If Jerry needed the money, he could get booked easily to smaller conventions around the country, no problem.  Trust me.  Casper Van Dien does a million of them, and he is basically only known for one cheesy sci-fi film that bombed at the box office.

Well smaller ones sure.  The thing is there are different ways Conventions pay special guests.  Either a fee (and travel of course) or perhaps some small travel costs and the invitation to sell their autographs and meet and greet.   If the convention is going to pay a fee of any significant they have to believe it will help drive people to the convention. That's fine for small conventions who don't really have headliners but it starts not to make sense for bigger ones if the person isn't going to really move the needle enough.  John Rhys Davies is more attractive to a convention than Jerry is in that respect.

Jerry was at WonderCon last year - but I'm pretty sure the project he was working on paid for him to be there. It was in LA too, so not much of a big deal traveling or scheduling wise.

I've asked promoters before, they haven't been interested.

I think although there's overlap, the convention crowd is a different type of audience than who the core slider fans are, and certainly different than the typical sliders audience.

The Sci-Fi Channel market research supports this.

http://www.earthprime.com/wp-content/up … liders.pdf

I've asked promoters before, they haven't been interested.  JRD does cons because of Indiana Jones and Lord of the Rings.  O'Connell could do okay I guess.

Much to Jerry's chagrin, a con would likely be more interested in his wife; but that could lead to him appearing as a package deal.

I would like to do something new with my someplacethatiselse site though. It is just sitting there.

As for Cleavant, he's gotta leave the premises somehow!  Stinks you didn't see him, but a big reason I didn't travel that far was I was completely unfamiliar with the venue vs. Broadway in NYC which I know well.

Okay, so we'll put that plan on the back burner.

I don't know if con organizers recognize the cult status of the show.

I'd love for someone to put together a Sliders panel at a convention or something. Even a podcast event would work, or a documentary. There is a lot of story to tell.

I would look forward to it. Seems like the following for Sliders and us fans are few and far between.  I've been to a Trek convention and there were guests from various sci fi shows but no sliders. Every year during comicon I check the guest list looking for a slider guest speaker but so far zilch.

I would just like to meet anyone from the show. the day I find one at a convention, I will be first in line to purchase tickets.
Footnote: I did meet Chase Masterson at the Trek convention back in 2001 but she was there to promote her role on Deep Space Nine and not necessarily the Sliders episode she appeared in (Season's Greedings).