Sliders - Seasons 1 & 2

Pros: Suspense, Adventure, Action, Romance, Fantasy - this shows got it all.

Cons: None until after Season 3.

The Bottom Line: If you've never seen Sliders, it's time to slide!

Review: Sliders Background: Sliders was a sci-fi kind of show created by Tracy Torme and Robert K. Weiss. It ran for 5 seasons between 1995 and 2000. It first aired on Fox, but after its third season switched over to the Sci-Fi ...

Pros: Outstanding commentary during the Pilot, The Making of... featurette is fun.

Cons: Photo Gallery a slide show, Few extras, Episode order (Airdate) not correct (production).

Review: Sliders, particularly in its early seasons, was one of the most intriguing and thought provoking series ever conceived. Bob Weiss and Tracy Torme assembled an outstanding cast: Jerry O'Connell, who plays Quinn, lends a great sense of personality, ...

Pros: variety of alternate earths, often intelligent, gets a lot of details right

Cons: inconsistent sliding rules, sliders often slow to catch on to what's going on around them

The Bottom Line: Sliders doesn't quite live up to my memories of it, but it's still a very good show.

Review: One of the popular ideas in science fiction of the last 20 or so years is the Many Worlds theory, or the idea that each decision point leads to a split generating a different parallel universe for each outcome. I first encountered this idea in the mid ...