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USA, 1993-2001 Cast: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Robert Patrick, William B. Davis, Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, Annabeth Gish. A very disturbing and paranoid series, where nothing is as it seems, and the main quote has become (through the years) “never trust anyone”. So far U.S. sf shows had been a lot less ambiguous, the “goods” and the “bads” were very well distinguished. |
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Otherwise in “X-files”, created by writer Chris Carter, there are very
little certainties and, from season to season, also those which were left
seem to fall down. This was a new way to show sf on television, and a
large number of series (especially from USA) were inspired by this. The basic idea is simple and intriguing. There is a large number of cold cases, where FBI is not able to find an explanation, unless they consider paranormal, occultism, ufology or other non-official sciences. These cases are known as “x-files”. The man who investigates on x-files is agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), called “spooky” by his colleagues. Mulder’s interest in x-files has an explanation: he is convinced that his sister, disappeared many years before, has been kidnapped by aliens. And he thinks that x- |
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files are his best chance to know what really
happened to his sister, if not to find her. Mulder’s chiefs apparently are not so interested as he is, and decide to send a colleague to help him, Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson). Scully is a doctor and has an absolutely scientific mind: the FBI seniors think she is the ideal person to slow Mulder’s urge for paranormal investigations and to impartially judge all what she will see (and make, without telling to Mulder, minute reports). But Scully’s scientific certainties soon fall: Mulder shows her a world made of unexplicable facts, monstrous creatures, aliens from other planets, good or evil beings, and all what usual sciences have never been able to explain. Soon Scully has to change her mind about her colleague, and becomes his trusted |
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collaborator. Another trouble comes together with more and more disturbing (and frightening) cases: because the real reason for which the FBI tries to frustrate Mulder’s investigations seems to be not scepticism, but the will to bury unconvenient truths. So, together with classical sf subjects as monsters and supernatural powers, we find also conspiration theories, and among Mulder and Scully’s enemies we start to find also their own heads and colleagues. The very first is “the smoking man” (William B. Davis), who, in the first two season, appeared simply as someone who knew and did not talk, but then is exposed as a key man in hiding and frustrating lots of investigations, and among the responsibles of the conspiracy between humans and aliens against Earth |
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people. Fortunately the two agents are helped by the
deputy director of FBI Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), who becomes more
important as the series proceed, and tries to protect his agents as he
can, managing to stay in line with his given orders. In the first season a man called “deep throat” (Jerry Hardin) appears, he is firmly intentioned to telll all what he knows, and that’s why he is murdered. In the second season Scully is kidnapped, it is not clear if the kidnappers are aliens or government agents. A new informer called “Mr. X” (Steven Williams) appears, and in the last episode Mulder discovers that his father was part of a conspiracy where government dealed with aliens. Sometimes appear also three strange hackers named “the lone gunmen”: John |
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Byres (Bruce Harwood), Melvin Frohike (Tom Braidwood), and Ringo Langly
(Dean Haglund), Mulder’s old friends who sometimes help him in his
investigations. “The lone gunmen” was also a brief spin-off serie in 2001,
which lasted 13 episodes only. During the third season new details about Scully’s kidnapping are exposed, and for the first time a lethal alien virus called “black cancer” is discovered. In the fourth season Scully is taken ill by a brain cancer and we worry for her life, and in the last episode there is a stunning twist: government made people believe in aliens to hide more disturbing truths… In the fifth season a woman called Cassandra Spender (Veronica Cartwright, seen also in “Alien”) appears, she was kidnapped by aliens several times and she is |
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mother of another FBI agent, Jeffrey Spender (Chris
Owens). halfway between the fifth and the sixth season it was released also a cinema movie, where the two lead characters investigate about an alien virus (fighting, as usual, against FBI conspiracies), helped by a mysterious doctor played by Martin Landau (“Space: 1999” former commander Koenig). In the sixth season appears a new colleague, Diana Fowley (Mimi Rogers) who unfortunately trusts more the “smoking man” than Mulder and Scully… in the last episode Mulder discovers an ancient manufact which causes him strange disorders… the solution will be found in the seventh season, always avoiding the “smoking man”’s threat. In the “Millennium” episode we meet the main character of the other Chris Carter |
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serie, agent Frank Black (Lance Henriksen)! The last episode of the
“Millennium” serie (born three years after “X-files”) had been aired six
months before. In the Eighth season Mulder, kidnapped by aliens at the end of the previous season, is missing, and Scully works together with agent John Doggett (Robert Patrick, the T-1000 from “Terminator 2”). Now Doggett is the sceptical, while Scully introduces him to the X-files world. There is also a new woman agent, Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish). Mulder will come back in the last episodes, while Scully, who was pregnant since the end of the previous season, will give birth to her baby. In the ninth and last season it’s Doggett and Reyes who mainly investigate: |
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Scully has become a university teacher, but she goes on helping her
colleagues. Mulder has to defend himself from a large number of enemies,
while Scully’s baby grows: Mulder is probably his father thanks to
artificial insemination, but it is not certain. But his parents were used by aliens for experiments, and he is considered dangerous: Scully will be forced to entrust him to someone else. In the last episode many mysteries are exposed, many others remain opened, and many things are made clear about the real nature of the relationship between Mulder and Scully (and this was not a secondary importance element of suspence….!). A mytical serie, a so huge success that at the time media talked about “X- |
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-generation”. First season |
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1) The Pilot 2) Deep Throat 3) Squeeze 4) Conduit 5) The Jersey Devil 6) Shadows 7) Ghost in the Machine 8) Ice 9) Space 10) Fallen Angel |
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11) Eve 12) Fire 13) Beyond the Sea 14) Gender Bender 15) Lazarus 16) Young at Heart 17) E.B.E. 18) Miracle 19) Shapes 20) Darkness Falls 21) Tooms |
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22) Born Again 23) Roland 24) The Erlenmeyer Flask Second season 25) Little Green Men 26) The Host 27) Blood 28) Sleepless 29) Duane Barry |
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30) Ascension 31) 3 32) One Breath 33) Firewalker 34) Red Museum 35) Excelsius Dei 36) Aubrey 37) Irresistible 38) Die Hand Die Verletzt 39) Fresh Bones 40) Colony |
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41) End Game 42) Fearful Symmetry 43) Dod Kalm 44) Humbug 45) The Calusari 46) F. Emasculata 47) Soft Light 48) Our Town 49) Anasazi Third season |
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50) The Blessing Way 51) Paper Clip 52) D.P.O. 53) Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose 54) The List 55) 2Shy 56) The Walk 57) Oubliette 58) Nisei 59) 731 |
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60) Revelations 61) War of the Coprophages 62) Syzygy 63) Grotesque 64) Piper Maru 65) Apocrypha 66) Pusher 67) Teso Dos Bichos 68) Hell Money 69) Jose Chung's From Outer Space 70) Avatar |
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71) Quagmire 72) Wetwired 73) Talitha Cumi Fourth season 74) Herrenvolk 75) Unruhe 76) Home 77) Teliko 78) The Field Where I Died |
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79) Sanguinarium 80) Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man 81) Paper Hearts 82) Tunguska 83) Terma 84) El Mundo Gira 85) Kaddish 86) Never Again 87) Leonard Betts 88) Memento Mori 89) Unrequited |
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90) Tempus Fugit 91) Max 92) Synchrony 93) Small Potatoes 94) Zero Sum 95) Elegy 96) Demons 97) Gethsemane Quinta stagione |
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98) Unusual Suspects |
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109) Bad Blood 110) Patient X 111) The Red and the Black 112) Travelers 113) Mind's Eye 114) All Souls 115) The Pine Bluff Variant 116) Folie a Deux 117) The End X-files: The movie - A movie shot for big screen. The story takes place |
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between the fifth and the sixth season, but the
movie was released during the seventh season in year 2000. Sixth season 118) The Beginning 119) Drive 120) Triangle 121) Dreamland 122) Dreamland II 123) Terms of Endearment |
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124) The Rain King 125) How the Ghosts Stole Christmas 126) Tithonus 127) S.R. 819 128) Two Fathers 129) One Son 130) Arcadia 131) Agua Mala 132) Monday 133) Alpha 134) Trevor |
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135) Milagro 136) Three of a Kind 137) The Unnatural 138) Field Trip 139) Biogenesis Seventh season 140) The Sixth Extinction 141) The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati 142) Hungry |
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143) Millennium 144) Rush 145) The Goldberg Variation 146) Orison 147) The Amazing Maleeni 148) Signs & Wonders 149) Sein Und Zeit 150) Closure 151) X-Cops 152) First Person Shooter 153) Theef |
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154) En Ami 155) Chimera 156) All things 157) Brand X 158) Hollywood A.D. 159) Fight Club 160) Je Souhaite 161) Requiem Eigth season |
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162) Within 163) Without 164) Patience 165) Roadrunners 166) Invocation 167) Redrum 168) Via Negativa 169) Surekill 170) Salvage 171) Badlaa 172) The Gift |
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173) Medusa 174) Per Manum 175) This is Not Happening 176) DeadAlive 177) Three Words 178) Empedocles 179) Vienen 180) Alone 181) Essence 182) Existence |
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Ninth season 183) Nothing important Happened Today 184) Nothing important Happened Today II 185) Dæmonicus 186) 4 D 187) Lord of the Flies 188) Trust N. 1 189) John Doe 190) Hellbound 191) Provenance |
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192) Providence 193) Audrey Pauley 194) Underneath 195) Improbable 196) Scary Monster 197) Jump the Shark 198) William 199) Release 200) Sunshine Days 201) The Truth I 202) The Truth II |
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X-files: I want to believe - movie for the big
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