Like many of Perfection Valley’s biological anomalies, Twitchell made sure it was packed up and sent off to a government lab for study.  Unfortunately, since the government was being secretive about what was actually going on with mixmaster in the previous experiments, the remains of Artimia were later “lost.”  The government now claims it never existed.

Given the extreme nature and wide variety of the adventures befalling beleaguered Perfection, we feel it’s at least a year.

Sorry, we don’t know.  That was all handled at SciFi Network.

We had one idea for an octopus-like thing that lives in trees.  It snatches people up and cocoons them in pods hidden in the branches.  Our Perfection heroes are totally stumped for a while, since they assume the victims are being pulled into the ground.

Partly this is because in Tremors 1 you’re not really seeing all of the Graboid.  Val and Earl have only uncovered the top portion of it.  But also, not all Graboids are exactly alike.  There are fat ones and thin ones, longer ones and shorter ones, just as with animals and people.

As far we know they are not legit.  Hard as it is for fans to believe, Universal will not answer our questions about plans for releasing the series on DVD.

No, for reasons never clear to us, SciFi insisted that the show be shot in the old TV “square” aspect ratio (4:3).  We argued that this was crazy since everyone in Hollywood knew that in a few years all TV in the U.S. would go to the HD 16:9 aspect ratio.  But they wouldn’t budge.  As for it looked “crowded,” that was how the director of photography liked it.

Update: 2016, another fan has pointed out that when Hulu ran the series, it was presented it wide-screen and was NOT cropped top and bottom (as would normally happen if you pulled a 16.9 image out of a 4:3 shaped frame.  He even included screenshots proving his point.  We don’t have an answer for how this was done. We only know what we were told during production.

None of us at Stampede has an Avocet, and we didn’t get to play with them on the set.  My best guess is that the sound editors picked something from their vast audio libraries that they thought sounded right for the show, (and probably not the actual Avocet alarm sound).  That’d be the normal approach.

TV moves so fast there’s a very narrow window of time to Scheduling actors. I don’t know the specific reason but most likely she just wasn’t available on the exact days we had to shoot that show.

They were supposed to see images similar to the seismograph images seen on the Chang store video monitors in some episodes. The idea was that the seismos provided an easy-to-read graphical representation of El Blanco’s location and direction of travel.

I’m not sure about the video specifically. Most of the time images (like the seismometer readings on the store monitors) were added later. Sometimes we were able to shoot them on set at the same time.

Well, I could try to come up with one of my quippy answers, but this is one of those things that happens in production. The sound people look at a scene and they add all sorts of sounds so that the director and producers have a lot of choices when they do the final “mix.” Series production is so rapid there was probably nobody paying close enough attention the day that show was mixed to ask the question this fan wisely asks. So now it’s a mystery dog. Or maybe a coyote with an unnaturally deep voice.

Larry definitely would have become a more effective member of the Perfection team. But he never would outgrow his enthusiasm and excitement over facing the unknown. He’d always be a wild card in any tense situation. As Burt would complain: “You never know when Larry’s going to start staring when he should start shooting!”

Jodi has a bedroom and full bath in the back of her store. Tyler uses one of those outdoor plastic bag solar showers behind his Quonset hut quarters. In colder weather he begs to use either Nancy’s or Jodi’s facilities.

[July, 2019 update. Obviously this did finally happen, but it took a long time.] Old answer is below.

It’s no (as of Oct.2009). We were relaying information as we got it from the studio. Before they canceled the series, they were telling us it would probably go the “normal” TV show route to DVD. Why they later chose not to do that is a mystery to us. We have asked several times, but they’ve never explained. We can only guess that they feel the market is not big enough to bother with.

Well, we’re a little confused on this one. Though the series Graboids were built by KNB Effects, they were cast from the original molds made by Amalgamated Dynamics for Tremors 1. So everything should be the same. The writer/producers weren’t on the set much in Mexico, so differences might have crept in we never noticed. One possibility is that the spikes are easier to see on El Blanco than they are on the darker normal Graboids, so they just stand out more. Frankly we didn’t have time for spike spotting. You fans amaze us.

And now May 2010, it is “yes.”  Don’t we look foolish?  But Universal (despite emails we sent asking them about it) never told us of the plan to release it on DVD.  We found out about it from you fans.

Yes. We touched on it briefly in “Night of the Shriekers” when we revealed he plays the guitar, etc. We hadn’t officially developed too much background for Twitchell by the time the series shut down, but we were definitely going to do more with the character. We wanted to see more sides of him, find out that he takes being a family man very seriously, and that he doesn’t always like being the “bad guy” of Perfection. We hoped to explain the tortuous government employee route that landed him in that obscure corner of the desert, but never had time to work it all out.

It is the military body style of the Jeep Gladiator from the late 1960s.

Well, on this one we have no idea. Best guess is that props or art department threw something together from existing graphics they had on hand.

Yes. We had arguments internally about whether to use the invisibat idea or not. But with the pressures of production, we decided to go with it.

The correct answer is c). It is a compound which allows intact, functioning DNA to move readily among plants and animals.

This is the result of having to write episodes so quickly. We liked the actor playing Larry and realized he had potential as a recurring character. So we were trying to flesh him out and make him a more realistic character. The result, of course, is some inconsistency from show to show.

It was supposed to be one of those that shoots a single column of water really high in the center of the pond.

Well, sadly the director and 2nd unit crew on that episode chose to shoot it that way. KNB Effects actually did build the whole creature and it looked really cool.  In editing the show we went through all the footage, looking for shots where you could see it more clearly. But there just weren’t any. By then the show was wrapped and there was no way to shoot any additional footage.

It wouldn’t have been an actual head, but it might have been one of the piñatas Jodi was selling. I think some were ABs.