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Sliders - The First and Second Seasons (1995)

Jerry O'Connell , John Rhys-Davies  |  PG-13 |  DVD
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  • Actors: Jerry O'Connell, John Rhys-Davies, Sabrina Lloyd, Cleavant Derricks
  • Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 6
  • Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Studio: Universal Studios
  • DVD Release Date: August 3, 2004
  • Run Time: 1019 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (156 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00022FWEU
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,770 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Sliders - The First and Second Seasons" on IMDb

Special Features

  • All 10 episodes from the 1995 season and all 13 from the 1996 season
  • New making-of featurette
  • Photo gallery

Editorial Reviews

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Though often and unfairly dismissed as a Quantum Leap clone, the Fox TV series Sliders earned a substantial fan base thanks to its intriguing central premise--the existence of multiple alternate realities--and impressive special effects, both of which get a fine showcase in this six-disc DVD set. Jerry O'Connell leads the appealing cast as a college student who accidentally discovers a portal into alternate dimensions; with the help of his professor (Lord of the Rings' John Rhys-Davies), a spunky Girl Friday (Sabrina Lloyd), and a soul crooner (Cleavant Derricks), O'Connell encounters a host of strange parallel Earths, including a British-ruled United States and one where dinosaurs roam a national park. All nine episodes of the 1995 debut season and the 12-episode second season from '96, as well as the pilot from '95, are included in the aesthetically impressive set; extras, however, are limited to commentary by creators Tracy Torme and Robert K. Weiss on the pilot episode, and a making-of featurette with O'Connell and Derricks. --Paul Gaita

Product Description

Jerry O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd, John Rhys-Davies. A malfunctioning invention by San Francisco grad student Quinn Mallory leaves his professor, a friend and an innocent bystander alternating between one dimension and another and unable to return home in this sci-fi adventure series. 22 episodes on 6 DVDs. 1995-96/color/17 hrs/NR/fullscreen.

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100 of 104 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Same Planet Different Dimension May 17, 2004
Format:DVD
Though the first two seasons are the best, I enjoyed them
all. And it's about time this set is coming out.
Here are my personal grades and info on the episodes from
the first two seasons.

Here is what you get with the first two seasons.

1. The Pilot Part 1 ( still the best episode) Quinn first discovers that his sliding technology works. Then he tells the proffesor who at first does not believe him. But later comes around. Along with Wade Wells the three of them test out sliding. But when doing so they accidentaly pull in soul singer
Rembrant Brown.( Episode Grade A+ )

2. Pilot Part 2 ( The sliders find San Fran. under an ice age,
and The U.S under Soviet Communist rule. ( Episode Grade A+ )

3.Fever ( The sliders travel to a world that has never developed Antibiotics.Evereyone around them is sick so they must do something before time runs out.(Episode Grade A-)

4.Last Days ( Sliders find a world where an asteroid is about to destroy the earth. The professor saves the day by showing
a fellow scientist how to build a nuke.( Episode grade A+ )

5.Prince of Wails ( In this world America is still under England's Colonial rule.( Episode Grade B )

6. Summer Of Love ( Sliders find alternate world where We are
at war with Austraila and Remy replaces his dead alternate self
as husband to a old high school crush. ( Episode grade C+ )

7.Eggheads ( In this world intellectuals are treated like athletes, and Quinn competes in A weird sport that tests your intellect. ( Episode grade B- )

8. The Weaker Sex ( Sliders enter a world where women are the dominant sex. Arturo makes men believe that they are equals when he runs for office. (ep grade A- )

9.The King Is Back ( Sliders find a world where Rembrant is treated like Elvis. ( Ep grade B- )

10.Luck Of The Draw- (Sliders find a world where money is free if you play the lottery. But the catch is you must give your life in a form of population control.(Ep Grade A+ )

Season 2

11. Into The Mystic ( Sliders enter a world of witchcraft.
Quinn is sick and gets healed by a witchdoctor. Quinn refuses
to pay and the Grim Reaper himself serves Quinn a subpeona.
ep.( Grade A+ )

12.Love Gods ( Quinn,Arturo,Rembrant are in a world with a shortage of men. They are being used as studs to repopulate.
( grade B+

13.Gillian Of The Spirits (Quinn is stuck on an astral plane,
and only a psyhcic girl can see him. ( grade B-

14.The Good The Bad And the Wealthy ( Sliders enter a world not unlike the wild west. Where stocks are exchanged through gunfights. ( grade A- )

15. El Sid ( Sliders find a world where the city of San Francisco is a prison. ( grade A+ )

16.Time and Again World ( Sliders enter world where there is no
U.S. Constitution to be found except on one little floppy disk.
( grade A+ )

17. In Dino Veritas ( Sliders enter a dinosaur wild life reserve) ( grade A- )

18. Post-Traumatic Slide Syndrome ( The sliders think they are home. Rembrant then goes to a psyhciatrist and discovers they are not. ( grade B+ )

19. Obsession ( Sliders find world where everyone can read minds.
( grade B- )

20. Greatfellas ( Sliders find world where the mob controls evereything. ( grade C+ )

21. The Young and The Relentless ( Sliders slide into the backyard of an alternate Quinn and Wade. In this world the young
rule and at a certain age you lose your rights.
( grade B- )

22. Invasion ( Sliders first encounter with the Kromags and unfortunatley not the last. Though this is a quality episode.
The writers seemed to use it too much in later episodes.
( grade B- )

23.As time goes by ( On this episode thse sliders slide 3 times.
Quinn tries to prevent a murder. And the Sliders find time is moving backwards. ( grade A- )

Overall This is a great package with or without extras. We
will have to wait and see what Universal adds.

Finally I can get rid of those tapes.

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110 of 118 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Definately a must own!! June 27, 2004
Format:DVD
Quinn Mallory ( Jerry O Connel)is trying to create an anti-gravity device and accidentally creates a device that opens up a portal. His physics professor Maximillian P. Arturo (John Rhys-Davies), and his girlfriend Wade Wells (Sabrina Lloyd) want to accompany Quinn through the portal to see where it leads. A washed up singer named Rembrant Brown (Cleavant Derricks)is also accidentally dragged along for the ride, when he is walking buy and sucked through the portal with them. Quinn and the rest of the group "slide" to another dimension of earth. The Sliders soon realize that they would much rather return back to their own dimension, but things are not that easy. Once you have entered through the portal, you have to keep traveling to different dimensions of earth to find the right one that will lead back home. Each episode deals with Quinn, Professor Arturo, Wade, and Rembrant exploring each dimension to find their way back to their own dimension. Unfortunately, once the Sliders have entered a particular dimension, there is only a limited amount of time to reopen the portal, and there are only a few select places within each dimension they can do it from. Finding the right place to open the portal is often a challenge to the group because each dimension is different than their own, and can be life threatening at times.

I have heard people often refer to Sliders as a rip off of Quantum Leap. While Quantum Leap was a better show, Sliders is completely different. Quinn, Professor Arturo, Wade, and Rembrant are not traveling through time. They are traveling through other dimensions of earth that differ from their own. This is what makes the show so great, because it is very interesting to see how each dimension will be different than the next. The show also offers tons of suspense. There is a "race against the clock" type feel due to the fact that the group only has a limited amount of time to find one of the few places within the dimension they can "slide" from. Jerry O Connel and the rest of the cast were excellent in their roles, and it is their performances that make the show so entertaining, especially the performance given from Cleavant Derricks as Rembrant Brown. The funniest thing about his character, is that Rembrant never asked to go with them, and was dragged along accidentally. So he often complains about each situation which usually provides for a lot of laughs.

Unfortunately, Sliders did not manage to stay great for the entire run of the show. I have to agree with many of the fans and say that the show went seriously downhill during season three when Professor Arturo left the show. Seasons four and five would become even worse, because the show left FOX to air on the Sci-Fi channel, and by the end of the show, Rembrant was the only original character left. However, the first two seasons of Sliders are what make the show rank among the top of any television show in the sci-fi genre. The best thing about this DVD package, is the fact that you get the two best seasons of the show in one set. While it is a shame that the extras are somewhat limited, this set is worth owning just for the episodes themselves.

A solid 5 stars...

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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Into the Vortex August 14, 2004
Format:DVD
What if you could travel to parallel worlds? The same year, the same Earth, only different dimension. A world where the Russians rule America? Or where your dreams of being superstar came true? Or where San Francisco was a maximum security prison. My friends and I found the gateway. Now the problem is... finding a way back home.

Buy this box set and see what happens, the set comprises the 2 hour Pilot, 8 Season One and 13 Season Two episodes.

The first two seasons of the series were the best and most thought provoking of the entire series, they examined how a different outcome in major historical events (such as who won World War 2, the non discovery of anti-biotics or the Atom Bomb) could have resulted in a very different present day earth. The main focus was on a group of 4 Inter Dimensional travelers trying to find their earth while randomly 'sliding' between alternate realities (parallel earths), with no control over how long they stayed in the respective dimension. They were also burdened with the fact that if they did not leave when their 'Timer' reached zero they were stuck on that reality for 29 years.

My Gripes on the box set:

1) The packaging:

While the foam holder gives the appearance of multiple earths which is a nice effect, it is a terrible idea for medium to long term storage. That type of foam 'breaks down' over time and eventually won't be able to hold the DVDs in place, in addition it makes it difficult to replace the plastic case as ther is no space between the foam and inside of the box. A 'REAL' booklet should also have provided instead of the 2-page booklet glued to the back of the box which holds an episode list and ads for other Universal TV titles.

2) The order of the episodes on the DVD:

Fox did not originally air the episodesin the intended order and several of the early season one episodes actually connected if you view them properly. "Summer of Love" begins with the Sliders wearing the clothes they had on at the end of the pilot movie. "Prince of Wails" begins with the Sliders wearing the same clothes they wore at the end of "Summer of Love" (not to mention that it begins with a pay off to the "Summer of Love" cliffhanger ending. I believe if you are going through the trouble of putting out a box set then you should do it RIGHT.

The correct viewing order for Sliders is as follows -

Pilot (2 hour)

1st Season 1995 (Fox)

Summer of Love

Prince of Wails

Fever

Last Days

The Weaker Sex

Eggheads

The King is Back

Luck of the Draw

2nd Season Spring 1996

Into the Mystic

Time Again and World

El Sid

Love Gods

The Good, the Bad and the Wealthy

As Time Goes By

Gillian of the Spirits

Obsession

Invasion

Post-Traumatic Slide Syndrome

In Dino Veritas

Greatfellas

The Young and the Relentless

Though not a perfect series as there were a bunch of inconsistencies and fall off in quality in later seasons, it is a good buy and Season 1 & 2 deserves high praise as they were exceptional and worth collecting.
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5.0 out of 5 stars a classic show on dvd.
This was a classic sci fi show from the 90's -00's. And this is where it began. With the first two seasons. However this boxset does not have the episodes in the correct order. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Michael Dobey
5.0 out of 5 stars sildes one and two
You should really enjoy these old school classic for a great low price. Good quality dvds get them now or they might be out of stock
Published 1 month ago by Debra Mobley
5.0 out of 5 stars Great buy!
I was a fan of the show in high school and was happy when I found out the seasons were on DVD. This is a great buy if your a fan of the original cast.
Published 1 month ago by Kimberly
5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent/entertaining show
I bought an episode that was not loaded on to the Netflix. It was a season one episode (Last Days) that had the typical Sliders wit and intellect that season 1 and 2 were so well... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Kyle F Decker
4.0 out of 5 stars Sure the packaging is bad, but the show looks good.
I admit, I'm no fan of this space waster packaging although I get the concept behind it.
The show itself looks decent in terms of image & sound quality. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Locutus67
5.0 out of 5 stars Great TV Show at a Great Price
It's great to re-experience one of my favorite SciFi shows. Has a great premise about traveling to alternate versions of Earth. The characters are enjoyable. Read more
Published 2 months ago by SciFiFan
5.0 out of 5 stars okay
Exciting new science fiction for its age. The stars are uniques and work well together as a family. . .
Published 3 months ago by sweetlady1012
5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite series in that decade
This show is entertaining and ingenious. Liek a sitcom in space. What is there not to love about this show?
Published 3 months ago by keith fitzgerald
5.0 out of 5 stars Good
Good clean fun, if you liked Quantum Leap you'll probably like this a lot more. Season 1 is the best of the 5 seasons
Published 3 months ago by Bill T
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best series of all time.
Just what I Needed. Arrived right on time. A must have. A great buy at a great price. 2 Thumbs up.
Published 4 months ago by AD
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