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Title:
Sliders: The Third Season
Region:
One
Genre:
Sci-Fi
Episodes
Disc 1: “Rules Of The Game”, “Double Cross”, “Electric Twister Acid
Test”, “The Guardian”, “The Dream Masters”, “Desert Storm”,
“Dragon Slide”, “The Fire Within”
Episodes
Disc 2: “The Prince Of Slides”, “Dead Man Sliding”, “State Of The
Art”, “Seasons Greedings”, “Murder Most Foul”, “Slide Like An
Egyptian”, “Paradise Lost”, “The Exodus, Part I”
Episodes
Disc 3: “The Exodus, Part II”, “Sole Survivors”, “The Breeder”,
“The Last Of Eden”, “The Other Side Of Darkness”, “Slither”, “Dinoslide”,
“Stoker”
Episodes
Disc 4: “This Slide Of Paradise
Stars:
Jerry O’Connell, Sabrina Lloyd, John Rhys-Davies, and Cleavant Derricks
Guest
Stars: Apollonia Kotero, Corey Feldman, Danny Masterson, Robert Englund, Kari
Wuhrer, Michael York, and Roger Daltrey
Created
By: Tracy Torme’ and Robert K. Weiss
Executive
Producers: Alan Barnette and David Peckinpah
Feature
length: 18 hours and 42 minutes
Extras:
Bonus Episodes “Cleopatra
2525: Quest For Firepower”, “Earth 2: The Man Who Fell To Earth (Two)”,
Sliders: Season Three Gag Reel
Languages:
English Stereo Sound
Subtitles:
English Captions and French and Spanish Language Subtitles
Packaging:
Four-Disc Digipack Gatefold
Chapter
Stops: 4 Per Episode
Sound:
Stereo Sound
Years
Of Television Broadcast: 1996-1997/Year of DVD Release: 2005
Home
Video Distributor: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
MPAA
Rating: Not Rated
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
“Sliders”
premiered on Fox during the height of the non-cable/satellite broadcast sci-fi
television boom of the mid 1990s and poised a humorous and engaging hour of
programming for genre TV fans that featured Jerry O’Connell as young physics
student Quinn Mallory, who invents a device that opens a wormhole to different
parallel universe following the premise that every possible outcome that can
happen in any given moment does indeed occur, but we are only experiencing one
of those outcomes in our own respective dimension. With his mentor Professor
Arturo (John Rhys-Davies), companion Wade (Sabrina Lloyd), and the hapless
Rembrandt “Crying Man” Brown (Cleavant Derricks), the sliders travel from
Earth to Earth and experience all sorts of interesting possibilities while they
keep an eye on the time for when Quinn can use his remote like device and open a
wormhole that will hopefully bring them all back to their own Earth.
The
series aired for three seasons on Fox and then moved to the SCI FI Channel where
it aired for two more seasons. The first two seasons were rather short, which is
why they are available in a single DVD set that is also available now at
retailers on and offline from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The third
season of “Sliders” saw a push toward more fantasy-oriented episodes with
many episodes placing the characters in worlds that basically borrowed from
movie premises to include “Sole Survivors” where a plague has turned the
majority of the Earth’s inhabitants into flesh eating zombies, “Stoker”
which features an Earth where vampires are real and there is even a takeoff on
The Island of Doctor Moreau” with the season finale “This Side Of
Paradise.” In a two-part episode based on a story by John Rhys-Davies, the
beloved actor has his swan song as the character “Doctor Arturo” when the
sliders find themselves on an Earth doomed to destruction from the debris of a
pulsar. Roger Daltrey plays the villain in this two-parter, which also
introduces Kari Wuhrer as the new slider. Daltrey’s character becomes a
recurring villain for the remainder of the season, but a different actor plays
him. There is an over reliance on what is now very dated television CGI effects
made even more unbelievable by the clarity of the DVD. Other noteworthy guest
stars to appear in season three include Michael York and Robert Englund,
After
season three, more cast changes would occur to accompany the change in network
distribution. All 25 season three episodes are presented in their original
broadcast (1.33:1) aspect ratios and although there is a slight amount of video
grain, they generally look better than any television broadcast that I have
seen. Although the packaging states the audio is two-channel monaural sound, it
sounded more like ordinary CD quality English Stereo Sound to me. English
Captions for the hearing impaired and French and Spanish Language Subtitles are
also encoded onto all four discs as options. Aside from a rather crappy quality
gag reel (5:46), the only bonus features included on disc four are complete
episodes from “Cleopatra 2525” and “Earth2”, which are also available on
DVD-Video now. Before the opening menu on disc one there are previews for the
above-mentioned sci-fi shows on DVD that includes “Sliders” and the
“Revelations” miniseries (2:02). The main menu on each disc is animated with
scenes from the show while subsequent menus are all standard interactive still
frames that are easy to navigate.
“Sliders:
The Third Season” is available on DVD-Video now at retailers on and offline
courtesy of Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
©
Copyright 2005 By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.
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