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Background Information Directors | Writes | Production information Directors MARIO AZZOPARDI Season One: Children Of The Gods | Brief Candle | Bloodlines | Singularity | Cor-Ai DENNIS BERRY Season One: The Enemy Within | The First Commandment DUANE CLARK Season Two: Secrets WILLIAM CORCORAN Season Two: One False Step Season Three: Seth CHARLES CORRELL Season One: The Nox Season Two: 1969 PETER DeLUISE Season Two: Serpent's Song | Show And Tell Season Three: Point Of View | Demons | Forever In A Day | Jolinar's Memories | The Devil You Know | Urgo Season Four: The Other Side | Crossroads | Window Of Opportunity | The First Ones Beneath The Surface | Tangent | Absolute Power Prodigy Season Five: Threshold | The Fifth Man | Rite Of Passage |The Tomb | 2001 | Wormhole X-treme! |The Warrior | The Sentinel Season Six: Descent | Nightwalkers | Shadow Play |Allegiance | Smoke And Mirrors | Metamorphosis | Memento ALLAN EASTMAN Season One: Fire And Water WILLIAM GEREGHTY Season One: The Broca Divide | Enigma Season Two: Thor's Chariot | Family | Rules Of Engagement | Past And Present Season Four: Point Of No Return Season Five: Between Two Fires | Desperate Measures Season Six: Paradise Lost | Disclosure KENNETH J. GIROTTI Season One: Cold Lazarus JONATHAN GLASSNER Season One: The Torment Of Tantalus Season Two: The Serpent's Lair JIMMY KAUFMAN Season One: Tin Man ALLAN LEE Season Four: Entity CHRIS McMULLIN Season Three: New Ground ANDY MIKITA Season Three: Foothold Season Four: The Curse | 2010 Season Five: Proving Ground | Fail Safe Season Six: Cure | Unnatural Selection | Forsaken MICHAEL SHANKS Season Four: Double Jeopardy BRAD TURNER Season One: Thor's Hammer | Hathor Season Two: The Tok'ra | Touchstone Season Three: Crystal Skull WILLIAM WARING Season Five: Meridian Season Six: Prophecy DAVID WARRY-SMITH Season One: There But For The Grace Of God | Within The Serpent's Grasp Season Two: Prisoners | Need | Message In A Bottle |Bane | The Fifth Race | Holiday Season Three: Pretense | A Hundred Days Season Four: Exodus PETER F. WOESTE Season Three: Maternal Instinct Season Four: The Light Season Five: 48 Hours Season Six: Prometheus | Sight Unseenv MARTIN WOOD Season One: Solitudes | Politics Season Two: In The Line Of Duty | The Gamekeeper | The Tok'ra (Part Two) | Spirits |A Matter Of Time | Out Of Mind Season Three: Into The Fire | Fair Game | Legacy | Learning Curve | Deadman Switch | Shades Of Grey | Nemesis Season Four: Small Victories | Upgrades | Divide And Conquer | Watergate | Scorched Earth |The Serpent's Venom | Chain Reaction Season Five: Enemies | Ascension | Red Sky | Beast Of Burden | Summit | Last Stand | Menace | Revelations Season Six: Redemption | Redemption Part 2 | Frozen | Abyss | The Other Guys | The Changeling | Full Circle JEFF WOOLNOUGH Season One: Emancipation Writes HEATHER E. ASH Season Three: Learning Curve | Foothold | New Ground Season Four: Beneath The Surface Season Five: Rite Of Passage TOM J. ASTLE Season One:Cor-Ai STEVEN BARNES Season One: Brief Candle (Story) CARL BINDER Season Three: Demons DAVID BENNETT CARREN & J. LARRY CARROLL Season One: Hathor (Story) MICHAEL CASSUTT Season Four: Tangent ROBERT C. COOPER Season One: The First Commandment | The Torment Of Tantalus | Singularity | There But For The Grace Of God (Teleplay) Season Two:In The Line Of Duty | Need (Story & Teleplay) | Bane | The Fifth Race Season Three: Fair Game | Point Of View (Story) | Deadman Switch | The Devil You Know | Maternal Instinct | Nemesis Season Four: Small Victories | Watergate | Absolute Power | Double Jeopardy Season Five: Enemies (Story & Teleplay) | Ascension |48 Hours | Last Stand | Meridian Season Six: Redemption | Redemption Part 2 | Frozen | Unnatural Selection (Story) | Paradise Lost | Full Circle JAMES CROCKER Season One: Within The Serpent's Grasp (Story) PETER DeLUISE Season Four: The First Ones | The Serpent's Venom | Entity Season Five: Beast Of Burden | The Warrior (Teleplay) | Menace (Teleplay) Season Six: Allegiance SAM EGAN Season Two: Touchstone TERRY CURTIS FOX Season Two: Prisoners | Secrets Season Three: Rules Of Engagment JONATHAN GLASSNER Season One: Children Of The Gods | The Broca Divide | Hathor (Teleplay) | Within The Serpent's Grasp (Teleplay) Season Two: The Gamekeeper (Story & Teleplay) | The Tok'ra | Show And Tell | Out Of Mind (Story & Teleplay) Season Three: Seth | Point Of View (Story & Teleplay) | Forever In A Day | Shades Of Grey MICHAEL GREENBURG & JARRAD PAUL Season Two: Message In A Bottle (Story) Season Three: Crystal Skull (Story) HART HANSON Season One: The Nox V.C. JAMES Season Three: A Hundred Days (Story) CHRISTOPHER JUDGE Season Five: The Warrior (Story) Season Six: The Changeling MICHAEL KAPLAN & JOHN SANBORN Season Two: One False Step DAVID KEMPER Season One: There But For The Grace Of God (Story) DAMIAN KINDLER Season Two: Need (Story) Season Six: The Other Guys | Cure | Sight Unseen (Teleplay) | Forsaken | Memento JEFFREY F. KING Season One: Cold Lazarus | Bloodlines JOSEPH MALLOZZI & PAUL MULLIE Season Four: Window Of Opportunity | Scorched Earth | Point Of No Return | The Curse | Chain Reaction | Prodigy (Story & Teleplay) | Exodus Season Five: Enemies (Story) | The Fifth Man | The Tomb | Desperate Measures | Wormhole X-treme! (Story & Teleplay) | Summit Fail Safe | Revelations Season Six: Descent | Nightwalkers | Shadow Play | Prometheus | Smoke And Mirrors (Teleplay) | Disclosure | Prophecy JAMES PHILLIPS Season Four: The Light KATHARYN POWERS Season One: Emancipation | Brief Candle (Teleplay) | Thor's Hammer | Fire And Water (Story & Teleplay) | Enigma Season Two: Thor's Chariot | Family | Serpent's Song Season Three: Pretense Season Four: Crossroads Season Six: Smoke And Mirrors (Story) MISHA RASHOVICH Season Two: A Matter Of Time (Story) DAVID RICH Season Four: Upgrades JACQUELINE SAMUDA Season Six: Metamorphosis (Story) MARK SARACENI Season One: Bloodlines (Story) JAMES TICHENOR Season Five: Menace (Story) Season Six: Metamorphosis (Story & Teleplay) TOR ALEXANDER VALENZA Season Two: The Tok'ra (Part Two) | Spirits | Holiday Season Three: Legacy | Point Of View (Story) | Past And Present | Urgo Season Four: Divide And Conquer SONNY WAREHAM & DANIEL STASHOWER Season Three: Jolinar's Memories RON WILKERSON Season Five: Red Sky | Between Two Fires | Proving Ground | The Sentinel | Sight Unseen (Story) BRAD WRIGHT Season One: Children Of The Gods | The Enemy Within | Fire And Water (Story) | Solitudes | Politics Season Two: The Serpent's Lair | The Gamekeeper (Teleplay) | Message In A Bottle (Teleplay) | A Matter Of Time (Teleplay) | 1969 Out Of Mind (Story) Season Three: Into The Fire | Point Of View (Story & Teleplay) | A Hundred Days (Teleplay) | Crystal Skull (Teleplay) Season Four: The Other Side | 2010 | Prodigy (Story) Season Five: Enemies (Story) | Threshold | 2001 | Wormhole X-treme! (Story) Season Six: Abyss | Unnatural Selection (Story & Teleplay) Production information Productie ..... Double Secret Productions, Gekko Film Corp. and MGM Executive Producers ...... Michael Greenburg, Richard Dean Anderson, Robert C. Cooper Developed for Television by ...... Brad Wright & Jonathan Glassner Co-Executive Producers ...... N. John Smith, Joseph Mallozzi, Paul Mullie Supervising Producer ...... Damian Kindler Producers ...... Andy Mikita, Peter DeLuise Co-Producer ...... Martin Wood Consulting Producer ...... Brad Wright Executive Consultant ...... Jonathan Glassner Creative Consultant ...... Martin Wood Directors of Photography ...... Jim Menard, Peter Woeste, CSC Editors ...... Eric Hill, Rick Martin, Brad Rines Music ...... Joel Goldsmith Original Stargate Themes ...... David Arnold Casting ...... Paul Weber, CSA Canadian Casting ...... Carol Kelsay, CSA Production Manager ...... John Lenic Production Designer ...... Bridget McGuire Art Directors ...... Peter Bodnarus, James Robbins Set Decorators ...... Mark Davidson, Robert Davidson Visual Effects Producer ...... James Tichenor Visual Effects Supervisor ...... Michelle Comens Digital Effects......Rainmaker Digital Pictures, Image Engine Design, GVFX, Krista McLean Special Effects Coordinator ...... Wray Douglas First Assistant Directors ...... Alex Pappas, Bill Mizel Second Assistant Directors ...... Ryan Kosmynka, Janice Genn Costume Designer ...... Christina McQuarrie Makeup ...... Jan Newman Hairstylist ...... Patrick O'Brien Location Manager ...... Lynn Smith Stunt Coordinator ...... Dan Shea Matte Paintings ...... Kent Matheson Stargate SG-1 - Production information Production of the two-hour premiere of Stargate SG-1 began February 18th in a forest area north of Vancouver known as the Greater Vancouver Regional District Seymour Watershed. As this region -- which supplies water to much of the Lower Mainland of Canada -- receives some of the heaviest rainfall in all the world, it was no surprise that the company was pelted with a downpour and cold, damp air during the first two days of shooting. Two Stargates were built for the show, each more than 20 feet in diameter. The first, reconstructed from parts of the one seen in the original film, was used for exterior scenes on planet "Chulak," where a hideous species of predators are using the Gate for nefarious purposes. It also doubles as the Stargate on Abydos. The second Stargate is part of a large, two-story permanent set at Vancouver's Bridge Studios that represents a secretive U.S. Air Force base. In addition to the Stargate, it houses the Control Room, replete with sophisticated computers and tracking devices, a Briefing Room, and a series of circular corridors that leads to the Gate. Made of steel and fiberglass, this fully-automated Stargate is much more sophisticated and is capable of rotating and emitting light. A specially-designed 22-foot circular gear was constructed that turns the Gate on a precise pinion drive wheel using an eight-horsepower electric motor. The entire apparatus is controlled by a custom computer program that reads -- with the help of a sensoring eye -- the laser pulses emitted by seven chevrons on the Gate. This mechanism allows the computer to rotate the Gate in either direction and stop it on a dime. Constructed on the same soundstage as the Stargate was the Royal Chamber -- where Goa'uld leader Apophis celebrates his marriage to Sha're with a sumptuous feast -- and the interior Cave set, where Jackson shows the SG-1 team an enormous Egyptian monument that seems to indicate the presence of hundreds of other Stargates throughout the galaxy. By using a matte drawing in the post-production process, this Egyptian monument will appear to be of gargantuan size, dwarfing even the largest sports domes."We will use a variety of sophisticated matte processes in this series to add dimension and depth to conventional sets, or create entirely different worlds," says co-executive producer Michael Greenburg. Across from the main stage, in a smaller facility, is the Abydos Stargate room, with a sanded, primitive motif, animal skin rugs, dirt floor, makeshift cooking utensils and crude weaponry. Interior scenes of a bleak Chulakian prison where O'Neill and his comrades find themselves captive were filmed at nearby Lake City Studios. For production designer Richard Hudolin, the assignment to design worlds that don't actually exist presented an unlimited opportunity. "There were virtually no parameters regarding design concepts, leaving me free to create a planet from my imagination," says Hudolin. "I recreated the Abydos Gate room exactly as it was depicted in the film, but for the other sets I borrowed from Roman and Egyptian motifs in designing the architecture. The planet of Chulak is expressed as a much more primitive society." Hudolin began his research in October 1996 by examining drawings from the original movie and sifting through sets stored in a warehouse in Los Angeles. He designed the large Stargate military compound set to be assembled in sections. This proved to be a wise decision in light of the fact that the entire set had to be broken down and moved in April to a new soundstage across the Bridge Studios lot that will serve as the show's permanent home. One of the most significant set pieces designed for the film is what's known as the "dial home device" -- a circular object, much like a sun dial, that's used to lock in the seven-digit code that corresponds to each Stargate. It is this dial home device that the U.S. military was without when it first discovered the Stargate, causing them to spend millions of dollars and many years building a super-computer facsimile. Operating like a combination lock, the dial home device revs the Gate into action, creating the phenomenon of instantaneous space travel. To depict the spectacular energy inside the activated Stargate, a jet airplane engine was mounted two feet above a water tank, and its 180 miles-per-hour windstream used to create a water displacement effect. This filmed image was in turn inserted in post production into the center of the Stargate, which was shot against a blue screen backdrop. In the 1994 film, only one camera angle was seen of this swirling energy, while in the television premiere the effect will be seen from several angles. "There's a reason why they only showed this effect once in the movie," comments special effects supervisor Stuart Bradley, "It's difficult to achieve. But we're determined to pull it off several times in the first episode alone." The special effects team also built special serpent head spears -- two of which open at the ends and emit light flashes -- and six fierce-looking serpent helmets that are worn by the elite guards from Chulak. Two of these helmets were designed to split into three different sections simultaneously through a rather ingenious bit of animatronic engineering. Each weighs about 15 pounds and has dozens of moving parts. Among the pieces designed by the prosthetics group was an abdominal pouch from which the snake-like Goa'uld emerges before entering the body of its new human host. The Goa'uld itself is operated by a puppeteer using a remote-controlled radio device. Dozens of extras were utilized throughout filming, meaning that hundreds of costumes had to be designed for them, in addition to the main cast. That task fell to wardrobe designer Christine McQuarrie, who made about two hundred costumes for the premiere episode, borrowing liberally from different historical periods. "I used the film as a starting point and then was inspired solely by visual interest," says McQuarrie. "By mixing modern fabrics with classic designs -- from such cultures as the Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian and others -- I was able to create costumes that convey the right feeling and avoid being historically accurate. We didn't want the clothes to be identified too closely with any actual Earth culture because the societies of these different peoples seen in the show were developed on different planets. It would be too coincidental if they dressed exactly like the ancient Egyptians or Greeks." Working with a staff of ten, McQuarrie sourced her clothes from Vancouver and also New York and Los Angeles. She worked closely with a U.S. Air Force representative in designing the garb of the SG-1 team. In fact, the group's fully-dressed field uniforms are authentic military issue. The more than 200 visual effects shots in the premiere episode required that special attention be paid to camera angles and frame perspective to allow for computer-generated effects to be added later. To achieve this, director of photography Peter Woeste and visual effects supervisor Ted Rae used numerous split screen and lock-off shots, and Woeste frequently utilized a three-camera set-up to capture the complex action sequences. Motion control camera work -- in which an intricate camera movement is repeated in exactly the same motion through the use of a computer-controlled crane -- was utilized in several of the sequences that occur in the Stargate control room. Concludes executive producer Jonathan Glassner, "Most sci-fi shows take place on one or two main sets each week, usually a spaceship. Stargate SG-1 will take viewers to strange new worlds each week, with different costumes and sets for each show. It's much more demanding and costly to do, but we're very excited about the challenge and the rewards of presenting a unique environment and adventure with each episode." Production information courtesy of the Stargate SG-1 press kit. © Stargate SG-1 Productions Limited Partnership and Showtime Television