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"Now, as you know, these eight anti gravity towers stabilise our gravity here inside Alpha. Now, we're going to use them to create an entirely new force field effect. By linking and cross linking the anti gravity screens in each of the towers, the force field will look something like this." (Victor Bergman in Black Sun) In fact the towers first appeared in Nuclear Disposal Area 1 in Breakaway (which is said to have had an artificial gravity system). After Black Sun the gravity towers are often seen, both as full size studio props and in model shots. |
![]() The towers are first introduced in Black Sun. Bergman shows their positions on this model. |
![]() A close up of a tower on Bergman's model |
![]() The actual tower |
![]() The tower was also built as a full-scale prop. |
![]() Radiating the forcefield. |
![]() Later in the series the towers changed colour, from red to white. |
![]() The ends of the forcefield lines do not match Bergman's model, and do not cover the outlying areas of the base. |
![]() They also don't match precisely shot from shot. |
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![]() Studio shot from The Last Sunset |
![]() The Metamorph: The gravity tower appears as a revolving antenna. |
![]() Another appearance of the forcefield tower: on the round building foreground right during the title sequence. |
![]() Bringers Of Wonder part 1: a white gravity tower between the base and a launch pad. |
![]() There's a white gravity tower in Santa Maria, California, Earth, in Another Time, Another Place. |
Copyright Martin Willey