Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Caryl It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Travis Jones This show was one of my favorites in 1985, when I was eight years old. One mistake many reviewers make when looking at such sci-fi shows is to think they were intended for an adult audience. Otherworld was family TV, about a family getting sent to a parallel universe. Modern sci-fi is considerably more sophisticated in terms of plots and special effects, but shows like Otherworld and Voyagers were really interesting, whereas others like Battlestar Galactica 1980 were awful. It's great to see Johnathan Banks ('Mike' from Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul) 30 years younger and playing a bad guy. Perhaps if this was filmed 15 years later, with a Malcolm-in-the-Middle-esque Bryan Cranston as the dad and Banks as the evil android Gestapo stalker, it would have done better.

sscheiber This show tried to take a different road from most. A story of a family who fell through a "hole" into an alternate reality, it took that premise in directions that most have never tried. It contained some of the most sophisticated writing that science fiction television had seen up to that time, with a deceptive subtlety couched in satire. Part allegory, part drama, part family, with frequent "winks" to the audience (characters spouting lines that seem to convey that they know more than they are supposed to, but the lines that follow add a more consistent context). CBS never knew how to promote it. "Rock and Roll Suicide" (in which the kids -- stuck in a place where the entertainment is REALLY boring -- invent rock and roll) is a sociological commentary on non-conformance with several stabs at dogmatic religion (the Church of Artificial Intelligence to be precise). "Mansion of the Beast" is essentially a retelling of that fairy tale. The show is not completely successful. Series television is inevitably a crap shoot. You try your best. But its fresh outlook, intelligent scripting, and tongue-in-cheek humor put it a cut above most. It deserved more of a chance. Also, although the episodes as they ran on the Sci-Fi channel were deftly cut, some of the humor was lost. Pity. I recently learned that there are 5 episodes that never aired. Let's bring this one out on DVD with the missing episodes included.

eno2000 Although the characters and the plot was different, the premise is very similar: a group of people (a family this time) are on a parallel world trying to get back to their own. Instead of sliding from one universe to the next, they travel extensively on the world they originally entered. Each "province" they travel to is as different as the worlds that the Sliders visited.

Sacrifice While the show is now only a fuzzy memory to me, I can vividly remember loving it. It had an interesting concept. It is unfortunate it was not given time to make at least some type of a mark in TV history.We should start a letter writing campaign to CBS to get the show back on the air. If we succeed, I am sure we can make also make it into the Guiness Book Of World records.