SLIDERS
SEASON 3

Release Date: July 26th 2005

MSRP Price: $59.98 (estimated price)
Amazon Price: $41.98
Costco Price: 39.99
Sam's Club: $39.99

Season 3 - 25 Episodes
Format: full-screen
Studio: Universal Studios
Run Time: 18 hrs. 42 min.
Number of Discs:  4
Sound: Remastered Dolby Digital 2.0

Xena: 10th Anniversary Rating: "C" 

Video: B
Audio: C
Acting: B
Content: A
Packaging: F
Extras: D

STARS: Jerry O'Connell, John Rhys-Davies, Cleavant Derricks, and Sabrina Lloyd. 

It's really funny as I work on this review watching the discs and realize that the Sci-Fi Channel aired some season three episodes this week. 

This is actually the last decent season of Sliders as the series was canceled by Fox and picked up by the Sci-Fi Channel who hacked the shit out of this series kicking Jerry O'Connell from the series after the fourth season. 

I never missed an episode of the first three seasons original broadcasts. It's a fun series with the same characters dealing with totally different environment every week. The same planet but a different reality. It made for a series that was comedic, adventurous as well as dramatic. 

The shows cast played well off each other creating characters that you could care about and want to see each week in a new adventure. It was a somewhat unique concept and very well done. 

PACKAGING 
Wow! What a piece of shit packaging idea this was. The half designer slip sleeve is very nice in metallic silver. Unfortunately there is nothing nice to say after that.  The sticker on the back with the Sliders is already peeling off. The fold out digipack is absolute crap. It's a rigid plastic that will not stay open. It tries to close whole your attempting to pull a disc out. There are four spots holding the disc holders in place and my review copy has one piece broken. The holders have two discs that overlap. You have to pull one off to get to the bottom one. It's pure shit. All three seasonal boxed sets for Sliders suck. 

VIDEO: 
Video quality is the only good thing about the boxed set. There's very little debris or dirt throughout the episodes and the colors are vibrant. There's no bleeding and the images look a bit soft. 

AUDIO: 
The sound is not very good for a 2.0 burn. There is a heavy bass in the voices and special effects. It can be adjusted with the surround sound but on the television speakers it's garbage.  

BONUS FEATURES: 
The set vacant of any extra except for a gag reel, an Earth 2 episode and Cleopatra 2525  episode. There not much for the fan here in this area of the disc. 

SUMMARY: 
This is one series that Universal dropped the ball on from the beginning. Someone at the studio either didn't care about the product or just hated the show. It's poor quality is unusual today. This is not a boxed set worth the $60 price tag and totally unfair to the fans who enjoyed the series. 

Sliders Season 3 Overall Rating:  C

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