Sliders (1995-2000). Slip Sliding Away.

#sliders #nothamburgers #90s #90stv
Stam Fine Reviews looks at Sliders, the 1990's sci fi series starring Jerry O'Connell, Cleavant Derricks, Kari Wuhrer, Sabrina Lloyd, John Rhys Davies, Tembi Locke, Charlie O'Connell, and Robert Floyd. Sliders was a show where a four people slide between alternate realities, where everything was the same, but different.
0:00 Introduction
0:38 Sliders
2:55 The Pilot and First Season
9:53 The Original Sliders
16:06 Changes/ Seasons 2 and 3
19:23 It's them again!
21:14 Seven Stages of Sliding
24:20 Bye, Arturo. Hi, Maggie.
26:09 Season 4 and the Sci-Fi Channel (syfy)
27:38 Colin
28:59 Jerry Peaks
30:03 Season 5
30:56 Mallory and Diana
32:49 Wade returns (ish)
33:24 The Final Episode
34:23 Some Highlights
38:47 Special Effects
39:30 Wait, isn't that...?
39:59 KRAK
40:25 Summary
Funny or Die Sliders
• Sliders The Movie

[@modder15]

The seasons with professor arturo are the best.

[@gfdggdfgdgf]

Memorable moment in the series: they were actually in their own universe/world but thought they weren't because the gate didn't make a noise when opening and closing.

[@TheMadTurtle]

What was up with that?

[@Kwijibob]

@@TheMadTurtle His mom finally oiled the gate hinge

[@TheMadTurtle]

@@Kwijibob I know, I saw the episode, but why didn't it occur to any of them that maybe his mom fixed the gate hinge in his world?

[@hatednyc]

Yes!! She JUST had it repaired. The handyman is being let out of the house just as they slid away.

[@OrangeAveng3r]

thats the first thing I thought of when I started watching this video

[@lukaszrower7612]

One of the best forgotten series of the 90s. Watched every episode.

[@strikeforcealpha9343]

I loved this show.

[@common_c3nts]

Not forgotten. Rewatched it like 2 years ago. It was such a great show. The only sad part was the silly character changes on scifi. Glad scifi saved the show, but it sucked losing all the actors. It is a shame they did not have a real ending.

[@TheDigitalThreat]

Definitely hard to find on streaming sites - if even on any currently, but plenty of DVD box sets of the entire series are only like 20-30$ on ebay. I grabbed one to rewatch the series every few years as its my favorite show from high school. The DVD sets are not remastered and locked shitty resolution with the crappy 4:3 ratio still, but its all there :)

[@TaftisBack]

Oh thank goodness. Sometimes I talk about Sliders and people look at me like I'm from some parallel universe.

[@magnusgreel275]

Man this takes me back. Sliders was awesome 90s sci fi.

[@TheDanEdwards]

" Sliders was awesome 90s sci fi." - some of us have quite a different take on _Sliders_ .

[@magnusgreel275]

@@TheDanEdwards Were you a kid during those times? Although I admit, I dropped off after Season 3.

[@jeffthornton6998]

It’s a shame that it lost its focus during the last couple of seasons.

[@pferreira1983]

@@TheDanEdwards Oh it was awesome.

[@supersaiyaman11589]

yet sliders was canceled as a tv show why?

[@youngw1ze]

I loved this show....they kept changing the cast...the tone...and time slot...I had no idea it ran as long as it did...

[@jool5941]

Once the main cast changed it went downhill.

[@MattDeckard]

I spoke to John Rhys-Davies over the phone once… ONCE. He misses sliders too. The first season.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

Possibly one of the reasons that I watched the show.

[@mikavirtanen7029]

Professor Arturo made the show. Great character and Rhys-Davies played him excellently (as always).

[@cugamer8862]

He was objectively the best thing about the show. JRD is just a joy to watch on screen, no matter who he is playing, and having an older cast member made the ensemble a lot more interesting.

[@zephyr8072]

I believe it was confirmed by the former showrunner that it was intended for the Arturo who ended up dying was the “other” Arturo from the Azure Gate world. Contrary to what fans say that Arturo wasn’t evil, just avaricious and haunted by not following his Quinn when he had the chance I’ve always wondered about the mossed opportunity to bring JRD’s character back in a new series that would be more along the lines of the first season. Oh well..

[@ShinySephiroth1]

​@@zephyr8072It's never too late. I still stubbornly hope for the revival focused around the real Arturo traveling around trying to find his friends.

[@taylerannsupergirl5587]

I bought the whole series on dvd. Loved this show. Wish they could have kept the original cast for the whole series.

[@stevenalexander4721]

Along with the season 1 vibe.

[@N1ghtR1der666]

Sliders was a banger (before the lost the professor), I rewatch the first few seasons every couple of years

[@KarelCudej007]

As kid loved the show. Paralel Universes rocked.

[@davidaston5773]

Oh, I ADORED "Sliders". It was one of the shows me and my Brother (he passed away in 2011 at 34) in the 90s. We watched all the now classics. "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", "Star Trek: Voyager", "Highlander the series", "Friends" and so many more. I HAVE SO MANY precious memories. "Sliders" as a concept, was fantastic. But, of course, being Fox they had (maybe still?) a habit of putting ratings over quality? Although, you could apply that to most networks and companies? In fact, one of my prized items, is the 2 part "Sliders" comic Jerry wrote. And, they did a TV version as "Just say YES". Science Fiction is, and always has been, a great way, of commenting on real life issues OR the possibilities of the future that WILL happen. Science fiction is the realm of what is to be. NOT what can never happen. The original cast were amazing. So, to hear there was a lot of negatives for them to make the show, is very sad. I hope all of them have learned and moved on from the downsides to have happy memories. Like they gave me when I was a teenager. Feels so long ago now, and YET, still part of me all these years later. Peace and love to everyone here, David

[@pettykittyfam]

Aww thank you for sharing your story & memories with us. ❤❤❤

[@michaelcarson8375]

@davidaston5773 See if you can find the gag reels from the first two seasons. They had a lot of fun and Mel torme the singer and father of Tracy is in them.

[@davidaston5773]

@@pettykittyfam Thank you for enjying them 🤗

[@davidaston5773]

@@michaelcarson8375 That's called life. Both happiness and troubles. But, always wotht it 😀

[@DrewBeeVlogs]

I'm still haunted by that episode where he goes to check if they got home, and the gate didn't squeek, so they slide away, and it cuts to the mum thanking a handy man for fixing the gate..... It's so sad, because they just never got to go home really...

[@alesaenz]

I love Sliders. An oasis for sci-fans in a moment that weren't much about it on TV. 👍🎬😎

[@michaelcarson8375]

Only if you forget seasons 4 and 5 existed. VR5 was a show that I liked, but it didn't last long.

[@ryancoulter4797]

Loved it at the beginning. I probably should’ve stopped at the episode where they got back to Earth Prime but didn’t think it was because the gate didn’t squeak (it’d been oiled since they left).

[@ravenlorans]

Yeah, really, really Started to Suck after that and so did the Special F/X.

[@michaelr3583]

That was the first episode of season 2😂

[@ravenlorans]

@@michaelr3583 What really Sucked is, sometimes when they would get to a New Earth and be wearing All Different Clothing when they got there and not what they left the other in.. and some with a Preview with what the new one was, didn't match what the next episodes story either.. What? Did they travel to ones they didn't show us between Episodes???

[@waltascher]

@@ravenloransYes, but nothing of note happened on those worlds

[@michaelcarson8375]

@ryancoulter4797 and the raiders moved BACK to Oakland. It was the third season where things went bad.

[@craigwapples4200]

I’m just glad I’m not the only one to remember this show

[@michaelcarson8375]

A lot of people remember the show including those that worked to save it. Sadly, the show was trashed when it moved to scifi.

[@jdzspace33]

Criminally underrated show. At least pre-kromags and pre-maggie. I've watched them all multiple times. Even the seasons i didn't love.

[@MaximumRD]

Basically the longest series about the "Multiverse"

[@michaelcarson8375]

That sums up the first 3 seasons. The scifi channel seasons were less than B movie scifi junk. This was because Peckinpah managed to get full control of the series and fired the creator Tracy Torme.

[@judgedrekk2981]

despite how it ended behind the scenes and on screen, also the best multiverse story told....FRAKK XOF....if you get my meaning.... that network killed so many shows chasing ratings that if they just let things play out they woulda had all the ratings....and shows woulda lasted longer....

[@SeismicFrog]

Ah, how simply *wonderful*! It makes a Yank happy to have insomnia so I can catch your new video. Two of my most favorite things, a new STAM FINE video about a favorite TV show - Sliders. Your acerbic wit and dry assessment of these aging series, and then hone in on something every fan of the series at hand would love is extraordinary. 🎉 You sir are an artist. Please continue in your wonderful unique creative way. I’m here for it. And Sliders had the best damned premise at a time in programming where it’s not a streaming miniseries or cancelled after the first season. It’s precious that the series was milked until the teats of the franchise withered and died. What a wild ride, and done by Fox… They were solid. I’m a guy in the NE US, early 50’s. All this stuff is candy for my GenX soul. You even serve gaps in my knowledge where I don’t have the patience or time to digest directly. ❤

[@TotallyFknAliens]

I love this unfiltered outpouring of joy

[@jamesriegel13]

One of my favorite shows I'm glad I have the complete series on DVD

[@wizarddog]

Sliders. The best 80s adventure show made in the 90s.

[@anjkovo2138]

Sliders was great. I really enjoyed it

[@pikapal91]

“Jerry O’Connell and the Multiverse of Madness”

[@michaelcarson8375]

Thankfully that was only season 4. Jerry had the money men own a barrel and that's why it was soo bad. I pity the people who watched season 5.

[@evertonporter7887]

The Multiverse Of Madness that was Sliders seasons 3, 4 and 5.

[@judgedrekk2981]

Jerry O'Connell in No Way Home

[@YoshMaster]

First 3 seasons are still my favourite tv show ever

[@PocokPresents]

I LOVED THIS SHOW! Too bad it ended the way it ended. They should reboot this show! EDIT: Awesome video, really enjoyed it.

[@qui-gonrick7002]

I've always thought it should get a reboot too, but now is not the time. You just know it would get race and gender swapped and every story would be social justice bs. Hollywood just can't help themselves.

[@aweigh1010]

Modern writers are terrible, it would be even worse than season 5.

[@stevenalexander4721]

I would be happy with a movie to finish it off but only if they could get the original cast back. I like to think that it was the fake professor that died because of what the one that was left behind said, which they hinted at as being the real professor if they had been allowed to continue, the way they wanted too.

[@franohmsford7548]

Sliders was my favourite show on tv from 96-98 I gave up after season 3. I then found Stargate SG-1 which I think was already on season 3 when I got episodes 9-12 of season 1 on DVD from the local library and started playing catch-up.

[@Gravedigger933]

SG-1 is one of the best sci fi series of all time. I've watched the whole thing about 12 times now. Atlantis was one of the best spinoffs ever. And then Universe was... okay.

[@michaelcarson8375]

@franohmsford7548 I was foolish enough to watch season 4. SG-1 was on showtime back then, but my route was similar.

[@kc0itf]

The original wormhole graphics were always my favorite...

[@pferreira1983]

With Season 3 they perfected it. A shame they made it look worse after that.

[@Alan-mt2tr]

Earth 2, Sliders (early seasons) and The Pretender were the ones i remember from when we first got sky as there was basically nothing scifi on terrestrial except maybe War of the Worlds at 3am in the morning!

[@Liesmith424]

Man, Earth 2 was so good...really wish that series had been given more of a chance.

[@randallintx]

Thanks for the trip down Mallory Lane. I have Sliders on my streaming service, and I am able to catch all the episodes. This got me to want to finish watching season 5, and the finale, as I have never seen it. I did lose interest after the end of season 4, when both the O'connell Brothers didn't slide to season 5.

[@americansupervillain4595]

I only got interested in Sliders after it went into syndication when I saw a brief glimpse of Kari Wuhrer while channel surfing.

[@mikavirtanen7029]

Kari Wuhrer was the hottest sheriff in movie history in 2002 comedy horror movie Eight Legged Freaks.

[@americansupervillain4595]

@@mikavirtanen7029 She is hot! I remember when she was on MTV's Remote Control, and as a VJ. Basically, she was the only reason I watched MTV.

[@perfectallycromulent]

I've seen Hellraiser 5 too many times because she's in that one.

[@americansupervillain4595]

@@perfectallycromulent I did not know that I'm going to check it out. TKS

[@stephen6279]

I think you mean 'channel sliding'

[@marioasenov3383]

It was a great show far ahead for its time.

[@Truebaconluver]

Reboot needed...my 7 yr old self needs this

[@mikebandw186]

I loved this show. After Quantum Leap this was the next sci fi show I was into. Never could keep track of it. I didn’t even know it changed networks and thought it stopped after season 3.

[@thegunnersfan00]

I remember watching this, underrated show.

[@StruStru2k]

This is the one we've all been waiting for, folks!

[@tudorjason]

I still remember some moments, like the world with the lottery; the water world at the beginning and before they were able to slide, they clung to the TransAmerican Pyramid; and the first season finale with the creaking gate.

[@trekkieraccoon3343]

My fav shows when i was a kid was Sliders. Seaquest, Earth 2, Seven Days and of course ST, Voyager

[@Cmdr1962]

Sliders WAS good in its first few seasons. I miss it.

[@jeffthornton6998]

When they went too aliens and dinosaurs; they messed up.

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Watched it all again recently! I really enjoyed it! Really fun show, they don’t make them this fun anymore - even with all it flaws and cast changes , it was a great ride! 😎😎😎😎👍👍👍👍

[@TheEvanLewis71]

At the time it was probably John Rhys Davies’ biggest and most prominent role.

[@thefonzkiss]

True, but he had also been in the Indiana Jones and Bond film series in the 80s.

[@titusmccarthy]

Cro-Mags and recasting ruined this show.

[@agenerichuman]

Season 3 ruined the show before that. It was just a bunch of movie parodies.

[@FreakyLynx]

Yeah, such a downgrade.

[@pferreira1983]

Kromaggs.

[@4-a-e]

Tracey Torme whi created the show ledt due to interference from thd network who wanted episodic television based on what was hot at movies hence sliding on a dinosaur world or vampire nonsens or making Quin an action hero as opposed to the Reed Richards genius child prodigy. Tracey wanted arcs and add bad sliders to the group one to be played by Negan. The network shot it down. Thiz show jumpshark in tge most painful way still the guardian episode might be the best shark jumping ever.

[@pferreira1983]

@@4-a-e I find the irony of people using the "Jumping the Shark" label hilarious. 😂

[@davidagiel8130]

The first season was gold, they ruined the show when they moved away front alternative history and toward cromag/star trek stories.

[@robertsquared2916]

I was a sophomore in College when this show came out, I loved it and watched every episode in the first season, the following year I was taking a night class that coincided with the Slider schedule I had to stop watching and I was very upset. Watching this 32 yrs later it looks like it was for the better!

[@Bored_Barbarian]

Season 2/3 was good. It fell off after that.

[@cbhlde]

@20:42 - that's the moment Garibaldi took his first flask. :)

[@justvers]

Thanks for clarity on this show. ❤

[@blanketfortressofsolitude5270]

So I discovered your channel from this video, and am hooked. I loved sliders as a kid, and am now burning through your catalog of Star Trek reviews. Thanks for making cool content.

[@StuartRaweakaStuOz]

This series is remembered by me for the episode beginnings where the regular characters would tumble into new zones/adventures each week (the tumbles looked very Time Tunnel-ish).

[@ladwigs]

Fans would love to see this show rebooted

[@Gravedigger933]

I used to love this show. Never knew when it was on, but whenever I caught it, I couldn't stop watching.

[@RobinMowatSK]

Been watching Apple TV’s Dark Matter and it’s been giving me a definite Sliders vibe.

[@captainm8889]

The first few seasons were MUST SEE for me when I was a kid. You didn’t see shows dealing with the multiverse really at all back in the day to I was hooked on the concept alone!

[@marchingham]

I wish i was older when this came out! I would have loved it!!

[@gijose83]

Very underrated show kept a teen me entertained every weekend

[@francis-kp9cw]

I love that TV show

[@Kaizen712]

I was fond of this show when it came out. None of the characters had good endings and some of them had outright bad endings.

[@babsbybend]

"Young Sheldon". Where Georgie was the physics genius.

[@braddeicide]

I groaned every time a Cromag appeared in a new episode

[@graemeburk]

Fun possibly apocryphal fact 1: Fox chose Sliders season 3 over going to series with the Paul McGann version of Doctor Who. Fun possibly apocryphal fact 2: That may have for the best, since David Peckinpah was Universal's go-to guy and (since Universal was a co-producer) probably would have been selected as showrunner of Doctor Who had it happened...

[@Nearside]

That "shot in Canada" line made me literally LOL :)

[@robwalsh9843]

Sliders was the definition of hit or miss. Some episodes missed and missed hard, but the hits were memorable. I think my favorite episode was Paradise Lost which combined a Tremors-like monster with a Twilight Zone plot.

[@juliangrant9718]

My friend and I use to call John Rhys Davis "Pavarotti" because of this show.

[@juicejrc7846]

I enjoyed watching this TV show.

[@InvasionAnimation]

This was my favorite show back in the day!

[@michaelcarson8375]

Before doing Sliders Tracy Torme did Doorways and that lasted for 3 episodes and that was the major driver in creating Sliders. Most fans from the beginning only counted the seasons on fox as the true show.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

I can't remember how many series of Sliders BBC2 in the UK showed, 🤔 but I can only remember the one, because by 1995, I could legally go to the pub, so a fair amount of TV took a back seat by this time! 🤭

[@damianprice8422]

I could be wrong, but I think it might have been 2 series? I used to watch it on bbc2 as well, before it moved to sky, which I didn't have

[@SamLowryDZ-015]

Same here - until the internet thought this was a one season wonder.

[@SonicAlpha]

I remember watching the two parter with Roger Daltrey on BBC 2, after that I think it vanished over to Sky (which I didn't have at the time).

[@Scimarad]

I don't remember anything after Season 3 (I think)

[@Scimarad]

@@SonicAlpha I think we dodged a bullet 😅

[@Faction.Paradox]

Sliders might have the most staggering quality decline in Scifi history, that's saying something considering the company its in.

[@DeltaMikeTorrevieja]

Sliders was dark. Wade's finale was VERY dark!

[@madmat6467]

As usual, this was a great summary/analysis. Would you be able to do the same for another great series that also started strong but ended weak IMHO: 'Travelers'?

[@CasperFGhost]

This could go hard today if we hadn’t of bombarded cinemas with multiverse stories. I just want another Stargate series whilst SG1 is still kicking.

[@joshpinchuk7061]

Never really got into this show. I do remember though thinking how adult and manly Jerry O'Connell filled out compared to say his stand by me roll.

[@Machinu5]

I still got Tears in my Fro, crying head over heels over the wasted potential...

[@eliselianaboyd2547]

In the days the syfy channel was really, really good. They had some very original, very great shows. The best being farscape . Fox killed some great shows frist among them firefly then fringe.

[@kenwelckle367]

The show had so much potential. There was end less opportunities. With making social commentary.

[@pferreira1983]

One of my favourite sci-fi series with so much lost potential in the later seasons. Visual effects for the time were awesome. Season 5 wasn't great but it was certainly less a chore to get through than Season 4 which was frankly terrible.

[@bawintermage8351]

Sliders had an excellent premise and pretty good executive. Watching Sliders is like wearing your favorite pair of slippers: easy to get into and comfortable enough to remain there cor extended periods bit nothing fancy or challenging

[@clintonwilcox4690]

I loved Sliders when it first aired. I never missed an episode up until season three ended and it was canceled and subsequently picked up by the Sci-Fi Channel. I didn't have cable so I couldn't continue watching, nor did I even know it had been picked up for two more seasons. I didn't learn until over a decade later, then I was finally able to watch when the full series came to Netflix.

[@NewSouthWalse]

I loved this show as a kid and even though I remember binging on the DVDs in 2006 I don't recall any of these details or a single episodes plot. Good times.

[@badaegis]

33:14 i just spat out my coffee. Well done, Stam.

[@Funk_Reactions]

I loved this slow. I would watch this every friday before Star Trek Voyager and another show that a man would go into a pod and go back in time. I think it was called 7 Days but can’t remember for sure.

[@NewSouthWalse]

This channel is a gem.

[@AkiraKurasawa_]

Masterpiece of a show

[@40somethingmanchild]

Yay!!!! Been waiting for this to drop. Awesome 👍

[@jamiecashes]

Never knew that this show existed, until a couple years ago. Comet TV used to play reruns late at night and I managed to watch a handful of episodes. Its a good watch

[@whitenuttergoku7310]

SPOILER they never made it home! Enjoy 😉

[@michaelcarson8375]

@@whitenuttergoku7310 Actually they did. The world where the gate didn't squeak and the Raiders moving back to Oakland was the true earth prime. Tracy Torme even said so.

[@michaelcarson8375]

@jamiecashes Find the first three seasons on DVD and watch it in order, do not waste your time with the non FOX seasons. The only thing to come close to this show is the movie Parallels from 2015. Unironically it is was supposed to get a TV series afterwards and that fell through.

[@kawaiiwaifu1322]

The character Wade was done dirty by this show.

[@rpgober3048]

Yesss! Been waiting!

[@ViperRob]

My fav along w Quantum Leap. Even the later seasons (3-5) had some good episodes but the first 2 were good on focusing on alt history

[@Ozymandias_1818]

I fondly remember this show as a kid

[@nrgspike]

I do vaguely remember enjoying Slider's at the time. Now based off this review I probably only really ever saw the 1st Season as I started Uni in '96 and TV took a back seat for a time. Seems like I probably saw the best of it in all honesty.

[@Hispandinavian]

I loved that series back then. The Soviet America world was classic.

[@ducknorris233]

My most memorable episode was the one where on alt universe was empty because everyone on earth had Slided to another alt universe. This made for duplicates and much chaos and starvation.

[@briandaleske5139]

I think it’s time, for a new version, of (SLIDERS) show series, to get put into the works now.

[@LourdNimroid]

You've got my like once I view this vid. I grew up watching this TV series. Thnx for this!

[@jamesabernethy7896]

I probably only watched the first 4 episodes when it was available on terrestrial television but never fully warmed to it. I loved the concept, liked the characters and it looked decent for a weekly show of the time. It just never fully grabbed me.

[@michaelcarbone6101]

That’s another Stam Fine Review you’ve gotten me into. I’m into this now

[@haydnleyshon7384]

Loved this show back in the day

[@smistgoman]

Good video dude new sub earned

[@TheJosep70]

02:59 Hey, that's Walter from SGC! And behind him that alien guy/Carter's love interest.

[@infinitwizdumb]

Spiderwasps... never forget

[@pathutchison7688]

I remember being so excited by this show after the pilot. I had seen the Star Trek TNG episode where Worf went to parallel dimensions, and I was awed by the concept. I loved this show on fox, but didn’t have sci-fi so was pissed when it moved. Then I forgot about it.

[@KazumaTheTraitor]

The crying man was my favorite lol

[@TheDanEdwards]

Another 1990's science fiction series that was stuck in trope-town was _Seven Days_ . Perhaps Stam could analyze that one too.