Changes: The Prince of Wails

“The Prince of Wails”
	; Sheriff's TV Show
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 4
Written by	William Rabkin; Lee Goldberg
Directed by	Felix Enriquez Alcalá
Guest stars	Sherman Howard (Hendrick); Liz Sheridan (Ms. Miller); Kathleen Duborg (Rebecca); Gary Jones (Michael Hurley); Gerard Plunkett (Driver); Chris Humpheys (Raider #1); Bernie Coulson (Raider #2); Tracey Olson (Dixon Vallely); David Kaye (Reporter #1); Ben Bode (Prince Harold III); Jaylene Hamilton (Reporter #2)
Production no.	70403
Original airdate	4/12/1995
Episode chronology
"Summer of Love"	"Fever"
	List of Sliders episodes

Revision as of 22:17, 27 November 2017

The Prince of Wails is the fourth episode of Sliders' first season. It originally aired on April 12, 1995.

Plot

Arturo's double attempts to assassinate the Prince (who is the uncrowned king) in order to take control for himself. The Sliders stop the assassination but get captured by revolutionaries calling themselves The Oakland Raiders. Quinn leads the Raiders in revolution against the crown while the other Sliders and the Prince are held captive. The Prince escapes and Quinn is captured by the police and set to be executed. After seeing Quinn's capture and the squalor on the streets, the Prince returns to the Raiders to help them and they want to storm the prison, but Arturo comes up with a bloodless alternative. As Quinn is set to be executed, the Raiders take over a TV studio and the Prince makes a broadcast where he exposes Arturo's double's treason and introduces democracy to the nation (using a copy of the Bill of Rights the Sliders wrote up for him) and pardons Quinn and the other Raiders. Quinn and the Sliders reunite and Wade rejects an offer by the Prince to be his Queen and the Sliders leave but not before Arturo and Rembrandt give them the rest of the Bill of Rights, though Rembrandt adds in a part about James Brown being recognized as the Godfather of Soul, leaving the Raiders leader and the Prince wondering "who's James Brown?"

Worlds Visited

Trivia

Despite being originally aired before hand, the presence of the Tsunami World suggests the events of this episode begin roughly fourty-eight minutes after the events of Summer of Love.

Quotes

Prince Harold: (reading what Rembrandt had left him for the country's future) "And James Brown is acknowledged as the Godfather of Soul."
Prince Harold and Rebecca: (look at each other) Who's James Brown?

Goofs

When Hurley is shown watching the Prince's broadcast its the same thing he'd said minutes earlier.

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+{{Infobox Television episode
-'''''Prince of Wails''''' is episode 3 of ''Sliders''' first season.
+| Image        = [[Image:Sliders S01E04.JPG|250px]]
+| Caption      = Sheriff's TV Show
+| Title        = The Prince of Wails
+| Series       = [[Sliders]]
+| Season       = 1
+| Episode      = 4
+| Guests       = Sherman Howard (Hendrick)<br />Liz Sheridan (Ms. Miller)<br />Kathleen Duborg (Rebecca)<br />Gary Jones (Michael Hurley)<br />Gerard Plunkett (Driver)<br />Chris Humpheys (Raider #1)<br />Bernie Coulson (Raider #2)<br />Tracey Olson (Dixon Vallely)<br />David Kaye (Reporter #1)<br />[[Ben Bode]] ([[Prince Harold III]])<br />Jaylene Hamilton (Reporter #2)
+| Writer       = [[William Rabkin]]<br />[[Lee Goldberg]]
+| Director     = [[Felix Enriquez Alcalá]]
+| Production   = 70403
+| Airdate      = 4/12/1995
+| Episode list = [[List of Episodes|List of ''Sliders'' episodes]]
+| Prev         = [[Summer of Love]]
+| Next         = [[Fever]]
+}}
+'''''The Prince of Wails''''' is the fourth episode of ''Sliders''' first season. It originally aired on April 12, 1995.
-==Alternate Earth==
-America is ruled by the British Monarchy.
 ==Plot==
+[[Maximillian Arturo|Arturo]]'s double attempts to assassinate the Prince (who is the uncrowned king) in order to take control for himself. The Sliders stop the assassination but get captured by revolutionaries calling themselves The Oakland Raiders. Quinn leads the Raiders in revolution against the crown while the other Sliders and the Prince are held captive. The Prince escapes and Quinn is captured by the police and set to be executed. After seeing Quinn's capture and the squalor on the streets, the Prince returns to the Raiders to help them and they want to storm the prison, but Arturo comes up with a bloodless alternative.  As Quinn is set to be executed, the Raiders take over a TV studio and the Prince makes a broadcast where he exposes Arturo's double's treason and introduces democracy to the nation (using a copy of the Bill of Rights the Sliders wrote up for him) and pardons Quinn and the other Raiders. Quinn and the Sliders reunite and Wade rejects an offer by the Prince to be his Queen and the Sliders leave but not before Arturo and Rembrandt give them the rest of the Bill of Rights, though Rembrandt adds in a part about James Brown being recognized as the Godfather of Soul, leaving the Raiders leader and the Prince wondering "who's James Brown?"
-[[Arturo]]'s double attempts to assassinate the Prince in order to take control for himself. The Sliders stop the assassination but get captured by revolutionaries calling themselves The Oakland Raiders.
+==Worlds Visited==
-[[Category:Sliders episodes]]
+*[[Tsunami World]]
+*[[British States of America World]]
+==Trivia==
+*Despite being originally aired before hand, the presence of the [[Tsunami World]] suggests the events of this episode begin roughly fourty-eight minutes after the events of [[Summer of Love]].
+==Quotes==
+*'''Prince Harold''': ''(reading what Rembrandt had left him for the country's future)'' "And James Brown is acknowledged as the Godfather of Soul."
+*'''Prince Harold and Rebecca''': ''(look at each other)'' Who's James Brown?
+==Goofs==
+*When Hurley is shown watching the Prince's broadcast its the same thing he'd said minutes earlier.
+{{DEFAULTSORT:Prince of Wails, The}}
+[[Category:Episodes]]