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Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell) is a physics grad student and is quite the genius. He has been experimenting at home in the basement and discovers that he can open up a portal - but where does it go? He shows it to Professor Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) and his Quinn's friend Wade Wells (Sabrina Lloyd). Stepping up the power causes them to be sucked into the portal along with singer Rembrandt Brown (Cleavant Derricks) who was driving by the house at the time. Lo an behold, they find themselves on a parallel Earth with a different history. After an adventure there, they return to ... well they don't ... they end up on another parallel Earth with yet aother history. So begins a long series of jumps around what appears to be an infinite number of parallel Earths. The length of their stay is dictated by when the next wormhole can be opened - timed on the device used to open the portal. Many adventures ensue in which they meet very similar Earths and very different Earths. they regularly get into trouble and of course oftne meet alternate versions of themselves. The alternate histories allows for a huge variety of stories and ideas that can be explored. What if various wars were won by what we know of as the losers? What if youth or intellectualism is highly prized? What if certain discoveries had never been made or the people have very differnt laws. What if your alternate self is in big trouble and you turn up? And of course, in all those alternate worlds, somebody else has discovered how to travel to parallel worlds. The Kromaggs for instance are mean and unlike our Sliders, they can control where they go. Some of the stories are pure fantasy while others ask those interesting "What if" questions. The main characters change over time as old ones depart and new ones join, the only constant being Rembrandt Brown. We get different Quinns (Robert Floyd as Mallory and Charlie O'Connell as brother Colin). Maggie Beckett (Kari Wuhrer) joins Season 3 then takes over as female lead from Sabrina. Dr. Diana Davis (Tembi Locke) joins Season 5. When there are so many worlds and other scientists messing with dimensional experiments, it is relatively straightforward to bring new actors into the team. The big changes happened in Season 3. After 5 seasons there was no more sliding.
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