When I started this journal some of the first post I made were links to online television shows where Austin appeared in. I wonder how many people actually watched those shows.

We all watched TDAT, Wimbledon, John from Cincinnati and some maybe Deadwood and both the CSI’s.

I would like to make a collection of what ever there is available on the net, video clips or shows for free online viewing. Anything. Any suggestion is welcome.

I’m starting today with Sliders and Wolf Lake. Sliders was Austin’s first role and he is absolutely adorable in it. Don’t expect too much of Wolf Lake as his role is only small.

Enjoy the viewing.

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1998- Sliders – The Great Work

"The Great Work" began filming on November 10, 1998.

Air Date: 9 juli 1999

Austin Plays the part of Seth

The Sliders help a monastery safeguard records which chronicle its civilization.

Written by: Robert Masello
Directed by: Reza Badiyi
Edited by: Casey Brown
Music by: Danny Lux

Austin - His own Words:

Describe how you got your first break into the acting field back in 1998 - "The Great Work" episode in "Sliders".

AN: I got to Los Angeles and started school at USC in September.  I had my first job on SLIDERS in October.  It was wonderful because I got my SAG card immediately, so the union battle was quickly won. Sliders was also a very fitting role, because the character of Seth was a very 'green', wide-eyed kid, which described me perfectly as I was just entering that world.

Synopsis – The Great Work

The Sliders land on an island, visibly roughed up from their last adventure. Maggie is hurt and barely conscious. Seeking shelter, they find a monastery run by a group of people known as the Keepers.

The head of the group, Keeper Abraham, is reluctant to help them, fearing that they may be enemy spies. His son, Seth, however, knows the Sliders cannot survive the elements and welcomes them into their compound.

Keeper James, a doctor, tends to Maggie's health and develops a crush on her.

The other Sliders learn that the Keepers are hiding from the Volsang raiders, a vicious race of warriors that have conquered the entire world. By pretending to be a penniless, contemplative order, the Keepers hide their true mission: the recording of civilization's achievements onto silicate disks. This chronicle, they hope, will some day teach surviving generations how to eventually defeat the Volsangs.

Diana suggests they transfer the data from the fragile silicate disks to a more durable quartz crystal. Her offer to help is accepted by Keeper Abraham, but suddenly the compound is under attack from the Volsangs. Bombshells begin to explode as Rembrandt and Mallory grab firearms to join the Keepers in their fight against the enemy. Diana gets busy with her PDL to safeguard the data from the Volsangs. Maggie is with Keeper James, whom she discovers is a traitor.

Diana finishes her work in the nick of time and hands the encrypted crystal to Seth, who flees the island. The Volsangs capture the monastery, but are too late to seize the Keepers' work.

Outside, Seth and Sara take the crystal containing the Great Work and sail off to lands unknown.

Parts of the script

And while picking up clams on the beach, Seth originally had a little more to say when Remmy slipped up...

REMBRANDT (tactfully as possible)

What happened here? Was your world overrun?

SETH

Yes, most of it. Or at least that's what I've been told. After the

collapse of the Hemispheric Alliance, the Volsangs were pretty much in

charge... (then)

Why did you say 'your world'?

Mallory and Remmy exchange a look, that Seth notices.

SETH

I knew it! You're not even from this world, are you? You're from

somewhere else. Where? Another planet? A star?

They still aren't sure what and how much to tell him.

MALLORY

You've got a pretty wild imagination, kid.

And then the scene shifts to Diana scrubbing the floors...just as we saw.

Lastly is the most important missing portion of this episode. Did you wonder what came of that promise Seth kept reminding Remmy of? Well, these missing lines tell what came of that.

Seth's father has just died, and the Sliders have just made it back down to the secret area...

MAGGIE

There's a tunnel to the outside, James took me through it from the infirmary! And he's hidden a boat

there, under some driftwood.

MALLORY (to Seth)

Could you get there?

SETH

Yes. I could take someone there, but I'm not leaving the island.

MAGGIE

We don't have time to argue about this, Seth. You have to go.

SETH

You owe me a favor -- whatever I ask. Remember?

MALLORY

Yes, but now isn't the --

SETH

I was going to ask to go with you. To leave this island. But that's not what I'm asking now. Now I want tostay right here and fight the Volsangs!

MALLORY

The only way you can defeat them now is by protecting the Great Work. By doing what your father died trying to do!

MAGGIE

He's right, Seth. If you want to beat 'em, you've got to get that crystal out of here.

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Then Diana gives the crystal to Sara and tells her to go with Seth...and the rest is history.

You can watch the episode here:

Video: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v251051wNbC5bwN