History Series / Sliders

* {{Fanservice}}: Quinn. Season 3's "[[Recap/SlidersS03E03ElectricTwisterAcidTest Electric Twister Acid Test]]" features an interrogation in which Quinn has his shirt off for no reason.

* LivingDinosaurs: "[[Recap/SlidersS03E23Dinoslide Dinoslide]]".

Upon his return, Quinn realizes a double from a parallel universe has taken his place in the meantime and sent his life in turmoil by telling off his physics professor Maximillian Arturo (Creator/JohnRhysDavies), hitting on his coworker and platonic friend Wade Welles (Creator/SabrinaLloyd) and getting him fired. The double then reveals himself to Quinn and explains parallel universes. Before leaving, he starts giving Quinn a warning about his timing device, but doesn't finish before he is taken back. Enthusiastic about his discoveries, Quinn offers visiting Wade and Professor Arturo to take them on a tour to a parallel world, but fearing the wormhole wouldn't be able to hold three people, powers it up too much, leading it to suck in not only Quinn, Wade and Professor Arturo, but also Rembrandt Brown (Creator/CleavantDerricks) , an R'n'B singer passing by his house on his way to sing the National Anthem at a baseball game.

** This was played with with Maggie. At first, the show strongly averted it because she was definitely nothing like the Professor whom she replaced. However, at the start of season four once Wade left the cast Maggie showed an almost immediate change in personality (and even hairstyle) moving away from the hard vengeful militaristic unemotional woman she'd been in season three to much more compassionate and feminine role (now that Wade was no longer there to be TheChick) which was more or less a merge of hers and Wade's previous characters.

* CutShort: Cancelled at the end of its fifth season on a CliffHanger. A [[PsychicPowers Psychic]] tells the heroes [[EverybodyDies Everybody Is Going To Die]], requiring one to go on one last slide to save everything. Not every fan was broken up about the finale; for many, the show [[JumpTheShark hadn't been worth watching for years]]. The producers did a cliff hanger because they were hoping the fans would convince the network for [[http://www.dimensionofcontinuity.com/bts.htm#cliff another season]]. In-universe, the last episode is set on an Earth where ''Sliders'' is a hugely popular [[http://sliders.wikia.com/wiki/The_Seer TV show]].

** 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]]]].

* HiddenDepths: Arturo, Rembrandt, Conrad Bennish Jr., Maggie.

* HollywoodNerd: Quinn.
* HomemadeInventions: The timer Quinn created.
* TheHomewardJourney: The show's premise.

* HumansAreUgly: Or so the Kromaggs think.

** Maggie also qualifies, having gone from a callous and unsympathetic former soldier who wasn't all that welcoming to the team (or welcomed, see Cerebus Syndrome above) to far more personable and relatable by the Creator/SyFy Channel years, to the point of becoming Rembrandt's #2 to newer Sliders Diana and Mallory by the final season. And just like Rembrandt, she also benefits from being the longest lasting out of all the non-original Sliders.

* FanficFuel: Colin's journey through the dimensions [[spoiler: while unstuck]].

* MarsNeedsWomen: The Kromaggs, unfortunately for [[Spoiler: Wade who is hauled off to a Kromagg slave breeding camp, reputedly because the actress asked for equal pay with her male co-stars]].

* MarsNeedsWomen: The Kromaggs, unfortunately for [[Wade: who is hauled off to a Kromagg slave breeding camp, reputedly because the actress asked for equal pay with her male co-stars]].

* MarsNeedsWomen: The Kromaggs.

** "[[Recap/SlidersS03E19TheBreeder 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. Many fans saw this as an allegory on society's complacency towards the AIDS epidemic ravaging San Francisco with medical science eventually suppressing it.]]

** "[[Recap/SlidersS03E19TheBreeder 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. Many fans saw this as a commentary on society's complacency towards the AIDS epidemic ravaging San Francisco prior to medical science eventually suppressing it.]]

** "[[Recap/SlidersS03E19TheBreeder 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.]]

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: This was played with with Maggie. At first, the show strongly averted it because she was definitely nothing like the Professor whom she replaced. However, at the start of season four once Wade left the cast Maggie showed an almost immediate change in personality (and even hairstyle) moving away from the hard vengeful militaristic unemotional woman she'd been in season three to much more compassionate and feminine role (now that Wade was no longer there to be TheChick) which was more or less a merge of hers and Wade's previous characters.

* CutShort: Canceled at the end of its fifth season on a CliffHanger. A [[PsychicPowers Psychic]] tells the heroes [[EverybodyDies Everybody Is Going To Die]], requiring one to go on one last slide to save everything. Not every fan was broken up about the finale; for many, the show [[JumpTheShark hadn't been worth watching for years]]. The producers did a cliff hanger because they were hoping the fans would convince the network for [[http://www.dimensionofcontinuity.com/bts.htm#cliff another season]]. In-universe, the last episode is set on an Earth where ''Sliders'' is a hugely popular [[http://sliders.wikia.com/wiki/The_Seer TV show]].

** [[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".]]

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

Upon his return, Quinn realizes a double from a parallel universe has taken his place in the meantime and sent his life in turmoil by telling off his physics professor Maximillian Arturo (Creator/JohnRhysDavies) , hitting on his coworker and platonic friend Wade Welles (Creator/SabrinaLloyd) and getting him fired. The double then reveals himself to Quinn and explains parallel universes. Before leaving, he starts giving Quinn a warning about his timing device, but doesn't finish before he is taken back. Enthusiastic about his discoveries, Quinn offers visiting Wade and Professor Arturo to take them on a tour to a parallel world, but fearing the wormhole wouldn't be able to hold three people, powers it up too much, leading it to suck in not only Quinn, Wade and Professor Arturo, but also Rembrandt Brown (Creator/CleavantDerricks) , an R'n'B singer passing by his house on his way to sing the National Anthem at a baseball game.

* NotSoDifferent: A recurring theme whenever someone in the group encounters a double. Lampshaded in "The Young and the Relentless" by Arturo:
-->"Well, like it or not, all the doubles we meet on these worlds are essentially us; they've just made different choices. Some will be glorious and some will be wholly despicable."

* 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. 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.")]]