The worst episodes of Sliders
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
The Sliders encounter a world infected by bacteria that transforms inhabitants into flesh-eating creatures---one of which takes a bite out of Quinn.
- 02
In a world reminiscent of the Roaring Twenties, the Sliders confront Rembrandt's evil double, a crooked cop tied to gangsters dealing in...bootleg coffee.
- 03
Quantum leaps distress Diana, who encounters a troubled double of herself; and Mallory, who experiences flashbacks to Quinn's life that rack him physically and emotionally.
- 04
Mallory falls for a rebel with a cause. She's the driven, sensuous leader of a gang of motorcyclists combatting authority in a world where gas-powered vehicles are outlawed.
- 05
A communal group of spiritual healers called the Believers tend to Mallory, who's been paralyzed in a hurried slide. But there's a catch to the cure: the patient loses individuality.
- 06
At a state-of-the-art entertainment center that offers role-playing scenarios, Maggie is thrust into a virtual-reality drama: a Civil War battlefield that traumatizes her.
- 07
On a world with a television program based on the sliders' adventures, a psychic predicts the sliders' fate: they die in their next slide. He begs Rembrandt, Maggie, Diana and Mallory stay, although once again they do not want to stay. Their timer is destroyed and they have to find another way out, but there's a catch, only one can go.
- 08
As doomsday looms, Quinn and Maggie race to find a suitable parallel world, but discover that Rickman has a deadly ulterior motive for finding such a world.
- 09
On an island, the Sliders find refuge with a besieged monastic people.
- 10
The sliders exit a vortex in the middle of the ocean, and must join the crew of a pirate ship in order to get back to California.
- 11
The group lands on a world where Rembrandt is regarded as a deity.
- 12
All is not calm for the Sliders, whose Christmas is spent in a giant mall where customers run up bills, then become virtual prisoners while trying to pay them off.
- 13
A megalomaniac plots to use the sliders and the time-altering vortex in a scheme for world domination.
- 14
Warfare in an eerie realm engages the Sliders, who are recruited to fight the Kromaggs by an earthling sergeant with a closely guarded secret. It may hold the key to the Sliders' freedom.
- 15
A trumped-up sex scandal links Maggie to the President, whose chief of staff uses rumors of their alleged affair to distract the public from an ongoing war with Switzerland.
- 16
A beloved, long-lost Slider contacts Rembrandt, who subsequently winds up being used by the crafty Kromaggs in a biotechnological plot to eliminate all humans.
- 17
Maggie is kidnapped by an all-powerful conglomerate, which controls food, clothing and other essentials via a credit system that assigns citizens data codes.
- 18
Peril awaits Maggie in her home town of Fresno, Cal., where she's mistaken for her double: a decorated astronaut who was presumably killed on a mission to Mars.
- 19
The vortex deposits the Sliders in a "neural remapping center," where Diana is mistaken for a patient: an internee prepped for brain surgery that quashes individuality.
- 20
The sliders must find a gem needed to repair their malfunctioning timer.
- 21
In their final encounter with Dr. Geiger, the scientist reveals that he can separate Mallory from his double Quinn.
- 22
The sliders become involved in a plot involving a disgraced Federal judge, an underground resistance movement and an America under martial law.
- 23
Arturo is seriously injured when the Sliders become unwitting participants in a bloody activity known as "The Game," played in a world in which athletes must follow one rule to win: stay alive.
- 24
While vacationing, the Sliders stumble across a scientist whose research involving supernatural snakes gets out of hand when one of the critters escapes from captivity.
- 25
A glitch in their slide leaves Maggie's and Quinn's souls split between dimensions, and as their health in one world deteriorates, they live an entire life together in another. Meanwhile, Colin and Rembrandt must trust a mysterious man to keep their friends from dying.
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