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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 Worst Episode
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    Sliders Season 5 Episode 1 - The Unstuck Man
    4.8/10(255 votes)

    #1 - The Unstuck Man

    S5:E1

    After experiencing a rough slide, Rembrandt and Maggie see Colin is nowhere to be found. More disturbing, they meet a stranger claiming he is Quinn Mallory. Rembrandt and Maggie learn too late that this is all apart of an evil genius' desperate plan to save his life.

    Director:Guy Magar
    Writer:Chris Black

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  2. Sliders Season 5 Episode 8 - The Java Jive
    4.8/10(190 votes)

    #2 - The Java Jive

    S5:E8

    The Sliders arrive on a world where Prohibition still exists, only it was caffeine that was outlawed. They meet a nightclub owner whose lover was murdered by a gang dealing in bootleg coffee.

    Director:Jeff Woolnough
    Writers:Jennifer McGinnis, Janét Saunders

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  3. Sliders Season 5 Episode 10 - Easy Slider
    4.9/10(196 votes)

    #3 - Easy Slider

    S5:E10

    The Sliders arrive on a world where combustion engines were outlawed by the government due to pollution. But a biker gang is fighting to keep their engines and Mallory falls for the gang's sexy leader.

    Director:David E. Peckinpah
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Sliders Season 5 Episode 5 - New Gods for Old
    5.0/10(191 votes)

    #4 - New Gods for Old

    S5:E5

    Just before sliding out and escaping a small army, Mallory is shot with a laser beam and paralyzed. His only chance of walking again lies in a group of spiritual healers, but their cure could be much worse than being paralyzed.

    Director:Richard Compton
    Writer:David Gerrold

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  5. Sliders Season 5 Episode 18 - The Seer
    5.1/10(223 votes)

    #5 - The Seer

    S5:E18

    The Sliders arrive in the middle of a rally, surprisingly being held in their honor. They learn they are the subjects of a religion called Slidology, founded by a man with psychic abilities. He has been following their adventures and warns that on their next slide, they will all die.

    Director:Paul Cajero
    Writer:Keith Damron

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  6. Sliders Season 5 Episode 4 - The Great Work
    5.2/10(190 votes)

    #6 - The Great Work

    S5:E4

    The Sliders arrive on a small island, with a very sick Maggie in tow. While looking for help, Rembrandt, Mallory and Diana meet the monks of a secluded monastery. Reluctantly, the monks allow them to stay and give Maggie medical attention. But the Sliders soon learn the monks have a secret and won't allow them to leave.

    Director:Reza Badiyi
    Writer:Robert Masello

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  7. Sliders Season 5 Episode 14 - Heavy Metal
    5.2/10(183 votes)

    #7 - Heavy Metal

    S5:E14

    A malfunctioning timer deposits the Sliders underwater in the Pacific Ocean. A merchant ship picks them up, but is taking them out of their sliding radius and decreasing the likelihood of a safe slide. Their only chance is to join up with a pirate crew to get back to California.

    Director:Guy Magar
    Writer:Chris Black

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

    #8 - 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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  9. Sliders Season 5 Episode 2 - Applied Physics
    5.3/10(210 votes)

    #9 - Applied Physics

    S5:E2

    Diana tries using a university lab to find a way to separate Quinn and Mallory, which leads to her first encounter with her double, a struggling single mother. Meanwhile, Mallory experiences violent flashbacks from Quinn's life.

    Director:David J. Eagle
    Writer:Chris Black

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  10. Sliders Season 5 Episode 11 - Requiem
    5.4/10(197 votes)

    #10 - Requiem

    S5:E11

    Rembrandt experiences a strange dream in which Wade is trying to contact him and bring him to her. The others have their doubts until a spatial fold opens before them. On the other side, they find Wade is somehow being used in a plan to attack Kromagg Prime.

    Director:Paul Lynch
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  11. Sliders Season 5 Episode 12 - Map of the Mind
    5.4/10(176 votes)

    #11 - Map of the Mind

    S5:E12

    The Sliders arrive at a mental institution in the middle of an unusual riot. Rembrandt and Maggie escape capture, but Diana and Mallory get left behind. While Mallory has managed to pose as a doctor, Diana is mistaken for a patient and undergoes the process of her brain being remapped.

    Director:Paul Raimondi
    Writer:Robert Masello

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  12. Sliders Season 5 Episode 17 - Eye of the Storm
    5.4/10(174 votes)

    #12 - Eye of the Storm

    S5:E17

    The Sliders confront Dr. Geiger again, in a collapsing dimension full of innocent victims.

    Director:David E. Peckinpah
    Writer:Chris Black

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  13. Sliders Season 5 Episode 3 - Strangers and Comrades
    5.5/10(199 votes)

    #13 - Strangers and Comrades

    S5:E3

    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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  14. Sliders Season 5 Episode 15 - To Catch a Slider
    5.5/10(178 votes)

    #14 - To Catch a Slider

    S5:E15

    The timer continues to malfunction, giving the Sliders rougher slides than usual. To fix it, the Sliders need to get ahold of a gem, even if it means stealing.

    Director:Peter Ellis
    Writer:Bill Dial

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  15. Sliders Season 5 Episode 13 - A Thousand Deaths
    5.7/10(183 votes)

    #15 - A Thousand Deaths

    S5:E13

    The Sliders arrive on a world where millions play in highly realistic arcade simulations. Rembrandt and Mallory take part in separate simulations, until they discover Maggie and Diana have been forced to play characters in these simulations, where each "death" experienced is real.

    Director:David E. Peckinpah
    Writer:Keith Damron

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  16. Sliders Season 4 Episode 20 - The Chasm
    5.8/10(212 votes)

    #16 - The Chasm

    S4:E20

    The Sliders arrive in what is literally the happiest place on Earth. But in this small community, a little girl witnessed her grandfather leap into a mysterious chasm and begins to feel an overwhelming sorrow. Worse yet, it soon spreads to Rembrandt and Maggie.

    Director:Robert A. Hudecek
    Writer:William Bigelow

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

    #17 - 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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  18. Sliders Season 5 Episode 16 - Dust
    5.9/10(176 votes)

    #18 - Dust

    S5:E16

    The Sliders are lost in the desert, but happen upon an archaeological dig. They soon find, however, that the dig is unearthing a buried Los Angeles and that the locals consider Rembrandt a deity.

    Director:Reynaldo Villalobos
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #19 - 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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  20. Sliders Season 5 Episode 6 - Please Press One
    6.0/10(197 votes)

    #20 - Please Press One

    S5:E6

    After trying to buy a candy bar, Maggie is kidnapped by a corporate conglomerate that uses data codes to control commerce.

    Director:Paul Lynch
    Writer:William Bigelow

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  21. Sliders Season 5 Episode 7 - A Current Affair
    6.0/10(184 votes)

    #21 - A Current Affair

    S5:E7

    On a world where tabloid journalism is in place of real news, a photo suggests Maggie is having an affair with the President. But the President's advisers decide to exploit it in order to distract attention from a war with Switzerland.

    Director:David J. Eagle
    Writer:Steve Stoliar

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

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

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

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

    #25 - 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Unstuck Man" is the worst rated episode of "Sliders". It scored 4.8/10 based on 255 votes. Directed by Guy Magar and written by Chris Black, it aired on 6/11/1999. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Java Jive".