The actor's film roles include Jerry O'Guire, Centerfold Girl, and the title role in Jerry's Apartment (that of the apartment, we suppose.) He is also featured in a documentary about living heart donors, The Beat Must Go On.

The young up-and-comer credits growing up in the shadow of her several older brothers for the drive that's helped her succeed in show business. "Each day was a struggle to absorb enough water and sunlight," she explains. "It wasn't until moving to LA that I was comfortable enough to put down roots."

Marginally distinguished actress Wuhrer has enjoyed roles in a diverse spate of films, a few of which even depicted her wearing a shirt. She credits Viagra for the drive that's helped her succeed in show business, as well as for her new line of commercials promoting the drug: "Made for a man, strong enough for a woman."

One particularly vivid set of sensations she shared with us was the night Sliders rose, phoenix-like, from the ashes of cancellation. "I was sure we were down the tubes, because, like, even I could see we sucked. [giggle] But we were picked up, and I've found a lot of this year's stories really have the power to touch me. I think it's the mix of worlds that does it: happy worlds, manic-depressive worlds, and an occasional hell for good measure."

Derricks adds that he has enjoyed working with all the cast members, but Appletree is the most thoughtful and easiest to get along with.

The actor's films include Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Lost World, Indiana Jones and the Lost Crusade, Lost Horizon, Lost Boys, and Lost in Space.

Hailing from Eustis, Florida, Lloyd began her acting career at the age of 12 when she starred in a local production of the musical Annie, Get Your Gun. She continued her involvement in local community theatre and went on to appear in such productions as The Wizard of Oz, in which she gained 90 pounds to play the Scarecrow.

As producer of Silk Stalkings, the man we at FOX affectionately call "The Pecker" refined cruel treatment of departing characters to an art form. Our personal favourite is the one where Rita was placed in a human-sized Ziploc bag and left to asphyxiate (all offscreen, of course.)

When prompted for a comment about the exciting new second season of Sliders, the writer/producer spat over her shoulder and cursed like a drunken sailor. It's behaviour like this that earned her a reputation around FOX as a loose cannon, as while as her firing the scripts we send her out of one.

Tormé is presently gearing up for Doomsday, a new series set to premiere on UPN in the fall of 1998. "It's a very dark, pessimistic show about nuclear holocaust," she avers, "so of course to sell it to UPN, I had to tell them it was a cartoon co-produced with Howard Stern or Amy Carter or something. Unfortunately we forgot to change it, and now I'm stuck writing a show that has Howard Stern as the voice of a dog."