Season 3


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These episode guides are in the correct order according to episode production order. Please note that season one was heavily out of order during airdate including on the DVDs. To download a copy of these correct episode guides including a DVD discography you can refer to the “PDF” category or download them at the top or bottom of each season page.

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Season 3 Episode Guide
DVD Discography: The Third Season

1. “Double Cross”
9/27/96
Disc 1A
Review: TBD

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 who’s trying to develop sliding. However, they learn her plans for sliding are far from noble.

2. “Rules of the Game”
9/20/96
Disc 1A
Review: TBD

The Sliders involuntarily become a part of a human war game where the only winners are the ones that stay alive.

3. “Dead Man Sliding”
11/29/96
Disc 2A
Review: TBD

On a world where the legal system is in the form of televised games shows, Quinn arrested, tried and sentenced to death for the crimes of his double.

4. “Electric Twister Acid Test”
10/4/96
Disc 1A
Review: TBD

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.

5. “The Guardian”
10/11/96
Disc 1A
Review: TBD

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.

6. “The Dream Masters”
10/18/96
Disc 1B
Review: TBD

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.

7. “Desert Storm”
11/1/96
Disc 1B
Review: TBD

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.

8. “Dragonslide”
11/8/96
Disc 1B
Review: TBD

On a world of magic and dragons, Quinn is mistaken for a wizard and kidnapped by and 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.

9. “The Fire Within”
11/15/96
Disc 1B
Review: TBD

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 its own.

10. “The Prince of Slides”
11/22/96
Disc 2A
Review: TBD

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.

11. “State of the Art”
12/6/96
Disc 2A
Review: TBD

The Sliders land on a world where the human race was wiped out by robots. Quinn and Rembrandt are captured by the robots’ demented creator who has plans to use them in a mind-transfer experiment.

12. “Season’s Greedings”
12/20/96
Disc 2A
Review: TBD

On a world where people are enticed by consumerism and giant malls in the sky, the Sliders get jobs as mall employees in order to find the mother of an abandoned child. Arturo is a reluctant Santa, Rembrandt and Wade are his elves, while Quinn gets an administrative job. Meanwhile, Wade faces some strong emotions when she meets her sister and father.

13. “Murder Most Foul”
1/3/97
Disc 2B
Review: TBD

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.

14. “Slide Like An Egyptian”
1/17/97
Disc 2B
Review: TBD

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.

15. “Paradise Lost”
1/31/97
Disc 2B
Review: TBD

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.

16. “Last of Eden”
3/28/97
Disc 3A
Review: TBD

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.

17. “The Exodus, Part I”
2/21/97
Disc 2B
Review: TBD

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 they pool their resources with the U.S. government in a race to escape to a parallel earth.

18. “The Exodus, Part II”
2/28/97
Disc 3A
Review: TBD

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.

19. “Sole Survivors”
3/7/97
Disc 3A
Review: TBD

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.

20. “The Other Slide of Darkness”
4/11/97
Disc 3B
Review: TBD

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.

21. “The Breeder”
3/14/97
Disc 3A
Review: TBD

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.

22. “Stoker”
5/9/97
Disc 3B
Directed by Jerry O’Connell
Review: TBD

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.

23. “Slither”
4/25/97
Disc 3B
Review: TBD

While on vacation, Quinn and Rembrandt get mixed up in an illegal snake deal and find themselves stuck in the middle of nowhere surrounded by deadly snakes. Meanwhile, Wade and Maggie get involved with a shady man in their search for the others.

24. “Dinoslide”
5/2/97
Disc 3B
Review: TBD

The Sliders’ chase for Rickman takes them back to the world they helped colonize, the New World. Only now they find that the colonists are being hunted by a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex.

25. “This Slide of Paradise”
5/16/97
Disc 4
Review: TBD

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.


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Season 3 Episode Guide
DVD Discography: The Third Season

Sliders. 1996-1997. DVD. Universal Studios, 2005.