiting Russian trade delegation...
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Rick Husky
8.0/101 votes#4 - Mr. Wilson's Opus
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 4/30/1996
Wilson becomes the director of Randy's school play but takes the role a little too seriously. Tim and Wilson clash when Wilson attempts to make him rebuild the play's aluminum set.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#5 - Otis, California
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/20/1999
When Donald Lucas, the imprisoned Jack-of-All Trades killer, managed to hack onto the Internet, Bailey fears that he is communicating with a disciple. The investigation leads the VCTF to a small northern California town, named Otis, which is plagued by supersition and a series of Jack-of-All-Trade murders. With the assistance of the friendly but eccentric Sheriff Ed Post, Sam, Bailey and the team try to find the suspect. But George gets abducted by the suspect, whom is connected to a reclusive, wheelchair-bound professor, named Philip Mendez, whom is later found murdered. The search leads to an underground lab where Sam discovers her father once worked there for his government-sponsored mind-control experiments that Lucas had also worked on.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: N/A
7.5/102 votes#6 - Invasion
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 6/28/1996
The Sliders land in the middle of a strange invasion and Quinn uses the timer to bring down one of the ships. Before barely escaping, the Sliders learn these new villains can slide at will and are soon captured on the next world. They learn their captors are the Kromaggs and are intent on conquering every parallel world.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Tracy Tormé
7.5/102 votes#7 - Down for the Count (2)
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1987
Switek is outraged by Internal Affairs' findings; Crockett and Tubbs' TV gambit may prove fatal when a mobster reclaims the action lost to Guzman.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Dick Wolf
7.5/102 votes#8 - Everybody's in Show Biz
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/1/1987
An actor/writer is in danger when he steals a drug dealer's briefcase and the vital information it contains.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Dick Wolf
7.2/105 votes#9 - The Lying Game
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/4/2001
The boys' investigation into the shooting death of the brother of Byers' college roommate, a blackmailer, yields a definite suspect: FBI Asst. Director Walter Skinner.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Nandi Bowe
7.1/109 votes#10 - Dead Man Dating
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1998
Piper falls for the ghost of a recently murdered man who needs her help. Meanwhile, Phoebe works as a psychic to help others and make money for Prue's birthday present, and Prue discovers a devastating betrayal.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Javier Grillo-Marxuach
7.1/108 votes#11 - Panic at Malibu Pier
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/23/1989
Mitch Buchannon has just been promoted to lieutenant. Mitch and his ex-wife Gayle have an argument about what's best for their son Hobie. Eddie Kramer is the top rookie in the rookie class of '89, and Shauni McClain is one of the last ones to qualify. Shauni starts off as a terrible lifeguard, but the experienced Jill Riley teaches her how to become a good lifeguard.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Michael Berk
7.0/102 votes#12 - As Time Goes By
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 7/12/1996
The Sliders find themselves running into the same people on each new world, one of them being Quinn's former love, Daelin. After encounters on worlds where the Spanish rule America and Daelin is an abused wife, the Sliders arrive on a world where time moves backwards and they are accused of Daelin's murder. Quinn wants to save her, but it could have disastrous results.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Steve Brown
7.0/102 votes#13 - Dead Man Sliding
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1996
On a world where the legal system is in the form of televised game shows, Quinn is arrested, tried and sentenced to death for the crimes of his double.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Nan Hagan
7.0/109 votes#14 - Believers
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/27/1994
An alien couple comes to Dr. Franklin with their fatally ill son. The child could be cured by a simple operation, but the parents' religion specifically forbids it. Meanwhile, Ivanova escorts a damaged star liner through raider territory.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: David Gerrold
7.0/104 votes#15 - Mirror Image (2)
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/1988
A concussion leaves Crockett thinking he is his drug dealer alter-ego Burnett and goes to work for a Colombian crime boss.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#16 - What's Love Got to Do with It?
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 6/5/1999
Sam and Bailey work with FBI field agent Susan Marsh whom is tracking Robert Lee Gregg, a conservative civic leader in Atlanta whom is suspected in the killing of six gay men. But their investigation is happened by Susan's former boyfriend, Richard Russell, whom is stalking her. Susan insists she's in control of the situation, but Bailey thinks otherwise when her boyfriend is found murdered and Russell is a suspect. Things get worse when Russell targets Bailey and his ex-wife Janet whom are now back together. Meanwhile, Sam leaves the investigation and travels to Miami to investigate the disappearance of a local man who may be connected to the Gregg killings, and she finds herself being perused by Mario Monagno (from the 'Heads, You Lose' episode) whom still wants to date her.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: N/A
6.9/1021 votes#17 - Invocation
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 12/3/2000
In 1990 a little boy inexplicably disappeared from his crowded school playground and was never seen again until now, ten years later, and he hasn't aged a day.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: David Amann
6.9/1022 votes#18 - Medusa
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 2/11/2001
Scully and Doggett must race against the clock to investigate and fight off a contagion lurking in the subway tunnels of Boston.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Frank Spotnitz
6.8/104 votes#19 - The Devil's Music
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1999
Leo lures the manager of Dishwalla to P3, aware that the manager has made a pact with a demon that grants him fame and fortune in exchange for innocent souls. Meanwhile, Darryl soon becomes involved when he investigates the mysterious disappearance of young women from many of Dishwalla's past concerts, and suspects that more will disappear when they next perform.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: David Simkins
6.6/1012 votes#20 - The War Prayer
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/9/1994
A racist group is terrorizing non-humans on Babylon 5. Meanwhile Londo has trouble with two young Centauri who want to break with tradition by ignoring their arranged marriages, and instead marry for love.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: D.C. Fontana
6.6/105 votes#21 - Like Water for Octane
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/18/2001
While searching for a water-powered car, the Gunmen encounter missile silos, rude government clerks, and cows.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Collin Friesen
6.6/1016 votes#22 - Midnight on the Firing Line
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/26/1994
When the Narn attack a Centauri colony, Londo and G'Kar nearly come to blows. Meanwhile, raiders are attacking transport ships near the station.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
6.5/102 votes#23 - The Young and the Relentless
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 6/7/1996
The Sliders arrive on a world where the young are in charge and Wade and Quinn's doubles were married corporate executives. Quinn winds up posing as his dead double and finds questions in his death. Meanwhile, Arturo and Rembrandt find themselves in trouble with the law and face jail time.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: T. Edward Anthony
6.5/102 votes#24 - Season's Greedings
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1996
On a world where people are enticed by consumerism and giant malls in the sky, the Sliders get jobs as mall employees to find the mother of an abandoned child. Arturo is a reluctant Santa, Rembrandt and Wade his elves while Quinn gets an administrative job. Meanwhile, Wade faces some strong emotions when she meets her sister and father.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Eleah Horwitz
- 6.5/102 votes
#25 - Strangers and Comrades
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 6/25/1999
The Sliders arrive in a barren wasteland, where the timer is inoperable. Worse yet, they find themselves forced to take part in a never ending battle between Kromaggs and soldiers from Quinn's home world, who are guarding a mysterious bunker.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Keith Damron
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"Into the Mystic" is the best rated episode directed by Richard Compton. It scored 8/10 based on 3 votes. It was written by Tracy Tormé. It aired on 3/1/1996 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Double Cross".