ALL SCI-FI

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Episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze_(The_X-Files)

Series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files

Season 1 trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcf44Nit7_A

[Pow]

Some X-Facts:

Jodie Foster voiced the murderous tattoo for the episode "Never Again."

Burt Reynolds was God in the episode "Improbable."

Creator, writer, producer of the series Chris Carter asked composer Mark Snow to come up with something Boy Scouts could hum at a campfire for the scary theme score for the series. Carter wanted something along the lines of the Twilight Zone theme score.

Leads David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson did not get along well during the shooting of the series. They later became friendlier when filming the feature film The X-Files: I Want to Believe in 2008.

On the show, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) is the one who believes in all things paranormal, while Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is the skeptic who only trusts science. In real life it was just the opposite. Duchovny is the doubter of the paranormal, while Anderson is a believer.

The episode "Home" (October of 1996), about an incestuous inbred family was one of the most horrific and disturbing episodes created for the series. The FOX network stopped airing it in reruns for 3 years. It was the only X-Files episode to receive the TV-MA rating for its graphic content.

The Lone Gunman was a spin-off from the X-Files. Albuquerque was an animated show about F.B.I. agents who took on cases that Mulder & Scully passed on because they deemed them too silly. FOX decided not to move forward with the series.

In "Unusual Suspects," Detective John Munch ( Richard Belzer) guest starred on X-Files. Belzar played his Munch character first on Homicide: Life On the Street, after the cancellation of that series he would reprise his Munch character as part of the cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Belzar was deeply interested in the paranormal & conspiracy theories in real life.

Millennium (1996 to 1999) was another series created by Chris Carter. It saw retired F.B.I. agent & forensic specialist Frank Black ( Lance Henriksen) battle the nefarious Millennium Group. When Millennium was cancelled there was a crossover episode on the X-Files titled "Millennium" which saw the finale for Black's story.

A comic book based upon the horror film 30 Days of Night saw Mulder & Scully caught up in the shenanigans of vampires in Alaska.

The Simpsons did an episode titled "The Springfield Files." David & Gillian provided the voices for their Mulder & Scully characters who come to Springfield to investigate Homer Simpsons claim he encountered an alien in the woods.

The episode "X-Cops" sees Mulder & Scully cross paths with the FOX reality show Cops.

X-Files planned to do a remake of George A. Romero's classic zombie movie The Night of the Living Dead. Romero was set to direct and horror writer legend Stephen King was set to write the script. Unfortunately the project fell through.

Stephen King did write the X-Files episode "Chinga."

X-Files series writing team Glen Morgan & James Wong (creators of the terrific SF TV show Space: Above & Beyond) did a lot of research for an episode about the stories about the ghost of Abraham Lincoln roaming the White House as a feature film. They then considered doing it as an X-Files episode. However, Morgan said about the FOX network that "They didn't want my heart and soul anymore, so I wouldn't give them this one."

The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Trials & Tribble-lations," features 2 Starfleet characters who are parodies of Mulder & Scully. Dulmar & Lucsly, near anagrams of Mulder & Scully are from the Department of Temporal Investigations.

J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5 creator/producer/writer) wanted to have Fox & Mulder guest star on his Crusade TV series but it never happened.

[Krel]

In the series, when it came to the religious and supernatural, Mulder and Scully's positions were reversed. Mulder didn't believe in the supernatural, but Scully who was a practicing Catholic was more open minded.

I remember one episode Scully was in a church talking to a suspect standing outside. She looked down, and his shadow which was inside the church had horns on his head. A creepy scene.

David.