Sliders Season 5

Right now you can watch Sliders Season 5 on and — and it goes further with its ideas than most genre entertainment bothers to. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. 472 viewers have already rated it on TMDB — the kind of consensus that does not happen by accident. Cleavant Derricks anchors it with a performance that grounds the bigger ideas in something human. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Sliders Season 5 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. Sliders Season 5 treats its concept seriously enough to follow it all the way through. Season 5 of Sliders includes 18 episodes. It aired from June 1999 to February 2000. This season stars Cleavant Derricks, Kari Wührer and Tembi Locke. Cleavant Derricks and Kari Wührer lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1999. The rules of Sliders Season 5's world are consistent enough that the big swings never feel like cheating. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

Viewers burned by ambitious sci-fi that could not sustain its premise should give Sliders Season 5 a chance. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. A contained run means every episode is doing real work. Cleavant Derricks grounds the bigger ideas in something human. Once you are in, you will want to talk about it.

🎬 Sliders Season 5 — Episode Guide

The Unstuck Man

1999-06-11

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.

Applied Physics

1999-06-18

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.

Strangers and Comrades

1999-06-25

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.

The Great Work

1999-07-09

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...

New Gods for Old

1999-07-16

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.

Please Press One

1999-07-23

After trying to buy a candy bar, Maggie is kidnapped by a corporate conglomerate that uses data codes to control commerce.

A Current Affair

1999-07-30

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.

The Java Jive

1999-08-06

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.

The Return of Maggie Beckett

1999-08-13

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.

E10

Easy Slider

1999-08-20

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.

E11

Requiem

1999-09-10

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.

E12

Map of the Mind

1999-09-17

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.

E13

A Thousand Deaths

1999-09-24

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.

E14

Heavy Metal

1999-10-01

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.

E15

To Catch a Slider

2000-01-14

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.

E16

Dust

2000-01-21

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.

E17

Eye of the Storm

2000-01-28

The Sliders confront Dr. Geiger again, in a collapsing dimension full of innocent victims.

E18

The Seer

2000-02-04

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.

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