I don't have a problem with it. It has evolved since I started it.

JWSlider3

Writer
Stargate SG-1

SG-1 Season 9
"The Powers That Be"

SG-1 Season 10
"Bad Guys" (story) (teleplay) (co-wrote with Ben Browder)

Stargate: Atlantis

Atlantis Season 1
"Childhood's End"
"The Storm" (teleplay) (co-wrote with Jill Blotelvogel)
"The Eye"
"Hot Zone"
"The Brotherhood"
"Letters from Pegasus" (excerpts)
"The Gift" (story) (co-wrote with Robert C. Cooper)
"The Siege, Part 1"

Atlantis Season 2
"The Siege, Part 3"
"Duet"
"Conversion" (story) (teleplay) (co-wrote with Robert C. Cooper)
"The Lost Boys"
"Grace Under Pressure"
"Coup D'etat"
"Allies"

Atlantis Season 3
"No Man's Land"
"McKay and Mrs. Miller"
"The Return, Part 1"
"The Return, Part 2"
"Sunday"
"First Strike"

Atlantis Season 4
"Adrift"
"Miller's Crossing"
"Be All My Sins Remember'd"
"Spoils of War" (excerpts)
"Harmony"
"Trio"

Atlantis Season 5
"Search and Rescue"
"Ghost in the Machine" (excerpts)
"First Contact"
"The Lost Tribe"
"Inquisition" (excerpts)
"Brain Storm"

Stargate Universe

Universe Season 1
"Earth" (story) (teleplay) (co-wrote with Robert C. Cooper & Brad Wright)
"Lost"

Director

Stargate: Atlantis

Atlantis Season 5
"Brain Storm"

Summer of Love, Luck of the Draw Alternateville Horror and World Killer.

Martin Gero's work on the Stargate franchise alone makes me hopeful for Quantum Leap!

JWSlider3

I 100% agree with the audio drama as being one of the best ways to revive Sliders! What's your take on this being the best format to do a revival?

JWSlider3

But from what I'm reading, not holding my breath on QL

If Quantum Leap does well, Sliders could start moving forward.

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Those do look pretty cool!

I agree with Grizzlor about Tracy.

But, I also have to say that prior to the work he's done for the Return/Reboot, he seemed negative about the show and confused why the fans would stick with a show that had "jumped the shark".

But now he seems a lot more positive about the show and the fans commitment to it. To the point that he wanted to voice his appreciation for them. No matter what the outcome of this endeavor maybe.

JWSlider3

From what I understand, this person could green light the show. The problem appears to be Universal's financial state. A show that might lose money isn't an option, at least at this moment in time.

JWSlider3

Grizzlor wrote:
The way Tracy framed it was he expected they'd take the pitch and be like, yeah go ahead, let's do this.  Nice of him to be that optimistic, because I sure wasn't.  The "time" thing was them asking him, why is now the right time to bring it back?

The executive that ask if this is the right time was the same executive that said "Tracy, can you write a pitch to bring Sliders back".

So, now you can understand why Tracy was surprised.

JWSlider3

I think this new group could be interesting,  I'm intrigued to learn the groups reason for sliding. Since they are waiting for the window of opportunity,  it stands to reason that they are all willing in their involvement to slide. I would think for most of them this is their home that they are leaving including Quinn (I'm mean, the mother of his child died on this world, wouldn't that make it home for him).

JWSlider3

I don't think Sabrina is "in".

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Me neither! I think the whole thing sounds very shady!

JWSlider3

It would be a great opportunity to ask about Sliders return.

JWSlider3

I talked to Tormé last night. He said that they are still in talks. He said that he written a pilot script that would explain what has happened time wise and  character wise.

He still seems very optimistic about the shows return and wants me share with the forum that things are moving forward.

JWSlider3

My thoughts exactly!

TemporalFlux wrote:

Tracy should consider a Kickstarter for Sliders.  Might be a dud, but worth a shot.

I have wondered about for audio drama (like Big Finish) versions of Sliders possibly a lost episode sorta thing with all of the original actors.

JWSlider3

Tracy Tormé made it very clear that he is only interested in the original group, he has yet to reach out to Sabrina (commented about uncertainty as with her living in Africa) but he has be in contact with the others. He has a story idea on how to bring the original group back (as well as explain the passage of time.

Transmodiar, please do reach out to Jacob Epstein. I would love to hear his side of it.

JWSlider3

Well this came as a complete surprise!

After quite a extended game of phone tag I finally got a hold Tracy Tormé today at the request of Ireaction (in reference to Ireaction's upscaling project). To be honest I was a little hesitant, I got in touch with Mr. Tormé a several months ago about some lost stories from Sliders and it seemed to be the end of that conversation.

After some thought , I felt like I should lead in with something of more of my own personal interest (no offense Ireaction). When this conversation started, Mr. Tormé seemed different this time, very energized! He said that it was interesting that got in touch with him at this time.

He said that he is having a meeting tomorrow with former Fox Executive to talk about bringing Sliders back. He said that this was the real deal, not just talk or rumors. This meeting is about how to proceed forward with Sliders return. He even said Jacob Epstein would be involved with this meeting! He seemed VERY positive about how this is progressing and suggested that I share it with anyone who was a fan of the show.

I hope everyone else finds this interesting!

JWSlider3

It would be quite an undertaking, but I feel it would be a more true High Definition end result.

On the subject of the upscaling endeavor, is there a way to (in essence) rotoscope the foreground images and upscale them apart from the background? I think that might eliminate the waxyness of the background.

I think one of the Star Wars despecialized blu ray editions do something similar.

JWSlider3

That is pretty awesome! Thanks TF!

JWSlider3

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As far as SG-1 is concerned. If I remember correctly, the first 3 seasons are filmed in 16mm and 4 thru 7 were in 35mm and 8 thru 10 are HD. I would think 8-10 would be a straight forward switch over and 4-7 would be a slight uprez but 1-3 would be really rough uprez (really glossy).

I don't know of any other blu-ray examples from VEI (the company releasing it). I have been happy with the "The Sentinel" series and "Poltergeist the Legacy".

I didn't know "Warehouse 13" got a blu-ray release. What company did that release?

JWSlider3

I was curious if anyone had purchased the new blu-ray releases of these 2 sci-fi channel series? I was wondering if they were worth purchasing.

JWSlider3

I believe the outline was called "Sons of Liberty" formally Net Worth.

As I said, Tracy is the only one that referred to it as "Onliners".

As of March 20 1997

K1811 "Net  Worth" Steve Stoliar Story assigned 7/2/96 delivered 7/10/96 - In abeyance
K1812 "Adventure in paradise" John Scheinfeld Story assigned 7/16/96 delivered 7/24/96 - Abandoned
K1821 "Slider's Ark" Paul Jackson assigned 10/22/96
K1822 "Heat of the Moment" Tracy Torme assigned 11/1/96

the outline is what was delivered not the script, if it's at the assignment stage it's just a pitch

TemporalFlux wrote:Recent years haven’t been too kind, and I really no longer care what anyone is doing with regards to behind the scenes material.  Trying to share that type of material was a miserable experience for me. I often felt like I had to spend more time trying to prove I wasn’t lying than the time it took to actually find the material.

Looking back, my real enjoyment with this community was in sharing ideas and theories about the continuity and mechanics of the series that weren’t always elaborated on in the stories.  Filling in the cracks of the series and talking about it with other fans was a rewarding experience, and those efforts are the “detective work” that I’m most proud of.  Ultimately, that’s all I was trying to do in finding the production materials too - I was just seeking to gain a better understanding of the series and what shaped it.

I’ve come to realize that trivia and possessions really weren’t my goal (though I admit I do enjoy having displays of the production used Egyptian timer, Rickman timer and Slidewave generator in my home).

Sorry to hear of miss fortune in the last few years. I can understand about not caring what anyone is doing with the material. I felt like I paid a fortune for what most would consider Bob Weiss' trash (and actually is).

I enjoy finding out about the stories that might have been, a story I enjoy is when I was trying to get in contact with Dorothy Fontana and had to go though Marv Wolfman to do it (almost surreal).

When last we talked you had just acquired the Egyptian Timer and stated that you where determined to the Rickman Timer. I think it's awesome that you got all those Timers now.

I wish you would have just said this in an email, instead of saying nothing. I know a lot of what I talked about in those days never came to pass, sorry things couldn't have been different.

To be fair, I tried to share that information with Temporal Flux, never responded back to my emails or messages.

ireactions wrote:Say, whatever happened with your script exchange? Weren't you working on something with Transmodiar?

I'm curious ireactions, why did you ask this question here and now? You've had my email and you didn't seem to care for the last 2 years. Is it because I made reference to the old TemporalFlux Sliders passion? Did you feel you needed to "put me in my place", expose something TemporalFlux might not have known about?

ireactions wrote: fanfic writer Nigel Mitchell who wrote the SLIDERS novella "Reboot," which is the first published SLIDERS story

published?

He says it's his idea, but then again so does Nan. But Torme only took his ideas to Acclaim.

ireactions wrote: TF was of the view that “Net Worth” had originally been a Season 3 pitch entitled “Onliners”

As far as "Net Worth" is concerned I believe TF is correct, I think Tracy himself pitched this story as "Onliners" and it was assigned to Steve Stoliar (who moved forward with his on pitch) then Nan Hagan (I got proof of this one:) then it stalled again.

ireactions wrote: Tracy Torme’s notes for Season 3 indicated that he had received a story idea called “Onliners” that he liked and that the Season 3 team might reject; he was going to ask Acclaim to consider producing it.

This was Tracy's notes for season four not three. I believe "Net Worth" was then "reassigned"  to Steve Stoliar then it was completed.

ireactions wrote:Transcoding reviewed JWSlider’s documents which included a mid-season progress report on Season 3 scripts. It included “Onliners,” which had been retired “Net Worth” and put on hold.

This isn't entirely true. The document didn't include "Onliners" it included "Net Worth" but yes it was put on hold. The reason I believe Tracy assigned the pitch he made himself is that only he has ever referred to it as "Onliners" and he had taken other pitches to the comic such as "Three went Walking" and "The Power and the Glory"

ireactions wrote:Say, whatever happened with your script exchange? Weren't you working on something with Transmodiar?

Thanks to your suggestion (through personal email) 2 years ago. Odd you would ask being that you've seen the document that I had that confirms that "Net Worth" was in season 3 lineup, that Transmodiar showed you.

RussianCabbie_Lotteryfan wrote:
Amazing that it would fetch that much...  Didn't realize we had enough fans like that to command such a pretty penny.

That's the thing, we don't! But, evidently we have 2!

It reminded me of the old TemporalFlux Sliders passion. It was nice to see someone still has it!

I didn't make Jack shit. I was bidding on it and was surprised that someone out there had old school Temporal Flux desire to possess a script that I normally (of recent) wouldn't see go for more than $35.

The dude that won it is a moderator at that Slidehead Facebook page that you were bashing a couple of days ago. I guess he doesn't need any pressing work done on his car!

You sure as hell did!

I've known people to pay more than that! Just shocked that the interest still remains, when I can't get people on this board (a Sliders community) to respond to a script trade!

Wow!

Somebody wanted the "The King is Back" shooting script pretty damn bad! Paid over $400 for it!

Oddly enough my father did die of a stomach aneurysm between the 3rd and 4th season.

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Hi everyone,
I was wondering for anyone is still trying to collect the old Sliders scripts, if you are interested in possibly trading? I have a draft of every episode from the shows fourth season except the episodes "Just Say Yes" and "Slide by Wire", I would be willing to trade any of those drafts for the either of the 2 listed.

If anyone is interested email me at
jwsparrow67@sbcglobal.net

Thanks,
James Sparrow

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I have a question for the forum, when did we find out about the lost episode Beauty World and what do we know about it?

JWSlider3

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I'm not sure why Ireaction moved the tangents from this thread, the conversation and the tangents only make sense as a whole.

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Zicree's participation on the Twilight Zone DVD/BD commentaries are quite often praised as being very insightful. To my recollection this is the first time he is doing commentaries to his own stuff and besides the commentary on the pilot by Weiss and Torme, it's only other time someone will have done ANY for Sliders.

So I'm very interested to hear these.

Moved from the Marc Scott Zicree thread:
Moved from http://sliders.tv/bboard/viewtopic.php?id=342

Ireactions, not really sure what any of that has to do with the topic.

I think these MSZ commentaries are a pretty cool idea, maybe if they are well received maybe more will follow.

Also since when is being positive about your experiences lying?

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I miss Informant!

Ireaction psychoanalyzing aside, I really enjoyed that podcast/interview very insightful on both Jerry and Macaulay I can understand a lot more of their life choices. It is kinda odd that no one has ever bought Jerry a slider until that interview.

Okay, when John Rhys-Davies is referring to NBC, I'm sure he meant NBC/Universal who has the distribution rights, Universal doesn't give that stuff up (that's why Kevin Smith can't do Mallrats 2).

I am also positive that George R. R. Martin owns the rights to Doorways, given in 2010 IDW published the a comic book series based on the Pilot and was going to publish (in comic book form) the six other scripts written for the series. That was all before the popularity of Game of Thrones.

Personally, I'm surprised that they haven't given Doorways another shot considering the popularity of Game of Thrones.

What's wrong with going back to the original group? I mean X-Files did it (was there really any reason given for Robert Patrick or the woman that replaced Scully not returning).

And comment about JRD's age. How old is Patrick Stewart or the entire cast of Grace and frankie?

If you're not interested don't watch. I would personally give it a try, it's the concept that I fell in love with (initially).

I don't understand. Ireaction, you make it sound like your father died. I mean I love Sliders and it sucked when the Professor was killed off, but was like what you describing. If it was then his would be an incredible thing wouldn't it?

If it comes back at all, it would be great. If the original characters (and actors, ala X-Files) it would be Amazing!

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I believe that was the original set up. And oddly enough it is 2 Torme written episodes that contradict each and create the confusion. The pilot shows that Quinn's diary (tapes) are dated in the fall (I believe September) but the next episode "Summer of Love", Rembrandt asks the hippies if the year is 1995.

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It was definitely set up as fall 1994, but since episodes didn't start airing until 1995 and all references in episodes post pilot (no year stated in the pilot) were 1995. I think it's everyone assumes it's1995.

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It was really interesting to see how the concept developed in those early days, there was even a note as Doorways being possible competition.

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If I remember correctly, the idea was that members of the boarding house got sucked into the vortex and Rembrandt (or another incarnation of him) was among them. The vortex would not have traveled outside the house.

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I've read some notes from Weiss that said they (he and Torme) had planned on the Mallory house was a motel or boarding house, but that was very early on (well before the pilot script phase).

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Great interview! Very insightful! The trouble with the Landis group does make a lot of sense. Everyone seems to have loved working with Nan Hagan, interesting.

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I'm just saying that it's ridiculous to compare a show with 90's story telling sensibilities to a current day show. I guess comparing Sliders to the mid 90's Doctor who TV movie would be fair, but it didn't do very well did it.

The thing about Sliders that I think is amazing and the reason I still love it is that the 'concept' would allow you to tell ANY kind of story, it's truly limitless! So I think I 'get' it.

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To compare Sliders to Nu Who is a little ridiculous. Yes the amalgam Quinn was based on Doctor who, but classic who. Back in the day it was simply "here's the new doctor".

I really believe that if talks with Jerry would have gone better, it would have been a tad bit more interesting. Still I think of all the actors who left Sliders, Mallory was the most tactful resolution the ever had.

I finally saw Black Panther and really wasn't very impressed with it. One thing about Marvel movies that is getting old is the villains that are nothing more than a dark mirror of the hero (complete with the same powers).