SLIDERS is a one-hour action/adventure series with a touch of black comedy.
  The series chronicles the cosmic roller coaster ride taken by four eclectic
  characters who discover a "wormhole" between dimensions that transports them
  to parallel universes.  Led by Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell), a handsome
  physics grad student who accidentally creates the gateway while working on
  an experiment in his basement, the interdimensional travelers include Wade
  Wells (Sabrina Lloyd), a beautiful computer tech; brilliant but arrogant
  physics professor Maximillian Arturo (John Rhys-Davies); and former R&B
  singer Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown (Cleavant Derricks), who is sucked into
  the vortex by mistake as he drives by Mallory's house.

  Each week, the Sliders travel to a different parallel universe in which
  they find themselves in present-day alternative versions of Earth. The
  Sliders might encounter, for example, worlds in which the Communists have
  won the Cold War; nuclear winter prevails or the male gender is considered
  the weaker sex.  At each stop, the Sliders face the jeopardy, surprise and
  thrill of encountering worlds that may look familiar but are never quite
  what they appear to be.

  SLIDERS, created by Robert K. Weiss and Tracy Torme, is produced by St.
  Clare Entertainment and distributed by MCA Television Limited. Tracy Torme,
  Jacob Epstein and Alan Barnette are the Executive Producers and Robert K.
  Weiss is Executive Consultant."