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	SLIDERS Season Four, Episode 9: Slidecage. Written by Marc Scott Zicree. Directed by Jerry O'Connell. To be broadcast by the Sci-Fi Channel on 27 July 1998.
	Quinn believes he has finally found a means to reach his homeworld - however, as the Sliders emerge from the wormhole, they find a cold, metallic prison on a barren landscape. A hologram of the Mallorys' father reveals that this is the Slidecage - a inescapable trap which protects their world from the Kromaggs. The travellers discover they are not alone in the cage, which is populated by a group of degenerate humans and a squad of Kromaggs, at war within the confined space. When Rembrandt is captured by the Kromaggs, he meets the Commander's son - a masked figure too deformed to reveal his features. But nothing is as it seems in the Slidecage - not even Remmy himself… Sometimes the best television shows are created in the strangest of circumstances. Slidecage was actually written when Timecop was cancelled, and writer Marc Scott Zicree decided to utilize the empty sets. Forced to create what is, perhaps, the show's first venture into pure SF territory, Zicree has fashioned a simple yet effective tale - one populated by sharply defined and interesting characters, and punctuated by a number of twists that the viewer can never predict. Jerry O'Connell, doing double duty as director and leading actor, makes those decommissioned sets look a million dollars on screen, painting them in cold blue, stroboscopic lights. Slidecage has a feature film-like quality, a kind of Blade Runner meets Mad Max, and the epic look complements Zicree's words perfectly. This is easily the best-ever episode of Sliders; in fact, I'd say that it's one of the best examples of the genre so far this year… Brian Barratt
	PSI FACTOR Season Two, Episode 22: The Egress. Written by James Nadler. Directed by John Bell. Syndicated in the US in May 1998.
	Peter Axon gets a call from Dr Leon Schraft, an old college professor, begging him to come - this is "The Big One," he says, and will say no more. Praeger and company arrive at an OSIR lab - a warehouse in a location less than 10 minutes from the Central Labs, where not only are all the investigators and staff missing, but so are all the computers and equipment along with all the records. In the main warehouse is a huge stone arch with arcane symbols on it - and a yellow circle in fresh paint surrounding it. Passing the line causes the arch to hum, swirl and generally get active and obstreperous. The sole survivor is an intern, who leads the team to the body of a colleague, one of the many who disappeared into the effect of the arch. Unfortunately, the intern made the mistake of forcibly pulling his co-worker from the arch and came away with only half of him. Many things about the intern's story don't quite add up, but when Hendricks seems to see his lost wife and daughter in the arch, he is drawn into it - and vanishes, right on camera. Incredibly, the psychologist's IR com link is still sending out a signal that they can pick up. Breaking the intern's story, Praeger finds that the OSIR hasn't been studying the arch - the OSIR actually created it as research into finding the secret of creation. An increasingly bewildered Praeger finds out that everything he knows about the OSIR and the people he works with has been a lie. A suitably dramatic conclusion to the season with a decent script, good performances, many surprises and a tantalizing cliffhanger. John Higley