Below you'll find Earth Prime's collection of critical essays about the show as well as location information and a compendium of two years worth of rumors that have floated around the Internet.
Latest Addition: Comics vs. The Screen
When the Acclaim comic series was introduced, it was hailed as a way to do all the things the show could not given budget restraints, risky content, or technical limitations. Yet when all was said and done, almost every comic made its way on screen in one form or another. This raises a fairly obvious question: if all stories ended up on television anyway, why bother with the comics? In this essay, we'll take a look at how at how each comic stacked up against its on screen counterpart. It's print media versus electronic media. Who will prevail?
"The Guardian" — A Critique
Matt Hutaff takes a look at the Production Draft of The Guardian — Tracy Tormé's original vision, and wonders if complete creative control is necessarily a good thing."The Guardian" — A Defense
Mike Truman's love of The Guardian extends to the original scripted version, which he feels is a diamond in the rough.Are the Reticulans Sliders?
The fifth season episode The Return of Maggie Beckett introduced an interstellar civilization known as the Reticulans. Or are they? Evidence points to the fact that the Reticulans are in fact a sliding civilization, and that they've been visited by the Kromaggs.Proposed Season 5 Episodes
Remember that episode where the Sliders landed on the world with werewolves? Or that one where Vincent Turk builds a Kromagg-killing laser beam? Remember Derek Quade? You don't? That's because a ton of pre-production on the fifth season was ultimately scrapped, but thanks to the diligent investigative work of the Expert, you can read all about a season that never was.Season 4 Rumors
When Sliders was canceled after the 1996-7 Fox season, the Internet community went into overdrive. There was a huge letter writing campaign to resurrect the show, and rumors immediately began to swirl about the show's future. The information below tracks the rumor mill's progress for the fourth season from way out wackiness to confirmed reports.Season 5 Rumors
In addition to over a dozen story ideas that were never produced are the rumors about Season Five. Read reports about shoots in a mall that never materialized and about the purported return of Conrad Bennish, Jr. here.The Mission Inn
The Mission Inn, located in Riverside, California, was the inexplicable setting of a military base in the third season's two-parter "The Exodus." We drove out there to film a wedding and came back with some exclusive photos and information about the historic landmark.