Filming locations (RDM)
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All of the Battlestar Galactica series, from the original through 1980 to the miniseries and beyond, have made use of location shooting to provide some of the background and scope for the storyline.
The Re-imagined Series is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and most of the location shoots have been done within the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.
Battlestar Galactica (RDM) Miniseries Filming Locations
- Baltar's House
- Baltar's house on Caprica was filmed at a home on the Sea to Sky Highway, north of Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia, Canada. [1], [2] Ronald Moore comments about filming at this location, and the noise of nearby construction in the podcast for "Resurrection Ship, Part I".
- Laura Roslin's Doctor's Office
- Laura Roslin's doctor's office, where she receives bad news, was filmed at 1540 West 2nd Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, a home which has been featured in Architectural Digest.
Judging from the staircases, Lee Adama's flashbacks in "Black Market" were also filmed there.
- Riverwalk Market, Caprica City
- This was shot at w:Simon Fraser UniversitySimon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia[3] and can also be seen in "Epiphanies".
- The interior of the sublight Botanical Cruiser, that was left behind, was filmed at the Bloedel Conservatory, at Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver, BC. The east entrance to the park is from 33rd Avenue where it intersects with Ontario Street [4]. (The shape of the Blodel Conservatory looks remarkably similar to the domes of the USS Valley Forge spaceship from Silent Running, images of which were used as the Agro Ship in the original series, which is the model upon which the Botanical Cruiser was later based. There are other examples of these kind of dome shaped greenhouses from the early 1970's, which may have inspired the original model design).
Battlestar Galactica (RDM) Regular Series Filming Locations
- Quorum of Twelve meeting site
- The Quorum of Twelve meeting site was filmed at the Chan Centre, 6265 Crescent Road, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This building also features prominently in the television series The 4400.
- Cloud Nine interior
- The garden scenes on Cloud Nine in "Colonial Day" were shot in the rose garden of the University of British Columbia.
- Kobol
- Most of the outdoor and forest scenes in "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II" through "Fragged" and the "Home" two-parter were shot at Widgeon Slough near Port Coquitlam, BC. Widgeon Slough is located within Pinecone Burke Provincial Park [5].
- The opera house from Baltar's vision is Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre. It is located at the corner of Smithe at Seymour in the city's downtown [6].
- New Caprica City
- The tent city in "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" and beyond was constructed near Richmond, BC.
- Various scenes on Caprica
- In "33", the forest that Helo runs through to draw the Cylons into his claymore trap was filmed in Lynne Valley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[7]
- In "Bastille Day", Vancouver's famous Public Library building can be seen.
- The University of British Columbia's Koerner Library appears briefly in "Colonial Day".
- The place where Helo and Sharon stay at the beginning of "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II" is near the Transportation Centre of Simon Fraser University.
- The exterior of the Delphi Museum is the university's West Mall Centre.
- Algae planet
- The outdoor sequences set on the Algae planet in "The Eye of Jupiter" were filmed in a barren area near the city of Kamloops, British Columbia [8]. Specifically, some of the filming was done off of East Shuswap Road [9].
References
- ↑ Baltar's House on Flickr (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). (April 21, 2006).
- ↑ Frank Boosman's Blog - Baltar's House (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). (May 1, 2006).
- ↑ Bassom, David (2005). ed. Adam "Adama" Newell Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion. Titan Books. ISBN 1-84576-0972, p. 30.
- ↑ Map of Queen Elizabeth Park (backup available on Archive.org) (in ).
- ↑ Pinecone Burke Provincial Park Information site (backup available on Archive.org) (in ).
- ↑ Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre information site (backup available on Archive.org) (in ).
- ↑ Bassom, David (2005). ed. Adam "Adama" Newell Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion. Titan Books. ISBN 1-84576-0972, p. 47.
- ↑ Video Blog entry (backup available on Archive.org) (in ).
- ↑ bsgtns.com Forum post (backup available on Archive.org) (in ).