Sliders: Season 5

1999 · 18 episodes · ★ 5.7

What Season 5 of Sliders

Quinn Mallory, a physics student, builds a device capable of opening portals between dimensions. During a test, he, his professor Maximillian Arturo, his colleague Wade Wells and Rembrandt, a singer who happened to be passing by, end up in a parallel universe, and the device loses track of their world. To return, the group jumps from one dimension to another while a timer indicates when they can open the next vortex. Maggie and Diana join the stops. In each world, they find alternate versions of Earth where history or the laws of physics have changed, and they must solve mysteries or escape authoritarian societies.

18episodes

Jun 11, 1999released

Feb 4, 2000last episode

12.9 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 The Unstuck Man
Jun 11, 1999 · 43 min
After experiencing a rough slide, Rembrandt and Maggie see Colin is nowhere to be found. More disturbing, they meet a stranger claiming he is Quinn Mallory. Rembrandt and Maggie learn too late that this is all apart of an evil genius' desperate plan to save his life.
Directing: Guy Magar · Writing: Chris Black, Bill Dial · Starring: Peter Jurasik, Scott Klace, Peter Koch, Larry McCormick
5x02 Applied Physics
Jun 18, 1999 · 43 min
Diana tries using a university lab to find a way to separate Quinn and Mallory, which leads to her first encounter with her double, a struggling single mother. Meanwhile, Mallory experiences violent flashbacks from Quinn's life.
Directing: David J. Eagle · Writing: Chris Black · Starring: Peter Jurasik, Aeriel Diamond Watkins, G. Eric Miles, Howard S. Miller
5x03 Strangers and Comrades
Jun 25, 1999 · 43 min
The Sliders arrive in a barren wasteland, where the timer is inoperable. Worse yet, they find themselves forced to take part in a never ending battle between Kromaggs and soldiers from Quinn's home world, who are guarding a mysterious bunker.
Directing: Richard Compton · Writing: Keith Damron · Starring: Jerry Doyle, Kirk B.R. Woller, Joel Stoffer
5x04 The Great Work
Jul 9, 1999 · 43 min
The Sliders arrive on a small island, with a very sick Maggie in tow. While looking for help, Rembrandt, Mallory and Diana meet the monks of a secluded monastery. Reluctantly, the monks allow them to stay and give Maggie medical attention. But the Sliders soon learn the monks have a secret and won't allow them to leave.
Directing: Reza Badiyi · Writing: Robert Masello · Starring: Eamon Behrens, Granville Van Dusen, Rob Youngblood, Marshall Bell
5x05 New Gods for Old
Jul 16, 1999 · 43 min
Just before sliding out and escaping a small army, Mallory is shot with a laser beam and paralyzed. His only chance of walking again lies in a group of spiritual healers, but their cure could be much worse than being paralyzed.
Directed by: Richard Compton · Written by: David Gerrold · Starring: Stephen Macht, Angela Bettis, Michael Keenan, Sandy Lee Peckinpah
5x06 Please Press One
Jul 23, 1999 · 43 min
After trying to buy a candy bar, Maggie is kidnapped by a corporate conglomerate that uses data codes to control commerce.
Directing: Paul Lynch · Writing: William Bigelow · Starring: Maury Ginsberg, JD Cullum, Reno Wilson, Richard Fancy
5x07 A Current Affair
Jul 30, 1999 · 43 min
On a world where tabloid journalism is in place of real news, a photo suggests Maggie is having an affair with the President. But the President's advisers decide to exploit it in order to distract attention from a war with Switzerland.
Directing: David J. Eagle · Writing: Steve Stoliar · Starring: Michael Manasseri, Eric Pierpoint, Robin Riker, John Vargas
5x08 The Java Jive
Aug 6, 1999 · 43 min
The Sliders arrive on a world where Prohibition still exists, only it was caffeine that was outlawed. They meet a nightclub owner whose lover was murdered by a gang dealing in bootleg coffee.
Directed by: Jeff Woolnough · Written by: Jennifer McGinnis, Janét Saunders · Starring: Jennifer Leigh Warren, Dwayne Adway, Shane Stevens, Michael Warren
5x09 The Return of Maggie Beckett
Aug 13, 1999 · 43 min
The Sliders arrive on a world where Maggie's double was a heroic astronaut and loved by the public. When she is mistaken for her double, the public gets excited. After being kidnapped by the mysterious Leader, Maggie is taken by the government where she must confront her father.
Directing: Peter Ellis · Writing: Chris Black · Starring: Winston Rekert, Rob LaBelle, Steve O'Connor, Carl Gabriel Yorke
5x10 Easy Slider
Aug 20, 1999 · 43 min
The Sliders arrive on a world where combustion engines were outlawed by the government due to pollution. But a biker gang is fighting to keep their engines and Mallory falls for the gang's sexy leader.
Directing: David E. Peckinpah · Writing: Tim Burns · Starring: Neil Flynn, Lisa Akey, Dylan Haggerty, Marea Bianchini
5x11 Requiem
Sep 10, 1999 · 43 min
Rembrandt experiences a strange dream in which Wade is trying to contact him and bring him to her. The others have their doubts until a spatial fold opens before them. On the other side, they find Wade is somehow being used in a plan to attack Kromagg Prime.
Directed by: Paul Lynch · Written by: Michael Reaves · Starring: Julie Caitlin Brown, Maria Stanton
5x12 Map of the Mind
Sep 17, 1999 · 43 min
The Sliders arrive at a mental institution in the middle of an unusual riot. Rembrandt and Maggie escape capture, but Diana and Mallory get left behind. While Mallory has managed to pose as a doctor, Diana is mistaken for a patient and undergoes the process of her brain being remapped.
Directed by: Paul Raimondi · Written by: Robert Masello · Starring: Tamara LaSeon Bass, Paul Sand, Claudette Roche, Jonathan Brent
5x13 A Thousand Deaths
Sep 24, 1999 · 43 min
The Sliders arrive on a world where millions play in highly realistic arcade simulations. Rembrandt and Mallory take part in separate simulations, until they discover Maggie and Diana have been forced to play characters in these simulations, where each "death" experienced is real.
Directing: David E. Peckinpah · Writing: Keith Damron · Starring: Frank John Hughes, Todd Waring, Mark Hunter, Kevin West
5x14 Heavy Metal
Oct 1, 1999 · 43 min
A malfunctioning timer deposits the Sliders underwater in the Pacific Ocean. A merchant ship picks them up, but is taking them out of their sliding radius and decreasing the likelihood of a safe slide. Their only chance is to join up with a pirate crew to get back to California.
Directing: Guy Magar · Writing: Chris Black · Starring: Clayton Landey, Marshall R. Teague, Robert Cuccioli, Claudette Mink
5x15 To Catch a Slider
Jan 14, 2000 · 43 min
The timer continues to malfunction, giving the Sliders rougher slides than usual. To fix it, the Sliders need to get ahold of a gem, even if it means stealing.
Directed by: Peter Ellis · Written by: Bill Dial · Starring: Todd Kimsey, Lisa Stahl, Israel Juarbe, Judith McConnell
5x16 Dust
Jan 21, 2000 · 43 min
The Sliders are lost in the desert, but happen upon an archaeological dig. They soon find, however, that the dig is unearthing a buried Los Angeles and that the locals consider Rembrandt a deity.
Directing: Reynaldo Villalobos · Writing: Bill Dial · Starring: Ken Jenkins, Lisa Lackey, Marco Rodríguez, Chi McBride
5x17 Eye of the Storm
Jan 28, 2000 · 43 min
The Sliders confront Dr. Geiger again, in a collapsing dimension full of innocent victims.
Directing: David E. Peckinpah · Writing: Chris Black · Starring: Peter Jurasik, Elizabeth Rossa, Jay Acovone
5x18 The Seer Season Finale
Feb 4, 2000 · 43 min
The Sliders arrive in the middle of a rally, surprisingly being held in their honor. They learn they are the subjects of a religion called Slidology, founded by a man with psychic abilities. He has been following their adventures and warns that on their next slide, they will all die.
Directing: Paul Cajero · Writing: Keith Damron · Starring: Roy Dotrice, Jennifer Hetrick, Josh Adell, Sarah Chapman