Gareth Davies, a Buffy producer, revealed to the BBC that Glory’s tower at the end of season five (seen in The Gift) nearly became a hazard. He said:
“We found a company which had what looked like a huge oil derrick in its front yard… The Art Department went down and covered this thing with the rubbish and stuff that [the crazies] were building this out of and then we had a platform at the end of it. [Dawn] has to be marooned on a diving board which comes right from the top of this thing, but we were down on the ground and we had to shoot up and so we made a model [of Dawn].
“She had a long skirt on, and when we put it up there, we put it up there days before we had to shoot it. It sat up there for days and of course, when you’re on the ground and you just happen to look up, you see a plank with this girl marooned on the end of it. Because the wind was blowing her dress, she looked like, not only was she up there, [but] she was moving! We called the local Vernon police department, who were quite casual about the whole thing and said “Look, if you get complaints about a lady…”
“Also, we were concerned about traffic, [drivers] suddenly being distracted by seeing that thing up there, but they were quite casual about it. They said “Okay, fine, fine, fine” and they never told us they had any complaints or anything, but when I went out there, and was miles away, I looked up and I saw this poor woman up there billowing in the breeze and thought “We are so lucky it hasn’t caused accidents or something”.