Sliders (TV series)
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| Genre | Science fiction, Fantasy |
| Created by |
Tracy Tormé Robert K. Weiss |
| Starring |
Jerry O'Connell Cleavant Derricks Sabrina Lloyd John Rhys-Davies Kari Wuhrer Charlie O'Connell Robert Floyd Tembi Locke |
| Music by | Danny Lux |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 88 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Tracy Tormé Robert K. Weiss John Landis Leslie Belzberg Alan Barnette Bill Dial David Peckinpah |
| Running time | 44 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
St. Clare Entertainment Universal Television |
| Distributor | NBCUniversal Television Distribution |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Fox (Seasons 1–3) Sci Fi Channel (Seasons 4-5) |
| Original release | March 22, 1995 – December 29, 1999 (UK) February 4, 2000 (US) |
Sliders is an American science fiction and fantasy television series created by Robert K. Weiss and Tracy Tormé. It was broadcast for five seasons between 1995 and 2000. The series follows a group of travelers as they use a wormhole to "slide" between different parallel universes. Tormé, Weiss, Leslie Belzberg, John Landis, David Peckinpah, Bill Dial and Alan Barnette served as executive producers at different times of the production. For its first two seasons it was produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was filmed primarily in Los Angeles, California, USA in the last three seasons.
Since its début on March 22, 1995, the first three seasons were broadcast by the Fox network. After being canceled by Fox, the series moved to Sci Fi Channel for its final two seasons. The last new episode first aired on December 29, 1999 in the United Kingdom, and was broadcast on Sci Fi Channel on February 4, 2000.
The show follows a group of people, called "Sliders", as they travel ("sliding") between different Earths in parallel universes via a vortex-like wormhole, hoping to return safely to their original Earth Prime. The vortex can only be opened after a specific but random period of time on each new universe, monitored by a countdown clock on a portable timer that they carry; failure to open the vortex in time would strand the Sliders for 29.7 years in that universe. While waiting for the timer countdown, the group learns about the differences in the alternate Earth from their own, and often become unwillingly involved in events that they must resolve before they can safely leave via the vortex. The travelers have no control over what world they end up in, but continually look for means to find Earth Prime.
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