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Episode: 01x01 (pilot)
Title: Pilot (1)
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 83535
First Aired: Mar. 22, 1995

Season 1 » Episode #01 - Pilot (1)

Summary: Physics genius Quinn Mallory has been tooling around in his basement for months, trying to create an anti-gravity device. However, he has stumbled on to something much greater - something that appears to be a gateway! Curious as to what's on the other side, he invites his old friend Wade Wells and his physics teacher, Professor Maximillian Arturo, to venture into the gateway with him. While creating the gateway, however, Quinn uses too much power, and the vortex snags a fourth passenger: Rembrandt Brown, a former pop star who just happened to be in the neighborhood. The vortex drops them in a world where a new Ice Age has begun, a world where they must somehow survive until Quinn's timer reaches zero!

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01x01 Pilot (01:27:32) (Full Episode)

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Mrs. Mallory	played by Linda Henning
Commissar Joseph A. Wapner	played by Joseph A. Wapner
Comrade Llewelyn	played by Doug Llewelyn
Doc	played by Garwin Sanford
Wilkins	played by Roger R. Cross
Wing	played by Yee Jee Tso
Senator Candidate	played by Frank C. Turner
Crazy Kenny	played by Frank C. Turner
Interrogator	played by John Novak

	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot (1) DJ: Jack Kennedy does not want to run for another term. And I can understand this, people; because if you start the day in bed with Marilyn that's were you want to spend the day.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot (1) Rembrandt 'Crying Man' Brown: [after Sliding] Man, that trip was a trip!

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CHAR: When the whole group slides escaping from a tornado, they see a Lenin statue. Professor says it's Lenin, Nicolay Ilyich Ulyanov, but Lenin's true name is Vladimir.
SYNC: When Rembrandt is walking out to his car to go to the ball game where he is to sing the anthem, the audio is of him practicing the anthem. His lips, however, are not moving to the words.
CONT: Rembrandt Brown's license plate has no sticker tags when he is sucked into the wormhole. Later when the tornado comes he has them.
FACT: When in the world where the Russians rule the Untited States, Arturo sees Lenin's monument and call him Nikolay Ilyich Ulyanov-Lenin. Lenin's first name was Vladimir.
PLOT: In addition to sucking up Quinn, Wade, and Arturo, the moving tunnel also picks up Rembrandt and his car... but nothing else despite passing through many loose objects.

TRIVIA

Quinn's cat is named Schrödinger, after Erwin Schrödinger the Nobel prize winning physicists.
In the dinner scene at the end the characters propose several ideas that would become episodes throughout the series. Arturo says that Einstein regretting giving the world the atom bomb, they would enter a world where he did in fact not give the world the bomb in "Sliders" (1995) {Last Days (#1.3)}. Rembrandt says he might still be singing out there and would visit a world where he became so famous he faked his death and became an Elvis like figure in "Sliders" (1995) {The King Is Back (#1.8)}.