Jurassic Mysteries Ep 010 REWIND-TLW Sliders Worker Village Special

Hello and welcome to Jurassic Mysteries,

 

Where we take a look and discuss myths, misconceptions and maybe even unknown facts from the Jurassic Franchise.

Introductions: 

Brad

David

 

On this episode we are revisiting the Sliders Special we recorded during The Lost World Minute

 

What are we looking at here?

Sliders Episodes:

 

Season 4 episode 14 “Mother and Child”

Air Date Dec 7th 1998

 

00:00:00 Operations building external and internal shots in first 27 seconds of episode

 

Notes:

Emerge from the helipad end of operations building and there's no tree beside building
set still has mould on it!
Doors have been removed. I wonder if they were kept by someone in production
Because roof curves up from front windows we can see large glass windows above the concrete wall the Mural was painted on.
They turn left when entering and head to window on unused end of lobby. I'd always thought they were at the end of the building looking out at the hill beside the building. But it's the lobby wall thier looking through. This is where nick stood shining light off into space after looking at Mural. Note Comms room glass wall and door still in place behind them. So we still don't see the unused area of the building.
Room is still full of vines.  
Giant tumbleweeds litter the lobby.
Mouldy blinds over windows
Hallway runs full length of operations building. There's a room and a door between Comms centre and rear helipad door
Centre wall where mural was is curved
Rear hallway has floor to ceiling windows running along it also. Would be stunning during its operation. Barred windows on roof? Same bars seen earlier above lobby.
There's a walkway leaving building and going up a hill. Fire escape? Path to another structure? Note no perimeter fence.

Season 4 Episode 15 “Net Worth”

Air date January 11th 1999

 

00:09:19 Geothermal plant run through to external of Kiln Shed. 00:09:31 Cut to group entering hole in rear of boarding house lower floor. scene ends 0:11:14.

 

Notes:

rusty pipes leading out to bone yard. Ribs still there at end of pipes!
Perimeter fence still has a couple of wires strung.
Concrete barrier still in place.
Kiln shed looks better in daylight as do all the sets
Several pipes run into side of shed, steam delivery to turbine?
Added debris laying around but suits the time of tlw. Barrels roof iron etc.
Roof section behind kiln shed. Explains raptors and Sarah falling onto roof and not ground?
Interior of boarding house, standard set stuff but filled with drums etc. room looks small so maybe lower level was split up into separate rooms to hold up second floor? Different to front wall we see later.
Looking through hole in wall behind them you can see uprights and a roof section the same hight as the room that abridges the kiln shed and boarding house. It seems to extend past the kiln shed to the end of the boarding house. So what if the raptor fell through that roof, that explains the debris and the light beside it. That came from the roof the raptor fell through.
 

 

00:12:37 return to Boarding house lower level. Scene ends 00:14:32

 

timber frame extends back from open wall, possibly the small single room structuring joining kiln shed and boarding house

 

00:17:26 Exterior worker village set. Shot from in front of gas station. Scene ends 00:17:58.

 

They seem to be running from operations building stairs and not boarding house as it was seen in last scene. 
We get exterior shots of boarding house and Kiln shed in all thier glory. We also get one green crate with the InGen logo on it.
Notice boards over the window Sarah rolled through in small structure joining the two large buildings.
InGen logo on wooden crate
The power pole is still laying across the bronco
Large roofing iron wall just outside the perimeter fence. Was the set closed off after production?

Season 4 Episode 12 “The Dying Fields

Original air date 31st August 1998

 

00:05:00 - 00:08:10 cast walks onto set in front of gas station walking towards kiln shed. One sets off a automatic target and they turn the wrong way to look at it in front of kiln shed. We then get a hummer drive into village through gates. Tracking shot past power plant. Cast hides on boarding house Varandah. We then move inside bottom level.

 

Notes:

-a lot of crates blocking gas station view.

-trampled satellite dish leaning up against a large crate. 

-small gravel spread to his asphalt road surface.

-hummer driving through the gates! That's how big they are.

-fence still has wires strung

-cuts to inside car and we start out in the boneyard and follow pipes inside and to plant.

-as soon as pipes come through fence they turn left and go over to a large cylinder shaped structure, then down into the ground.

-as they get to the kiln shed if you look past the debris you can see a small roof coming off the kiln shed out towards the first of the large round towers. Maybe that's what the dying raptor fell on?

-as car leaves we get a good look at wall of boarding house. Mould and rotten wood still there.

-cast sneaks along boarding house verandah towards the rear wall where there must be another door. 

-cut inside, simple set and a open space. I love the decaying blinds on the windows. Also interesting seeing the gaps in the weatherboards on the walls. A lot of lights coming in.

 

00:38:26 - 00:42:47 Cast emerge from rear entrance on second floor of boarding house and run down the stairs. They turn and run back past kiln shed and hide bedding a very large corrugated pipe in plant area. Cuts to cast member walking up Main Street, heros duck and weave between pipes and fence. We get a shot of light pope on blazer in background.

 A fire fight breaks out, main cast run down Main Street and hide behind some crates, we get a good daytime shot of kiln shed and boarding house. Heros escape scene and episode ends.

 

Notes:

-so there's a rear staircase just like on the front of the boarding house. In the previous scene we are inside a building but it's the main set they use dirtied up. I wonder if the door at the top of the stairs even opens. But it looks like they come out of somewhere one by one or atleast around the corner of the building.

-running down the steps. We know sets aren't built to last. Perhaps signs of better construction back then? The operations building did last 10+ years before it started to implode.

-there dosent seem to be a lot behind the set.

-cast runs down to end of perimeter fence and hide beside a large corrugated pipe. It's as high at the actors and seems to run down to the fence then bends to run along it for some distance,

-as main cast take fire they duck and weave amongst the pipes. There's a lot of smaller pipes and a lot more to the power plant itself.

-as villain takes cover behind a crate we can see the blazer in the background with the light pole still laying across it.

-now something very interesting happens here, the villain shoots and hits one of the large pipes that make up the rib cage and head out of the compound. When the smoke clears steam or smoke is billowing out of that pipe. Now of course it's not a real geothermal plant. But it's interesting the production team added this effect possibly as a call back to tlw? It could just as easily be a water treatment plant.

-we also get a few front shots of the operations building here in the daylight.

-it slow looks like a few smaller pipes also run out through fence that we didn't see in the film.

-as they run to the centre of Main Street we see more of the power plant. More pipes and one large one going up to a round tower and it's got heat shielding wrapped around it.

-again you can see that small roof leaning off side of kiln shed.

-we get to see a bit more of the boarding house and kiln shed in the daylight, there's a lot of that building missing. One large section of wall is missing on street side up on second level. Why did no light shine through that at night? Only the windows lit up.

-just before portal opens we get a look inside garage and rear roof is missing sections.

-as heros escape we get a quick better shot inside the garage. Two large rear windows that either have debris covering them or there's another room back there.

-as car arrives on set we get a quick look at the operations building steps. Greenery and debris still litter the area.

-as villains talk behind them there's a small wooden structure. It looks a lot like the one that was placed over st the plant area in front of the suburban. We didn't see a lot of it in the film as it was mostly hidden behind the car or just off screen in those scenes.

-and as we end out we get a good look back at the kiln shed and the power pole resting up against it. 

 

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