MONTHLY POST - XF FAQ 1/2
Pat Gonzales
week with no access to the Internet, and I came back to
two weeks of jury duty. I'm on a case, and what a case it
is. :-) Nothing X Files-ish, nor anything I can talk
about, but I will say that watching X Files certainly
helped me prepare for part of the trial. Particularly
Scully's autopsy work. :-) :-) :-)
For February I hope to have this reformatted and broken up
into even smaller parts, because this thing is getting
really big, even to be posted in two parts.
Best to all,
Pat Gonzales
Keeper of the X Files FAQs
Morgan and Wong Rule!!!
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X FILE 11291093
File updated 1/5/95
Fox Network Programming
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Ten Thirteen Productions
"The X Files," hour-long television drama airing Fridays
at 9 p.m. Eastern/Pacific (U.S.), 8 p.m. Central/Mountain
(U.S.), and in 56 other countries around the world,
including Canada (Global Television); the United Kingdom
(BBC2); New Zealand (Channel 2); Australia; Singapore;
Portugal; Germany; Korea; The Netherlands; Norway; Sweden;
France; and Italy. It is also shown on cable services in
Latin America through Fox TV out of Mexico. Rumor has it
that the show will be released on video in Japan.
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This report is eyes-only with a level 2 clearance. The
information is updated monthly and is posted on the first
day of the month to alt.tv.x-files and rec.arts.sf.tv.
Information contained is compiled by Special Agent Pat
Gonzales, team leader for XF Case 11291093. Agents may
download and redistribute the report in its entirety with
the permission notice intact, or with certain portions
deleted with permission, but may not reproduce for
payment. Any other use of this information is prohibited
without permission from the team leader. This by no means
is meant to infringe on any copyrights held by Chris
Carter, Ten Thirteen Productions, or 20th Century Fox
Television.
Deep background on agents Mulder and Scully was the
determination of the team leader, and in no way is
intended to be the definitive interpretation of the events
aired. Typographic errors are the sole responsibility of
the team leader.
Information gleaned from episodes will be indicated by
the episode title following in [brackets]. Information
gleaned from media articles will be indicated by the media
venue indicated in [brackets]. Information gleaned from
novels will be indicated by the title listed in [brackets].
/Index/
Background
Production Notes
Addresses
Episode Titles / Air Dates
Deep Background - Fox Mulder
Deep Background - Dana Scully
FBI Superiors
Recurring Characters
The Romantic Angle
The Pregnancy
Deep Background - David Duchovny
Deep Background - Gillian Anderson
Merchandise
Mailing Lists
Fan Club/Fanzines
X Files Episode Survey
Miscellaneous Information
FTP Sites
Home Pages
/Background/
_The X Files_ is a television series dealing with two FBI
agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, in the Bureau's
Violent Crimes section. They work with the "X files,"
cases that have unexplainable elements and often involve
the paranormal.
/Production Notes/
The series was created by Chris Carter.
Executive producers for the show include Carter, James
Wong and Glen Morgan, and R.W. Goodwin. The show's
supervising producer is Howard Gordon, and the co-producer
is Paul Rabwin. Paul Brown and David Nutter are producers.
The show is filmed almost entirely in Vancouver,
British Columbia.
_The X Files_ is *not based on true events or real FBI
X files.* The episodes are fiction, the plots loosely
based on news reports of unexplained events around the
world and other unexplained phenomena. The pilot does open
with a note saying that the events were based on an actual
real-life story, but was put there for effect.
/Addresses/
If you wish to write in support of the show, the addresses
are:
Chris Carter , Executive Producer, "The X Files," c/o
Fox Broadcasting Company, P.O. Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA
90213
Jonathan Littman, Director of Current Programming, Fox
Broadcasting Company, P.O. Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213
Fan mail to Duchovny and Anderson can be sent to:
(actor's name), c/o X Files Production Office, North Shore
Studios, Building 10, 110-555 Brooksbank Ave., North
Vancouver, B.C. V7J 3S5 CANADA
The Fox Network has an Internet address to which you
can e-mail your comment on the series. Charles Kennedy,
Vice President of Programming Research, is the contact.
The address is: Fox...@delphi.com. If you send e-mail,
indicate "X Files" in the subject line. The X Files
production company has e-mail addresses through Delphi.
Chris Carter does not have an official e-mail address.
Members of the X Files production team do scan the various
online groups.
/Episode Titles - Air Dates/
An episode guide is being kept by Cliff Chen,
cl...@blue.seas.upenn.edu. It is posted on the first of
every month to alt.tv.x-files and rec.arts.sf.tv. A copy
of this episode guide is stored at the FTP sites listed at
the end of this document.
Season 1 History
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Code Episode -- Air Dates (original * repeats)
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1X79 "The X-Files" (1.1) -- 9/10/93 * 1/17/94, 11/6/94
1X01 "Deep Throat" (1.2) -- 9/17/93 * 12/24/93, 6/24/94
1X02 "Squeeze" (1.3) -- 9/24/93 * 12/ 3/93, 6/10/94
1X03 "Conduit" (1.4) -- 10/ 1/93 * 12/14/93, 5/27/94
1X04 "Jersey Devil" (1.5) -- 10/ 8/93 * 12/31/93, 7/22/94
1X05 "Shadows" (1.6) -- 10/22/93 * 3/ 4/94
1X06 "Ghost in the Machine" (1.7) -- 10/29/93 * 1/14/94
1X07 "Ice" (1.8) -- 11/ 5/93 * 1/17/94 (and 8/12/94 in
some areas)
1X08 "Space" (1.9) -- 11/12/93 * 1/28/94, 8/22/94
1X09 "Fallen Angel" (1.10) -- 11/19/93 * 3/29/94, 11/13/94
1X10 "Eve" (1.11) -- 12/10/93 * 3/11/94, 8/26/94
1X11 "Fire" (1.12) -- 12/17/93 * 3/25/94, 11/20/94
1X12 "Beyond the Sea" (1.13) -- 1/ 7/94 * 4/8/94
1X13 "GenderBender" (1.14) -- 1/21/94 * 5/20/94
1X14 "Lazarus" (1.15) -- 2/ 4/94 * 6/3/94, 9/2/94
1X15 "Young at Heart" (1.16) -- 2/11/94 * 6/17/94
1X16 "E.B.E." (1.17) -- 2/18/94 * 7/8/94, 11/25/94
1X17 "Miracle Man" (1.18) -- 3/18/94 * 7/1/94
1X18 "Shapes" (1.19) -- 4/ 1/94 * 10/28/94
1X19 "Darkness Falls" (1.20) -- 4/15/94 * 8/5/94, 12/2/94
1X20 "Tooms" (1.21) -- 4/22/94 * 7/15/94
1X21 "Born Again" (1.22) -- 4/29/94 * 8/22/94
1X22 "Roland" (1.23) -- 5/6/94 * 7/29/94
1X23 "The Erlenmeyer Flask" (1.24) -- 5/13/94 * 9/9/94
Season 2 Episode Titles
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2X01 "Little Green Men" -- 9/16/94 * 12/23/94
2X02 "The Host" -- 9/23/94 * 12/30/94
2X03 "Blood" -- 9/30/94
2X04 "Sleepless" -- 10/7/94
2X05 "Duane Barry" -- 10/14/94
2X06 "Ascension" -- 10/21/94
2X07 "3" -- 11/4/94
2X08 "One Breath" -- 11/11/94
2X09 "Firewalker" -- 11/18/94
2X10 "Red Museum" -- 12/9/94
2X11 "Excelsius Dei" -- 12/16/94
2X12 "Aubrey" -- 1/6/95
2X13 "Irresistible" -- 1/13/94 (scheduled)
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2X14 "Die Hand Die Verletzt" -- date to be determined
(W: Morgan/Wong; d:Kim Masters)
2X15 "Fresh Bones" -- date to be determined
2X16 as yet to be titled; first part of two -- date to be
determined
2X17 as yet to be titled; second part of two -- date to
be determined
(W: rumored to be C.Carter from story by D. Duchovny)
2X18 "Zoo"
(W: Darin Morgan)
Individuals in North America with satellite dishes can get
the feeds for X Files on Thursday at noon ET on Telstar 1,
transponder 9; or Friday at 6 p.m. ET on Telstar 1,
transponder 4. The live broadcast feed for X Files is sent
on Telstar 1, transponder 13 (east feed) at 9 p.m. ET.
/Deep Background-Fox Mulder/
Agent Fox Mulder, an Oxford-trained psychologist with
a!photographic memory, is one of the FBI Violent Crimes
division's best agents, although he is in disfavor with
not only his superiors but also his colleagues because of
his interest in the Bureau's X files. He stumbled upon
these files, dealing with unexplained phenomena, during
his first three years with the Bureau, as a crack analyst
in the Bureau's behavioral sciences department. [Chris
Carter, _Starlog #201_, April 1994]
His fascination with the paranormal stems from a
childhood incident -- his sister Samantha disappeared from
their home in Chilmark, Mass. (pop. 650) when he was 12
and she was 8. Mulder claims she was abducted by aliens;
during regressions he recalled hearing his sister's cries
for help, and a bright light which kept him paralyzed and
told him that his sister would be all right. [Conduit]
This memory differs from a dream Mulder experienced one
night [Little Green Men].
Mulder's early meteoric rise at the Bureau enabled him
to make high-placed friends in Congress -- one of them
being SETI proponent and influential senator Richard
Matheson [Little Green Men]. These contacts had kept him
from retribution from higher-ups, although they assigned
him a partner, with the tacit idea of discrediting what he
does so that he can be dismissed. However, Mulder picked
up a somewhat vacillating ally in a mysterious covert
individual known as Deep Throat. [Deep Throat, Fallen
Angel, Eve, Young at Heart, E.B.E., Erlenmeyer Flask].
Deep Throat was killed by an equally mysterious covert
opponent (Crew Cut Man) during an attempt to rescue
Mulder. Mulder confirmed his burial at Arlington "through
eight-power binoculars from a thousand yards away."
[Little Green Men]. But he has acquired a second "deep
information" associate, someone who calls himself Mr. X.
[Sleepless] This mysterious man has been less than helpful
to Mulder than his dead colleague. Mulder has also been
told by an unknown individual that he has "a friend in the
FBI" [The Host]. This friend may or may not be be
Assistant Director Skinner [One Breath].
At the end of Season 1, the X Files division was shut
down and Mulder was reassigned to wiretap surveillance
[Little Green Men, The Host]. He also reluctantly acquired
a new partner, Special Agent Alex Krycek [Sleepless, Duane
Barry, Ascension], a younger agent who purported to be a
believer, not only in Mulder's ideas but in Mulder
himself. But Mulder's days in this mind-numbing duty were
numbered. Assistant Director Skinner obliquely
acknowledged that the X Files bureau served a valuable
purpose in dealing successfully with the Bureau's oddball
cases [The Host] and was bringing to light information
that other covert parties would prefer to keep buried
[Ascension]. Following the disappearance of Mulder's
former partner Dana Scully, Skinner officially reopened
the X Files [Ascension].
Mulder is known around the Bureau by the nickname of
"Spooky" [Pilot, Young at Heart] because of his interest
in paranormal phenomena. "He is considered a loose cannon,
a person who is maybe wasting time and money, and also his
expertise, on an area the Bureau thinks has very little
value." [Carter, Starlog] Due to an incident on one of
his first Bureau assignments (a fellow agent was killed)
[Young at Heart], he eschews following investigations "by
the book," opting instead for his own instincts and
methods. He keeps notes for his field reports in a
handwritten journal [Born Again].
We believe Mulder doesn't "have a life," as we have
seen nothing of his off-duty activities. However, some of
this may stem from a relationship he had at Oxford ten
years ago with a woman who is now with Scotland Yard
(Phoebe Green [Fire]). He apparently was in love with her
but she not with him. With the dissolution of the X Files
division, however, Mulder may have been trying to revive
his social life; an answering machine message berated him
for missing a lunch date [Little Green Men].
Mulder has a fear of fire [Fire], which may have been
conquered during his rescue of the children of British MP
Sir Malcolm Marsden (who also happened to be Phoebe's
latest fling). He is also a fan of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). [Space] He
has a habit of unshelling shelled sunflower seeds, and
making droll comments which X-Philes have come to note as
"Mulderisms."
Mulder enjoys wearing wild ties to work, and seems to
be a New York Knicks fan. He appears to had a fondness
for classic rock [minor references, Beyond the Sea, Gender
Bender] and classic science fiction movies [Tooms,
Erlenmeyer Flask], and iced tea seems to be his
nonalcoholic beverage of choice [Tooms]. There are "hints"
that Mulder has an interest in pornography -- in one
episode, we see Mulder looking at the centerfold of some
"men's magazine" talking about how the woman claims she
was abducted by aliens; in another episode Scully remarks
that she hadn't seen Mulder that excited since she caught
him going through the Adult Video News; a third episode
mentions a subscription to Celebrity Skin. As a
psychologist, he favors using hypnotic regression as a
psychological healing tool, and hates the unnecessary use
of medication [Born Again].
/Deep Background - Dana Scully/
Dana Katherine Scully is a medical doctor with an
undergraduate degree in physics from the University of
Maryland [Jersey Devil]. She was recruited for the FBI
right out of medical school, and had been teaching at the
FBI Academy in Quantico, Va. She was assigned by Section
Chief Scott Blevins to be Mulder's partner in order to
keep an eye on him and determine whether he is perhaps too
obsessed with the X files.
Scully is skeptical of anything paranormal, believing
that everything has a logical, scientifically-quantified
explanation. Though in most of the cases she and Mulder
have been on she has not witnessed any overt paranormal
activities, she has had brushes with unexplainable
phenomena that may have her start questioning her beliefs
[Beyond the Sea; Lazarus; Born Again; Erlenmeyer Flask].
At the end of Season 1, the X Files division was shut
down and Scully was reassigned, returning to the FBI
academy at Quantico, Va. to isntruct new agents on the
bascis of forensic medicine [Little Green Men]. However,
Mulder called upon her expertise in violent crime cases to
which he has been assigned [The Host, Blood]. Scully was
abducted by escaped mental patient Duane Barry and
disappeared [Ascension]. After a three-month absence, she
showed up at a Georgetown hospital in a coma [One Breath].
She revived and recovered, and is back as Mulder's partner.
Scully is a middle child; she has one older and one
younger brother [Born Again], and an older sister, Melissa
[One Breath]. Her father died early in 1994; they were
apparently close at one time (she called him Ahab; he
called her Starbuck), but her family disapproved of her
joining the Bureau. [Beyond the Sea] She had a yearlong
relationship with an instructor at the Academy, Jack
Willis, with whom she shared the same birthdate (Feb. 23).
[Lazarus] She is just as much a workaholic as Mulder, and
is currently not seeing anyone [Jersey Devil].
Scully drinks her coffee with cream, no sugar
[E.B.E.]. She was raised as a Catholic [Miracle Man]. She
wears a necklace bearing a small cross, which was left
behind in the car in which she was abducted [Ascension]
and was returned to her by Mulder [One Breath].
/FBI Superiors/
Section Chief Scott Blevins (Charles Cioffi) is with the
Violent Crimes Section of the Bureau. [Pilot] Blevins
assigned Scully to be Mulder's partner, and her field
reports are sent to his office. [early episodes]
Section Chief Joseph McGrath (Frederick Coffin) is with
the Office of Professional Responsibility [Fallen Angel]
and seemed determined to have Mulder fired and the X Files
shut down.
Assistant Director Walter S. Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) is
one of the Bureau higher-ups reading Muld's and Scully's
reports. He warned both Scully and Mulder that their
unorthodox methods of investiation may have dire
consequences [Tooms], and followed through by shutting
down the X Files division at an order from the highest
levels of government [Erlenmeyer Flask]. He has since had
second throughts and has reopened the X Files [Ascension],
and overtly showed his support for Mulder and the X files
[One Breath].
/Recurring Characters/
[Season 1] "Deep Throat" (Jerry Hardin) is a mysterious
individual believed to be some sort of higher-up
government official. Mulder contacted him via a blue light
shining from his apartment window; DT called Mulder and
signaled him with a series of clicks [E.B.E.]. The method
of choosing a meeting place was not determined. He appears
to have been exterminated in the episode "The Erlenmeyer
Flask."
Speculation on Deep Throat is contained in Internal
Affairs X-File Inquiry #875110-6249 [aka the Deep Throat
FAQ, posted by Special Agent Jeff Gostin].
[Season 1 and 2] "Cigarette Smoking Man" (William B.
Davis) is another mysterious individual who, like Deep
Throat, appears to be a higher-up government official with
some power. Assistant Director Skinner seemed to be
deferring to his opinion early in our notice of him
[Tooms] but Skinner ordered him out of his office during a
discussion with Mulder after the agent had abandoned his
assignment to investigate possible alien contact in Puerto
Rico [Little Green Men]. CSM also kept a silent watch on
the proceedings in Blevins's and Skinner's offices and
buried vital evidence in a secret Pentagon storage room
[Pilot, Erlenmeyer Flask]. He also used Special Agent Alex
Krycek to keep an eye on Mulder and any of Mulder's
investigations [Sleepless, Duane Barry, Ascension]. Mulder
pulled a gun on him and threatened him with death in his
studio apartment (at 900 W. Georgia St.) [One Breath].
[Season 2] "Special Agent Alex Krycek" (Nicholas Lea)
moved into the role of Mulder's partner with the
unexplained murders of former Vietnam veterans
[Sleepless]. We discovered, however, that Krycek had a
hidden agenda, as a lackey for Cigarette Smoking Man: keep
an eye on Mulder and keep him from finding out information
that would bring certain covert activities to light
[Sleepless, Ascension]. With the disappearance of Dana
Scully and the reopening of the X Files, Krycek himself
has disappeared [Ascension].
[Season 2] "Mr. X" (Steven Williams), an acquaintance of
Deep Throat, is even more mysterious than his predecessor.
Mr. X's information is even more reluctantly shared.
Mulder at this point apparently cannot contact Mr. X,
although he attempted to by taping an X to his front
window and shining a light through it [One Breath].
/The Romance Aspect/
There will be *no romance* between Fox Mulder and Dana
Scully.
Everyone readily admits that there is some attraction,
a "sexual tension," between the characters. However,
neither series creator Chris Carter, nor actors David
Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, nor most X-Philes, want a
full-blown romance to develop.
Carter "firmly believes that a series can be 'ruined'
if the characters cross the boundaries of sexual tension."
[Starlog #201, April 1994]
Anderson [Starlog Platinum #2] says, "I don't want
that to happen, David doesn't want that to happen, [Chris
Carter] I don't think wants that to happen. The show's not
about intimacy between us; it would be a huge mistake to
make it about that. Both of our characters are
single-minded about our work and respectful enough not to
complicate it in any way. We [eventually] warm up to each
other, and there are times when there's more sexual
tension than others, but it's not going to be a romantic
relationship."
Duchovny's viewpoint [Starlog #202, May 1994]: "Having
a friendship and a professional working relationship with
a woman is much more interesting....It's very easy to just
jump into bed. That doesn't take much imagination."
So: don't even think about it!
/The Pregnancy/
Although actress Gillian Anderson was pregnant, her
condition was not reflected in the show's scripts.
Contrary to published rumors, the character of Dana Scully
will *not* be pregnant -- by aliens, Elvis :-), or
otherwise. Anderson appeared in the first six episodes of
the season and was written purposely out of the seventh.
She returned in the eighth episode, "One Breath." The
production company filmed "creatively" to disguise the
pregnancy,.
Anderson gave birth to a daughter, Piper, on Sept. 25.
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