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BBC Quarry
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The ISO Standard alien planet set, as used endlessly in Blake's 7, Doctor Who and even The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) TV series. It was a disused or rented quarry, full of interestingly dull rocks and fascinatingly monotonous scenery, the perfect alien-landscape-on-a-budget — the British equivalent of Kirk's Rock. As a bonus, since shooting in a quarry means you're below the surrounding ground level, anachronistic structures/features aren't readily visible and don't require expensive sets or more expensive post-production work to conceal. The abundance of different levels and flat rocks to stand on means there's plenty of places to set up cameras for additional angles, too. So common was the quarry usage by these series that according to Gareth Thomas, who played Blake in Blake's 7, there was one occasion when they heard noises at the other side of the quarry, and discovered Doctor Who was filming there at the same time (though evidence of filming dates shows this may be apocryphal). The quarries were usually not owned by The BBC, but rented for filming from businesses like Lime Works. The direct American equivalent is Bronson Canyon and Caves. See also Kirk's Rock and California Doubling. |
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In Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space, the government is questioning "why we spend billions of credits exploring a galaxy that consists mostly of gravel pits?" This becomes a Brick Joke when a hostile alien threatens to turn Earth into a heap of gravel. "After all, why should Earth look different from other worlds?" | |
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Whenever MythBusters require a lot of explosions they rent a nearby rock quarry and a bombing expert for a day. | |
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The the Cool Kids Table game Small Magic party passes through one during their journey. Alan claims to see a group of colourful people fighting a monster before Josh vetoes that because of the "no crossovers" rule. | |
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Spoofed as far back as the original The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) radio series, when the characters arrive on the surface of Magrathea for the first time; it's obviously difficult to tell in an audio drama, but it certainly sounds like Douglas Adams -who was a scriptwriter for Doctor Who before hitting the big time with this show- had this sort of location in mind. And apart from Arthur, for whom the novelty of walking on an alien world has not yet worn off, none of them are terribly impressed. | |
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In one of Red Dwarf's tie-in books, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor talk about how when they were trying to get the show off the ground, they were informed one of the reasons people who commisioned TV shows at the time hated sci-fi was that "you always end up chasing people wrapped in foil through a quarry, pretending it's the planet Qxxyzzzyx." | |
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The fanfic Power Rangers Take Flight adapts a pre-Power Rangers Sentai series, Choujin Sentai Jetman, which used a lot of quarry scenes; so it has many too. Here it also has a large ravine thanks to the Hawkzord crashing there at the start of the series. Lampshaded when one of the villains remarks "Here we are again... the quarry. Not the most creative choice, but it'll do." | |
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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation visited the sinister Outworld that the Big Bad called home. It was filmed in the dark, and the ground was suspiciously gravelly. | |
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The Blake's 7 radio play "The Sevenfold Crown" contains a line where a disgusted sounding Tarrant complains that the planet they've just teleported down to "looks like a quarry". | |
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The final battle of Kamen Rider Build takes place in a dimensional fault, located in space, that absorbs all energy around and within it and was created by the process of two parallel Earths smashing into each other. Sounds like prime Amazing Technicolor Battlefield material, right? Nope. Once the action gets there, it turns out inside of the singularity is just a very familiar quarry. They do spice it up a bit with CG (the place starts literally falling apart at the climax of the battle) but it's still pretty funny to watch. | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid offers a justification: Thanks to the show's overarching theme of Video Games, the Transformation Trinkets have the ability to perform a "stage select", which lets the Riders move the battle to another location. While the bog-standard quarry hasn't appeared in early episodes, similar locales like a scrapyard, an Abandoned Warehouse and a vacant beach have shown up. (The quarry did turn up eventually.) | |
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Red Dwarf filmed a scene on a deserted planet in a quarry for "Thanks for the Memory". The fact they filmed it at night made it slightly less obvious. A quarry also pops up as the planetoid Kryten and Rimmer play golf on in a flashback scene in "Blue". And as the deserted planet that becomes "Rimmerworld". The asteroid that Starbug crashes on in "Psirens" also falls within this trope. In one of Red Dwarf's tie-in books, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor talk about how when they were trying to get the show off the ground, they were informed one of the reasons people who commisioned TV shows at the time hated sci-fi was that "you always end up chasing people wrapped in foil through a quarry, pretending it's the planet Qxxyzzzyx." |
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In The Sarah Jane Adventures story "Death of the Doctor", the Doctor is trapped on a planet that was also filmed in a rock quarry. | |
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Big Finish Doctor Who: During the events of "The One Doctor", the Doctor still manages to land in one, where a Weakest Link parody is playing. | |
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The movie version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) used the BBC Quarry during the Vogsphere sequence as a Mythology Gag. | |
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Smallville used the same forest setting in two Season Premieres, using the same props (just flipping the order they're interacted with). In another episode, they used a dam that was the back drop for a pivotal episode in The X-Files. | |
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The Doctor Who Missing Adventures novel The Shadow of Weng-Chiang: the Doctor is taken to a quarry, and compares it to the landscapes of Gallifrey and Skaro. | |
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Stargate SG-1's all-purpose valley, forest, and village. Lampshaded in at least one episode. If a desert location was required, they were all filmed in the same sand storage lot, the Richmond Sand Dunes (which was eventually emptied and turned into warehouses, until they were gone entirely by 2007). Said sand lot also served as New Caprica in Battlestar Galactica (2003) From a behind-the-scenes preview: Similarly, the endless forest planets of Stargate Atlantis. (It may well be the same forest.) With 90% of the episode set in the same identical middle ages backwater set. |
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Interestingly, this spills over into Toei's non-tokusatsu shows as well. For example, the quarry also appears multiple times for chase sequences in Tokusou Saizensen. | |
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Power Rangers Ninja Steel has an instance of the Rangers looking for the Monster of the Week, and Brody suggests the quarry. "Monsters always hang out at the quarry!" | |
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Lampshaded a couple of times, such as with this exchange in Power Rangers Ninja Storm: | |
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Magrathea in the TV version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) was a quarry in Cornwall that is now home to The Eden Project a collection of artificial biomes housed in the world's largest sealed greenhouse. Rather apt, since Magrathea was home to a species of world-builders. | |
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The year 2068 in Kamen Rider Zi-O consists of just an orange-tinted quarry. Justified, as the world has become a war-blasted wasteland by that time. | |
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In-universe: In one of the stage commentaries for Piranha Pit in Splatoon, the Squid Sisters mention that the quarry is often used as a set for filming sci-fi and fantasy movies, much like the real-life BBC Quarry. | |
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In-universe: When Travis fights Midori Midorikawa in No More Heroes III, the two do the old toku trend of jumping to take them to another location...but instead of the rooftop of the haunted school the two were in, Midori accidentally took them to a rock quarry. Travis doesn't seem to mind, since it's similar to where Toei films Kamen Rider Zi-O (which has an example in Live-Action TV) | |
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In Tom Baker's novel Doctor Who Meets Scratchman, the Doctor thinks the hell dimension looks like a quarry, and calls Uxarieus a "chalk-pit of a world". | |
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Due to the blending of Super Sentai footage and original footage, Power Rangers actually has three such quarries: the Sentai quarry, an American quarry (from seasons one through ten), and a New Zealand quarry (season eleven and onward, after the move to NZ.) Other Saban productions in the same vein also had many a battle taking place in these quarries (most notably VR Troopers, in which all battles are taken back to the Virtual World at some point, in an area that is always the quarry.) In Power Rangers Ninja Storm, it was common for bad guys to call the Rangers out by going to this quarry and waiting. They were always quickly detected, as if the Rangers realized its popularity with villains and kept it monitored. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 rulebooks normally have a section or subsection covering battlefield terrain and how to set it up on one's table; the fourth edition's rulebook advises that such terrain can be "as simple as a number of hills with rubble-strewn slopes, reminiscent of the quarries so beloved of low budget science fiction film-makers" (emphasis added). In-universe, certain planets are literally classified as Quarry Worlds as these worlds have substantial amounts of Blackstone and other supernaturally valuable resources and are thus the subject of extensive excavation. Games Workshop sells a variety of thick, textured paints to allow modellers to get a specific effect for their bases without much effort. These include cracked badlands, deep mud, snow, the sands of Mars...and grey gravel. Some modellers combine this with other materials, such as cork or plasticard, to give the impression that it's urban debris, or add Valhallan Blizzard to make it look like it's snowing, or add patches of static grass or even just green paint to give it the impression of plant growth or moss...others don't have the patience or time and will just slap on a layer of Astrogranite for a quick, easy base that positions the model in some kind of grey, rocky wasteland, which to be fair the 41st millennium has no shortage of. |
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UNISON, the Freedom City knockoff of UNIT, dealt with alien invaders operating from a base they had constructed in a gravel quarry in central England in 1969. | |
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Spoofed in the Doctor Who parody The Curse of Fatal Death: | |
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Here is a list of Blake's 7 locations; note several different quarries. Scowles (ancient iron ore quarries) provided a more visibly interesting version of the trope, as they also had caves and greenery. Sometimes there are In-Universe justifications such as the atmosphere is too thin to support much vegetation, or the planet has been mined out by the Federation or devastated by nuclear or biological warfare. Radio sketch show The Burkiss Way has a Blake's 7 parody entitled "Blake's Film Shot in Old Gravel Pits". The Blake's 7 radio play "The Sevenfold Crown" contains a line where a disgusted sounding Tarrant complains that the planet they've just teleported down to "looks like a quarry". |
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Wookey Hole was a bunch of caves the BBC also liked to use. Parodied in "Stump Hole Caverns" in a one-shot sketch on The League of Gentlemen: | |
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The Burkiss Ways parody of Blake's 7 was called Blake's Set In Old Gravel Pit | |
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In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, Bob, Jean, and Voluptua visit the BBC Quarry here. It returns in later strips. | |
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Similarly, the endless forest planets of Stargate Atlantis. (It may well be the same forest.) With 90% of the episode set in the same identical middle ages backwater set. | |
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Japanese Toku action series — including every Super Sentai series, and Power Rangers by extension — set many of their more pyrotechnic fights in a quarry◊, more specifically, Mount Iwafune in Tochigi. Due to the blending of Super Sentai footage and original footage, Power Rangers actually has three such quarries: the Sentai quarry, an American quarry (from seasons one through ten), and a New Zealand quarry (season eleven and onward, after the move to NZ.) Other Saban productions in the same vein also had many a battle taking place in these quarries (most notably VR Troopers, in which all battles are taken back to the Virtual World at some point, in an area that is always the quarry.) In Power Rangers Ninja Storm, it was common for bad guys to call the Rangers out by going to this quarry and waiting. They were always quickly detected, as if the Rangers realized its popularity with villains and kept it monitored. Japan has many areas of land unsuitable for development because they actually are naturally that rocky, infertile, and/or geologically unstable. Often these are found right at the bases of mountains, so when the scenes are shot with the mountain behind them it gives the illusion that they're actually below ground-level as you would expect from a rock quarry. And as they aren't owned, it's easy to cordon them off for shooting, especially for enormous battle scenes. Lampshaded a couple of times, such as with this exchange in Power Rangers Ninja Storm: And also...: Power Rangers Ninja Steel has an instance of the Rangers looking for the Monster of the Week, and Brody suggests the quarry. "Monsters always hang out at the quarry!" In a rare instance of the BBC Quarry actually mattering, one is the site of the Rider War depicted in the opening of Kamen Rider Decade, where every Kamen Rider from 2000-2008 tries to take down Decade all at once - and he kicks all their asses. It was All Just a Dream that female lead Natsumi was having. So you can imagine the "Oh, Crap!" moment she had when, in the final episode, she realized that they were in that very same quarry. The Rider War starts about two minutes later. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid offers a justification: Thanks to the show's overarching theme of Video Games, the Transformation Trinkets have the ability to perform a "stage select", which lets the Riders move the battle to another location. While the bog-standard quarry hasn't appeared in early episodes, similar locales like a scrapyard, an Abandoned Warehouse and a vacant beach have shown up. (The quarry did turn up eventually.) The final battle of Kamen Rider Build takes place in a dimensional fault, located in space, that absorbs all energy around and within it and was created by the process of two parallel Earths smashing into each other. Sounds like prime Amazing Technicolor Battlefield material, right? Nope. Once the action gets there, it turns out inside of the singularity is just a very familiar quarry. They do spice it up a bit with CG (the place starts literally falling apart at the climax of the battle) but it's still pretty funny to watch. The year 2068 in Kamen Rider Zi-O consists of just an orange-tinted quarry. Justified, as the world has become a war-blasted wasteland by that time. |
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The German SF series Raumpatrouille (Space Patrol) used a colliery spoil tip as most of its alien planets. | |
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Referenced in BBC Radio 4's sci-fi comedy Nebulous: | |
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And also...: | |
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In a rare instance of the BBC Quarry actually mattering, one is the site of the Rider War depicted in the opening of Kamen Rider Decade, where every Kamen Rider from 2000-2008 tries to take down Decade all at once - and he kicks all their asses. It was All Just a Dream that female lead Natsumi was having. So you can imagine the "Oh, Crap!" moment she had when, in the final episode, she realized that they were in that very same quarry. The Rider War starts about two minutes later. | |
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In the Doctor Who New Adventures novel Return of the Living Dad, the Doctor comments that Earth is special because he has been to countless other planets, and most of them look like gravel pits. | |
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