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The Best Episodes of Sliders Season 3

Every episode of Sliders Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Sliders Season 3!

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In his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite number of Earths. During a test run, Quinn invites co-worker Wade Welles and his teacher Professor Maximillian Arturo to see

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Sliders Season 3 Episode 1 - Rules of the Game
    7.3/10(319 votes)

    #1 - Rules of the Game

    S3:E1

    The Sliders become involuntarily apart of a human war game where the only winners are the ones that stay alive.

    Director:Oscar L. Costo
    Writer:Josef Anderson

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  2. Sliders Season 3 Episode 2 - Double Cross
    7.8/10(309 votes)

    #2 - Double Cross

    S3:E2

    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
    Writers:Tony Blake, Paul Jackson

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  3. Sliders Season 3 Episode 3 - Electric Twister Acid Test
    6.6/10(315 votes)

    #3 - Electric Twister Acid Test

    S3:E3

    The Sliders arrive on a world where electric tornadoes have almost completely wiped out the population. They find a secluded village somehow protected from the tornadoes and a dictator that may prevent the team from ever sliding again.

    Director:Oscar L. Costo
    Writer:Scott Smith Miller

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  4. Sliders Season 3 Episode 4 - The Guardian
    8.0/10(345 votes)

    #4 - The Guardian

    S3:E4

    The Sliders arrive on a world just like their own, only time is moving at a rate of twelve years slower than normal. There, Quinn encounters his young double and tries to change an upcoming event in his life, despite the other Sliders' warnings.

    Director:Adam Nimoy
    Writer:Tracy Tormé

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  5. Sliders Season 3 Episode 5 - The Dream Masters
    6.4/10(332 votes)

    #5 - The Dream Masters

    S3:E5

    On a world where a group of social misfits have learned to torture people by entering their dreams, Wade becomes a target of the group's leader.

    Director:Jefery Levy
    Writers:Scott Smith Miller, Melinda M. Snodgrass

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  6. Sliders Season 3 Episode 6 - Desert Storm
    6.6/10(306 votes)

    #6 - Desert Storm

    S3:E6

    The Sliders land on a world with little water and come to the aid of a mysterious young woman whose gift to find water is being exploited by a group of thugs.

    Director:Jim Johnston
    Writer:Matt Dearborn

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  7. Sliders Season 3 Episode 7 - Dragonslide
    6.4/10(285 votes)

    #7 - Dragonslide

    S3:E7

    On a world of magic and dragons, Quinn is mistaken for a wizard and kidnapped by an evil warlock bent on immortality. Meanwhile, Wade tries to help Rembrandt's love troubles with a love potion, but it backfires and makes Rembrandt fall in love with her.

    Director:David Livingston
    Writers:Tony Blake, Paul Jackson

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  8. Sliders Season 3 Episode 8 - The Fire Within
    6.6/10(270 votes)

    #8 - The Fire Within

    S3:E8

    After barely escaping a world engulfed in flames, the Sliders now find themselves in a Los Angeles dependent on the sale and production of oil. Unfortunately, they learn they've brought along a piece of the fire from the last world and that it has a mind of it's own.

    Director:Jefery Levy
    Writer:Josef Anderson

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  9. Sliders Season 3 Episode 9 - The Prince of Slides
    6.6/10(268 votes)

    #9 - The Prince of Slides

    S3:E9

    On a world where the American government is a monarchy, Rembrandt is mistaken for his double and discovers that he is about to be a father of royalty. The only problem is, on this world, it's the men who give birth to children.

    Director:Richard Compton
    Writer:Eleah Horwitz

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  10. Sliders Season 3 Episode 10 - Dead Man Sliding
    7.3/10(279 votes)

    #10 - Dead Man Sliding

    S3:E10

    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

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  11. Sliders Season 3 Episode 11 - State of the A.R.T.
    7.0/10(288 votes)

    #11 - State of the A.R.T.

    S3:E11

    The Sliders land on a world where the human race was wiped out by robots. Quinn and Rembrandt are captured by the robot's demented creator and are going to be used in a mind-transfer experiment.

    Director:John T. Kretchmer
    Writer:Nan Hagan

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  12. Sliders Season 3 Episode 12 - Season's Greedings
    7.2/10(294 votes)

    #12 - Season's Greedings

    S3:E12

    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

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  13. Sliders Season 3 Episode 13 - Murder Most Foul
    7.2/10(273 votes)

    #13 - Murder Most Foul

    S3:E13

    On an over-worked world with an uptight population, Arturo is thought to be a fracture and is sent to a fantasy camp for a form of relaxation. When the others find him, they see he has been brainwashed into thinking he is a great detective on the trail of a Jack the Ripper-like murderer.

    Director:Jeff Woolnough
    Writer:David E. Peckinpah

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  14. Sliders Season 3 Episode 14 - Slide Like an Egyptian
    6.7/10(266 votes)

    #14 - Slide Like an Egyptian

    S3:E14

    On a world ruled by Egyptian culture, Quinn is used in a life-after-death experiment and thought dead. The others miss the slide when trying to save a woman from a sacrifice and become trapped in a pyramid with a big scarab.

    Director:Adam Nimoy
    Writer:Scott Smith Miller

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  15. Sliders Season 3 Episode 15 - Paradise Lost
    6.5/10(259 votes)

    #15 - Paradise Lost

    S3:E15

    The Sliders arrive in a small community, where the citizens are all young and fearful of outsiders. They don't expect much trouble, until they uncover a deadly secret.

    Director:Jim Johnston
    Writer:Steve Stoliar

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  16. Sliders Season 3 Episode 16 - The Exodus (1)
    7.4/10(284 votes)

    #16 - The Exodus (1)

    S3:E16

    Things don't look good for the Sliders when they slide to a world that's about to be eradicated by a rogue pulsar. Soon they discover that this world has been developing sliding technology and pool their resources with the U.S. government in a race to escape to a parallel Earth.

    Director:Jim Charleston
    Writers:Tony Blake, Paul Jackson

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  17. Sliders Season 3 Episode 17 - The Exodus (2)
    7.1/10(287 votes)

    #17 - The Exodus (2)

    S3:E17

    Quinn and Maggie return to her world with Earth Prime's coordinates stored in Jensen's timer. As Wade makes the final list for those who can slide to safety, Arturo races to modify the new timer to slide more people. Unfortunately for them, an unexpected danger lurks the base and one Slider will not make it to the next world.

    Director:Jefery Levy
    Writers:Josef Anderson, Tony Blake, Paul Jackson

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  18. Sliders Season 3 Episode 18 - Sole Survivors
    6.4/10(274 votes)

    #18 - Sole Survivors

    S3:E18

    The Sliders arrive on a world where a strange bacteria transformed the inhabitants into flesh-eating zombies. When Quinn is bitten, he begins to turn into one of them.

    Director:David E. Peckinpah
    Writer:Steven Kriozere

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  19. Sliders Season 3 Episode 19 - The Breeder
    6.2/10(261 votes)

    #19 - The Breeder

    S3:E19

    A creature embeds a parasite in Maggie just before the slide, which takes the Sliders to a world where young adults are used in a mandatory organ-donor program. The others will have to find Maggie before she finds the perfect mate and lays her eggs.

    Director:Paris Barclay
    Writer:Eleah Horwitz

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  20. Sliders Season 3 Episode 20 - The Last of Eden
    6.1/10(256 votes)

    #20 - The Last of Eden

    S3:E20

    Wade and Rembrandt recall their slide to a world plagued by earthquakes and populated by primitive people. Wade falls into a deep chasm and Quinn goes to rescue her, while Rembrandt learns of Arturo's illness.

    Director:Allan Eastman
    Writer:Josef Anderson

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  21. Sliders Season 3 Episode 21 - The Other Slide of Darkness
    6.2/10(250 votes)

    #21 - The Other Slide of Darkness

    S3:E21

    The Sliders track Rickman to a superstitious town. Their search is further complicated when Quinn and Maggie are captured by natives living in a mysterious fog. There, Quinn runs into someone from his past--himself.

    Director:Jeff Woolnough
    Writers:Scott Smith Miller, Nan Hagan

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  22. Sliders Season 3 Episode 22 - Slither
    5.3/10(250 votes)

    #22 - Slither

    S3:E22

    While on vacation, Quinn and Rembrandt get mixed up in an illegal snake deal and find themselves stuck in the middle of no where surrounded by deadly snakes. Meanwhile, Wade and Maggie get involved with a shady man in their search for the others.

    Director:Jim Johnston
    Writers:Tony Blake, Paul Jackson

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  23. Sliders Season 3 Episode 23 - Dinoslide
    6.2/10(244 votes)

    #23 - Dinoslide

    S3:E23

    The Sliders' chase for Rickman takes them back to the world they helped colonize, the New World. Only they find that the colonists are being hunted by a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex.

    Director:Richard Compton
    Writer:David E. Peckinpah

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  24. Sliders Season 3 Episode 24 - Stoker
    6.0/10(265 votes)

    #24 - Stoker

    S3:E24

    Wade falls under the spell of a rock band's charismatic lead singer, who is really a vampire and looking to use Wade to get the timer. Meanwhile, the others try to track down Rickman.

    Director:Jerry O'Connell
    Writer:Josef Anderson

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  25. Sliders Season 3 Episode 25 - This Slide of Paradise
    5.9/10(268 votes)

    #25 - This Slide of Paradise

    S3:E25

    The Sliders track Rickman to a world where a mad scientist has been experimenting with genetic testing and has created a race of human hybrids.

    Director:Jim Johnston
    Writer:Nan Hagan

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Rules of the Game" is the best rated episode of "Sliders" season 3. It scored 7.3/10 based on 319 votes. Directed by Oscar L. Costo and written by Josef Anderson, it aired on 9/20/1996. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Double Cross".