"The FBI's Least Wanted"

  #1x79  09.10.93  
 
 

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THE X-FILES "Pilot"
#1X79
Original Air Date: 09/10/93

Starring:
DAVID DUCHOVNY as Special Agent Fox Mulder
GILLIAN ANDERSON as Special Agent Dana Scully 

Also Starring:
CHARLES CIOFFI as Section Chief Scott Blevins
CLIFF DEYOUNG as Dr. Jay Nemman
SARAH KOSKOFF as Theresa Nemman
LEON RUSSOM as Detective Miles
ZACHARY ANSLEY as Billy Miles
STEPHEN E. MILLER as Coroner Truitt
MALCOLM STEWART as Dr. Glass
ALEXANDRA BERLIN as the Orderly
KEN CAMROUX as the Third Man
DOUG ABRAMS as Patrolman #1
KATYA GARDENER as Peggy O'Dell
LESLEY EWEN as Receptionist
J.B. BIVENS as Truck Driver
WILLIAM B. DAVIS as the Cigarette-Smoking Man  (YEAH!!!)

• The Cigarette Smoking Man is present. He outranks ANY OTHER RECURRING CHARACTER, even Deep Throat, as far as being-from-the-beginning is concerned. How anyone could consider CSM to be less important than Skinner, Krycek, X, or any other later-appearing character is beyond me. I mean, he's a representation, which is obvious not only from his presence here but from his near-identical appearance at the very end of The Erlenmeyer Flask.
• Neither Mulder nor Scully look particularly "good." I mean, granted I think they look good, but Scully's hair isnt "cute", Mulder isnt wearing any makeup (THANK GOD!!) and they both wear glasses at some point. (I think... I KNOW Mulder does, but I think Scully too.)
• The effects are cheesy and the film a little grainy. MUCH preferred, if you ask me, but if you compare this with, say, I dont know, that episode from the sixth season with that big monster thing... the effects were cheesy there too (for a worse reason ;) ) but the film was almost SHINY. In fact, the effects here arent so much cheesy as understated.
• The alien activity represented here, while seemingly government-directed, doesnt seem to follow any kind of bee-using, Samantha-cloning, virus-injecting pattern as it tended to later. It was MERELY a cover-up.