History Series / Sliders

* CharacterDevelopment: Rembrandt. He goes from a DirtyCoward [[ItsAllAboutMe concerned only with himself]] to an [[TheEveryman everyman]] who cares for [[TrueCompanions his surrogate family]] to TeamDad over the course of five seasons. (Being the only cast member to stay for all five seasons certainly helps.)

* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Professor Arturo, despite supposedly being a cosmologist or sometimes a more general theoretical physicist, successfully creates penicillin in an early episode (in a world where medicine was much less advanced). Later, quite unbelievably, he was capable of performing a Caesarean section on another (male) character, despite having no experience with any form of surgery, let alone such an exotic circumstance as a [[MisterSeahorse male pregnancy]]. And then there was the time he revived a deactivated android... However, each of these cases was lampshaded with dialogue about how hard and/or different from maths he found it.

* PutOnABusToHell: According to Tracy Torme, this was what happened to [[spoiler:Arturo, rather than being McLeaned]]. In "[[Recap/SlidersS02E08PostTraumaticSlideSyndrome Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome]]", on a world almost exactly like Earth Prime, [[spoiler:Arturo]] and his less-ethical double have a fight as the wormhole opens and only one makes it through. Fans debated heavily over which [[spoiler:Arturo]] slid, until Torme finally confirmed in 2009 that [[spoiler:it was the alternate Arturo who managed to slide out]]. This means the real [[spoiler:Arturo]] is trapped on a world not his own and separated from his friends [[spoiler:but likely still alive, unlike the alternate one who ended up [[TakingTheBullet taking a bullet for Quinn]]]].

* RubberForeheadAliens: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] this time, as the Kromaggs are supposed to share recent common ancestors with [[HumanAliens normal human beings]].

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: This is pretty much the Sliders' philosophy when it comes to running afoul of a bizarre rule or circumstance they had no way of knowing about. After all, it's hard for police or debt collectors to pursue you when you can jump from one Earth to another.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: {{Subverted|Trope}} when [[spoiler:they actually make it back to their home Earth, but only have a few seconds to decide to stay or not. They leave after Quinn tries a fence, knowing it is always squeaky, and it doesn't squeak. After they leave, you see a gardener with an oil can]].

* TyrannosaurusRex: One appears in "Dinoslide".

The foursome find themselves on a frozen world, with eight hours left on the timer. With a tornado approaching, Quinn activates the timer early, exactly what hs double was trying to warn him about. From this point on, the four travel (or "slide") randomly across the multiverse, trying to find a way back home.

''Sliders'' (1995-2000) is a ScienceFiction show about four people who try out a device for traveling to {{Alternate Universe}}s, then get lost and spend the remainder of the series trying to get back to their reality.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The last third of Season 3 is noticeably more serious and less lighthearted than the rest of the series, mainly due to [[spoiler:Professor Arturo dying and then-unsympathetic Maggie Beckett joining the team. The impact of losing their friend keeping the remaining trio on edge, Quinn being overwhelmed with guilt for starting the adventure in the first place, and Maggie's frequent arguments with them, especially Wade, made the erstwhile team of TrueCompanions much more disfunctional. The presence of the series' first BigBad (the Kromaggs not being established as such at the time) also contributed to the darker mood.]] Some of these episodes also happen to have more nighttime or interior scenes, making the episodes visually darker.

* LeftHanging: In addition to the main plot, many of the episodes use this intentionally--episodes tend to end with the group taking the next slide without the situation on the world they left being resolved. A great deal of the time the idea is that the future is uncertain...but hopefully better.

* YourMindMakesItReal: "The Dream Masters". Said group is able to enter other people's dreams and twist them into whatever horrifying nightmares they can think of. After Wade falls victim to them, the other Sliders manage to find a way to enter the dream and pull similar tricks to their advantage. After all, it's just a dream. Strangely, at the end, the bad guy is shown with his hand on fire, which happened in the dream, making one wander where the fire came from.

** In another, the one with the Malthusian lottery, both Rembrandt and Wade get involved with people in that universe (or rather, someone from that universe gets involved with Wade). Rembrandt's interest would rather die (she's looking forward to it) than slide off, and is looking forward to his joining her; Wade's interest helps rescue them and slides off with them--though, since this was a SeasonFinale, he is dropped with only a HandWave at the beginning of the next season.

* NoodleIncident: The characters frequently mention worlds they've slid to that are never shown (for example, the world where everyone was naked, which we only saw their arrival: "So do you think that we're home?" "Ah, I don't think so, Rembrandt. I'm pretty sure on our Earth, the mailmen wear clothes.")

* NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat: "Summer of Love" ends with them arriving a world, only to notice the 100ft tsunami rapidly approaching San Francisco. The next (intended) episode is "The Prince of Wails", which began with the group stranded on top of a large skyscraper surrounded by flood waters and giant sharks, with little explanation how they managed to get there in time.

* OurWormholesAreDifferent: In order to generate a wormhole, you would require energy anywhere from several megaton nuclear warheads to have the equivalent of the mass of planet Jupiter into energy. It's hard to do that with a TV remote[[note]]Egyptian timer[[/note]], a cell phone [[note]]original timer[[/note]], or a UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis controller[[note]]Rickman's Timer[[/note]].

** In "Obsession", the sliders travel to a world, where 10% of the population have various types of psychic powers, and Prime Oracle is an official Cabinet position, created by UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln after a psychic warned him about his impending assassination. This also includes doctors, who use their abilities to "scan" someone's body to determine the extent of injuries. This also leads to this world never inventing things like X-ray or MRI, as they simply weren't needed.

* StumbledIntoThePlot: Rembrant got caught up in Quinn's parallel world surfing adventure because he got caught up in their whirlwind while driving his car and, like the rest of the team, are trying to get back.

* ThisWasHisTrueForm: Tweaked in "Dragonslide". A vanquished fire-breathing dragon reverts to its (true) human wizard form as it lays dying...and then becomes an even smaller cockroach when no one is looking, allowing it to scamper away. [[spoiler:Only to get stepped on moments later.]]

* TimeParadox: In one universe, time flows backwards. The Sliders still go forwards in time, however, and Quinn ends up stopping something that put him in jail, after he started out there. The result is...not pretty.

* UnlimitedWardrobe: The sliders seemed to have new wardrobe (and always plenty of money) every week, despite only ever taking one change of clothes through the wormholes between worlds. There were occasional attempts to [[HandWave explain this]] (alternate versions of the sliders have the same ATM PIN), but it still strained [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief credibility]] to have every cast member show up with a whole new ensemble each week, especially since this would happen even with episodes that were set immediately after each other, leading one online fan to ask the question "what really goes on in that wormhole??"

* UnpredictableResults: Their own "sliding" device. In the pilot episodes it's established that the timer was designed to sent them back to their home dimension after a specified period of time. Since the first slide as a team took them to an Earth that was frozen over and a tornado was heading their way, they forced the wormhole open early and that set them on the path of random universes. The timer getting damaged in the "US lost the cold war" universe in the second half of the pilot also meant that the length of time spent in each universe was random as well. About the only thing consistent is that it drops them in a location somewhere close to the entrance point between the two dimensions they travel between. Later seasons gave them the ability to at least control when they are going to travel and which dimension they are going to. But since they don't know their home destination, they still have to travel to different dimensions sequentially to find it.

* VampireEpisode: "Stoker", the Sliders viist a world where vampires exist and their existence is public, to the point that Richard Nixon was one.

* DeadGuyJunior: If dialogue that implies Maggie Beckett is [[Series/QuantumLeap Sam Beckett]]'s niece is taken seriously, this makes her a DeadGuyJunior. For bonus point, Maggie was the name of a news reporter who died on a mission in Vietnam while working with Sam's brother, Tom.

* DownToTheLastPlay: One episode features a fictional Rugby\Trivia\Othello sport. The other team has a commanding lead with very little time left. However, Quinn's team owns three of the corner spaces, giving them a chance to win if they can claim the last corner, causing the spaces between the corners to turn in their favour. The other team is fully aware of the situation and defends the space as best they can.

* GaveUpTooSoon: In the episode "[[Recap/SlidersS02E01IntoTheMystic Into the Mystic]]", the characters only have a few seconds to decide whether or not to stay on the latest parallel Earth they've landed on. Unfortunately for them since they had been gone, a sports team they knew had moved to a different city and won the championship, O.J. Simpson had been arrested and was still on trial, and they had trouble believing that the world could have changed so much in just two years. To see if it's their home or not, Quinn tries a fence, knowing it is always squeaky ([[CallBack something he does in the pilot]]), and it doesn't squeak. After they leave, a gardener with an oil can comes into view.

** Stemming from the above, the notion that missing the sliding window renders them stuck for 29 years is ridiculous (except in Season 5, when they definitely cannot reproduce the tech). Quinn made the original timer. As long as they wound up on a world that progressed at the same relative pace as theirs, Quinn should have no trouble making a new timer and continuing on. One episode used this as a plot point to get Maggie to divulge the secret to sliding, and "Slide Like an Egyptian" has them use the Egyptian Timer once their original one fails.

** "[[Recap/SlidersS04E13LipschitzLive Lipschitz Live!]]" required Maggie and Rembrandt to both take a massive cut in intelligence to work. The normally-polite and naive Colin accidentally swapped places with his spoiled-rich-kid duplicate from this other world. The duplicate then started hitting on Maggie repeatedly, speaking in a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents New York accent]], wearing flashy jewelry, and basically being the exact opposite of the person that Colin normally is. Not only did they not seem to pick up on the fact that he was a duplicate, neither Maggie nor Rembrandt seemed to notice that his behavior was unusual. You could forgive characters on a show where you don't tend to run into alternate universe duplicates of yourself for not taking the time to question things, but not these two.
** The fact that they never consider to pack some basic survival kits is unforgivable. You can argue that they have to travel light, but there is a difference between that and travelling with nothing but the clothes on their back. A couple of water bottles, some cans of beans, a first-aid kit, an emergency blanket - small things that could fill a small bag and yet despite this so many episodes were made needlessly difficult by their absence. The season 3 episode "[[Recap/SlidersS03E06DesertStorm Desert Storm]]" where they slide into the middle of a featureless desert and nearly die of thirst and exposure springs instantly to mind. And this also goes hand-in-hand with the fact that season 2's "Gillian of the Spirits" where they slide to a world where technology is forbidden and are forced to resort to the black market to find tools and spare parts to fix the timer should have been the absolute last moment where those survival kits do not also include a basic toolkit and some spare parts.

** In "[[Recap/SlidersS03E25ThisSlideOfParadise This Slide of Paradise]]", Creator/MichaelYork plays a doctor who has created an island of animal-human hybrids. He previously starred in an adaption of [[Literature/TheIslandOfDrMoreau The Island of Dr Moreau]], on which the episode is based.

* AlienSky: The episode "[[Recap/SlidersS03E11StateOfTheArt State Of The A.R.T.]]" changed the color of the sky to lilac. The RidiculouslyHumanRobot gives it a {{Handwave}} about pollution particles-- not one that makes scientific sense, but at least it was acknowledged.
** [[SeasonalRot Later episodes]] brought us green skies (for worlds hidden in hyperspace), and a sky with a moon ''plus two additional Earths'' [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy (incorrectly said to be "in syzygy.")]]

* ForWantOfANail: This was the most common plot in the first few seasons, with such universes as "Exactly like ours, but the atom bomb was never invented", "Exactly like ours but antibiotics were never invented", "Exactly like ours but one of the heroes was Elvis", etc. This plot became less common as the series [[SeasonalRot progressed]].

** In the episode "[[Recap/SlidersS01E06SummerOfLove Summer of Love]]", the Sliders first land on a world where the United States has been mostly devastated by these. A mix of a spider and wasp (yes, [[NightmareFuel flying spiders the size of your head]]), they were genetically engineered for pest control--namely the actual killer bees... And ironically enough, a few queens escaped from the labs and suddenly the cure became a lot worse than the plague.

* PutOnABusToHell: According to [[WordOfGod Tracy Torme]], this was what happened to [[spoiler:Arturo, rather than being McLeaned]]. In "[[Recap/SlidersS02E08PostTraumaticSlideSyndrome Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome]]", on a world almost exactly like Earth Prime, [[spoiler:Arturo]] and his less-ethical double have a fight as the wormhole opens and only one makes it through. Fans debated heavily over which [[spoiler:Arturo]] slid, until Torme finally confirmed in 2009 that [[spoiler:it was the alternate Arturo who managed to slide out]]. This means the real [[spoiler:Arturo]] is trapped on a world not his own and separated from his friends [[spoiler:but likely still alive, unlike the alternate one who ended up [[TakingTheBullet taking a bullet for Quinn]]]].

* TimeParadox: In one universe, time flows backwards. The Sliders still go forwards in time, however, and Quinn ends up stopping something that put him in jail, after he started out there. The result is...[[NightmareFuel not pretty]].

* CollegeIsHighSchoolPart2: Sort of justified in that the main character is a townie who lives within commuting distance of the college class he attends in the first few episodes. However, what little we see of the college social life smacks of high school, and many of the instructor-student interactions (including the instructor showing up at a students' ''parents' doorstep'' to voice his concerns) are much more typical of high school.

* CrapsackWorld: As the Sliders visit many worlds, they encountered quite a few of these, beginning with the [[DeathWorld Ice Age world]] in the pilot episode.

* CollegeIsHighSchoolPart2: Sort of justified in that the main character lives within commuting distance of the college class he attends in the first few episodes. However, what little we see of the college social life smacks of high school, and many of the instructor-student interactions (including the instructor showing up at a students' ''parents' doorstep'') to voice his concerns are much more typical of high school.

* BigBad: Rickman in Season 3, the Kromaggs in the fourth and fifth seasons.

* AboveTheInfluence: In "Love Gods", a man is hiding from a country of beautiful women wanting him to impregnate them because he wants only his not-pretty-enough, not-young-enough partner. Awww.

** In "Luck of the Draw", an episode centering around a deadly lottery, Geoff Edwards- veteran game show host (you may remember him from ''Series/TreasureHuntUS'', ''Series/{{Jackpot}}'', ''Series/{{Starcade}}'' and ''[[Series/ChainReaction The New/$40,000 Chain Reaction]]'')- is the host of the in-universe lottery show; at the time, he had been hosting the real-life California Lottery game show, ''Series/TheBigSpin'', since 1986.
** In "The Guardian", Arturo tells his younger friends, "Your generation thinks nothing of seeing ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' thirteen times. Well, I happen to feel the same way about Mozart." Creator/JohnRhysDavies, of course, played Sallah in the [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk first]] and [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade third]] movies.

** In "Into the Mystic", Wade says she has a friend named "[[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Sabrina]]" who's interested in the occult.

* AlienSky: The episode "State Of The A.R.T." changed the color of the sky to lilac. The RidiculouslyHumanRobot gives it a {{Handwave}} about pollution particles-- not one that makes scientific sense, but at least it was acknowledged.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Kromaggs. There were a few exceptions, like Kromanus, the disgraced Kromagg leader who was in charge of the [[BuffySpeak human atomizer thing]] in "Common Ground".

* AmericaIsStillAColony: The "Prince of Wails" episode had the cast slide to an AlternateUniverse where the US was under British control and UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington had been executed as a traitor. Members of the cast then tell a member of the royal family after rescuing him that "Why don't you give democracy a go?" as if they're mutually exclusive.

** The altered "Eddies" in the fourth season episode "California Reich".
** In "A Thousand Deaths", the human hosts used to drive the simulations. They can die up to a thousand times in the games, and they're fully aware of what is happening to them.

* ApocalypseAnarchy: This is the story of several episodes, particularly "Last Days" and "The Exodus, Part 1", in which the end is near and society has degenerated in this way.

** In "The Alternateville Horror", Colin claims to have seen a ghost, but is laughed off by the others for even thinking such a thing. [[spoiler:They aren't ghosts; just doubles of the Sliders trapped on another dimensional plane as a result of a sliding mishap.]] Aside from the many strange things they've seen in their journeys, this is particularly ridiculous when you consider that Quinn himself was rendered ghost-like in Season 2's "Gillian of the Spirits" and could only be seen by one person. [[spoiler:Considering that, Quinn and Rembrandt should've been more receptive to what Colin was talking about.]]

** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in "The Other Slide of Darkness", where both Rembrandt and Maggie express disbelief in the superstitious beliefs expressed by the locals. Rembrandt's disbelief stems from a personal tragedy; Maggie's, however, is played straight, which gets her snapped at by the more-experienced Wade.
** {{Lampshaded}} by Rembrandt in Season 5's "Please Press One":

* BigNo: Wade at the end of "Luck of the Draw", upon discovering that Quinn [[spoiler:got shot in the back]] right before jumping through the wormhole.

* BloodSport: In the Season 3 premiere "Rules of the Game", the sliders land on a world that follows this trope.
* BookEnds: In "The Exodus, Part 2", Rickman makes his first escape from our heroes with Quinn running after him, but the vortex vanishes before he gets there. In "This Slide of Paradise" it's Rickman who tries and fails to get to a vortex before it vanishes. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, it happens to be on the edge of a cliff...]]
* BountyHunter: In the Season 2 premiere "Into the Mystic", the sliders are pursued by a diminutive bounty hunter after skipping out on paying a witch doctor's bill.
* BoxingLesson: In "The Guardian", Quinn gives a younger version of himself these to change a traumatic event in his life.

* CaliforniaCollapse: In the Season 3 finale "This Slide of Paradise", they slide to a world where California has broken up into islands.

** Singer Mel Tormé appears in "Greatfellas", wearing a cowboy hat and playing a country and western tune.

* CelebrityParadox: On the episode "Data World", Rembrandt said "What is this, ''Film/{{Scream 3}}''?" Guess which one of his co-stars got killed (in-character) in ''Film/{{Scream 2}}''?

** In "Fever", the gang visits an alternate Earth decimated by a plague. Eventually, they realize that antibiotics were never discovered in this timeline, so Arturo creates penicillin, which becomes the Chemical Messiah for this world.
** In "New Gods for Old", nanite-tainted water absorbs people into a HiveMind.
* ChristmasEpisode: Season 3's "Season's Greedings".
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Quinn

* ContemplatingYourHands: Colin does this in "Just Say Yes" after being dosed with drugs.

** In ''As Time Goes By,'' Quinn twice runs into his ex-girlfriend and her fiancé in one episode, on two separate worlds, by pure chance.
** In ''Time Again and World,'' the Sliders escape one world after witnessing a murder, only to land on the exact same street on a nearly identical world in time to witness the murder again.
** In ''The Exodus,'' on their second slide together, Quinn and Maggie land right in the base where Maggie's double is stationed, in time to be almost immediately captured by her.

** Despite there being "infinite universes", the Sliders have on more than one occasion run into another slider they had already met by pure chance (Quinn's double from the Pilot in ''The Other Slide of Darkness,'' and the Kromagg named Kolitar from the episode ''Slidecage'' being encountered again in ''Way Out West'').

** In ''The Guardian,'' the Sliders land on a world identical to their own, except 12 years in the past, which is already unbelievable, but as if that weren't enough, they exit right into the funeral of Quinn's dad!
* CorruptChurch: "Prophets and Loss"

* DeadlyEuphemism: In ''Luck of the Draw,'' the Sliders land on a world where people can get free money for a chance to be killed. They use euphemisms and the main characters aren't aware why they're getting the money.

* DigitalHeadSwap: In "Dead Man Sliding", on a world where criminals are tried and executed live on television, a corrupt TV host killed someone on-camera and then framed that world's Quinn by editing his head onto his own body.

** "The Breeder", which [[spoiler:has Dr. Sylvius being overtaken by the symbiote creature. As they have no time, the Sliders choose to slide out with a weakened Maggie rather than try to help the doctor. With the Sliders gone and the doctor overtaken, the symbiote is free to continue its goals unimpeded.]]
** "The Dying Fields": [[spoiler:The sympathetic Humagg soldier is murdered by her lover for betraying the Kromaggs. Worse, the Sliders aren't able to save the remaining human captives and the camp stays open, meaning business will continue as usual.]]
** "Applied Physics": [[spoiler:Diana attempts to make her double's life better with Dr. Geiger's help but, among other changes, she winds up erasing her double's daughter from existence. The team has to slide before she can set things right.]]
** "Strangers and Comrades": [[spoiler:Rembrandt learns the quest to find Michael Mallory's anti-Kromagg weapon was all for nothing. Turns out the weapon trashed Kromagg Prime's environment a month after it was used, and it would do the same to Earth Prime. Rembrandt is left lamenting that he's run out of chances.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: "The Chasm"

** In "The King is Back", on an Earth where Rembrandt was a hugely successful singer who died young, Rembrandt Prime decides to "come out of hiding" and take over where he left off. But then the "real" Rembrandt decides to really come out of his self-imposed exile, taking over from Rembrandt Prime at his comeback concert and declaring Rembrandt Prime "the greatest [[ElvisImpersonator Rembrandt Brown impersonator]] in the world."

* ETGaveUsWiFi: In "The Return of Maggie Beckett", the Roswell crash did happen, but instead of being covered up, a trade agreement was struck. TheGreys gave Earth new technologies, allowing for significant advances; this included DNA advances, allowing for a HalfHumanHybrid to appear.

** OppositeSexClone: Logan St. Clair is a [[spoiler:female double of Quinn]] in "Double Cross".

* FakeShemp: The shots from above during the fifth season premiere "The Unstuck Man", after Jerry O'Connell left the show.

* {{Fanservice}}: Quinn. Season 3's "Electric Twister Acid Test" features an interrogation in which Quinn has his shirt off for no reason.

* FinalSolution: "Prophets and Loss"
* FindTheCure: "Fever"
* FlatlinePlotline: "Slide Like an Egyptian"
* FloatingContinent: "Season's Greedings"

* FutureImperfect: "Dust"
* GaveUpTooSoon: In the episode "Into the Mystic", the characters only have a few seconds to decide whether or not to stay on the latest parallel Earth they've landed on. Unfortunately for them since they had been gone, a sports team they knew had moved to a different city and won the championship, O.J. Simpson had been arrested and was still on trial, and they had trouble believing that the world could have changed so much in just two years. To see if it's their home or not, Quinn tries a fence, knowing it is always squeaky ([[CallBack something he does in the pilot]]), and it doesn't squeak. After they leave, a gardener with an oil can comes into view.
* {{Gendercide}}: "Love Gods"

** In the episode "Summer of Love", the Sliders first land on a world where the United States has been mostly devastated by these. A mix of a spider and wasp (yes, [[NightmareFuel flying spiders the size of your head]]), they were genetically engineered for pest control--namely the actual killer bees... And ironically enough, a few queens escaped from the labs and suddenly the cure became a lot worse than the plague.
** In "Rules of the Game", one of the {{death trap}}s sees Rembrandt stuck to a metal web and being threatened by three robotic spiders.

* GirlsWithMoustaches: In "Time and Again World", the Sliders travel to a world where women have mustaches. Rembrandt complains about how it feels to kiss a woman with a mustache and Wade comments that now he knows how women feel.

* HollywoodNerd: Quinn

** There were several times in Season 4 when the characters were left facing the possibility that they might not be able to all leave this world together and one of them would therefore be stuck there. The problem with this as a dramatic point was that by this point the characters could control where they slid. As a result of this, they could always leave a world and then come back later. In fact, they did exactly that in "Prophets and Loss". Then, in "Asylum", Quinn is injured and the other characters face the possibility that he won't be well enough to travel and they'll either have to leave him here or be stuck for 29 years. Even if you justify that case by assuming that they needed Quinn to show them how to travel back, when Quinn ends up all alone with the timer in "Lipschitz Live!", he never seems to consider that if the other characters don't find him by the time he has to slide that he could simply give them a location to meet him when he came back. "California Reich" also ends with them having two minutes to decide whether a world is safe to leave someone in rather than simply leaving and then coming back when they have more time.
** "Lipschitz Live!" required Maggie and Rembrandt to both take a massive cut in intelligence to work. The normally-polite and naive Colin accidentally swapped places with his spoiled-rich-kid duplicate from this other world. The duplicate then started hitting on Maggie repeatedly, speaking in a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents New York accent]], wearing flashy jewelry, and basically being the exact opposite of the person that Colin normally is. Not only did they not seem to pick up on the fact that he was a duplicate, neither Maggie nor Rembrandt seemed to notice that his behavior was unusual. You could forgive characters on a show where you don't tend to run into alternate universe duplicates of yourself for not taking the time to question things, but not these two.
** The fact that they never consider to pack some basic survival kits is unforgivable. You can argue that they have to travel light, but there is a difference between that and travelling with nothing but the clothes on their back. A couple of water bottles, some cans of beans, a first-aid kit, an emergency blanket - small things that could fill a small bag and yet despite this so many episodes were made needlessly difficult by their absence. The season 3 episode ''Desert Storm'' where they slide into the middle of a featureless desert and nearly die of thirst and exposure springs instantly to mind. And this also goes hand-in-hand with the fact that season 2's ''Gillian of the Spirits'' where they slide to a world where technology is forbidden and are forced to resort to the black market to find tools and spare parts to fix the timer should have been the absolute last moment where those survival kits do not also include a basic toolkit and some spare parts.

* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: "The Dream Masters" (which, incidentally, is the only episode with no sliding).
* JustBeforeTheEnd / ScrewTheRulesItsTheApocalypse: "Last Days", "The Exodus, Part 1".

** In "The Young and the Relentless", Arturo uses the expression "kangaroo court" to describe his treatment on an Earth where everyone over 30 is subject to a nightly curfew.

* KidFromTheFuture: Thomas Mallory in "Roads Taken".

* KissMeImVirtual: "Virtual Slide"
* LadyLand: "The Weaker Sex", "Love Gods"

* LargeHam: Arturo, Rickman

* LeadIn: Episodes, mostly in early seasons, always started with the main characters in a random world ready to slide into the world that would be the setting for the episode. These lead-in stories rarely contribute to the main adventure itself (with some exceptions, like "The Breeder")

** When the monster attacks in the episode, "Paradise Lost", drums can be heard, presumably for dramatic effect. Except halfway into the ep, Quinn says "Do you hear that? It sounds like drums"

* LightningCanDoAnything: "Gillian of the Spirits"
* LivingDinosaurs: "Dinoslide"
* LotteryOfDoom: "Luck of the Draw"

* LovePotion: In "Dragonslide", Rembrandt attempts to use this on a world of magic to make a double of an old love fall for him. Instead, it makes him fall in love with [[spoiler:Wade]].
* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:Rembrandt]] in "Slidecage".

* MisterSeahorse: Rembrandt in "The Prince of Slides".

* MouthfulOfPi: In the season one episode ''Eggheads'', Quinn Mallory recites pi to 13 places while playing a full-contact trivia/ball game on a giant Othello board.

* {{Nanomachines}}: "New Gods for Old"

* NewOldWest: "The Good, the Bad, and the Wealthy"

** "The Other Slide of Darkness" offers a noteworthy example when Quinn re-encounters his double from the first episode. He wasn't that much different from our Quinn originally, but three years later, he's been broken and hardened by great tragedy.

* PreCrimeArrest: In "Obsession", the main characters travel to a world where ten percent of the population have psychic powers. Among the various powers is {{precognition}}.

* PricelessMingVase: In the end of ''In Dino Veritas'', we cut away to the new world the Sliders are about to land on, and see an archaeologist at a dig site, looking all excited about "the best-preserved ''Allosaurus'' skeleton I've ever seen." It's not hard to guess what happens next...

* PutOnABusToHell: According to [[WordOfGod Tracy Torme]], this was what happened to [[spoiler:Arturo, rather than being McLeaned]]. In "Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome", on a world almost exactly like Earth Prime, [[spoiler:Arturo]] and his less-ethical double have a fight as the wormhole opens and only one makes it through. Fans debated heavily over which [[spoiler:Arturo]] slid, until Torme finally confirmed in 2009 that [[spoiler:it was the alternate Arturo who managed to slide out]]. This means the real [[spoiler:Arturo]] is trapped on a world not his own and separated from his friends [[spoiler:but likely still alive, unlike the alternate one who ended up [[TakingTheBullet taking a bullet for Quinn]]]].

* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: In "Stoker", which takes place in a world where vampires are real, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is said to be the worst vampire of them all, equivalent to the legend of {{Dracula}} on Earth Prime, only real.

* SingleEpisodeHandicap: Arturo is temporarily blinded during a wargame in ''Rules of the Game''.

* ThisIsReality: During "To Catch a Slider", as Rembrandt points out the dangers of robbing a jewelry store.

* ThisWasHisTrueForm: Tweaked in ''Dragonslide''. A vanquished fire-breathing dragon reverts to its (true) human wizard form as it lays dying...and then becomes an even smaller cockroach when no one is looking, allowing it to scamper away. [[spoiler:Only to get stepped on moments later.]]

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: In "A Thousand Deaths", the team arrives on a world with very advanced, [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration holodeck]]-like video games. Rembrandt and Mallory play to win, but lose interest when they find all the other players are just interested in killing the VR characters. It gets worse when they discover that the designers replicated human reaction by integrating unwilling human hosts, like Maggie and Diana, into the games. Each VR death is very real and a host can be used a thousand times.
* WalkingTheEarth: ''Earths'', in this case.

* WhamEpisode: "Genesis". The Kromaggs have conquered Earth Prime, Rembrandt has been their prisoner for months, Wade is missing, Quinn learns of his secret past (including a [[LongLostRelative long-lost brother]]), and the Sliders have a new goal of searching for an anti-Kromagg weapon.

** From "Invasion":

** "Double Cross":

* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Rembrandt
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome" and "The Last of Eden". The latter wasn't intended as a flashback episode. [[spoiler:Because Creator/{{Fox}} mistakenly scheduled it ''after'' "The Exodus, Part 2" in which Arturo is killed, they had Creator/{{Universal}} film a brief prologue with Wade and Rembrandt in which it's established that Wade's bothered by memories of the events of "The Last of Eden".]]

** Season 3 was rife with these: "The Dream Masters" (''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''), "The Fire Within" (''Film/{{Backdraft}}'' with sentient fire), "The Prince of Slides" (''Film/{{Junior}}''), "Paradise Lost" (''Film/{{Tremors}}''), "The Breeder" (''Film/{{Species}}''), "The Last of Eden" (the Morlock aspect of ''Literature/TheTimeMachine''), "The Other Slide of Darkness" (''Film/ApocalypseNow''), "Slither" (''Film/{{Anaconda}}''), and "This Slide of Paradise" (''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'').

* RecycledInSpace: One of the most persistent complaints of Season 3. The vast majority of the episodes ripped off a number of movies, including ''Film/{{Tremors}}'', ''Film/{{Twister}}'', ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'', ''Film/{{Species}}'', ''Film/{{Anaconda}}'', and ''Film/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau''.

Over the years, the series has been slowly released on DVD. Season 5 was finally released January 2012. All five seasons are currently on American Creator/{{Netflix}}.

* FridgeLogic: In the end of the 1st episode professor Arturo called soviet leader on the statue "Lenin. Nikolay Ilyich Ulyanov-Lenin". While Lenin's real name was Vladimir Ilyich. According to the plot, Arturo knows history well, and he couldn't make mistake in name of one of the most famous politicians of XX century. More logical variant: professor Arturo really knew Lenin as Nikolay Ilyich, because in this timeline parents had called him Nikolay. The homeworld of heroes is not ours.

* AboveTheInfluence: In "Love Gods," a man is hiding from a country of beautiful women wanting him to impregnate them because he wants only his not-pretty-enough, not-young-enough partner. Awww.

** In "The Guardian," Arturo tells his younger friends, "Your generation thinks nothing of seeing ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' thirteen times. Well, I happen to feel the same way about Mozart." Creator/JohnRhysDavies, of course, played Sallah in the [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk first]] and [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade third]] movies.

** In "Into the Mystic," Wade says she has a friend named "[[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Sabrina]]" who's interested in the occult.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Kromaggs. There were a few exceptions, like Kromanus, the disgraced Kromagg leader who was in charge of the [[BuffySpeak human atomizer thing]] in "Common Ground."

** The altered "Eddies" in the fourth season episode "California Reich."
** In "A Thousand Deaths," the human hosts used to drive the simulations. They can die up to a thousand times in the games, and they're fully aware of what is happening to them.

* ApocalypseAnarchy: This is the story of several episodes, particularly "Last Days" and "The Exodus, Part 1," in which the end is near and society has degenerated in this way.

** In "The Alternateville Horror," Colin claims to have seen a ghost, but is laughed off by the others for even thinking such a thing. [[spoiler:They aren't ghosts; just doubles of the Sliders trapped on another dimensional plane as a result of a sliding mishap.]] Aside from the many strange things they've seen in their journeys, this is particularly ridiculous when you consider that Quinn himself was rendered ghost-like in Season 2's "Gillian of the Spirits" and could only be seen by one person. [[spoiler:Considering that, Quinn and Rembrandt should've been more receptive to what Colin was talking about.]]

** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in "The Other Slide of Darkness," where both Rembrandt and Maggie express disbelief in the superstitious beliefs expressed by the locals. Rembrandt's disbelief stems from a personal tragedy; Maggie's, however, is played straight, which gets her snapped at by the more-experienced Wade.

* BigNo: Wade at the end of "Luck of the Draw," upon discovering that Quinn [[spoiler:got shot in the back]] right before jumping through the wormhole.

* BloodSport: In the Season 3 premiere "Rules of the Game," the sliders land on a world that follows this trope.
* BookEnds: In "The Exodus, Part 2," Rickman makes his first escape from our heroes with Quinn running after him, but the vortex vanishes before he gets there. In "This Slide of Paradise" it's Rickman who tries and fails to get to a vortex before it vanishes. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, it happens to be on the edge of a cliff...]]
* BountyHunter: In the Season 2 premiere "Into the Mystic," the sliders are pursued by a diminutive bounty hunter after skipping out on paying a witch doctor's bill.
* BoxingLesson: In "The Guardian," Quinn gives a younger version of himself these to change a traumatic event in his life.
* BrassBalls: In "The Exodus, Part 1," Quinn remarks to Maggie that he can hear her "brass balls" clink.

* CaliforniaCollapse: In the Season 3 finale "This Slide of Paradise," they slide to a world where California has broken up into islands.

** Game show host Geoff Edwards (''Series/TreasureHuntUS'', ''Series/{{Jackpot}}'', ''Series/{{Starcade}}'', ''Series/ChainReaction'') appears as himself (or, an alternate-universe version of himeself, at any rate) in the episode "Luck of the Draw."
** Singer Mel Tormé appears in "Greatfellas," wearing a cowboy hat and playing a country and western tune.

* CelebrityParadox: On the episode "Data World," Rembrandt said "What is this, ''Film/{{Scream 3}}''?" Guess which one of his co-stars got killed (in-character) in ''Film/{{Scream 2}}''?

** In "Fever," the gang visits an alternate Earth decimated by a plague. Eventually, they realize that antibiotics were never discovered in this timeline, so Arturo creates penicillin, which becomes the Chemical Messiah for this world.
** In "New Gods for Old," nanite-tainted water absorbs people into a HiveMind.
* ChristmasEpisode: Season 3's "Season's Greedings."

* ContaminationSituation: In "Fever," Wade becomes infected with a plague.

** Despite there being "infinite universes," the Sliders have on more than one occasion run into another slider they had already met by pure chance (Quinn's double from the Pilot in ''The Other Slide of Darkness,'' and the Kromagg named Kolitar from the episode ''Slidecage'' being encountered again in ''Way Out West'').
** With there being "infinite universes," the chances that they would land on Earth Prime by pure chance, like they do in mid-Season 3, is next to impossible.

* DigitalHeadSwap: In "Dead Man Sliding," on a world where criminals are tried and executed live on television, a corrupt TV host killed someone on-camera and then framed that world's Quinn by editing his head onto his own body.

** "The Breeder," which [[spoiler:has Dr. Sylvius being overtaken by the symbiote creature. As they have no time, the Sliders choose to slide out with a weakened Maggie rather than try to help the doctor. With the Sliders gone and the doctor overtaken, the symbiote is free to continue its goals unimpeded.]]

** In "The King is Back," on an Earth where Rembrandt was a hugely successful singer who died young, Rembrandt Prime decides to "come out of hiding" and take over where he left off. But then the "real" Rembrandt decides to really come out of his self-imposed exile, taking over from Rembrandt Prime at his comeback concert and declaring Rembrandt Prime "the greatest [[ElvisImpersonator Rembrandt Brown impersonator]] in the world."

* ETGaveUsWiFi: In "The Return of Maggie Beckett," the Roswell crash did happen, but instead of being covered up, a trade agreement was struck. TheGreys gave Earth new technologies, allowing for significant advances; this included DNA advances, allowing for a HalfHumanHybrid to appear.

** OppositeSexClone: Logan St. Clair is a [[spoiler:female double of Quinn]] in "Double Cross."

* FakeoutEscape: Attempted unsuccessfully in the Western-themed episode "Way Out West." It turns out that [[spoiler:Kromaggs have their own westerns]].
* FakeShemp: The shots from above during the fifth season premiere "The Unstuck Man," after Jerry O'Connell left the show.

* FridgeLogic: In the end of 1st episode professor Arthuro called soviet leader on the staute "Lenin. Nikolay Ilyich Ulyanov-Lenin". While Lenin's real name was Vladimir Ilyich. According to the plot, Arthuro knows history well, and he couldn't make mistake in name of one of the most famous politicians of XX centure. More logical variant: professor Arthuro really knew Lenin as Nikolay Ilyich, because in this timeline parents had called him Nikolay. The homeworld of heroes is not our.

* GaveUpTooSoon: In the episode "Into the Mystic," the characters only have a few seconds to decide whether or not to stay on the latest parallel Earth they've landed on. Unfortunately for them since they had been gone, a sports team they knew had moved to a different city and won the championship, O.J. Simpson had been arrested and was still on trial, and they had trouble believing that the world could have changed so much in just two years. To see if it's their home or not, Quinn tries a fence, knowing it is always squeaky ([[CallBack something he does in the pilot]]), and it doesn't squeak. After they leave, a gardener with an oil can comes into view.

* GenderRarityValue: "Love Gods," again.

** In the episode "Summer of Love," the Sliders first land on a world where the United States has been mostly devastated by these. A mix of a spider and wasp (yes, [[NightmareFuel flying spiders the size of your head]]), they were genetically engineered for pest control--namely the actual killer bees... And ironically enough, a few queens escaped from the labs and suddenly the cure became a lot worse than the plague.
** In "Rules of the Game," one of the {{death trap}}s sees Rembrandt stuck to a metal web and being threatened by three robotic spiders.

* GirlsWithMoustaches: In "Time and Again World," the Sliders travel to a world where women have mustaches. Rembrandt complains about how it feels to kiss a woman with a mustache and Wade comments that now he knows how women feel.
* GloryDays: Rembrandt used to be a singer in a Motown band, who dumped him once they got famous. He's in the middle of staging his "big comeback" when he gets accidentally sucked into a wormhole along with the rest of the team. For the first season, he refers to himself as "[[ManlyTears The Crying Man]]," a nickname he acquired from his one hit song, though this becomes less and less relevant as the show goes on due to CharacterDevelopment.
* GovernmentDrugEnforcement: In "Just Say Yes," in one of the PlanetOfHats worlds they visit, UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud accidentally discovered the pharmaceutical properties of lithium, which he so enjoyed that [[ForWantOfANail he became a biochemist instead of a psychologist]]. As a result, the government mandates psychotropic drug use by everyone, and the alternate Quinn is a leader of an [[LaResistance anti-drug resistance]].

* HalfHumanHybrids: The Humaggs in "The Dying Fields."

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Arturo in "The Exodus, Part 2" (a very debatable one given the circumstances), Wade in "Requiem."]]

** In "The Exodus, Part 2," the conflict over [[spoiler:using that world's timer to reach their home coordinates at the expense of that world]] is quite silly. At the very least, [[spoiler:Quinn could have sent everyone but himself home with a literal push of a button]], yet they keep acting like it's an all-or-none deal. Note that Quinn would end up doing exactly this in the season finale.

** There were several times in Season 4 when the characters were left facing the possibility that they might not be able to all leave this world together and one of them would therefore be stuck there. The problem with this as a dramatic point was that by this point the characters could control where they slid. As a result of this, they could always leave a world and then come back later. In fact, they did exactly that in "Prophets and Loss." Then, in "Asylum," Quinn is injured and the other characters face the possibility that he won't be well enough to travel and they'll either have to leave him here or be stuck for 29 years. Even if you justify that case by assuming that they needed Quinn to show them how to travel back, when Quinn ends up all alone with the timer in "Lipschitz Live!", he never seems to consider that if the other characters don't find him by the time he has to slide that he could simply give them a location to meet him when he came back. "California Reich" also ends with them having two minutes to decide whether a world is safe to leave someone in rather than simply leaving and then coming back when they have more time.

* IHatePastMe / MyFutureSelfAndMe: "The Guardian." While not outright [[TimeTravel time-traveling]], the Sliders travel to a world over a decade behind theirs. Quinn encounters his past self shortly after the death of his father, and struggles to help his younger double learn [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong to defend himself against a bully rather than lash out in anger like he himself did]].

** Jerry's ''Film/StandByMe'' co-star Corey Feldman appears as Reed in "Electric Twister Acid Test." In a ShoutOut, Quinn and Reed even perform a handshake from the movie, apparently at the actors' suggestion.

* InvisibleMainCharacter: Quinn in "Gillian of the Spirits," due to the wormhole being struck by lightning as he leaps inside.

* JustBeforeTheEnd / ScrewTheRulesItsTheApocalypse: "Last Days," "The Exodus, Part 1."

** In "The Young and the Relentless," Arturo uses the expression "kangaroo court" to describe his treatment on an Earth where everyone over 30 is subject to a nightly curfew.
** In "Dead Man Sliding," the Sliders end up in a world where the justice system has become a GameShow and lawyers are banned. When Arturo tries to object to this attitude that Quinn may as well be convicted, the host warns him not to try any other "lawyer tricks."
* KidFromTheFuture: Thomas Mallory in "Roads Taken."

* KirksRock: Featured in the episode "Electric Twister Acid Test."

* LadyLand: "The Weaker Sex," "Love Gods"

* LotusEaterMachine: "Virtual Slide," "The Chasm."
* LovePotion: In "Dragonslide," Rembrandt attempts to use this on a world of magic to make a double of an old love fall for him. Instead, it makes him fall in love with [[spoiler:Wade]].
* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:Rembrandt]] in "Slidecage."

* MisterSeahorse: Rembrandt in "The Prince of Slides."

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "Last Days," the characters arrive in a world that's threatened by an asteroid, and which doesn't have nuclear capabilities. By the end of the episode, thanks to them, it does... and it's ''not'' shown to be a good thing. At all.

* NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat: "Summer of Love" ends with them arriving a world, only to notice the 100ft tsunami rapidly approaching San Francisco. The next (intended) episode is "The Prince of Wails," which began with the group stranded on top of a large skyscraper surrounded by flood waters and giant sharks, with little explanation how they managed to get there in time.

* PoliticiansKissBabies: In "The Weaker Sex," where Arturo runs for Mayor of San Francisco, he screws this up by chasing after a woman shouting "Madam, I need to kiss your baby!"

* PreCrimeArrest: In "Obsession," the main characters travel to a world where ten percent of the population have psychic powers. Among the various powers is {{precognition}}.

* PutOnABusToHell: According to [[WordOfGod Tracy Torme]], this was what happened to [[spoiler:Arturo, rather than being McLeaned]]. In "Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome," on a world almost exactly like Earth Prime, [[spoiler:Arturo]] and his less-ethical double have a fight as the wormhole opens and only one makes it through. Fans debated heavily over which [[spoiler:Arturo]] slid, until Torme finally confirmed in 2009 that [[spoiler:it was the alternate Arturo who managed to slide out]]. This means the real [[spoiler:Arturo]] is trapped on a world not his own and separated from his friends [[spoiler:but likely still alive, unlike the alternate one who ended up [[TakingTheBullet taking a bullet for Quinn]]]].
** Later, Colin became "unstuck," meaning that he would involuntarily travel from one dimension to the next for the rest of his life. Dr. Geiger (a character who has experienced this before but found an "anchor") has compared this experience to being caught in a violent storm.

* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: In "Stoker," which takes place in a world where vampires are real, UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is said to be the worst vampire of them all, equivalent to the legend of {{Dracula}} on Earth Prime, only real.

** Also the Humaggs in Season 4's "The Dying Fields."

** In "Gillian of the Spirits," Quinn [[spoiler:is stuck in an astral plane, making him invisible and intangible. In one scene, he is talking to the only person who can see him (the titular Gillian) in the back of a taxi, and]] the driver, confused, asks twice "Are you talkin' to me?" then, after Quinn gets out, he says [[Film/TaxiDriver "There's no one else here, so you must be talkin' to me!"]]
** In "Into the Mystic," Wade mentions she has a friend [[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch named Sabrina who is into witchcraft]].

* SmartPeopleKnowLatin: In "Eggheads," the protagonists end up in a world where being smart and well-educated is cool (they pass a punk on the street with a boombox blasting classical music). The episode's BigBad is a mobster who constantly likes to quote phrases in Latin and gets annoyed when the others have no idea what he said. At the end of the episode, right before sliding, Quinn turns around and spouts a phrase in Latin, which turns out to be an insult.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Sliders'' is this to ''Series/QuantumLeap''. The shows share a similar episode formula, ''Sliders'' was advertised at least once as "''Quantum Leap'' with an edge," and dialogue in a later episode implies that Maggie Beckett may be Sam Beckett's niece.

* SpringtimeForHitler: In "The Weaker Sex," Arturo tries to throw an election by weeping in front of the camera, but it backfires and his approval ratings go up.

* ThisIsReality: During "To Catch a Slider," as Rembrandt points out the dangers of robbing a jewelry store.

* TyrannosaurusRex: One appears in "Dinoslide."

* TheUnreveal: At the end of "Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome," it's never made clear ''which'' Arturo actually slid with them.
** [[spoiler:[[WordOfGod Tracy Tormé]] finally revealed in 2009 that it was the ''wrong'' Arturo. It still leaves open the question of why did the wrong one still ended up sacrificing himself for Quinn in "The Exodus, Part 2."]]

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Happens in [[spoiler:"To Catch a Slider," where Mallory expresses interest in an actress who turns out to be a man. It's somewhat subverted in that this was public knowledge. It's just that none of the Sliders could've possibly known because they had just recently arrived.]]

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: In "A Thousand Deaths," the team arrives on a world with very advanced, [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration holodeck]]-like video games. Rembrandt and Mallory play to win, but lose interest when they find all the other players are just interested in killing the VR characters. It gets worse when they discover that the designers replicated human reaction by integrating unwilling human hosts, like Maggie and Diana, into the games. Each VR death is very real and a host can be used a thousand times.

* WhamEpisode: "Genesis." The Kromaggs have conquered Earth Prime, Rembrandt has been their prisoner for months, Wade is missing, Quinn learns of his secret past (including a [[LongLostRelative long-lost brother]]), and the Sliders have a new goal of searching for an anti-Kromagg weapon.

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome" and "The Last of Eden." The latter wasn't intended as a flashback episode. [[spoiler:Because Creator/{{Fox}} mistakenly scheduled it ''after'' "The Exodus, Part 2" in which Arturo is killed, they had Creator/{{Universal}} film a brief prologue with Wade and Rembrandt in which it's established that Wade's bothered by memories of the events of "The Last of Eden."]]

** In "Into the Mystic," the Sliders have a chance to go home, think they failed, and leave[[spoiler:--only for viewers to then see they actually ''were'' home]].

** They make it home again in "Genesis," but with the world conquered by the Kromaggs, they leave to find a weapon to defeat them.
* YourMindMakesItReal: "The Dream Masters." Said group is able to enter other people's dreams and twist them into whatever horrifying nightmares they can think of. After Wade falls victim to them, the other Sliders manage to find a way to enter the dream and pull similar tricks to their advantage. After all, it's just a dream. Strangely, at the end, the bad guy is shown with his hand on fire, which happened in the dream, making one wander where the fire came from.

Over the years, the series has been slowly released on DVD. Season 5 was finally released January 2012. All five seasons are currently on Creator/{{Netflix}}.