Season 1 Episode Guide

[Majestic]

Sliders
While researching anti-gravity, brilliant grad student Quinn Mallory accidentally opens an inter-dimensional portal which sends him and three companions on a cosmic roller-coaster ride to parallel Earths.

Written by: Tracy Tormé & Robert K Weiss
Original Airdate: March 22, 1995

Summer Of Love
The Sliders find themselves in a present-day San Francisco where the "Summer of Love" never ended – and Wade and Rembrandt are mistaken for extraterrestrial prophets.

Written by: Tracy Tormé
Original Airdate: April 19, 1995

Prince Of Wails
In a world where England won the Revolutionary War, the Sliders are embroiled in an assassination plot involving the heir to the throne and an evil Sheriff of San Francisco.

Written by: Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin
Original Airdate: April 12, 1995

Fever
When Wade is infected with a deadly virus on an Earth wracked by an epidemic, Rembrandt and Arturo race to find a cure and free Quinn from a Gestapo-like health agency.

Written by: Ann Powell & Rose Schacht
Original Airdate: March 29, 1995

Last Days
The salvation of a world facing destruction by an asteroid rests in the hands of Arturo and an overzealous young scientist. Meanwhile, Quinn and Wade Begin to face their feelings for each other.

Written by: Dan Lane
Original Airdate: April 5, 1995

The Weaker Sex
Arturo finds himself in a potentially deadly mayoral race in a world where men are treated as "the weaker sex" and women hold the positions of power and influence.

Written by: Dawn Prestwich & Nicole Yorkin
Original Airdate: May 3, 1995

Eggheads
While Quinn struggles with fame in a world where intellect is prized, Arturo tries for a reconciliation with a long-lost love.

Written by: Scott Smith Miller & Jacob Epstein
Original Airdate: April 26, 1995

The King Is Back
It looks like the King is back when Rembrandt is mistaken for a long-deceased rock legend, but an old enemy would like to see the Crying Man disappear again – permanently.

Written by: Tracy Tormé
Original Airdate: May 10, 1995

Luck Of The Draw
Wade finds that she has money to burn when she wins the lottery in a seemingly utopian world, but she soon discovers that her silver cloud has a very dark lining.

Written by: Jon Povill
Original Airdate: May 17, 1995

[Theta Sigma]

The Weaker Sex
Arturo finds himself in a potentially deadly mayoral race in a world where men are treated as "the weaker sex" and women hold the positions of power and influence.

Written by: Dawn Prestwich & Nicole Yorkin
Original Airdate: May 3, 1995



This episode featured briefly a world which revealed that Hillary Clinton is the President of the United States. I'll come back to her later in this post.

In order to initiate a men's rights movement, Professor Arturo agrees to become a mayoral candidate of San Francisco running against the incumbent female mayor.

Knowing full well that if he wins he would have to stay in that world to serve as mayor and cannot continue in his travels with his friends.

He says he decided to do a Muskie. Edmund S Muskie was then US Vice President Hubert H Humphrey's running mate on the unsuccessful Democratic ticket at the 1968 Presidential election. Muskie had been the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in 1972 but Muskie's campaign collapsed when he broke down in tears in response to attacks made to his wife although he later stated that what appeared as tears were melted snowflakes. The perception being the tears made him looked weak in contrast to his image of a calm and reasoned person.

In the Sliders episode, the Professor faked in crying during a debate with the female mayor. However instead of achieving certain defeat, he had a surge in support in opinion polls as a result of the tears.

In the real world recently, when it looked like she was going to lose the New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton broke down in tears but her tears did not have the same impact as Muskie's tears. She actually went to win the New Hampshire primary and kept her presidential hopes alive.

So while Hillary Clinton is still a long way off in becoming President, the Sliders episode certainly got it right on the positive impact that tears have on a political candidate!

[Majestic]

Not to mention it was one of the best episodes of the series. :thumbsup:

[Wheller]

Not to mention it was one of the best episodes of the series. :thumbsup:

no kidding, i think that The Weaker Sex was probably my favorite episode of the First Season :D