Sliders
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Our Review
Cast & Key People
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Our Review
Sliders (1995) is a adventure and fantasy series from Syfy. It has built a run of 87 episodes at roughly 60 minutes each. It premiered on March 22, 1995. Viewers rate it 7.8 out of 10. It is currently ended. It runs 5 seasons.
What Sliders Is About
Brilliant grad student Quinn has created a device that opens a wormhole to an infinite number of parallel universes where history has taken different paths. His first test trip goes awry stranding his physics professor Arturo, his friend Wade, and bystander Rembrandt “Crying Man” Brown in parallel San Francisco. Now, this foursome of Sliders must travel from one alternate reality to another in the hope of somehow finding their way home.
What to Expect When You Watch
Episodes run about 60 minutes, which keeps the pace tight, the full run covers 87 episodes, spread across 5 seasons and it leans into its adventure/fantasy roots while leaving room for the quieter character beats.
Performance-wise the series leans on Cleavant Derricks, Jerry O'Connell and Sabrina Lloyd to carry the emotional weight, with the rest of the ensemble filling out the world around them.
Cast and Creative Team
Cleavant Derricks, Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd, Kari Wuhrer, John Rhys-Davies and Tembi Locke lead the cast.
Key roles include Cleavant Derricks as Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown; Jerry O'Connell as Quinn Mallory; Sabrina Lloyd as Wade Welles; Kari Wuhrer as Maggie Beckett; John Rhys-Davies as Professor Maximillian Arturo.
Why It Stands Out
Fans of adventure, fantasy and science-fiction have a clear reason to give this one a shot. It sits comfortably alongside Syfy’s other originals, a 7.8/10 audience score puts it in steady company and it commits to its premise instead of hedging between tones.
Released in 1995 and carried by Syfy with the series still ended, it lands hardest with adventure and fantasy viewers.
How Sliders Compares
If Sliders lands for you, the next stops are Avatar: The Last Airbender, Firefly and Game of Thrones, which share its adventure/fantasy lean.
Each of those sits at a different point on the same spectrum, so they make a natural follow-up once you finish the run here.
Where to Stream
Sliders comes from Syfy. Check your preferred platform for current availability, since regional rights move around.
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On the whole Sliders is the kind of series that rewards a patient watch, with Cleavant Derricks and Jerry O'Connell doing the heaviest lifting, a tone that stays true to its adventure/fantasy roots, It has held up since 1995 and so if the premise sounds like your lane, the execution holds up.
The Bottom Line
Sliders is a safe bet for anyone already inside the adventure and fantasy lane, at 87 episodes it is an easy run to work through, the audience score holds around 7.8/10 and so there is little risk in starting it tonight.
Verdict: 7.8/10. Watch it if you want adventure/fantasy you can settle into.
