Then we come to The X-Files, a show I first heard about in 1994 as one of that season's pilots. My reaction then--so what? It sounded like your basic boy-girl psychic investigators, the kind of thing that gets bought every year and never works.

Somehow the produced pilot wound up in my hands, and I moderated my disdain. I actually thought the producers had shown tremendous courage in casting Gillian Anderson as the lead. I said so when, in the course of things, I met with Chris Carter, Jim Wong and Howard Gordon in May 1994 about writing an episode. But I was then committed to Outer Limits and couldn't.

But I was motivated to tune into X-Files as a viewer. Its second episode, called "Deep Throat," the one about pilots at an Area 51-like secret base who were suffering the effects of test flights in retro-engineered aircraft, was so smart and creepy and well thought out that I raved about it to family and friends. I don't think I missed an original episode for the next three years.

Those are my favorites. I keep watching, and hoping to add to the list.
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