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This article is from the Sliders FAQ, by Ed Hall sliders@nym.alias.net with numerous contributions by others.

01 Defining The Show - Sliders

The answer to what is Sliders is not so easy. The British magazine Starburst
in issue 237 described it as the show that can be absolutely anything. Tracy
Torme dreamt up the Sliders concept after reading a book on the american
revolution.

"SLIDERS is a one-hour action/adventure series with a touch of black comedy.
The series chronicles the cosmic roller coaster ride taken by four eclectic
characters who discover a "wormhole" between dimensions that transports them
to parallel universes. Led by Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell), a handsome
physics grad student who accidentally creates the gateway while working on
an experiment in his basement, the interdimensional travelers include Wade
Wells (Sabrina Lloyd), a beautiful computer tech; brilliant but arrogant
physics professor Maximillian Arturo (John Rhys-Davies); and former R&B
singer Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown (Cleavant Derricks), who is sucked into
the vortex by mistake as he drives by Mallory's house.

Each week, the Sliders travel to a different parallel universe in which
they find themselves in present-day alternative versions of Earth. The
Sliders might encounter, for example, worlds in which the Communists have
won the Cold War; nuclear winter prevails or the male gender is considered
the weaker sex. At each stop, the Sliders face the jeopardy, surprise and
thrill of encountering worlds that may look familiar but are never quite
what they appear to be.

SLIDERS, created by Robert K. Weiss and Tracy Torme, is produced by St.
Clare Entertainment and distributed by MCA Television Limited. Tracy Torme,
Jacob Epstein and Alan Barnette are the Executive Producers and Robert K.
Weiss is Executive Consultant."
--from a Fox Broadcasting press release
of the first series

Since then, the four who make up the Sliders have changed, and the
series has moved to Universal, Fox and then to Sci-Fi Channel, before
the last season was screened.

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