The sliders travel to a parallel dimension, which at first glance seems like paradise. Money is given to play the lottery, streets are quiet... it's life in the slow lane and very pleasant. But when Wade wins the lottery, paradise turns to hell. Lottery winners are treated like royalty and given anything they want but the twist is that in order to maintain the most important thing in this dimension - controlled population - they must die.

The travelers slide to a world where Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown is as huge as Elvis in our world, but after a mysterious "death" eight years ago this world has had to make do with "Crying Man" impersonators. Rembrandt's appearance creates havoc and his former manager, Captain Jack, tries to cash in on his miraculous reincarnation with a mega-bucks concert.

The sliders travel to a world where academians, not athletes, are the national heroes and Quinn's double has achieved superstar status. With the possibility that this Earth's Quinn and Arturo have also unlocked the key to sliding, the real Quinn and Arturo assume the identities of their doubles in this Sliders episode entitled "Eggheads".

The sliders travel to a parallel world where Oliver North is President, the U. S. is involved in a bitter Civil War in Australia and hippies from the 1960's roam the streets of San Francisco, while Rembrandt finds out he would have lived in misery as a henpecked husband if he married his childhood sweetheart in this Slider's episode entitled "Summer of Love".

The group slides from a parallel world where San Francisco is about to go underwater to a world where the British won the Revolution, and the "ruling monarch", Britain's Crown Prince Harold, gets a crash course in democracy to save his colony in this Sliders episode entitled "Prince of Wails".

The group slides to a parallel dimension where an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth and Einstein never allowed nuclear weapons to be created. With only 48 hours until "Dooms Day", and 72 hours until the next slide, they work feverishly to recreate Einstein's equation for the atomic bomb in this Sliders episode entitled "Last Days".

The sliders find themselves in paradise parallel Earth. But they must move on and this time they are in a disease-ravaged environment with no medicine to cure the Q virus. They are on an Earth where antibiotics were never discovered and a raging bacterial infection threatens to wipe out the population in this Sliders episode entitled "Fever".

Young genius Quinn Mallory discovers the means to traveling to parallel dimensions of Earth via a portal wormhole he creates in his basement laboratory. Quinn's physics teacher, Professor Maximillian Arturo, and his friend Wade Wells visit Quinn at home, and together they decide to travel into the next dimension of Earth. When the threesome start up the wormhole's energy for the journey, the strength of it accidentally inhales Rembrandt Brown, a washed-up Rhythm & Blues singer en route to Candlestick Park in San Francisco to sing the National Anthem, who happens to drive by Quinn's house. The four "sliders" travel first to a San Francisco submerged under ice and then to a San Francisco ruled by the Soviets. After experiencing these dimensions of Earth, the sliders try to return to their original world, only to discover that they can't, in this pilot episode of Sliders.