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Paradeen Capital City - Episode "Greetings from Earth, Parts 1 & 2" (Expo 1967 Buildings, Montreal, Canada)
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 Paradeen Capital City 01168 viewsUnited States pavilion.
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 Paradeen Capital City 02135 viewsUnited States pavilion.
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 Paradeen Capital City 03138 viewsView at theme structures.
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 Paradeen Capital City 04161 viewsGreat Britain pavilion.
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 Paradeen Capital City 05149 viewsView at theme structures.
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 Paradeen Capital City 06161 viewsView at theme structures.
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 Paradeen Capital City 07153 viewsFrance pavilion.
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 Paradeen Capital City Screencap 0189 viewsScreencaps made by Red Eye.
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 Paradeen Capital City Screencap 02106 viewsSome footage filmed for this episode (like this and the following shot) was later reused to become the exterior of New Chicago in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century".
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 Paradeen Capital City Screencap 04103 viewsActors Dirk Benedict (Lt. Starbuck) and Bobby Van (Hector) traveled to Montreal for these scenes. Benedict has been quoted as saying it was an uncomfortable experience - not all that surprising in that the scenes were shot in winter in buildings that had not been heated in years.
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 Paradeen Capital City Screencap 0588 viewsThe theme structures still looked futuristic even after more than a decade after their debut.
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 Paradeen Capital City Screencap 0683 viewsThe large size of the structures and the total lack of any inhabitation proved to be an effective setting for the episode.
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 Paradeen Capital City Screencap 0785 viewsThis view of a walkway on one of the theme structures gives a hint of how the buildings were falling apart.
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 Paradeen Capital City Screencap 0875 views
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 Paradeen Capital City Screencap 09100 viewsThe once beautiful United States pavilion had been gutted by a fire on May 21, 1976. Here what was once billed as the world's longest escalator rises to the ruins of one of the exhibit platforms.
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 Paradeen Capital City Screencap 10103 views
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 Paradeen Capital City Screencap 1183 views
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 Paradeen Capital City Screencap 1277 views
 
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