We the viewers understand that, and wave it through, even despite the fact that these credits ran over a clip from an earlier live-action musical scene, which then made little sense when it was repeated at the end of the second episode as well. So - they had bought the two-part syndicated version. So weekly in fact, that even half way through the opening 90-minute pilot, the clever old BBC cut straight to the closing credits. #ROGER DALTREY SLIDERS SERIES#Said gateway gets a bit big, sucks in all four of them (including Remmy's Cadillac), and hey presto, an exciting new weekly TV series was born. Rembrandt's only connection to the others is that he happens to be driving past Quinn's house at the exact moment when they're all experimenting in the basement with a gateway to a parallel universe, where things will turn out to be the same, but a bit different too. Sliders started out by telling the story of Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell), his friend Wade Welles (Sabrina Lloyd), his science professor Maximillian Arturo (John Rhys-Davis), and his complete stranger Rembrandt Brown (Cleavant Derricks). Jumping the shark? Sliders spent its entire life slowly mowing through it. For about forty minutes.īut then the first episode finished, the brakes failed, and the series first began its slow acceleration out of control along the extensive downhill railroad towards the uncompromising giant iron buffers of cancellation. This post is about what my journey has been like as a viewer, shielded from most of that.Ĭast your mind back to the 27th September 1996, when the first episode of Sliders received its British premiere on BBC2. Sliders' production history is a fascinating catalogue of behind-the-scenes anguish and incompetence, but this post is not really about all that. In fact, partly thanks to the BBC, in my house Sliders' five seasons took an incredible 16 years to fully buckle, mangle and generally horrify the public on the news that evening. At others, it was like watching a train wreck in slow-motion. Sliders stands out as a show where this was, unusually, true. I mean, Red Dwarf, MST3K and Ghostbusters came back this year, so maybe it’s time for Sliders to come back as well.Many TV shows will falsely brag that in their series "anything can happen". I figure that a few of you might be interested, so if you want to help out, you can support it and hey, maybe this’ll get Sliders back. If they don’t reach 100, then it doesn’t happen. You can get more information on the page by clicking the photo, but the gist of it is that you give the Thunderclap access to posting on one of your social media accounts (like Tumblr), and if they reach 100 people by October 4th, there will be a tweet / facebook post / tumblr post sent out from all the accounts that are part of the campaign, giving a massive boost to #BringBackSliders. Seeing as how I’m a huge fan of Sliders, (duh) I’m more than happy to share it here for all (nearly) 200 of you. Hey guys, I’ve been asked to help promote this Thunderclap campaign to try to get more attention on #BringBackSliders
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