Sliders: Season 3

1996 · 25 episodes · ★ 6.5

What Season 3 of Sliders

Season 3 of Sliders Has 25 episodes and premiered on September 20, 1996. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

25episodes

Sep 20, 1996premiered

May 16, 1997latest episode

17.9 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Rules of the Game
Sep 20, 1996 · 43 min
The Sliders become involuntarily apart of a human war game where the only winners are the ones that stay alive.
Directing: Oscar L. Costo · Writing: Josef Anderson · Starring: Joshua Malina, Laurie Fortier
3x02 Double Cross
Sep 27, 1996 · 43 min
On a world quickly running out of natural resources, Rembrandt meets his number one fan but finds her to be a little too friendly. Meanwhile, Quinn and the others meet Logan, a scientist at Prototronics that's trying to develop sliding. However, they learn her plans for sliding are far from noble.
Directing: Richard Compton · Writing: Paul Jackson, Tony Blake · Starring: Zoe McLellan, Mari Morrow, Michael Bryan French, Diana Castle
3x03 Electric Twister Acid Test
Oct 4, 1996 · 43 min
The Sliders arrive on a world where electric tornadoes have almost completely wiped out the population. They find a secluded village somehow protected from the tornadoes and a dictator that may prevent the team from ever sliding again.
Directing: Oscar L. Costo · Writing: Scott Smith Miller · Starring: Corey Feldman, Julie Benz, Josh Coxx, Jordan Warkol
3x04 The Guardian
Oct 11, 1996 · 43 min
The Sliders arrive on a world just like their own, only time is moving at a rate of twelve years slower than normal. There, Quinn encounters his young double and tries to change an upcoming event in his life, despite the other Sliders' warnings.
Directing: Adam Nimoy · Writing: Tracy Tormé · Starring: Meadow Sisto, Phillip Van Dyke, Leslie Horan, Marty York
3x05 The Dream Masters
Oct 18, 1996 · 43 min
On a world where a group of social misfits have learned to torture people by entering their dreams, Wade becomes a target of the group's leader.
Directing: Jefery Levy · Writing: Melinda M. Snodgrass, Scott Smith Miller · Starring: Zack Ward, Michael Des Barres, Katherine LaNasa, Rodney Eastman
3x06 Desert Storm
Nov 1, 1996 · 43 min
The Sliders land on a world with little water and come to the aid of a mysterious young woman whose gift to find water is being exploited by a group of thugs.
Directing: Jim Johnston · Writing: Matt Dearborn · Starring: Constance Forslund, Judson Mills, Gina Philips, Ken Steadman
3x07 Dragonslide
Nov 8, 1996 · 43 min
On a world of magic and dragons, Quinn is mistaken for a wizard and kidnapped by an evil warlock bent on immortality. Meanwhile, Wade tries to help Rembrandt's love troubles with a love potion, but it backfires and makes Rembrandt fall in love with her.
Directing: David Livingston · Writing: Tony Blake, Paul Jackson · Starring: Gregory Paul Martin, Francis Guinan, Max Grodénchik, Michelle Burke
3x08 The Fire Within
Nov 15, 1996 · 43 min
After barely escaping a world engulfed in flames, the Sliders now find themselves in a Los Angeles dependent on the sale and production of oil. Unfortunately, they learn they've brought along a piece of the fire from the last world and that it has a mind of it's own.
Directing: Jefery Levy · Writing: Josef Anderson · Starring: Brigitta Dau, Anthony Tyler Quinn, Lynn Clark, Ferdinand Carangelo
3x09 The Prince of Slides
Nov 22, 1996 · 43 min
On a world where the American government is a monarchy, Rembrandt is mistaken for his double and discovers that he is about to be a father of royalty. The only problem is, on this world, it's the men who give birth to children.
Directing: Richard Compton · Writing: Eleah Horwitz · Starring: Hallie Foote, Dan Gauthier, Clinton Derricks-Carroll, Collin Bernsen
3x10 Dead Man Sliding
Nov 29, 1996 · 43 min
On a world where the legal system is in the form of televised game shows, Quinn is arrested, tried and sentenced to death for the crimes of his double.
Directing: Richard Compton · Writing: Nan Hagan · Starring: Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Lisa Rieffel, Don Most, Fredric Lehne
3x11 State of the A.R.T.
Dec 6, 1996 · 43 min
The Sliders land on a world where the human race was wiped out by robots. Quinn and Rembrandt are captured by the robot's demented creator and are going to be used in a mind-transfer experiment.
Directing: John T. Kretchmer · Writing: Nan Hagan · Starring: Eddie Mills, Robert Englund, Jeff Rector, Jerry Rector
3x12 Season's Greedings
Dec 20, 1996 · 43 min
On a world where people are enticed by consumerism and giant malls in the sky, the Sliders get jobs as mall employees to find the mother of an abandoned child. Arturo is a reluctant Santa, Rembrandt and Wade his elves while Quinn gets an administrative job. Meanwhile, Wade faces some strong emotions when she meets her sister and father.
Directing: Richard Compton · Writing: Eleah Horwitz · Starring: Chase Masterson, Jacqueline Obradors, Stuart Fratkin, Neil Roberts
3x13 Murder Most Foul
Jan 3, 1997 · 43 min
On an over-worked world with an uptight population, Arturo is thought to be a fracture and is sent to a fantasy camp for a form of relaxation. When the others find him, they see he has been brainwashed into thinking he is a great detective on the trail of a Jack the Ripper-like murderer.
Directing: Jeff Woolnough · Writing: David E. Peckinpah · Starring: Brian McNamara, Brigid Brannagh, Adam Wylie, David Purdham
3x14 Slide Like an Egyptian
Jan 17, 1997 · 43 min
On a world ruled by Egyptian culture, Quinn is used in a life-after-death experiment and thought dead. The others miss the slide when trying to save a woman from a sacrifice and become trapped in a pyramid with a big scarab.
Directing: Adam Nimoy · Writing: Scott Smith Miller · Starring: Jim Turner, Apollonia Kotero, Shaun Toub, Claudette Mink
3x15 Paradise Lost
Jan 31, 1997 · 43 min
The Sliders arrive in a small community, where the citizens are all young and fearful of outsiders. They don't expect much trouble, until they uncover a deadly secret.
Directing: Jim Johnston · Writing: Steve Stoliar · Starring: Rob Youngblood, Will Schaub, Lara Steinick, Patricia Gebhard
3x16 The Exodus (1)
Feb 21, 1997 · 43 min
Things don't look good for the Sliders when they slide to a world that's about to be eradicated by a rogue pulsar. Soon they discover that this world has been developing sliding technology and pool their resources with the U.S. government in a race to escape to a parallel Earth.
Directing: Jim Charleston · Writing: Tony Blake, Paul Jackson · Starring: Kari Wührer, J. Karen Thomas, Krzysztof Pieczyński, Michael Houston King
3x17 The Exodus (2)
Feb 28, 1997 · 43 min
Quinn and Maggie return to her world with Earth Prime's coordinates stored in Jensen's timer. As Wade makes the final list for those who can slide to safety, Arturo races to modify the new timer to slide more people. Unfortunately for them, an unexpected danger lurks the base and one Slider will not make it to the next world.
Directing: Jefery Levy · Writing: Josef Anderson, Tony Blake, Paul Jackson · Starring: Kari Wührer, Roger Daltrey, Mark Kiely, Andy Rolfes
3x18 Sole Survivors
Mar 7, 1997 · 43 min
The Sliders arrive on a world where a strange bacteria transformed the inhabitants into flesh-eating zombies. When Quinn is bitten, he begins to turn into one of them.
Directing: David E. Peckinpah · Writing: Steven Kriozere · Starring: Kari Wührer, Stephanie Niznik, Jay Acovone, Lorin McCraley
3x19 The Breeder
Mar 14, 1997 · 43 min
A creature embeds a parasite in Maggie just before the slide, which takes the Sliders to a world where young adults are used in a mandatory organ-donor program. The others will have to find Maggie before she finds the perfect mate and lays her eggs.
Directing: Paris Barclay · Writing: Eleah Horwitz · Starring: Kari Wührer, Deborah Kellner, Paris Barclay, Dawnn Lewis
3x20 The Last of Eden
Mar 28, 1997 · 43 min
Wade and Rembrandt recall their slide to a world plagued by earthquakes and populated by primitive people. Wade falls into a deep chasm and Quinn goes to rescue her, while Rembrandt learns of Arturo's illness.
Directing: Allan Eastman · Writing: Josef Anderson · Starring: Donnie Jeffcoat, Ron Melendez
3x21 The Other Slide of Darkness
Apr 11, 1997 · 43 min
The Sliders track Rickman to a superstitious town. Their search is further complicated when Quinn and Maggie are captured by natives living in a mysterious fog. There, Quinn runs into someone from his past--himself.
Directing: Jeff Woolnough · Writing: Scott Smith Miller, Nan Hagan · Starring: Kari Wührer, Oona Hart, Kevin Quigley, Amy Wheaton
3x22 Slither
Apr 25, 1997 · 43 min
While on vacation, Quinn and Rembrandt get mixed up in an illegal snake deal and find themselves stuck in the middle of no where surrounded by deadly snakes. Meanwhile, Wade and Maggie get involved with a shady man in their search for the others.
Directing: Jim Johnston · Writing: Tony Blake, Paul Jackson · Starring: Kari Wührer, Julie St. Claire, Randy Vasquez, Marc Tissot
3x23 Dinoslide
May 2, 1997 · 43 min
The Sliders' chase for Rickman takes them back to the world they helped colonize, the New World. Only they find that the colonists are being hunted by a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Directing: Richard Compton · Writing: David E. Peckinpah · Starring: Kari Wührer, Rainer Grant, Wes Charles Jr., Mike Terner
3x24 Stoker
May 9, 1997 · 43 min
Wade falls under the spell of a rock band's charismatic lead singer, who is really a vampire and looking to use Wade to get the timer. Meanwhile, the others try to track down Rickman.
Directing: Jerry O'Connell · Writing: Josef Anderson · Starring: Kari Wührer, Duff McKagan, Tommy Chong, Danny Masterson
3x25 This Slide of Paradise Season Finale
May 16, 1997 · 43 min
The Sliders track Rickman to a world where a mad scientist has been experimenting with genetic testing and has created a race of human hybrids.
Directing: Jim Johnston · Writing: Nan Hagan · Starring: Michael York, Deron McBee, Melinda Clarke