Season 5 Episode Reviews

A character is merged this season, we lose another and gain two new sliders to find home.

70. The Unstuck Man

A lab assistant absorbs Quinn’s personality as the result of a malevolent scientist’s experiment, and helps the Sliders battle the scientist before he can carry out an experiment that will cause the death of billions of innocent people.

71. Applied Physics

Diana finds a powerful fusion generator with which she hopes to separate the two Quinns, but instead she inadvertently brings the malevolent Dr. Geiger back into the world.

72. Strangers and Comrades

The Sliders find themselves trapped on a strange asteroid in hyperspace, waging a seemingly endless war against their mortal enemies, the Kromaggs.

73. The Great Work

The Sliders travel to a remote island where a group of monk-like people keep the world’s knowledge safe from a race of barbarians who have taken over the planet.

74. New Gods for Old

Mallory becomes the leader of a strange cult whose members are controlled by a man- made virus that takes away their individuality and transforms them into mere cells in a larger spiritual entity.

75. Please Press One

Maggie is held prisoner in a computer-controlled society that treats human beings as bar codes and measures their worth by credit debt.

76. A Current Affair

In a parallel Los Angeles, the press is only interested in tabloid trash, and Maggie becomes embroiled in a phony affair with the President of the United States to cover up the very real war America is waging against Switzerland.

77. The Java Jive

The Sliders leap into a prohibition-era America where caffeine is an illegal drug, cops are controlled by mobsters and underground coffeehouses flourish.

78. The Return of Maggie Beckett

The Sliders land in a parallel of Maggie’s hometown, where her duplicate is celebrated as a heroic space traveller who had tragically disappeared on a flight to Mars.

79. Easy Slider

In a vast desert wasteland where combustion engines have been outlawed, Mallory joins a rebel gang of motorcycle riders that steal petroleum from a powerful conglomerate.

80. Requiem

Rembrandt becomes telepathically linked to a friend he lost long ago who is now being used by the Kromaggs as a sinister kind of human computer to help them destroy the human race.

81. Map of the Mind

At a sinister health facility, Diana is subjected to a brain remapping procedure that gives her strange telekinetic powers but also sends her mind into a kind of void, rendering her unable to communicate with her friends.

82. A Thousand Deaths

The Sliders land at a high-tech pleasure resort which offers realistic games featuring action scenarios, but they discover that the holographic people in the games are powered by real human minds trapped by the sinister owner of the resort.

83. Heavy Metal

In a world where modern technology is unheard of and pirates still sail the open seas, the Sliders must find their way back to the slide zone before time runs out.

84. To Catch a Slider

The Sliders arrive in the midst of a film festival with their timer severely malfunctioning, and the only way to repair it is to steal a costly jewel worn by one of the wealthy celebrities at the festival.

85. Dust

The Sliders come upon an archaeologist excavating ancient ruins and realize that the earth as they know it was destroyed four hundred years ago in this world.

86. Eye of the Storm

The Sliders find themselves trapped in a world that is swiftly collapsing in on itself, having been lured there by Diana’s former mentor, Dr Oberon Geiger.

87. The Seer

The Sliders discover they are the subjects of a fanatical religion known as Slidology, founded by a man with psychic powers who has been able to follow them on their interdimensional adventures in his mind.