Talk:Sliders (TV series)

message: I've seen some dueling edits today on this topic, so I thought I would give the background on it.  The new radius of the sliding timer grew out the early season three episode "Double Cross".  In that episode, Logan St. Clair had developed a timer which had a 400 mile radius with her lab in San Francisco as the center point.  By the conclusion of "Double Cross", Logan had swapped out her parts into our heroes' timer thus sticking them that 400 mile radius from there on.  In the early season three episode "Dead Man Sliding", it is again stated that the timer has a 400 mile radius.
The confusion arises due to one comment later in season three.  In the mid-season episode "The Exodus Part 1", it is stated that the timer has a 500 mile radius.  That comment is just one of many mistaken details that plagued the script; and this is proven as the later season four and five episodes go back to saying 400 mile radius.  As anyone can attest to, the standards for the series dropped in the last half of season three; and adhering to continuity wasn't much of a consideration.
So what's the answer?  It was a 400 mile radius.DBHughes 15:04, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The sliding timer's geographic radius in season three

message: Not sure what's going on with this, but I've noticed several users who keep editing the main article to say "famed author Brad Linaweaver" or "noted author Brad Linaweaver".  What is the deal with this?  Are the edits being done by Brad himself on some kind of an ego trip?
Just a bit above Linaweaver's credit, the "Connection to Other Works" section talks about Piers Anthony and George R. R. Martin; but some want to ignore those guys to put "famed" and "noted" next to Brad Linaweaver's name?
I may be wrong, but Wiki isn't about marketing an author.  If Linaweaver is so famed and noted, then the readers of the article are going to know it without us telling them.  Right?  DBHughes 21:36, 09 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brad Linaweaver's uplifting adjectives 

message: I just added the section "Episodes aired out of order." I know all this info because, well, I watched the show at the time. But I assume I need to prove that it's verifiable, so I would like to reference the book "Sliders: The Classic Episodes" by Brad Linaweaver. However, all of the references/sources on this page are for other websites. How do I make a reference for a book? Thanks. -- TOM-H-CRGL3 17:50, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Book name here", author name here, Page: #xyz (publishing year here) Deus Sum (Matthew Fenton) (talk • contribs) 17:55, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Awesome. Thanks! :) -- TOM-H-CRGL3 22:26, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding sources 

message: Hey. I'd like to clean up the article a little. I'll not delete anything, but I think some rearranging and some expansion is in order. I've done all the changes, including images, etc, and they're saved on my computer. If I get the go ahead, I'll edit the page. It can only benefit the article, but if you're not happy with the changes I make, go ahead and revert, or build upon it... I'd eventually like to expand the entire Sliders project on Wikipedia. -- Avengers fan 23:28, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up 

message: The article claims that Sabrina Lloyd was allegedly fired. According to , she (allegedly) quit, telling David Peckinpah, "It's me or Kari." Q0 12:56, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: At the time, I read an article claiming she quit because she wasn't getting enough character development and Wade was just Quinn's girlfriend. Bizzybody (talk) 07:46, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sabrina Lloyd 

message: It says in this article that Wade was "sentenced to be gang raped by Kromaggs" - did I miss something, or is it just the charming way of the writer to describe the breeders' camp?
:Holy shit; you're right. It must have been something that get in there when someone wasn't looking, and didn't go over the article to find it later. I have now rephrased it to something more appropriate. --Bacteria 18:50, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wade gang raped by Kromaggs 

message: I didn't noticed this at first, but Sliders was recently moved to Sliders (TV program). This slipped by because not only does watching a page not cover moves, and I'm a bit bothered by the fact that an announcement or vote on this talk was avoided. So given how the title of this page relates to the disambiguation and such, I was just wondering if I'm the only one who think it was just fine the way it was and should be moved back, or, at the least, it be moved to Sliders (TV series), per naming convention? --Bacteria 10:37, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I also think it was best the way it was before, when it was just named Sliders. However, if it has to be moved, then it should be called Sliders (TV series), not Sliders (TV program). Q0 19:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Page move

message: I noticed that the article is tagged as needing references. Could the episodes themselves count as references? Q0 03:57, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: The article states, "Sabrina Lloyd began starring on ABC's Sports Night during the hiatus between switching from Fox to Sci-Fi Channel". I thought that although there was a large gap of time between when Fox aired its last episode and when Sci-Fi aired its first, the production of the fourth season (the first on the Sci-Fi channel) began in the fall following the last season on Fox. There does not appear to be a hiatus in production of Sliders between Fox and Sci-Fi. Q0 21:24, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you fore the reference. However, some assertions in the article are still undocumented in the source. The article claims, "During the fourth season, fans began petitioning for Lloyd to return, as were writers such as Marc Zicree. Sabrina Lloyd signed a contract with ABC's Sports Night during the hiatus between switching from Fox to Sci-Fi Channel, and was now filming." The reference does not say that fans or Marc Zicree were petitioning to bring Sabrina Lloyd. The only mention of Marc Zicree in the reference is that he wanted there to be a reason Wade was sentenced to the breeder camp. Also, the reference does not say that Sabrina Lloyd signed a contract with ABC during the hiatus between Fox and Sci-Fi. If she did, then it would mean she signed the contract with ABC at least one year before Sports Night began airing on ABC. Q0 20:04, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Sorry, I guess I missed that part. However, I still can't find anything saying that Marc Zicree wanted Sabina Lloyd back; all I found was a claim that Zicree wanted there to be a reason for the Kromagg breeder camp. Q0 19:07, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sabrina Lloyd (again) 

message: The infobox gives the following information:
 network = Fox/Sci Fi Channel
 first_aired = March 22, 1995
 last_aired = December 29, 1999 
I think it is misleading to list the network as being Fox and Sci Fi (United States version) but then list an airdate based on when the show was aired in the United Kingdom. I think that if the U.K. airdate is going to be used as the "last_aired" parameter, then whatever network was the first to air the last episode in the U.K. should also be listed along with Fox and Scifi in the network parameter of the infobox. Does anyone know what network first aired the last episode of Sliders in the U.K.? Q0 15:07, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK vs. US airdate in the infobox 

message: David Gerard removed the spoiler warning tag. which preceded the "Plot" section heading, with the following justification in the edit summary rm redundant - plot summaries obviously contain plot elements.
Q0 reverted with the explanation: for some it is important to avoid spoilers. It might seem obvious to some but not to others that the section contains spoilers. It's better safe than sorry so I think the tag should stay.
While I agree with Q0 that it's important for some people to avoid reading about plot elements, the section heading "Plot" is clear enough.  Having a redundant warning is bad style, and David is right when he says that plot summaries obviously contain plot elements.  I've removed the tag again.
Please leave a note here if you decide to restore the tag. --Tony Sidaway 17:45, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Spoiler warnings

message: I noticed that information was just added to the main article about vortex color, but I was wondering how far we want to take that information?  The producers and FX people have told me that they were just throwing colors out there to shake things up, but there is an unintentional rationale to the color progression - gravitational red shift.  You can read more about it in the below article that I penned:
http://www.sliders.tv/bboard/viewtopic.php?id=106
I do think that the information is interesting, but it may not be appropriate for the main article given its speculative nature.  Off hand, I do not even have a professional article or interview to cite for the producers' intentions on this issue; my offerings even on that issue would be hearsay.DBHughes 11:55, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've reverted the good faith addition of the text as it's too speculative. Matthew 17:11, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vortex color explanations 

message: Showing the progressive deterioration of the show.  After the character Maximillian Arturo died, the show just wasn't the same.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.63.78.91 (talk) 22:31, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  There should be a graph 

message: Why is this under the cast section? It either needs to be given its own section, or merged with something else (maybe create a production section). Though I think a reasonable course of action would be merging it with the List of Sliders episodes article since that's the most appropriate area for the time being. --Bacteria (talk) 01:01, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with this.  I think it would fit best in the plot section as Item 2.6 (listed after the season five synopsis).  After all, the episode order most affects the plot of the series; but the section as written fits best as a footnote to the season by season plot discussion.  Just my opinion, though. DBHughes (talk) 02:31, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Episodes aired out-of-order 

message: Aren't Charlie O'Connell, Tembi Locke and Robert Floyd main cast members, ie: listed in the opening credits during a whole season of the show and not in an "also starring" or "guest starring" role?
It's been years since I've seen seasons 4 or 5, but I don't remember seeing just Cleavant Derricks and Kari Wuhrer in season 5's opening credits.
A starring role automatically denotes "main" cast member, right?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.213.41.49 (talk) 16:54, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cast

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
* Support makes sense 70.51.9.124 (talk) 04:27, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: Pity there is no reference to Arnold Schwarzenegger in this article. I recall watching this series back in the day, and found it amusing how often they would jump to a new earth and found that Schwarzenegger was identified as Governor or President of an Independent California. This was BEFORE he became the current Governor. Gamweb (talk) 07:19, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arnold Schwarzenegger 

message: Not true, I just finished watching all five seasons streamed off of Netflix and there are still several episodes that say "Episode available on DVD only".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.173.116.94 (talk) 01:00, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[March 23, 2009] - Looks like all Slider Season 1-5 episodes are now available on Netflix." 

message: sadly i don't really have a great source but it's fairly obvious in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Haruhi Suzumiya mentions in her class introduction that "I don't have any interest in ordinary people. If anyone here is an alien, time traveler, slider, or esper, please, come see me! That is all." her mentioning of a slider is a direct reference to this show. Heck even the anime version aired their episodes out of order which seems to be a direct reference to the show  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.210.138.87 (talk) 10:27, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Allusions and references by others needs an addition 

message: Found this while surfing, http://www.sliders-dimension.de/DVD/Bilder/box5_rc2_de/box5_rc2_dea.jpg. 98.246.175.190 (talk) 14:11, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Season 5 Box Art 

message: Maggie's father was named Thomas Beckett. Thomas Beckett's brother is the main character in Quantum Leap, Samuel Beckett. Thoughts? Jeanlovecomputers (talk) 04:13, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maggie's Relation 

message: I'm sorry to bother you guys, but please, does anybody know which episode(s) featured Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver bass player Duff McKagan acting as a drummer? 89.138.59.29 (talk) 21:59, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: McKagan played "Harker" in the third season episode "Stoker" where Wade joins a Goth band who turn out to be vampires. It might also be of interest that Tommy Chong played the part of "Van Elsinger" in the same episode.Wayne (talk) 10:01, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duff McKagan 

message: The onion recently made fun of Sliders! So why is this not in the article under the references?
http://www.theonion.com/articles/sliders-ended-two-seasons-too-early-if-you-ask-me,17765/  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.238.240.4 (talk) 06:47, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  the onion 

message: Someone added to the article that "The timer has frequently been lost, stolen, or damaged during the slides, a gimmick common to "Star Trek" in the 1960s, which earned the earlier show justifiable criticism". The author added an invisible note that the comment was from a book by David Gerrold. Would it be possible to either get the specific details and context regarding this comment, or remove/edit it. I find the comparison to Star Trek and the criticism comment confusing. I consider myself a big Star Trek fan, and I don't think the gimmick is that obvious or worth mentioning. And does "earlier show" refer to the show mentioned earlier in the sentence, or the show that aired earlier in time? Elnauron (talk) 17:09, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: In the original Star Trek, the crew had their communicators taken away many times so they couldn't just call the Enterprise to be beamed up. When they didn't have their equipment confiscated, the writers had to come up with other ways of blocking or disabling the transporter. The nifty device became a major headache to the writers because without a way to prevent its use, the crew could simply be zapped out of any danger. IMHO the best ST:TOS episodes were the ones where they had to stick around to resolve the plot even though they could beam out at any time. Losing the timer or having it taken is very similar in Sliders. Bizzybody (talk) 08:10, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Common Star Trek Gimmick 

message: Much of this article reads like a bad book report.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.34.187.154 (talk) 01:52, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rerwrite needed 

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thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

message: Hello
It appears Dimensionofcontinuity.com which is used as a source, is now the website of an american Limo hire company. I would suggest that if you want to use this as  source perhaps using the waybackwhen machine.
Hope that helps
J  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.69.116.81 (talk) 04:31, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Dimension of Continunity

message: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jerry-oconnell-reveals-the-checkered-history-of-211218691.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.53.82.13 (talk) 23:29, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: We are currently using this already, at several points, so if you see something you think might be added, just point it out and we can easily include. --Masem (t) 00:02, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interview with jerry o connell 

message: He seems to be a guest in Season 2-3 in the table, but I don't recall him in those seasons, and in the main characters article he doesn't, am I remembering incorrectly or there's a mistake in the table? Didiko4444 (talk) 09:48, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colin in character table