Customer Reviews

Sliders: The Complete First and Second Seasons

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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...

Sliders is one of those rare shows. The first two seasons are almost like magic captured on film; and each episode feels like a theatrical event unto itself. High production values, memorable actors and intelligent writing quite literally take the viewer to new worlds of entertainment with each episode.

Sliders is also one of those series that was ahead of its time in many ways. Similar to the original Star Trek series, the first two seasons of Sliders often tackled serious social commentary just under the surface. The pilot movie took us to a frozen San Francisco that evokes commentary akin to what "The Day After Tomorrow" has brought to our lives. "Summer of Love" presented a modern America where privacy was eroding while the nation was embroiled in a new Vietnam-style conflict - not so distant echoes of present day.

However, the most important aspect of Sliders seasons one and two is that they are fun. You will be entertained; and the memory of that entertainment will stay with you and possibly even inspire you. I know that Sliders has done that for myself; sparking my imagination into a jump start of ideas that has even led to my own independent creations in the worlds of storytelling.

The only disappointing note for this release is the lack of more extras. There were many more things Universal could have easily included (such as important deleted scenes, bloopers and even additional commentaries from the cast and crew); but ultimately these extras are truly what their name implies - just something extra. Clear and clean copies of the original episodes with good sound are worth the price for Sliders season one and two; and that is what we are going to get (note that the Digital Mono listing in the specs is a mistake on many of these recent Universal releases - the modern series sets have actually included a Dobly Surround track).

After what I thought was a slow and tedious start, this show develops into nice sci-fi franchise. The writing is good, and tucked away in Vancouver the show develops without a lot of interference from Fox. Acting and character development are good, making it easy to suspend disbelief and go along for the ride. Good chemistry between the actors; the intellectual rivalry between Mallory and the Professor, the supportive but very feminine Wade, and some of the things they put the Crying Man through just make me want to cry!
A good show. Quality entertainment.

It was great watching the Sliders series again on DVD. For years I was wondering why it never made it into reruns. The show eventually lost it's appeal with changes in cast, etc. (I think they tried to make it appeal to a younger audience and of course ruined it's originality), but it still remains one of the least known yet best sci-fi shows ever for me!

I found some sources on the net which suggest that season-three of the hit show Sliders will be releasing on DVD on July 19, 2005 =] EXCELLENT! I LOVE THIS SHOW!!! BUY BUY BUY!!! Looks wicked on DVD dude! =]

The Sliders collection season 1 & 2 are great. Hopefully the other seasons are to be released. It would be a great let down if they are not. The story's that the writers have come up with are amazing and alot of things that's shown on the slisers series are happening in this day and age. I recommend that if you are a SC-FI Freak, the SLIDERS collection is a must have. I cannot wait till the distributers release the entire series for in my opinion there are thousands of Sliders fans out there that would love to have the collection and be apart of SLIDERS. It would be a dream if a sliding timer was ever invented! What at hing that would be! Buy the series, you wont go wrong!

The Sliders collection season 1 & 2 are great. Hopefully the other seasons are to be released. It would be a great let down if they are not. The story's that the writers have come up with are amazing and alot of things that's shown on the slisers series are happening in this day and age. I recommend that if you are a SC-FI Freak, the SLIDERS collection is a must have. I cannot wait till the distributers release the entire series for in my opinion there are thousands of Sliders fans out there that would love to have the collection and be apart of SLIDERS. It would be a dream if a sliding timer was ever invented! What at hing that would be! Buy the series, you wont go wrong!

I really enjoyed the DVD's, I wish they would have spent an extra $1.00, and put them in a decent case however.

I LOVED THIS SHOW WHEN IT FIRST CAME ON BECAUSE IT WAS HAD A VERY ORIGINAL PREMISE TO IT AND THAT IS WHY I BELEIVE THAT PEOPLE WATCHED THE SHOW!!! I WAS READING SOMEONE ELSES REVIEW OF THE SHOW AND NOTICED THAT THEY WERE WRONG ABOUT ONE THING.wADE AND QUINN NEVER DATED!!!!!! SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH QUINN BUT HE ALWAYS THOUGHT OF HER AS HIS FRIEND AND INSTEAD FELL IN LOVE WITH MAGGIE (THE ARMY BITCH ON THE WORLD WHERE ROGER DALTRY'S CHARACTER KILLS THE PROFESSOR!!!) IF YOU LIKE ORIGINAL SCI-FI STUFF BUY THIS BECAUSE YOU WILL ENJOY SEEING WORLDS THAT ASK THW QUESTION: wHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF THIS HAD HAPPENED IN OUR HISTORY INSTEAD OF WHAT REALLY DID HAPPEN AND SEE THE FALL OUT FROM THOSE EVENTS

There is a play all option

Commentary on the pilot (in audio)

A making of sliders documentary- including atleast Jerry O'Connell and Cleavant Derricks (Quinn and Rembrant)

There is a photo gallery on the dvd