The X-Files

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|    show_name = The X-Files
|        image = Image:X-Files intro.jpg
|      caption = 
|       format = Science fiction, drama
|      runtime = approx. 42 min (per episode)
|      creator = Chris Carter
|     starring = David Duchovny (1993–2000; 2001–2002)
Gillian Anderson
Robert Patrick (2000–2002)
Annabeth Gish (2001–2002)
Mitch Pileggi (1994–2002)
|      country = USA
|      network = FOX
|  first_aired = September 10, 1993
|   last_aired = May 19, 2002
| num_episodes = 201 (as originally aired)
|      imdb_id = 0106179
|    tv_com_id = 61

}} The X-Files was a popular American television series created by Chris Carter. It ran for nine seasons from 1993 until 2002, spawning a feature film in 1998 and one spin-off TV series. It originally aired on the FOX network. It was a critical and commercial success, due in part to its stars, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.

Fox Mulder, played by Duchovny, and Dana Scully, played by Anderson, are two FBI agents tasked with investigating the titular "X-Files", cases that often involve paranormal phenomena. With plots spanning conspiracy theories and high-level governmental cover-ups, the show mimicked episodic elements found in earlier shows such as The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, and the cult show Twin Peaks, in which Duchovny had appeared as a cross-dressing DEA agent. The series became a surprise runaway success, with a devoted following. Fans of the show became known as "eXcers" or more commonly, "X-Philes", a term coined by Matt Grommes on an early Fidonet X-Files message board.

The X-Files was declared by TV Guide to be one of the greatest television shows of all time, and the second greatest cult TV show of all time, behind Star Trek. Chris Carter used The X-Files as a springboard for a spin-off show involving characters from The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen. Carter's TV series, Millennium, survived three seasons. Millennium took place in the same diegesis as The X-Files, and eventually there were some cross-over episodes. Carter also created another short-lived TV series, Harsh Realm. None of these three shows garnered the same level of public or critical attention as The X-Files.

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Current distribution

In the United States, episodes are shown frequently on cable television on the Sci Fi Channel and TNT on at various times from Monday through Friday. Episodes can also be seen on a station-by-station basis in local markets because of syndication and syndication episodes are also available on weekends on the cable superstation WGN.

All nine seasons of X-Files are available as DVD boxed sets for DVD players supporting Regions 1 and 2. In addition, various "Mytharc" DVD sets are available that include all episodes of a particular story arc.

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Influences

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Television

Chris Carter listed television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Tales from the Darkside as his major influences for the show. Actor Darren McGavin who played Carl Kolchak in Kolchak: The Night Stalker appeared in two episodes of The X-Files as Agent Arthur Dales, a character who is described as the "father of the X-Files."

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Film

Several feature films have also influenced The X-Files. The producers have often cited All the President's Men, Three Days of the Condor, The Thing, The Boys from Brazil, The Silence of the Lambs, and JFK as influences on the series. Gangster movies such as the Godfather trilogy are also frequently referenced in the show's conspiracy plotlines, particularly concerning the Syndicate. A scene at the end of the episode Redux II (5.03), for instance, directly mirrors the famous baptism montage at the end of The Godfather.

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Legacy

The X-Files directly inspired numerous other TV series, including Strange World, Burning Zone, Special Unit 2, Mysterious Ways, Carnivàle, Dark Skies, The 4400, and Lost.

The influence can also be seen on other levels: Alias has developed a complex mythology that brings to mind the "mytharc" of The X-Files. In addition, many procedural dramas feature a Mulder-esque lead with a supervisor similar to Skinner or Kersh. Some of these procedurals, such as NCIS, also feature a quirky technogeek similar to the Lone Gunmen characters. Other shows have been influenced by the tone and mood of The X-Files, e.g., Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which drew from the mood and coloring of The X-Files, as well as from its occasional blend of horror and humor. The procedural CSI is occasionally considered a successor to The X-Files because of its science-driven plots.

Fox also screened a companion series based upon The X-Files entitled Millennium, also produced by Chris Carter. The storylines of Millennium and The X-Files occasionally crossed over, with Scully and Mulder making cameo appearances — albeit on an overhead television — in at least one episode of Millennium. Frank Black, the protagonist of Millennium, eventually appeared in The X-Files to tie up loose ends after Millennium was abruptly cancelled.

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Emmys

Over the course of its nine seasons, The X-Files won two acting Emmy awards, one writing award, and several technical awards.

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Acting

In 1996, Peter Boyle won the Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal of the title character in the third-season episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose".

In 1997, Gillian Anderson won the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series award for her portrayal of Agent Dana Scully.

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Writing

In 1996, Darin Morgan won the Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing for a Drama Series for his episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose". "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" was one of four highly-acclaimed episodes Morgan wrote during his short time on the show's writing staff.

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Technical

Throughout its run, The X-Files won the following awards in various technical categories:

  • 1994 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Graphic Design and Title Sequences
  • 1996 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cinematography for a Series
  • 1996 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Series
  • 1996 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Drama Series
  • 1997 Outstanding Art Direction for a Series
  • 1997 Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series
  • 1998 Outstanding Art Direction for a Series
  • 1998 Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Series
  • 1999 Outstanding Makeup for a Series
  • 2000 Outstanding Makeup for a Series
  • 2000 Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series
  • 2000 Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series
  • 2001 Outstanding Makeup for a Series
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Mythology

The series popularized the catch-phrases "Trust No One," "The Truth Is Out There" and "I Want to Believe" and fostered a substantial fan following. Fans commonly divide X-Files stories into "Mytharc" ("mythology") episodes, which concerned the ongoing tale of an impending alien invasion and a conspiratorial cover-up, and stand-alone "Monster-of-the-Week" episodes, which dealt with strange, other-worldly creatures and situations relating to the paranormal. The series was also known for its occasionally humorous episodes of this variety. Several installments also explored the relationship between Mulder and Scully, while some episodes focused on popular supporting characters such as Walter Skinner or the Lone Gunmen.

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The Main plot

The below is the ongoing storyline of the X Files as opposed to the stand-alone "Monster-of-the-Week" episodes in broadcast order. There is also a detailed and indepth explanation of the X-Files mythology written by a fan [1].

  • 15 episodes from seasons 1–3:

Pilot, Deep Throat, Fallen Angel, EBE, The Erlenmeyer Flask, Little Green Men, Duane Barry, Ascension, One Breath, Red Museum, Colony, End Game, Anasazi, The Blessing Way, Paper Clip.

  • 15 episodes from seasons 3–5:

Nisei, 731, Piper Maru, Apocrypha, Talitha Cumi, Herrenvolk, Tunguska, Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, Terma, Memento Mori, Tempus Fugit, Max, Zero-Sum, Gethsemane, Redux, Redux II.

  • 16 episodes from seasons 5–8 on four discs:

Christmas Carol, Emily, Patient X, The Red and the Black, The End (season 5 finale, continued by Fight the Future movie...)

  • X Files Movie: Fight the Future

The series produced a motion picture, The X-Files. It was intended as a continuation of the season five finale, "The End" (5x20), but was also meant to stand on its own.

  • continued after Fight the Future:

The Beginning, Dreamland, Dreamland II S.R. 819, Two Fathers, One Son, Biogenesis, The Sixth Extinction, The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati, Sein und Zeit, Closure, En Ami, Requiem, Within, Without.

  • 14 episodes from seasons 8–9 on four discs, including the two-hour series finale:

Per Manum, This Is Not Happening, Deadalive, Three Words, Vienen, Essence, Existence, Nothing Important Happened Today, Nothing Important Happened Today II, Trust No 1, Provenance, Providence, William, The Truth.

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History

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Early fan acclaim

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Many fans consider the show's creative peak to have occurred before the fifth season due to the presence of Glen Morgan and James Wong, whose contribution to the first two seasons was as great as (some would say greater than) Chris Carter's, and who returned for the first half of the fourth season. Hired by Peter Roth, Chris Carter's boss at 20th Television, after the show's pilot had been shot, their considerably greater production experience made them an invaluable addition to the show. In particular, their experience with the Vancouver production scene was of seminal importance. Carter had never produced a drama before, having helmed a series of unsuccessful light comedy shows for Disney in the 1980s. Most of the show's major directors, including Kim Manners, Rob Bowman, and David Nutter, had previously worked with them at Stephen J. Cannell's production company, on such shows as 21 Jump Street. All of these were hired on Morgan and Wong's recommendation. It is also due to their influence that cinematographer John Bartley, who gave the show its early dark and atmospheric look, was hired. His work was honored with an Emmy in 1996, the only Emmy for cinematography the show ever won. Morgan and Wong also had considerable influence on creating and casting most of the best-liked secondary characters, such as The Lone Gunmen, the Scully family, and FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner. Their work in season one, particularly the episode "Beyond the Sea" (1x13), drew most of the early critical plaudits, as well as the enduring affection of fans. Their episode "Little Green Men" (2x01) was the kick-off for the crucial second season, and their influence on both the "standalone" and "mythology" episodes was immense.

In the second and third seasons, Glen Morgan's younger brother Darin, hired thanks to his sibling's influence, wrote four legendary episodes, which gave the show greater critical respect than ever before, culminating in the only writing Emmy the show ever received, for "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (3x04) in 1996, as well as a guest actor Emmy for Peter Boyle in the titular role of that episode. These were the only non-technical Emmys the show ever received, excluding Gillian Anderson's win for best actress in 1998.

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The X-Files: Fight the Future

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In 1998 the series produced a motion picture, The X-Files. It was intended as a continuation of the season five finale, "The End" (5x20), but was also meant to stand on its own. The film was a commercial success. However, it attracted generally muted reviews from many major critics and, although the worldwide popularity of the show helped the movie's intake, the domestic box office was substantially less than what the studio had spent on producing and promoting the film. The movie, like much of what followed it on the series, remains a point of contention among fans — some of whom appreciate its place in the narrative, others deploring it for being the beginning of an unwieldy narrative structure which continued throughout the show.

The movie's opening sequence featured a bomb attack on a Federal office building in Dallas. Several media commentators noted parallels between this and the real-life 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing. [2] [3]

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Change

Over the course of the final few seasons, the show underwent several changes by way of both character growth and plot direction, in addition to a steady ratings decline. One of the central mythologies of the show, Mulder's search for his sister, would finally be resolved, as well as a few turns of events involving the ever-deepening bond between Mulder and Scully and the dynamic between the two characters. Whether they "should" or "shouldn't" consummate their relationship was the subject of great debate among the fan community for many years, and is still subject to scrutiny, since even after numerous hints, Carter refuses to confirm whether the two characters ever had sex. Even after the show's cancellation it retains a fan following — this, despite the fact that portions of the show's initial fanbase 'lost interest' during the later seasons.

The Lone Gunmen, a trio of nerdish government watchdogs who occasionally assisted Mulder and Scully, had their own short-lived TV series. Its cancellation left its storyline unresolved, but all the characters from the series returned in the X-Files episode "Jump the Shark" (9x15), a reference to the television term, which served as a final Lone Gunmen episode. The trio also made a short appearance, as ghosts or memories appearing to Mulder, in The X-Files' final episode, "The Truth" (9x19 & 9x20).

The film also marked the first, and wildly talked about near kiss between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. It was the kiss many fans had been waiting for since the beginning of the series in '93, but others felt the sexual tension between the two main characters was better left as tension, and not realized.

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Duchovny leaves

Following a contract dispute with Fox, David Duchovny quit The X-Files after the seventh season. [4] His departure made for some interesting plot twists. The Season 7 finale found Mulder abducted by aliens and Scully pregnant. At the very end of the Season 8 finale, Scully asks Mulder how this could have happened, and he responds by referring to "the truth we both know" and proceeds to kiss her. It is unclear as to whether she is referring to her supposed infertility or the possibility that she had not been with a man recently, although Mulder and Scully's kiss is suggestive that the two of them had been together. Having supposedly been rendered infertile during her abduction in Season 2, a fact first revealed during "Memento Mori" (4x14) in Season 4, this was indeed a shock to both Scully and the show's fan base.

As far as the paternity of the child Baby William was concerned, there were scattered hints that Mulder could be the father. One of the most significant hints came in the Season 9 episode "Trust No 1." In this episode, a government agent known as the "Shadow Man" who had been spying on Scully tells her that:

"I know your blood type, resting heart rate and your childhood fear of clowns. I know the name of your college boyfriend, your true hair color, your ATM PIN, favorite charity and pet peeves. I know you spend too much time alone, and I know one lonely night you invited Mulder into your bed. (cut to Scully) I was as surprised as you are."

The fact that Scully doesn't vehemently deny this statement (as would be in her personality to do so) lends credence to his claim.

In the series finale "The Truth," Mulder also refers to William as "my son" when questioned by a military officer and "our son" when speaking to Scully.

However, in the same episode, speaking under oath, he refers to both Bill Mulder and the Cigarette Smoking Man as being his own father, the implication being that he believes CSM is his biological father, but still considers Bill Mulder his true father. If so, this could mean that he is symbolically accepting William as his son as a gesture to Scully, not because of any biological connection.

Since Scully is never seen to perform DNA testing of any kind on William, it can't be considered a certainty that William is even genetically related to her. Given the non-human abilities William has, and the fact that it was impossible for her to conceive normally, it is difficult to understand why she never performs such tests. Particularly given that her earlier alleged offspring, Emily (seen in season five), died at the age of three because of problems relating to her presumed alien hybrid biology. One would think any concerned mother, particularly a medical doctor, would try to learn everything she could about a child who came to being under such suspicious circumstances, but Scully seems to violently shy away from any implication that William is anything other than a normally conceived baby--although going by the dates we see on the show, she gave birth to him more than a year after Mulder's abduction at the end of the seventh season. The confused viewer can only guess that, as she had confessed in earlier seasons, Scully was simply "afraid of the truth."

Gail Berman, the newly crowned president of Fox Entertainment at the time, asked Chris Carter who William's father was, at a press function introducing the Fox Network's fall season for 2000.

Carter's response: "I am." (Pause) "I'm its father and its mother."

Regardless of whether he meant this as a joke or not, when he realized that Scully's motherhood was yet another drag on the ratings, Carter wrote William out of the show entirely, having Scully give her baby to a couple she'd never met, after his apparently alien powers had been arbitrarily removed by Jeffrey Spender. Other than the two brief mentions in the finale, William was not referred to again for the remainder of the show's run.

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Season 8 and beyond

Duchovny returned for brief stints in seasons eight and nine. In season eight, Mulder reappeared as a corpse, was buried for several months (of the story's time frame), and then later revived. With both Duchovny and Anderson's involvement reduced, the show introduced two new X-Files agents, John Doggett and Monica Reyes (played by Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish). It was Chris Carter's belief that the series could continue for another ten years with new leads. This was not to be the case, however, as Doggett and Reyes did not provide the ratings boost Chris Carter had hoped.

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The show completed its ninth and final season with the two-hour episode "The Truth", which first aired on May 19, 2002. The show ceased production at the end of the ninth season—on a cliffhanger, though Carter knew that this would be the final episode. Plans for another movie are announced periodically but have yet to come to fruition. While Carter, Duchovny and Anderson have all expressed their desire for involvement, there is still no script and no official shooting schedule. It is widely believed that a second X-Files movie would be a standalone adventure, leaving some question as to how (or if) the mythology-based series finale cliffhanger will be resolved.

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DVD Releases

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DVD Name Region 1 Region 2
The X Files Season 1 May 9 2000 November 6 2000
The X Files Season 2 November 28 2000 April 30 2001
The X Files Season 3 May 8 2001 November 26 2001
The X Files Season 4 November 13 2001 April 22 2002
The X Files Season 5 May 14 2002 October 14 2002
The X Files Season 6 November 5 2002 March 17 2003
The X Files Season 7 May 13 2003 September 22 2003
The X Files Season 8 November 4 2003 March 14 2004
The X Files Season 9 May 11 2004 June 7 2004


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Trivia

  • The number 42 occurs frequently (Mulder lives in Apartment 42, Mulder has seen Plan 9 From Outer Space 42 times, etc.). This is The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything in Douglas Adams' novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The number is also featured in the plot of the ABC drama series Lost.
  • The season 8 episode "Alone" has artifacts from previous episodes: in Scully's desk drawer are Queequeg's dog tag (from the episode "Quagmire"), the keychain Mulder gave her (from "Tempus Fugit") and the fused coins (from "Dreamland"). Also appearing in this episode is the character of Agent Leyla Harrison, named for an actual person. Leyla Harrison was an X-Files fan and a writer of fanfiction who died in February 2001. Well-known and well-loved among The X-Files Internet community, writers on the show created the character (a self-professed admirer of Mulder and Scully) to honor her memory.
  • When "Requiem" (the season 7 finale) completed shooting, the producers were unsure if they would come back for an eighth season.
  • Many episodes feature a "mirror shot" usually involving a medicine cabinet. Such a shot shows a character opening a medicine cabinet with a mirror on the front, taking something out, closing the cabinet, and revealing something in the mirror. "Deep Throat," "Anasazi," "Underneath," and "Paper Clip" are episodes featuring such a shot.
  • The Maya calendar predicts that current era of the world will end on December 22, 2012, which is the date revealed for the onset of alien colonization in "The Truth".
  • You can identify episodes directed by Kim Manners; he frames the camera so as to show the face, but not the top of the head.
  • On Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, George Huang's FBI badge number is 2317616, as shown in the SVU episode "Charisma." Scully's badge number is identical, as told in the season 5 episode "Christmas Carol." Both were revealed while asking that a phone call be traced. In addition, B.D. Wong, who plays George Huang on SVU, had a guest appearance on The X-Files in the season 3 episode "Hell Money."
  • It was David Duchovny who suggested that Skinner play a larger role, hoping that it would result in some time off for him.
  • The eerie, yet catchy theme song is by Mark Snow. It was released with other songs from and inspired by the show on the 1996 soundtrack Songs in the Key of X.
  • Much of the season 3 finale, "Talitha Cumi" was inspired by The Grand Inquisitor, including the Cigarette Smoking Man's line "Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him."
  • As has become commonplace with dramatic TV series in recent years, actual episode titles were never displayed on screen. This was one of the first TV series whose fans disseminated information such as episode titles strictly via the Internet.
  • From season 2 on, the firearm of choice for most characters is the Sig Sauer P228.
  • The controversial and violent episode "Home", which featured a story about a family that has been inbred to almost proto-human levels of development, was kept out of syndication for three years after its initial airing.
  • The town known as Gibsonton, Florida in the circus freak-centric episode, "Humbug", is a real town that really is populated with former circus performers.
  • The season 5 episode "Bad Blood" contains a number of clever references and homages to classic vampire and horror films, one of the most memorable yet subtle being the name of the town in which the episode takes place. Known as Chaney, Texas, the name is most likely a reference to famous 1940s monster movie actor Lon Chaney. Whether it is Lon Chaney Sr. or Jr. is unclear, but both father and son were known for their parts in classic monster movies.
  • Creator Chris Carter's birthday is October 13, thus the frequent references to the number 1013 on the show and the reason Fox Mulder's birthday is also October 13. It is also the name of Carter's production company, Ten Thirteen Productions.
  • The season 4 episode "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" was inspired by a Superman comic book story titled "Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography".
  • Chris Carter eats a lot of sunflower seeds, hence Mulder's appetite for them on the show. However, David Duchovny hated them.
  • Scully was named after sportscaster Vin Scully.
  • Scully's telephone number is 555-3564 and (202) 555-6431 (at home). Mulder's number is 555-0199 or 555-9355 (episode 5x11, display of a database being hacked by an IA, around 25"38)
  • Mulder's address is #42, 2630 Hegal Place, Alexandria, VA 23242.
  • The number of Scully's files (stolen by Duane Barry) is 73317.
  • Mulder has been shot 3 times (once in "Beyond the Sea" , once in "Anasazi," and once in the film). Scully has been shot only twice (in "Young At Heart" 1x15 and "Tithonus" 6x09). Skinner was only shot once (in "Piper Maru" 3x15). This is not counting "How The Ghosts Stole Christmas", in which Mulder and Scully were both shot in a hallucination — by each other.
  • Mulder used his gun 16 times, Scully 13 times.
  • While Mulder believes in extraterrestrial life, and Scully doesn't (until season 6), the opposite is true of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson (i.e. Duchovny doesn't believe in EBEs, and Anderson does).
  • The season 5 episode "Unusual Suspects", which tells the origin of the Lone Gunmen, features a cameo by Detective Munch, from the popular crime dramas Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
  • In the movie Men in Black, Will Smith makes a reference to Alex Trebek and Jeopardy!. Alex Trebek actually makes a cameo appearance as a Man in Black in the season 3 episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space". This episode also features ex-wrestler Jesse Ventura, who later became Governor of Minnesota, as another Man in Black.
  • The Fight the Future movie was originally intended to make its network broadcast premiere on Fox the Sunday after 9/11, but was immediately pulled from the line-up.
  • In the season 8 episode "Salvage", Robert Patrick remarks "You only see metal men in movies." In the film Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Robert Patrick played a metal man.
  • In the season 7 episode "Sein Und Zeit", one of the characters is watching Harsh Realm — another series by X-Files creator Chris Carter — on his TV. He remarks, "I don't know what this is but it's fantastic." In another of Chris Carter's shows, Millennium, you can hear someone watch The X-Files on their TV.
  • While the show hinted that Skinner had a quiet crush on Scully, in real life, Mitch Pileggi (Skinner) met his wife Arlene Warren on the set of X-Files, while she was Gillian Anderson's (Scully) stand-in. In later episodes, she gets some screen time... as Skinner's secretary, Arlene, credited as Arlene Pileggi.
  • Aliases for C.G.B. Spender include The Cigarette Smoking Man, CSM, Cancerman, he was once called "our chain-smoking friend" by Mulder
  • William B. Davis, who plays the CSM, quit smoking in the late 1970s and smoked herbal cigarettes on the set. He is a spokesperson for the Canadian Cancer Society
  • Terry O'Quinn played three separate guest-starring roles in the course of The X-Files, and now plays Locke on ABC's Lost.
  • David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have reprised their roles as Mulder and Scully on numerous other shows, including The Simpsons
  • The number 1121, and especially the time 11:21 PM, appears regularly on The X-Files, particularly in the early seasons. This is a reference by Chris Carter to his wife Dori's birthday, November 21.
  • Bruce Campbell was originally considered for the role of Doggett, but was turned down because he guest starred in an earlier episode.
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Taglines

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The phrase "The Truth is Out There" is usually shown on screen at the end of the opening credits sequence. However, over the course of the series, this phrase would occasionally be replaced with something else, especially for "mytharc" episodes.

  • Trust No One - "The Erlenmeyer Flask"
  • Deny Everything - "Ascension"
  • 'éí 'aaníígÓÓ 'áhoot'é' - "Anasazi" ("The truth is far from here" in Navajo)
  • Apology is Policy - "731"
  • Everything Dies - "Herrenvolk" ("Master race" in German)
  • Deceive Inveigle Obfuscate - "Teliko"
  • E pur si muove - "Terma" ("And still it moves" in Italian)
  • Believe the Lie - "Gethsemane"
  • All Lies Lead to the Truth - "Redux"
  • Resist or Serve - "The Red and the Black"
  • The End - "The End"
  • Die Wahrheit ist irgendwo da draußen - "Triangle" ("The truth is out there somewhere" in German)
  • In the Big Inning - "The Unnatural" (a baseball-themed episode)
  • Amor Fati - "Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" ("Love of fate" in Latin)
  • Believe to Understand - "Closure"
  • Nothing Important Happened Today - "Nothing Important Happened Today II"
  • erehT tuO si hturT ehT - "4D"
  • They're Watching - "Trust No One"
  • Dio t'ama - "Improbable" ("God loves you" in Italian)
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Main cast

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Format: Actor's real name - Character name (Years on show)

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Regular guest cast

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Fan terminology

  • CSM - Cigarette Smoking Man
  • BLSOB - Black-Lunged SOB, also CSM
  • Fatman - The Elder
  • MoW or MOTW - Monster-of-the-week
  • NoRomo (no romance): a fan who doesn't want romance between Mulder and Scully.
  • OBSSE - The Order of the Blessed Saint Scully, The Enigmatic (a group of fans of Scully who have their own group on the Internet)
  • Ratboy - Alex Krycek
  • Gopherboy - Jeffrey Spender
  • Shipper (relationshipper) - a fan who wants Mulder and Scully to come together.
  • Dripper - a fan who wants Doggett and Reyes to be involved romantically
  • SIJ - Scully in Jeopardy
  • Skinman - Skinner
  • SMAK - Scully/Mulder Almost Kiss
  • SRE - Scully Rational Explanations
  • TLG - The Lone Gunmen
  • UST - Unresolved Sexual Tension
  • WMM - Well-Manicured Man
  • FM, DD, GA, DS, CC - Initials of Fox Mulder, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Dana Scully and Chris Carter
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Video games

The X-Files has inspired two video games. In 1998, The X-Files: The Game was released for the PC and Macintosh and a year later for the PlayStation. This game is set somewhere within the timeline of the second or third season and follows an Agent Craig Willmore in his search for the missing Mulder and Scully. Then, in 2004, The X-Files: Resist or Serve was released for the PlayStation 2. This game combines three episodes from season seven and allows the player control of both Mulder and Scully. Both games feature acting and voice work from several members of the series' cast.

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The X-Files around the world

  • Argentina - Código X (X Code)
  • Brazil - Arquivo X (Archive X)
  • China - X 档案(X Files)
  • Croatia - Dosjei X (Files X)
  • Czech Republic - Akta X (Files X)
  • Denmark - Strengt Fortroligt (Strictly Confidential)
  • Estonia - Salatoimikud (Secret Folders)
  • Finland - Salaiset Kansiot (Secret Folders)
  • France - X-Files, aux frontières du réel (X Files, on the edges of reality)
  • Germany - Akte X (File X)
  • Hungary - X-akták (X Records)
  • Iceland - Ráðgátur (Mysteries)'
  • Israel - תיקים באפלה (Tikim Be'afelah, lit. "Cases in Darkness")
  • Italy - X-Files
  • Japan - X-File (Japanese:Ｘファイル)
  • Korea - X-File (Korean:엑스파일)
  • Mexico - Los Expedientes Secretos X (The Secret X Files)
  • Netherlands - The X-Files
  • Norway - The X-Files
  • Pakistan - The X-Files (with Urdu dubbing)
  • Poland - Z Archiwum X (From the X Archive)
  • Portugal - Ficheiros Secretos (Secret Files)
  • Romania - Dosarele X (The X Dossiers/Files)
  • Russia - Секретные материалы (Secret Materials)
  • Serbia and Montenegro - Dosije X / Досије Икс (File X)
  • Slovakia - Akty X (X Records)
  • Slovenia - Dosjeji X (X Files)
  • Spain - Expediente X (X Records)
  • Sweden - Arkiv X (Archive (or file) X)
  • Thailand - Faem Lub Kadee Pissawong [แฟ้มลับคดีพิศวง] (Secret Files of Mysterious Cases)
  • Turkey - Gizli Dosyalar (Secret Files)
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References

  • Paul C. Peterson, Religion in The X-Files, Journal of Media and Religion 1(3), 181–196 (2002).
  • N.E. Genge, The Unofficial X-Files (New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1995), 228pp.
  • Brian Lowry, Trust No One: The Official Third Season Guide to The X Files (New York: Harper Prism, 1996), 266pp.
  • James Hatfield and George "Doc" Burt, The Unauthorized X-Files (New York: MJF Books, 1996), 309pp.
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See also

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Episode guide

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External links

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