Maybe I'm the odd man out. Personally I'd rather not see a reboot. To me Sliders needs to have a least one of the original characters in it for it to be 'Sliders'. Without that it's not Sliders. Not unless you create something new and name it something like Sliders: TNG. I think the best shot and my hope would be to create a miniseries with the actors that would be willing to reprise their roles. I think there's no doubt you couldn't fully restore the feeling the show gave from its own time period in the 90s. Today it would have to take a much more serious approach. Perhaps the return of the X-Files will get brains cogs to turn.

I know I am late but you are not alone. I think a mini-series, with the original members, would be great. I want a satisfactory end for these people. I HATE do overs. Why should I care about a new set of people when the old set I cared about were apparently disposable? And the show is not old enough to completely start over. X-Files is bringing back David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson and Mulder and Scully, respectively.

I think there are more than just a handful of fans. We can't all be on this site and spend time on fanfiction (that's not a dig- I recently started one and holy crap, this s**t is hard). But for every person who comments, there are lots who are devoted fans and even more who have fond memories and would watch. I think it would take some heavy advertisement and re-running of the show before the new series.

It's the same thing with SLIDERS REBORN (I'm 1/3 finished Part 2 and 2B is done). It's not meant to be a realistic picture of how to revive SLIDERS as a going concern in 2015 -- but I'm hoping that fans will read it and feel like the images described are *possible* even if it would never actually be filmed.

A realistic SLIDERS revival does not bother with Seasons 3 - 5 or even Seasons 1 - 2. A realistic SLIDERS revival is introducing the concept to the audience for the first time.

In terms of updating SLIDERS -- I don't see that anything has to be updated beyond what comes naturally with moving a 20-year-old Quinn into 2015. You could update the topical references and timeframe in the Pilot, film it today and it'd be great -- the differences would come in the form of how *different* TV filming and editing have become. Scenes are shorter. Dialogue is faster. More happens in less time. I think modern production alone would make SLIDERS seem more modern. As for updating the characterization -- it was already there in the original series, it just wasn't always capitalized upon.

Rather than a "All a Dream"/"Never Happened Moment" we can have a side by side approach.

The Non Native Earth Quinn is a seperate Quinn, or the Cromagg Deception re Charlie was less a Knowing Spy and more of a Sleeper/Manchurian Candidate.

Maybe there was a real Quinn who came from invasion world just not OUR Quinn...

A Quinn who discovered Sliding in 95 does not have to be totally written off but a gentle handwave avoiding how this is orriginal Quinn may be best with maybe subtle hints later in the Series to spark debate among Fans but remain Unanswered.

New Sliders to Join him would be fine but as you say careful casting for Chemistry would be essential.

I doubt Sabrina will come back as a full cast member but a Cameo may be possible if in the right spirit perhaps is viable.

Arturo coming back as a Mentor or even a Rival Mentor for Mature Quinn is also possible with the Blue Gate Arturo situation.

What if Gillian of the Spirits Quinn never reunited with our Core Group but a Very Similar Double did? That could be interesting to play with.

Quinn exploring our World and Rediscovering it is his own could be an interesting Pilot. Reconciling the Changes to our World with his Memories of Home.... His almost Idealised Home could be very engaging.

I would have to say that out of all the changes made throughout the series (mostly seasons 3-5), the fact that Quinn is not from our earth at all, and showing that earth prime is not "our" world (since we haven't been invaded by Kromaggs), is probably the worst. You're right, it disconnects us from the sliders. While I'm ok with Maggie trailing along (since she obviously isn't from our earth and never claimed to be in the series), the season 4 change in Genesis was the biggest game changer (even more than the cast changes and even the merging of the Quinns). To me, that change is the "jump the shark" moment in Sliders.

As many of you know, I actually watch Sliders very regularly, an episode every week or so. I kinda bounce around on the episodes though... But recently (basically 2015) I've been watching a lot of original cast episodes, keeping up with SlidersCast and started with the Sliders Rewatch. I always defend seasons 3.5 to the end, because even though the original cast is not in tact, there are some good episodes, great ideas, and a lot of great scenes, even with the "new" sliding teams. Just the other day, however, I watched Way Out West (which I claim as my second favorite episode of the series), and going from watching most of season 1-3.5 episodes to that was almost a shock. It was still enjoyable, but something was missing.

I've probably hammered this sentiment into the ground. But the inescapable truth is that when you follow a TV show regularly, you are letting specific people and faces into your home. If those faces suddenly change, it's akin to a home invasion. I didn't invite Maggie over for dinner; I invited the Professor. Who does she think she is?

There's also the fact that in Seasons 1 - 2, all the characters were from 'our' world. Therefore, they could compare our history with alternate histories and react accordingly. But with Season 4, Quinn and Rembrandt are from an Earth that was invaded by Kromaggs; Colin's from a pre-industrial Earth, Maggie's from the Pulsar world where nuclear weapons were detonated on American soil -- there's no sense of contrasting our world with this week's world. None of these characters are from our world, which makes it impossible to create the homesickness and alienation that were so prominent in Seasons 1 - 2. The show became absolutely pointless.

That's probably why I'm not overly in favour of a sequel series where sliding has existed since 1995. I'd rather see Quinn discover it today. And see him played by Gregory Smith.

So, yes, I still believe Sliders with any cast would still be enjoyable since I love the *concept* of sliding, and everything that goes along with that. However, a new show would *have* to have a good, hand picked cast that would work together, as much as the original cast did for this series.

The biggest challenge to getting this back on tv is tv execs looking at it as a cheesey/corney 90s show.  Because let's face it, as things progressed, it became that at times.  It's hard to pitch that to other executives without looking silly.

Plus, tv tastes are just less innocent now.  An extreme example, but could Different Strokes or Family Ties work now?  No.  Audiences have seen so much more programming by now, 20 years later, they have sharper pallettes. They demand smarter, and every tv exec is pandering toward the smart, snarky twitter crowd that drive the influential conversation (particuarly what's portrayed around the media and the bloggers at these entities).  So you need to do a show that they can embrace.

Either Sliders partially polks fun at itself as a summer movie, syfy style, or they aim to be a reboot or revival on a younger channel (a family or preteen one) and do the old fox style stuff or they get smarter and sleeker if they want to try to attract an adult crowd (which is required if you're going to be on a major cable network).

Torme mentioned sliders being "of its time". I think that's pretty much the dilemma - you have to either go younger or update the show - if you are going to bring it back as a series. There's no excuse though why SyFy execs couldn't greenlight a summer movie and I'd love for someone to do a miniseries.  I think it's going to take someone other than torme to bring it back though.

I think the best thing we can do is send around Jerry's interview on Slidecage indicating he would like the show to be brought back so maybe some of the scifi blogs do a post about his interest in a revival and maybe it catches interest on the internet and gets picked up more. That sort of buzz is what tv execs look for in making decisions on programming.  The X-Files Files and the buzz that built really was the tipping point for bringing x files back.

Dark Angel, Xena, Wonder Woman, Highlander (TV Series), Dr Who (Old Version) and Star Trek TNG are on it.

Sliders would be a nice addition to go with the others.

The show was reran in Sci-Fi's weird SciFi World block for a couple years then the HUB rescently, so outside of HULU, Netflix, DVD's and Amazon Prime not high visibility, but more than Battlestar Galactica had before its re-launch, or any of several re-launches form Universal...Knight Rider, Bionic Woman, Ironside, New Dragnet where all re-launched with less notoriety.

It's just one abandoned building on one Earth as far as the inhabitants are concerned.

The Pilot, in contrast, explains *everything* about sliding and piles upon endless unlikely plot points. The idea that Quinn was trying to build anti-gravity and created something else is plausible, but then you have a ridiculous coincidence: a double just happened to visit Quinn's Earth at the very same time Quinn slid out and was absent, a double uniquely suited to explain the sliding concept to Quinn. In an infinity of Earths, how likely is it that a Quinn-double would just happen to stumble across an Earth in such a plot-convenient fashion?

PARALLELS, quite smartly, cloaks its absurdities in mystery to avoid having to justify them at all or failing to.