======== N.B.: Le X-Files FAQ di Pat Gonzales contengono anche riferimenti sulla terza serie televisiva ancora no trasmessa in Italia. ----------- X FILE 11291093 File updated 12/7/95 Changes: Part 1 - New third season episode titles added. Part 3 - some changes to WWW addresses. Part 4 -- Book updates, Creation Con sites and guests as known. 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 over 60 other countries around the world, including Canada (Global Television); the United Kingdom (BBC2 and Sky One); New Zealand (Channel 2); Australia (Fox Cable); Singapore; Portugal; Spain (Tele 5); Germany; Korea; The Netherlands; Norway; Sweden; Denmark; Finland; South Africa; France; Malaysia; Italy; Hong Kong; Taiwan; Brazil (Rede Record); Thailand; Switzerland; and Japan. It is also shown on cable services in Latin America through Fox TV out of Mexico. ------------ This report is eyes-only with a level 2 clearance. The information is updated monthly and is posted on or around the first day of the month to alt.tv.x-files. Information contained is compiled and copyrighted 1994-95 as to form and wording by Special Agent In Charge Pat Gonzales (gonza006@maroon.tc.umn.edu or lauraholt@aol.com), team leader for XF Case 11291093. Field 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 special agent in charge. 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 special agent in charge, and in no way is intended to be the definitive interpretation of the events aired. Typographic errors are the sole responsibility of the special agent in charge. 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 Plot Devices Ratings/Awards X Files Episode Survey Deep Background - Fox Mulder Deep Background - Dana Scully FBI Superiors Recurring Characters Deep Background - Chris Carter Deep Background - David Duchovny Deep Background - Gillian Anderson Newsgroups Electronic Mailing Lists FTP Sites and Home Pages Online Service Special Interest Groups Other Electronic Info The Romance Aspect The Pregnancy Merchandise Fan Club/Fanzines Conventions Miscellaneous Information /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 producer for the show is Chris Carter. Co-executive producers are R.W. Goodwin and Howard Gordon, and the co-producer is Paul Rabwin. Rob Bowman, Kim Manners, and Joseph Patrick Finn are producers. Story editors are Frank Spotnitz, Darin Morgan, and Jeff Vlaming. Vince Gilligan is creative consultant. The show is filmed almost entirely in Vancouver, British Columbia. For third season, the show will be broadcast in Dolby Surround Sound. _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 not meant to imply that there are real X Files. /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 David Duchovny and Gillian 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: Foxnet@delphi.com. If you send e-mail, indicate "X Files" in the subject line. You can also send comments to the X Files production company separately, at the_xfiles@delphi.com. 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/ A complete episode guide is kept by Cliff Chen, cliff@eniac.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 many of the FTP sites listed at the end of this document. 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 1 p.m. ET on Telstar 1, transponder 7. The live broadcast feed for X Files is sent on Telstar 1, transponder 13 (east feed) at 9 p.m. ET, and Telstar1, transponder 14 (west feed) at midnight ET. Season 1 History ================ Code Episode -- Air Dates (original * repeats) ---- ------- --------- 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, 11/4/95 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, 5/26/95 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), 3/3/95 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, 12/22/95 1X13 "GenderBender" (1.14) -- 1/21/94 * 5/20/94, 7/21/95 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, 8/4/95 1X19 "Darkness Falls" (1.20) -- 4/15/94 * 8/5/94, 12/2/94 1X20 "Tooms" (1.21) -- 4/22/94 * 7/15/94, 11/4/95 1X21 "Born Again" (1.22) -- 4/29/94 * 8/22/94 1X22 "Roland" (1.23) -- 5/6/94 * 7/29/94, 12/29/95 1X23 "The Erlenmeyer Flask" (1.24) -- 5/13/94 * 9/9/94, 9/1/95 Season 2 Episode Titles ================== 2X01 "Little Green Men" -- 9/16/94 * 12/23/94, 9/8/95 2X02 "The Host" -- 9/23/94 * 12/30/94 2X03 "Blood" -- 9/30/94 * 1/20/95 2X04 "Sleepless" -- 10/7/94 * 3/10/95 2X05 "Duane Barry" -- 10/14/94 * 6/2/95 2X06 "Ascension" -- 10/21/94 * 6/9/95 2X07 "3" -- 11/4/94 * 6/16/95 2X08 "One Breath" -- 11/11/94 * 6/23/95 2X09 "Firewalker" -- 11/18/94 * 3/24/95 2X10 "Red Museum" -- 12/9/94 * 4/21/95 2X11 "Excelsis Dei" -- 12/16/94 * 4/7/95 2X12 "Aubrey" -- 1/6/95 * 6/30/95 2X13 "Irresistible" -- 1/13/94 * 7/7/95 2X14 "Die Hand Die Verletzt" -- 1/27/95 * 7/14/95 2X15 "Fresh Bones" -- 2/3/95 * 12/8/95 2X16 "Colony" -- 2/10/95 * 8/15/95 2X17 "End Game" -- 2/17/95 * 8/15/95 2X18 "Fearful Symmetry" -- 2/24/95 2X19 "Dod Kalm" -- 3/17/95 (Norwegian o-slash thru) 2X20 "Humbug" -- 3/31/95 * 10/28/95 2X21 "The Calusari" -- 4/14/95 * 7/28/95 (Romanian s) 2X22 "F. Emasculata" -- 4/28/95 * 8/11/95 2X23 "Soft Light" -- 5/5/95 * 8/25/95 2X24 "Our Town" -- 5/12/95 2X25 "Anasazi" -- 5/19/95 * 9/15/95 Also, "The Secrets of _The X Files_ ," a recap of players and situations from first and second seasons, aired on 5/19/95, the hour before "Anasazi" and was repeated on 9/4/95. Season 3 ================== 3X01 "The Blessing Way" -- 9/22/95 3X02 "Paper Clip" -- 9/29/95 3X03 "D.P.O." -- 10/6/95 3X04 "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" -- 10/13/95 3X05 "The List" -- 10/20/95 3X06 "2Shy" -- 11/3/95 3X07 "The Walk" -- 11/10/95 3X08 "Oubliette" -- 11/17/95 3X09 "Nisei" -- 11/24/95 3X10 "731" -- 12/1/95 3X11 "Revelations" -- 12/15/95? W: Kim Newton D: David Nutter 3X12 "War of the Coprophages" -- 1/5/96? W: Darin Morgan D: Kim Manners 3X13 "Syzygy" -- 1/12/96 /Plot Devices/ For those who pay attention to inter-episode trends and seemingly overused events, premises and plot devices on the show, Jerry Kuch maintains "Jerry's List of X Files Plot Devices For Everybody Who Keeps Whining about the Overuse or Underuse of One or Another of Them." It shows (perhaps surprisingly to some) that the number of times that Scully is rescued by Mulder is not overwhelmingly larger than the number of episodes focusing on the ongoing government/UFO comspiracy thread roughly matches the number dealing with other paranormal themes. The plot devices list is posted at the beginning of each month, along with the other FAQs, and is updated and reposted as new episodes warrant. Corrections and comments are welcome by Internet mail to gdkuch@neumann.uwaterloo.ca. /Ratings**Awards/ During its first season, _The X Files_ finished 102 out of 118 shows in the Neilsen ratings with a 6.4 average . The show was recognized as one of the best shows on the air by the Viewers for Quality Television. It also garnered "Best Drama Series" honor at the Environmental Media Awards. The show was nominated for two Emmys, Best Title Sequence (which it won) and Best Music for a Title Sequence. The episode "Erlenmeyer Flask" was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America for Best Episode and the series as a whole for Best Television Series. During its second season, _The X Files_ finished 64th out of 141 shows in the Neilsen ratings with a 14.5 average. The show was chosen as Best Drama of 1994 by _Entertainment Weekly_ , and won a Golden Globe for best television drama. _X Files_ cinematographer John Bartley was nominated for an American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Award for the episode "Duane Barry." Viewers for Quality Television have nominated _The X Files_ as best drama, and Duchovny and Anderson have been nominated for best actor and actress, respectively. These awards will be handed out on Sept. 23. The Television Critic's Association nominated the show for Best Drama. The show garnered seven Emmy award nominations -- outstanding drama series (against Chicago Hope, ER, Law & Order, and NYPD Blue); outstanding individual achievement in writing (drama) - Chris Carter, "Duane Barry;" outstanding cinematography in a series - John Bartley, "One Breath;" outstanding individual achievement in editing/single camera production - James Coblenz, "Duane Barry," and Stephen Mark, "Sleepless;" outstanding sound editing for a series -- the sound crew consisting of supervising sound editor Thierry Couturier; dialogue editors Machiek Malish, Chris Reeves, Marty Stein, and Jay Levine; sound effects editors Stuart Calderon, Michael Kimball, David Van Slyke, Susan Welsh, Chris Fradkin, and Matt West; music editor Jeff Charbonneau; and ADR editor Debby Ruby Winsberg, for "Duane Barry;" and outstanding guest actress in a drama - CCH Pounder/Agent Kazdin, "Duane Barry." /X-Files Episode Survey/ Gary Dontzig, a writer on _Murphy_Brown_, says, "I have a theory that out of 25 episodes, if you do five that are spectacular, you're in the big leagues." That's a batting average of .200. An online survey of favorite episodes for first season was conducted by Charles McGrew, mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu. He is currently tabulating the second season results. The results for the first season episodes are below. How did your favorite episodes/writers rate? Rating Scheme of 1 (Mediocre) to 4 (Spectacular): Total number of ballots received: 116 Episode Title -- Ave. Vote -- #of Votes/ "4" Votes ---------------- ---- --------- -------------------- ---- --------- Erlenmeyer Flask -- 3.74 -- 102/78 Tooms -- 3.60 -- 93/62 Squeeze -- 3.56 -- 95/57 Beyond the Sea -- 3.52 -- 112/72 Ice -- 3.45 -- 108/60 E.B.E. -- 3.44 -- 90/54 Deep Throat -- 3.43 -- 89/48 Eve -- 3.36 -- 107/57 The X-Files -- 3.36 -- 94/39 Fallen Angel -- 3.27 -- ??/?? Fire -- 3.02 -- 111/25 Darkness Falls -- 3.01 -- 100/30 Conduit -- 2.99 -- 91/23 Gender Bender -- 2.91 -- 106/25 Roland -- 2.86 -- 100/19 Lazarus -- 2.74 -- 99/9 Shadows -- 2.74 -- 102/16 Young at Heart -- 2.64 -- 88/8 Miracle Man -- 2.58 -- 101/11 Born Again -- 2.53 -- 97/7 The Jersey Devil -- 94/8 Ghost in the Machine -- 1.99 -- 102/6 Space -- 1.72 -- 106/3 Total Show Average is 2.97 -------------------------------------------------------------- ======== X FILE 11291093 Part 2 of 4 12/7/95 /Deep Background-Fox Mulder/ Agent Fox William 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 has come in contact with an alien hybrid who claimed to be Samantha and an alien bounty hunter who told him that his sister was alive. He has vowed to continue his search for her [Colony/End Game]. 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 is referred to as X. [Sleepless] This mysterious man has been less 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 has now been identified to be Assistant Director Skinner [Paper Clip]. 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. Mulder's days in this mind-numbing duty were numbered, however. Assistant Director Skinner obliquely acknowledged that the X Files department 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]. At the end of Season 2, Mulder came into possession of a Defense Department classified, Navajo-coded electronic document that purported to be the records of events surrounding a covert government operation from 50 years ago. Opponents tried to discredit him by adulterating his drinking water with a substance making him progressively violent. His father, who was somehow connected to the operation, was murdered, with Mulder as the prime suspect. Going into hiding with Scully, Mulder ended up in New Mexico investigating evidence that proved the validity of the secret document. He was found out by Cigarette Smoking Man, who attempted to kill him. [Anasazi] Mulder recovered through the intervention of the Navajo and returned to the East Coast to peruse his dead father's effects, finding a mysterious 1970s photo of an interesting group of men. [The Blessing Way] Returning to D.C. he met up with Scully and received help from the Lone Gunmen and one of the photographed men to discover the secret location of the files concerning the covert operation: medical records and tissue samples from children vaccinated in the 50s and 60s, including Scully's. On the run from their opponents, they received help from Skinner, who negotiated a truce with Cigarette Smoking Man for the agents' reinstatement and relative safety. [Paper Clip] Mulder is known around the Bureau by the nickname of "Spooky" [Pilot, Young at Heart] both because of his uncanny ability to process information and leap ahead to logical conclusions, and 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]. His favorite alias is George Hale [Little Green Men; Sleepless}. We believe Mulder doesn't "have a life," as we have seen little 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's birthdate is Oct. 13, 1961 [Paper Clip]. His parents appear to have beenseparated. His father, Bill, worked in an unknown capacity for the State Department, and was murdered by Krycek before telling Mulder about secrets in his past. [Anasazi] Mulder's mother confirmed that Samantha had been kidnapped to insure her father's silence about his covert activities. [Paper Clip] He 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 eating shelled sunflower seeds (a habit he shares with his father [Aubrey]), and making droll comments which X-Philes have come to note as "Mulderisms." Mulder enjoys wearing moderately wild ties to work, and seems to be a New York Knicks fan [Beyond the Sea, Little Green Men] as well as a Washington Redskins fan [Irresistible]. He appears to have 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]. He also keeps himself physically fit by running [Pilot, Deep Throat, Humbug] and swimming [Duane Barry]. There are suggestions that Mulder has an interest in pornography -- in "Jersey Devil," 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, he appears to be viewing a porno video in a fourth [3], and he makes comments about a video he purchased (not a porno video) in a fifth [Nisei]. 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; Fresh Bones; Colony; End Game; The Calusari]. However, she is determined to uncover the science behind the phenomena [End Game]. 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 instruct new agents on the basics of forensic medicine [Little Green Men]. However, Mulder called upon her expertise in violent crime cases to which he had 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.The missing memories during her disappearance may be surfacing, however, and a piece of metal resembling a computer chip found in her shoulder may also provide a clue. [Irresistible, The Blessing Way]. At the end of Season 2, Scully went into hiding with Mulder, missing a scheduled meeting with Skinner and putting her career in jeopardy. [Anasazi] Upon her return to D.C., she was suspended and asked to turn in her badge and gun, and she sought solace with her mother and sister. At Mulder's father's funeral, she was warned that her life was in danger. Scully suspected Skinner, but found that instead he was on their side. In a case of mistaken identity, her sister Melissa was fatally shot in Scully's apartment by Krycek. Scully and Mulder have since been reinstated. In Season 3, Scully has discovered another group of potential abductees, all MUFON members, who recall seeing her during her abduction [Nisei]. She was directed to a dilapidated compound in West Virginia, which looked familiar to her [731]. Scully, born Feb. 23, 1964, [Lazarus, One Breath] is a middle child; she has one older and one younger brother [Born Again], and an older sister, Melissa, now deceased [One Breath, Paper Clip]. 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. [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 usually 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/ [Season 1] 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 were sent to his office. [early episodes] [Season 1] 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. [Seasons 1, 2 and 3] Assistant Director Walter S. Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) is Mulder's and Scully's superior. 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 reopened the X Files [Ascension]. He has also overtly showed his support for Mulder [One Breath; End Game], openly confronting Cigarette Smoking Man [The Blessing Way; Paper Clip], and is trying (in vain) to keep Mulder from going over the edge [F.Emasculata; Soft Light; Anasazi]. ctahmase@ix.netcom.com is keeping an FAQ on Assistant Director Skinner and his real-life portrayer Pileggi. /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, 2, and 3] "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, though not the person calling the shots -- he seems to be answering to Well Manicured Man. [The Blessing Way, Paper Clip] 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 appeared to be back in control [F. Emasculata, Anasazi], but ended up making a deal with Skinner in order to keep the information from a confidential document from becoming public [Paper Clip]. He also possesses secret files of Japanese war experiments [731]. CSM has 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, Paper Clip]. Mulder pulled a gun on him and threatened him with death in his studio apartment (at 900 W. Georgia St.) [One Breath]. He seems to be an acquaintance of Mulder's father Bill [Anasazi]. [Season 1, 2, and 3] "Lone Gunmen" Byers (Bruce Harwood), Langly (Dean Haglund), and Frohike (Tom Braidwood) are three of Mulder's sources who work at "The Lone Gunman," a publication dealing with perceived government conspiracies. Frohike has a crush on Scully [E.B.E., Little Green Men, One Breath; Fearful Symmetry; The Blessing Way], and seemed to have a role in Mulder and Scully's assignment to a manhunt for escaped convicts [F. Emasculata]. A fourth Lone Gunman, computer hacker The Thinker (Bernie Coulson), put Mulder and Scully in grave danger by obtaining a copy of a classified government document [Anasazi], and turned up dead because of his actions [Paper Clip]. [Season 1, 2, and 3] Margaret Scully (Sheila Larken) is Dana Scully's mother [Beyond the Sea, Ascension, One Breath; The Blessing Way; Paper Clip]. She has had certain unexplained perceptions about her daughter [Ascension], leading to indications that Scully herself may be extranormally perceptive [Aubrey]. [Season 2, 3] 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 disappeared [Ascension]. He has reappeared to murder Mulder's father, [Anasazi] attempt to kill Mulder himself, [Anasazi] and, in a case of mistaken identity, fatally wound Scully's sister Melissa [The Blessing Way/Paper Clip] but was able to make his escape after an attempt by other lackeys of Cigarette Smoking Man to eliminate him. [ Paper Clip] He now appears to be on his own. [Season 2] "X" (Steven Williams), an acquaintance of Deep Throat, is even more mysterious than his predecessor. X's information is even more reluctantly shared. Mulder is able to contact X by taping an X to his front window and shining a light through it [One Breath; Colony; End Game]. X seems to be involved with a different covert group than Cigarette Smoking Man's; he kidnapped a scientist with vitally powerful information concerning an illicit experiment. [Soft Light.] [Season 2 and 3] Melissa Scully (Melinda McGraw), Scully's older sister, stood by Scully while she was comatose following her return from being abducted [One Breath]. Melissa was fatally shot by Krycek when she arrived at Scully's apartment [The Blessing Way] and died a few days later. [Paper Clip] [Season 3] Well-Manicured Man (John Neville) is the head of a powerful consortium to whom Cigarette Smoking Man answers. Although he appeared to Mulder and Scully to be an ally, he is most likely working at cross purposes to theirs. [Seasons 2 and 3] Mrs. Mulder (Rebecca Toolan), Mulder's mother, has admitted to some knowledge of her divorced -- now deceased -- husband's activities with the State Department. She lives on Martha's Vineyard. /Deep Background-Chris Carter/ Chris Carter, 37, began his career as a screenwriter in 1985 at The Walt Disney Studios. Previously, Carter, who has a journalism degree from Cal State - Long Beach, had been working as a freelance journalist, writing and traveling extensively abroad. At Disney, Carter wrote and produced several television movies in addition to the television pilot _Cameo by Night_ for NBC and _The Nanny_, a sitcom for The Disney Channel. He took a short leave of absence from Disney to co-produce the second season of the comedy series _Rags to Riches_, starring Joe Bologna, and returned in 1989 to create and executive produce "Brand New Life," a recurring comedy series which ran as part of a rotating schedule on Disney's Sunday night lineup. [Fox press packet for _X Files_] Carter's favorite X Files episodes so far are: Beyond the Sea, Colony/End Game, Duane Barry, Sleepless, and Fresh Bones. (AOL X Files conference March 94). He appeared as an FBI agent questioning Scully [Anasazi] and has done the voiceovers at the beginnings of multipart episodes [The Blessing Way / Paper Clip]. /Deep Background - David Duchovny/ David Duchovny, 34, is probably best known for his memorable role as the transvestite detective Dennis/Denise in the television series "Twin Peaks." A native New Yorker, Duchovny graduated from Princeton University and then earned a graduate degree in English literature at Yale University, preparing for a career as a teacher. While at Yale, he began commuting to New York to study acting as a background to screenwriting and was soon appearing in off-Broadway plays. In 1987, in the midst of his doctoral studies, he left Yale to pursue acting full time. Duchovny (pronounced doo-kuv'-nee), 6'1" tall, was born August 7, 1960. His parents, Amran (a publicist for the American Jewish Committee) and Margaret (an elementary school teacher) divorced when he was 11. He has one brother, Daniel, and a sister, Laurie. He has a girlfriend, actresss Perrey Reeves, and resides in Malibu, Calif. [Fox press packet for _X Files_ and _People_ magazine, April 18, 1994 issue]. A FAQ on Duchovny is posted on the first of the month by Kellie Matthews-Simmons (matthewk@ucsu.colorado.edu) and Sarah Stegall (munchkyn@ix.netcom.com). There are various "hormone brigades" devoted to Duchovny. The David Duchovny Estrogen Brigade (DDEB) mail list and its sister group the DDEB-2 list are both full. You can still join the Duchovniks list by sending the message "Subscribe duchovny-L " to walterh@netcom.com. The David Duchovny Estrogen Brigade web page is located at http://www.egr.uh.edu/~escco/DDEB.html The Duchovniks home page is located at http://www.squidge.org/ *Filmography* New Years Day 1988 Working Girl 1988 Bad Influence 1988, 1989 "Twin Peaks" 1990 The Rapture 1991 Julia Has Two Lovers 1991 Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead 1991 Denial 1991 Venice/Venice 1992 Ruby 1992 "Red Shoe Diaries" 1992--present Chaplin 1992 Beethoven 1992 "Baby Snatcher" 1992 Kalifornia 1993 "The X Files" 1993-present /Deep Background - Gillian Anderson/ Gillian (pronounced jill'-ee-an) Anderson first gained recognition as an actresss for her off-Broadway performance in Alan Ayckbourne's "Absent Friends" at the Manhattan Theater Club, for which she won a Theatre World Award. Her love of theater began in high school where she participated in community theater. In college, Anderson studied with the National Theater of Great Britain at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and then at the Goodman Theater School at Chicago's DePaul University, where she obtained her BFA degree. Anderson, 5' 2" tall, was born August 9, 1968 and lives in Los Angeles. [Fox press packet for _X Files_] She is married to former _X Files_ art director Clyde Klotz, and gave birth to a daughter, Piper, on Sept. 25, 1994. She is not related in any way to Jo Anderson who appeared as Diana in the television show _Beauty and the Beast_. Nor is she the woman salesperson that appears in the Saturn commercials. A FAQ on Anderson has been put together by Alan Sawyer, mulder@melbourne.dialix.oz.au. You can read this FAQ on the following home page: http://icarus.uic.edu/~echave1/ooky/ooky.html. There is also a GA mail list: Send e-mail to listproc@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu with the message "Subscribe gillian-anderson@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu ." If you have problems subscribing, contact chicken_feet@mail.texas.edu. The Gillian Anderson Testosterone Brigade home page is at http://www.phoenix.net/~kinase/GATB/gatb.html. *Filmography* Home Fires Burning 1992 "Class of '96" (8th ep.) 1993 "The X Files" 1993-present "Exit to Eden" (audiotape) 1993 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- ======== X FILE 11291093 Part 3 of 4 12/7/95 /Newsgroups/ alt.tv.x-files is the original newsgroup, discussing the show as aired on U.S./North American television. United Kingdom viewers of the show might want to check out uk.media.tv.sf.x-files. Australian Viewers have the newsgroup aus.tv.x-files. These latter two carry discussion minus spoilers that would appear on the North American newsgroup. /Electronic Mailing Lists/ There is an Internet mailing list for _The X Files_, run by Chael Hall, which discusses the episodes currently being aired in North America. To sign up for the list, send a message to listproc@chaos.taylored.com with "subscribe X-FILES ." You will receive the list in digest mode unless specified. For more information, send e-mail to the above address stating INFO X-FILES in the message. A moderated group posting only reliable information about the show has been established by Michael Kleinhenz, michael@stargate.pfalz.de. Only "official" submissions will be accepted such as reliable information about new episodes, books, comics. etc. Articles must be mailed to the moderator for approval before they will be mailed. To subscribe send mail to listserv@stargate.pfalz.de with "subscribe x-files-info" in the body of the message, not the subject line. The Smart Young X-Philes (SYX) Weekly Newsleter (for X-Philes 21 years old or younger) is no longer accepting members. There are two UK mail lists. One available only as a weekly digest, discussing current airingscan be subscribed to by e-mail to listserver@leicester.ac.uk with "INFO X-FILES-UK" in the body of your message. For the second UK mail list, send a note to Listproc@uel.ac.uk with the notice "Subscribe XFiles " in the body of the message. An Australian mail list, discussing _X Files_ episodes airing in Australia, has been established. Send e-mail to aus-xf-request@aurora.apana.org.au with the following in the body of the message: "Subscribe aus-xf . To send mail to the list, send your message to aus-xf@aurora.apana.org.au. There is also a Gerrman X Files mailing list for German-speaking X Philes. Send mail to listserv@stargate.pfalz.de with "Subscribe xf-de" in the body. /FTP Sites and Home Pages/ *FTP Sites* The FTP site at ftp.cs.nmt.edu is the most complete, with the FAQs, episode guide, music, images, and fan fiction ; directory path is /xfiles. An FTP site is at ftp.rutgers.edu (/pub/x-files), storing only the graphic and sound files. The FTP site aql.gatech.edu is temporarily inactive. It also carries X Files material: sounds, .gifs, and creative stories; directory path is /pub/xfiles. The site ftp.shore.net , run by Pete T. Manolakos (ptman@shore.net), carries text files only; directory path is /members/ptman/x-files. Eric Shapow's ftp site at trustno1.pc.cc.cmu.edu is up and running once again. This site has been upgraded over the summer and should be more easily accessible. A .creative archive has been set up at gossamer.eng.ohio-state.edu. *Home Pages* The Official X Files Home Page, run by Delphi, the official X Files site, is at http://www.TheX-Files.com/. Charles Mcgrew (mcgrew@klinzhai.rutgers.edu) has established an http server which contains an X Files mosaic page. This page includes the theme music, miscellaneous sound bites, this FAQ, Episode Guide, DT FAQ, pictures of the cast, and links to other FTP areas, among other things. The path is: http://www.rutgers.edu/x-files.html. Samuel Ziegler (sam@jhu.edu) keeps the Mulderisms and Scullyisms list. There documents are available by accessing his homepage: http://hops.cs.jhu.edu/~ziegler/xfiles.html. If you cannot access his homepage please e-mail him for information about his list. Stephen Banks's (sbanks@printnet.com) home page contains features available to Netscape 1.1 users, but can be accessed by other applications without losing the flavor of the page. He will have a clip of the current week's X Files show in Quicktime format, plus the previous week's clip and a clip of the next week's episode. There is also a page where visitors can tell of their own X Files like experiences, The Web Files. It can be reached at http://www.neosoft.com/sbanks/xfiles/xfiles.html. Dan Benkamin (dpb@magicnet.net) has an interactive X Files WWW page, http://www.magicnet.net/~dpb/x/. Included there are an interactive episode ratings system, where you can leave your comments; a viewer survey; and a contest for a spot on the X-Phile of the Week Page. Vancouver Magazine's WWW page, http://www.vanmag.com/Village or http://www.Direct.Ca:80/Village also has a map of Vancouver showing the various sites where _X Files_ has been filmed and what episodes filmed there. The Duchovniks have thier own home page, at http://www.squidge.org/ The David Duchovny Estrogen Brigade web page is located at http://www.egr.uh.edu/~escco/DDEB.html Below is a list of some known X Files WWW pages. If yours is not on this list, or is incorrect, contact the special agent in charge. **Australia** http://rschp2.anu.edu.au:8080/XFiles.html http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~simc/ **USA** http://www.rutgers.edu/x-files.html http://weber.u.washington.edu/~roland/x-files/x-files.html http://hops.cs.jhu.edu/~ziegler/xfiles.html http://www.uml.edu/~ccashman/x-files/x-files.html http://www.public.iastate.edu/~sbwright/xfiles.html http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~clsS95/x-philes.html http://www.cs.nmt.edu/xfiles/ http://www.teleport.com/~crawford/x-files/HomePage.html http://www.mindspring.com/~torgo/xfiles.html http://www.best.com/~rherbst/x-files.html http://www.infinet.com/~rkidder/x-files/top.html http://www.magicnet.net/~dpb/x/ http://www.clark.net/pub/boscomel/xfiles.html http://www.interpath.net/~cybervox/x.html http://www.timeinc.com/ew/941202/scifi/251scifiXbar.html http://www.interport.net/~darcom/index.html http://www.neosoft.com/sbanks/xfiles/xfiles.html http://www.amaroq.com/x-files http://192.203.249.66/~leejb/scully.html http://www.bchs.uh.edh/~ecantu/xf.html http://duggy.extern.ucsd.edu/~linny http://www.netaxs.com/~hager/x-files.html http://www.wam.umd.edu/~kris http://sloop.ee.fit.edi/users/lpinto/index.html http://www.electropub.com/~rzman/pc2.html http://eewww.eng.ohio-state.edu/~judovalk/x-files http://www.eastconn.com/cyberia/index.html http://www.earthlink.net/~kasparov/index.html http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~boysen/xfiles.html http://www2.logicnet.com/robert.lidgren http://gossamer.eng.ohio-state.edu/x-files http://www.pacificnet.net/~fidodido/xfiles-ep-guide.html http://newriver.ramlink.net/users/zemerick/xfiles.html http://www.grfn.org/~mulder http://www.halcyon.com/mulder/ http://icarus.uic.edu/~echavel/ooky/ooky.html **Canada** http://www.alberta.ca/~vichan/www/x-files.html http://cfn.cs.dal.ca/~ae387/X-Files.html http://www.vanmag.com/9408/XMarks.html http://ccw.cs.dal.ca/~ae387/X-Files.html http://mindlink.net/a4369/mq.html **Singapore** http://www.iscs.nus.sg/~chengmin/xf/xf.html http://www.iscs.nus.sg/~cheeweit/GAPG/gallery.html **Italy** http://www.cs.unibo.it/~cobianch/index.html **France** http://www.teaser.fr?~alaunay.main.html **Norway** http://bundy.hibo.no/~Larsen/x-files/x-files.html http://www.ifi.uio.no/~haralb/x-files.html **Holland** http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~danny/x-files/x-files.html **Germany** http://dxhra1.desy.de/~cborys/tv/xf.html http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~kleinhen/xfiles/x-files **Ireland** http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~stdcu/x-files/x-files.html http://www.maths.tcd.ie/hyplan/s/sj/tv/xfiles.html **United Kingdom** http://www-server.bcc.ac.uk/~zcap50/xfiles.html http://www.zynet.co.uk/simon/x-files/ http://gg022.kingston.ac.uk/avalon.htm http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~suaap/ http://www.presence.co.uk/moira/ /Online Services XF Special Interest Groups/ *America Online* The America Online X Files Club consists of two forums on AOL. The Keyword: XFILES takes you directly to them. The first is the AOL X Files Club Forum where you can participate on the discussion boards and discuss the show with other members as well as producers and writers of the show. There are three weekly chats based on the show with more to be added soon. There is also a file archive with pictures based on the show and lots of show information including logs of all the chats and conferences. The area also has many online resources including the Episode Guide, FAQ, and David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson FAQs. AOl also has a Visual Episode Guide with descriptions, production crew, cast, and a custom member-created graphic based on the episode. The second forum is the X Files Simming Forum where two weekly role-playing simulations take place based on the X Files. This area has discussion boards, file archives, and lots of show information. The AOL X Files Club is hosted by Jerry Jones, FoxxMulder@aol.com, and Debbie Brown, MrsSpooky@aol.com. *Delphi* The Delphi X Files Special Interest Group is the official X-Files online site. This enables member to communicate with the writers and producers of the show as well as others associated with it; access an official online episode guide, a database full of legal high-quality images, sounds and video clips unavailable elsewhere, and a shopping area full of X Files merchandise; and have the oppporunity to give direct feedback to Fox Broadcasting Comapny about merchandise and files in the database. Delphi members can access this area by typing GO ENT X. The Conference area holds weekly conferences (on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday) as well as an unmoderated Friday conference after the airing of the latest episode. The Database holds files supplied by Fox as well as members, including graphics, video clips and documents, not only on X Files but also on the paranormal. The Forum, the heart of the SIG, is a public message base where members can post and retrieve messages to and from other SIG members as well as the X Files production office and Fox. Delphi also provides Internet and Usenet access, and a shopping area where exclusive X Files merchandise can be purchased via an electronic order form and credit card. The X Files SIG is managed by Christopher Fusco, Reapr@delphi.com, and Mark Schey, Mark_Schey@delphi.com. *Compuserve* Compuserve has an active X Files forum and two weekly discussion groups. The forum is in the SF/Fantasy Media+ section and can be reached by using the "Go" command and entering SFMEDTWO. It has a scroll rate of about 200 messages a day (more when new or important episodes air). The US Philes conference is held Sunday evenings at 9 p.m. Eastern in the SFMEDIA+ conference room called "The Phile Cabinet (7)." The UK Philes also hold a conference at 9 p.m. UK time on Tuesdays in the same location. *Prodigy* X Files information is available only on the TV Bulletin Board; no special area or bulletin board is available. *Other Online Services* At this time we do not have information on special interest groups on other online services. /Other Electronic Info/ An X Files discussion is held at 10 p.m. Eastern time (right after the aired episode ends in the U.S. Eastern/Central time zones) on the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channels #xf (no bots) and #x-files (bot-controlled). An X Files Bullletin Board System (BBS) is offered in the San Francisco Bay Area. This BBS carries gifs, jpegs, bmps, and a.t.x-f.creative text files. Phone number is 916/549-3185. The sysop is Jon Mankowski (counselor@interramp.com). The BBS carries gifs, wavs, and a.t.x-f creative stories. A British BBS called the Demons Domain BBS has many X Files JPGs, GIFs, WAVs and documents. It is a 24 hour BBS taking all speed up to 28.8k, and the sysop is Chris Jackson (CM-C.S.Jackson@tees.ac.uk). It can be phoned at (01642) 72 47 58; FidoNet address 2:256/604 The Spring has an X Files forum in its TV Conference area. To access, telnet to spring.com, and log in as "new" (don't add quotes). You will be asked a few questions, but there is no charge for access. There is an X Files MUSH at 134.174.51.13 port 7777. ======== X FILE 11291093 Part 4 of 4 12/7/95 /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 many 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] He has also confirmed that Scully and Mulder will not have a romance in almost every online conference and interview that he has had. In the AOL conference in March, when asked when the two characters would get together, Carter replied, "When Hell freezes over." Carter continues to reiterate his opinion publicly at the various Creation X Files conventions. 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 during the latter part of first season and the early part of second season, her condition was not reflected in the show's scripts. Anderson appeared in the first six episodes of second 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, 1994. /Merchandise/ *Wearing Apparel etc.* A variety of licensed merchandise is available: hats (at least 3 versions), mugs (2 kinds), t-shirts (innumerable), posters (2 at present), and a wool and leather embroidered jacket. Suncoast Pictures, a video chain that carries related media merchandise, is carrying some of the above items; look for the store in a city near you. :-) In addition, these items have been found at another media chain, Musicland/Sam Goody stores. Starland not only is carrying a variety of officially-licensed T-shirts, hats, posters, mugs, and magazines, but is showcasing their merchandise in a zine called "The X Factor!" This zine has information about the show as well as color photos of the merchandise. To get on their mailing list, e-mail your snail mail address to starland@aol.com, with in the subject heading. You can call with questions to 303 / 671-8735, order merchandise by calling 1-800-733-8735 (faxing to 303-671-0302) or sending your order snail mail to Starland, P.O. Box 24590, Denver, CO 80224-2590. Order hours are 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday. Starland frequently posts merchandise information (like order numbers) to alt.tv.x-files, and if you are on AOL, they can of course be e-mailed at their address for this info. They also have a Website which containst their X Files catalog: http://www.dash.com/netro/sho/starland.html. Orion Traders carries a wide variety of X-Files merchandise, including over twenty different t-shirt designs (both embroidered and printed), polo shirts, sweatshirts, lettermen's jackets, hats, posters, photographs, and mugs. They also carry the X-Files novels and comic books, as well as current magazines.They accept VISA, MasterCard, or Discover, as well as check or money order. They operate the AOL online X-Files store (keyword: XFiles), where there is an online catalog, complete with photographs of merchandise carried and instructions for ordering. Though they do not produce a catalog, they do have a merchandise list that can be mailed out to people. They do, however, encourage AOL people to use the AOL online catalog, as it is part of their commitment to reduce paper usage and waste. This online catalog can be updated nearly instantaneously with the new X-Files merchandise as received. They can be reached via phone or fax at 916/966-7447, or snailmail at 10139 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Fair Oaks, CA 95628. Their net address is: OrionTradr@AOL.com Mail order company 800-TREKKER has T-shirts, caps, mugs, and the X Files novel, and other UFO-related merchandise. They can be reached at 1-800-TREKKER (fax 1-800-FAX TREK), or through their web page at http://www.sufi.com/trader/trekker/files/index.html. Time Warner's Viewer's Edge, is offering an X File shirt and cap (different from Suncoast offerings). They can be reached at P.O. Box 3925, Milford, CT 06460; phone 1-800-947-3928 (24 hours a day) or (fax) 1-203-876-8234. Mere Mortals is a company that has put together a group of _X Files_ related merchandise, such as hats, mugs, shirts, comics, and limited run posters. For their catalog, send one dollar to Brent Lilley: Mere Mortals, 350 S. Tustin Ave., Orange, CA 92666. CPG Direct offers autographed photos of Duchovny and Anderson. Each photo is guaranteed to be hand autographed by the star, includes a certificate of authenticity, has an unconditional 30-day Money Back guarantee, comes double matted and ready for framing, and is 11 x 14 in size. A black metal custom frame is also available. Price is $50 each, with a %5.95 shipping fee. Framing is an additiona $25 extra. Checks, money orders, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover accepted. Their address is CPG Direct, Dep-SE, P.O. Box 1020, Valley Cottage, NY 10989; or call in an order at 1-800,392-3075 (24 hour phone lines) Delphi is also selling a different group of official X Files merchandise through their X Files Special Interest Group, run by Creation Entertainment. In the U.K., Escape Comic Books (7, Cheapside; Reading; Berkshire; RG1 7AG; UK) has apparently agreed to run a mail order system for X Files merchandise. (They're next door to the Odeon Cinema, says UK X-Phile Steve Robson).Their phone number is (0) 1734 575131. Other U.K. merchandise sources are the (famous) Forbidden Planet, New Oxford Street, London; and The Vintage Magazine Company, 39/43 Brewer Street, London, NW1. Both stores apparently have mail order sections. Posters are also available from Rick's Movie Graphics, P.O. Box 23709, Gainesville, FL 32602-3709; phone 904-373-7202. This is *not* the "I Want To Believe" poster from Mulder's office; that was a special one made for the show and is not available. Lori Singer has _X Files_ scripts and photos for sale. Some of the photos have never been published anywhere! For more information, e-mail her at lsinger@aol.com. Scripts and photographs are also available through Hollywood Script Library, 8033 Sunset Blvd. Suite 982, Dept. N, Los Angeles, CA 90046. They can also be reached at LASCRIPTS@aol.com. *Books/comics* Original novels are being published by HarperPrism. The first two X Files books were written by noted horror/fantasy writer Charles L. Grant. The first X Files book was _The X Files: Goblins_, ISBN 0-06-105414-3. The second book is entitled _Whirlwind_, ISBN 0-06-105415-1. An announced third book from Grant, _Hunter_, was dropped from the list and will not be published. Kevin J. Anderson, most known for his Star Wars: Jedi Academy books, will be taking over as writer of the X Files novels. His first novel "Ground Zero" is out, in hardcover. The ISBN number for this book is 0-06-05223X; cost is $20. The audiocassette of this book is read by Gillian Anderson herself. Cost is $17, ISBN is 06-945-1620-1. A series of paperbacks based on the episodes aimed at a younger (10 and older) audience is out in the children's sections of your local bookstore. Titles are #1 - "X Files: X Marks The Spot" (based on the script for the pilot), ISBN 006440613x; #2 - "X Files: Darkness Falls" (based on the script for that first-season episode), ISBN 0064406148. The third book, "X Files: Tiger, Tiger" (based on the second-season episode "Fearful Symmetry"), is now out. Cost for all paperbacks is $3.95. Author is Les Martin. HarperCollins had come out with _The Truth Is Out There: The X Files Companion_, dealing with the various aspects of the show. The ISBN is 0-06-105330-9. A second nonfiction book, published by Crown and called _The Unofficial X Files Companion_ , is available. Author is Ngaire Genge. The ISBN is 0-517-88601-4. A third nonfiction book, _The X-Files Book of the Unexplained: Volume 1_, is available in Britain and is expected to be available in the future in the U.S. Author is Jane Goldman. British ISBN is 0-684-81633-4. Topps Comics publishes an _X Files_ comic book. The writer is Stefan Petrucha; artist is Charles Adlard; covers by Miran Kim. The first three issues are sold out, and a compilation of these has been released. Comics 4-6 will also appear in a future compilation release. [Topps Copics is an arm of the baseball-card company, and currently produce comic books based on other TV and movie characters as well as the usual superheroes.] The tenth issue has hit the stands. Mark Martinez, 090632@hyperion.lanl.gov, posts an X Files comics update monthly. Topps has released the X Files trading cards. The complete set, which features illustrations and information from Season One, contains 72 regular cards, foil parallel versions of those cards, 6 etched foil comic cover cards, and 4 chromium photo cards. Prices of individual 9-card packets and boxes vary. Topps's Official X Files magazine was due out in November. *Videos* The show has been released on video in Japan (Japanese subtitles; first 8 episodes, two tapes per episode, in aired order, have been confirmed as being released). X Files videos were released in Great Britain (two episodes per tape, two tapes per month). Cost is 10.99 pounds. These tapes are PAL tapes and are not compatible with American VCRs. Australians can purchase the Anasazi/Blessing Way/Paperclip trilogy on video before it airs on television. These tapes go under the titles "X FIles: The Unopened Files." These tapes are also available in Great Britain. Fox is planning on releasing the first season on tape to the U.S. market in the near future. *Music* The status of an X Files CD with Mark Snow's music from the show is unknown at this time. Snow has written the mosuc for 63 movies or miniseries, 7 movies, and 13 television shows (themes and/or episode music), including _Starsky and Hutch_ ('70s television series), _In the Line of Fire_ (movie), _Born to be Wild_ (movie), _Children of the Dust_ (TV miniseries), and _Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All_ (TV miniseries), among others. An X Files "contributed" CD, with music from various groups and singers, is reportedly being produced by Don Was. Rumors are that the XF CD will combine both above CD ideas *Miscellaneous* It has been confirmed that Fox is planning for a big-screen X Files movie to come out tentatively in 1997, and an _X Files_ spinoff is also under consideration. Chris Carter admits that he has been approached to do a spinoff, but denies that one is actively in the works, saying that he wants to concentrate on his current show for the time being. He has admitted to participating in planning sessions for a movie. An X Files phone card is now available. Genesis and SNES game cartridges are being planned for a November release. Landmark has published an X Files calendar (ISBN 0-78-191190-7). Look for it in your favorite calendar shop. /Fan Club**Fanzines/ *Fan Club* Creation Entertainment is sponsoring The Official X Files Fan Club. For information contact them at 818 / 409-0960, or send a SASE to them at 411 N. Central Ave., #300, Glendale, CA 91203. The fan-run X-Files Fan Club was formed with the sanction of 20th Century Fox and Ten Thirteen Productions in March 1994. A year's subscription is $20 ($30 Canadian). The fan club, a nonprofit organization, produces a newsletter/magazine containing news, interviews, pictures, episode guides, bibliographic information, more information on topics brought up in the show, and other items. Although net-fandom will be well represented (one section of the newsletter will be called "The Buzz from the Net"), the newsletter is targeted at general fandom. Submissions are welcome! Electronic newsletter submissions may be sent to x-files@info.rutgers.edu. A postscript version of the fan club membership application may be ftp'd from ftp.rutgers.edu; the file is pub/x-files/membership/flier.ps. For more information, send a SASE to: X Files Fan Club, P.O. Box 3138, Nashau, NH 03061-3138 or X Files Fan Club, c/o S. Bartle, 4404 Perry St., Vancouver, BC Canada V5N 3X5 There are two X Files fan clubs in Australia. One can be reached by writing to: The X Files Fan Club of Australia, P.O. Box 402, Niddrie Vic. 3042. The other can be reached by writing to 11:21 -- the X-Files Fan Club of Australia, c/o Andrew Parkinson. Flat 2/10, Roseglen Street, Green Slopes, QLD 4120, Australia. *Fanzines* NOTE: All listed fanzines are not-for-profit amateur publications and are not meant to infringe on copyrights held by Twentieth Century Fox, Ten Thirteen Productions, Chris Carter, or any other media orgainzations. Deb Walsh (WGYA08A@prodigy.com or deb walsh@aol.com; 46 John St. #2, Malden, MA 02148) publishes a fanzine called _The Manifest_ which deals with various paranormal-oriented television shows, including _The X Files_. Issues 2, 3, and 4 have X Files material; issue #4 is currently available. E-mail or send a SASE for more information. _Incident UXP_ is an _X Files_ fanzine being published by Debbie Roberts, P.O. Box 9653, Colorado Springs, CO 80932. Issue #3 is now available. Issue #2 is still available. Issue #1 is sold out. For more information on contributors, or how to submit material, send a SASE to the above address or e-mail to annieorbit@aol.com. Beth Bowles edits a crossover fanzine (characters meet characters from other media universes) called Crossfiles, which will include crossovers with the _X Files_ universe. For information send a SASE to OtherWhen Press, c/o Beth Bowles, 722 Brownstone Rd., Larimer, PA 15647 Mary Wardell is planning an _X Files_ fanzine called "Travels with Mulder." For more details and/or submission guidelines send an SASE to Prime Time Press, c/o Mary F. Wardell, 2104 SE 28th Place, Portland, OR 97214 Betsy Vera is the editor for "X-treme Possibilities" The first issue is available. For more information or submissions guidelines, send a SASE to: Bentley Press, c/o Betsy Vera, P.O. Box 4356, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, or e-mail her at betsy.vera@mailgw.uprod.music.umich.edu. "Impossible Dreams" is a Quantum Leap fanzine, but there is an X Files story in it. For more information, send a SASE to Lucy Green, MacWombat Press, 2500 Jackson-Keller #601, San Antonio, TX 78230. "Of Dreams and Schemes" #9 has a long X Files/Highlander crossover. They are also looking for stories for future issues. For more information, send a SASE to Catherine Schlein, 6755 Union St., Arvada, CO 80004. "Remote Control," a multi-fandom genzine, is looking for X Files submissions for issue 5, due out in May 1995. For more information, send a SASE to Kathy Agel, 9-11 Ayres Court, Bayonne, NJ, 07002-3510, or send e-mail to Badkarma1@aol.com. "Layup," an adult fiction zine based on the characters portrayed by David Duchovny, is looking for submissions. Deadline is April 1, 1995. For more information, send a SASE to Debbie Roberts, Hangar X Publishing, P.O. Box 9653, Colorado Spring, CO 80932. "Deus X Machina" is a planned X Files fanzine from Tara O'Shea. For information, send a SASE to Deus X Machina, c/o Tara O'Shea, 611 Lead Ave. SW, Apt. 911, Albuqueraue, NM 87102, or e-mail to johanna@hydra.unm.edu. , "Property of the FBI" is an X Files fanzine carrying fiction from alt.tv.x-files.creative. For more information, send a SASE to Lucy Green, MacWombat Press, 2500 Jackson-Keller, Apt. 601, San Antonio, TX 78230. Issue #1 is available. "The Skeptic and the Believer," an X Files fanzine, is looking for submissions. Issue 1 will debut at Eclecticon 95 in October of 1995. For more information, send a SASE to Kathryn Agel, 9-11 Ayres Court, Bayonne, NJ 07002-3510, or e-mail Badkarma.1@genie.geis.com or Badkarma1@aol.com. "Imagine That" is looking for X Files contributions. For submission guidelines or zine information, send a SASE to Brenda M. Cunningham, Box 123, Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, CANADA S0H 0B0 (all zeros -- not letters). "First Light" is a multimedia zine that reviews the latest episodes of science fiction oriented shows such as X Files every month, and occasionally prints X Files word games and other tidbits. For infomration send a SASE to First Light, 8782-E Allison Dr., Westminster, CO 80005-1680. "X-Talk" is an X Files letterzine whose first issue premiered in September 1994. Issue #1 is $3 and a 4-issue subscription will run $10, checks payable to Marg Baskin. Letters may be typed or on disks (WordPerfect 6.0/5.1/5.0, WordStar 6.0/4.0/3.3, or ASCII, 3.5 in. or 5.25 high or low density); label disks as they will be returned with your issue. Address letters, inquiries (include a SASE), or suggestions to Anime House Press, c/o Marg Baskin and Heather Bruton, 28 Woolwich St. S., Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA N2K 1R9. (They are accessible via e-mail at marg@asd.raytheon.CA) "Wrapped in Plastic" (a Twin Peaks fanzine) devoted a full issue to the X Files in August. The 40-page issue contained a complete episode guide with commentary and analysis, map of the U.S. showing where each episode took place, and an interview with Gillian Anderson. The first printing sold out, and a second printing was done. WIP #12 is available from: Win-Mill Productions, 1912 E. Timberview Lane, Arlington, TX 76014. Cost is $6 ($5 plus $1 postage). /Conventions/ Creation Con has a license to run the Official X Files convention. The following dates, places, and guests have been tentatively set up so far: Burbank, Calif. -- 1/13 and 1/14 (Airport Hilton) [Guests: Dean Haglund, Chris Carter (Saturday only), Gillian Anderson (Sunday only), Mat Beck (Sunday only)] Chicago, Ill. -- 1/20 and 1/21 (Congress Hotel) [Guests: Dean Haglund and Paul Rabwin] San Francisco -- 2/11 [Guests: Mitch Pileggi and Steven Williams] Seattle -- 3/24 [Guests unknown] Dearborn, Mich. (?) -- 4/20 and 4/21 [Guests unknown] Manhattan, NYC -- 6/1 and 6/2 [Guests unknown] For more specific information, and a recording of information comcerning the X Files conventions, contact Creation Entertainment at 818 / 409-0960, or send a SASE to them at 411 N. Central Ave., #300, Glendale, CA 91203. /Miscellaneous information/ As a result of an informal poll conducted Spring 94, net.fans of the _The X Files_ have chosen (with a 73% approval rating) to be called X-Philes. The name seems to have caught on in the media, with its use in many articles on the show and its online contacts. There is a list of Mulderisms and Scullyisms being kept by Samuel Ziegler (sam@jhu.edu) and is available through his X Files homepage (listed with FTP Sites and Home Pages) If you cannot access the Web, or wish to submit entries to the lists, please e-mail him. Kymberlee Ricke keeps a "Netpickers Guide to the X Files." For information about the Netpickers' list, e-mail her at kricke@aea16.k12.ia.us. Numbers: The number 11:21 that continues to appear on digital clocks in the show is a salute by Chris Carter to his wife, whose birthday is November 21. Ten Thirteen Productions was named after Carter's own birthday, October 13. Guns: Mulder and Scully have used a variety of guns in their X Files travails, but they currently brandish Smith & Wesson 1056es with a 9mm round. So far Mulder has fired his gun eight times: to scare away wolves [Conduit]; to kill John Barnett [Young at Heart], a beheader about to do in Scully [Our Town], and kidnapper Carl Wade [Oubliette]; at the shapeshifter creature [Shapes]; at a morphing terminator alien [End Game]; at lights casting a potentially lethal shadow [Soft Light]; and at a possible alien being [Little Green Men, though no shot actually left the gun]. Scully has fired her gun five times: three shots to stop the air duct fan [Ghost in the Machine], once to wound Lucas Henry [Beyond the Sea], three shots, to kill [so we thought] Warren Dupre [Lazarus], once at the murdering twin [Humbug] that she saw in a mirror, and once to wound Mulder when it appeared that he would kill Krycek for the murder of his father [Anasazi]. Mulder has been shot twice: critically, in the upper femur in Beyond the Sea, not so seriously in the left shoulder by Scully to keep him from killing Krycek [Anasazi]; Scully has been shot once, in the chest (though she was wearing her protective vest at the time), in Young at Heart. Mulder and Scully have been quarantined three times after potential contact with an infectious organism -- at the end of the episodes Ice, Darkness Falls, and Firewalker. Mulder has lost time in the Pilot (9 minutes), Deep Throat (undetermined), E.B.E. (undetermined), and Little Green Men (undetermined). Scully has lost time in the Pilot (9 minutes), E.B.E. (undetermined), and Ascension/One Breath (approximately 3 months). Scully's FBI ID number is 2317-616. Her home phone number is (202) 555-6431, [Ghost in the Machine.], and her cellular phone number is 555-3564 [Sleepless]. Her apartment number is #35. Her X File number (given to the file began after her abduction [Duane Barry]) is 73317. Scully and Mulder met for the first time on March 6, 1992 X.T. (X Files Time) [Pilot]. Mulder has a computer at home, and his password is TRUSTNO1. He was a fan of the television show "The Magician" as a child. [Little Green Men] Mulder lives in an apartment (#42) in Alexandria [Novel: Goblins]. His badge number is JTT047101111. The "saying" at the end of the opening credits, The Truth Is Out There, has changed four times: Trust No One -- in Erlemneyer Flask, episode 1X23. Deny Everything -- in Ascension, episode 2X06 EI 'AANIIGOO 'AHOOT'E (The Truth Is Out There in Navajo) -- in Anasazi, episode 2X25. Apology is Policy -- in 731, episode 3X10 Miscellaneous songs heard on X Files: "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, from their 1994 album _Let Love In_, on Duane Barry's car radio in "Ascension. "Frenzy" by Screamin Jay Hawkins, on a radio playing in "Humbug." Ten Thirteen's production crew has had cameos (names and bodies) in various episodes. First Assistant Director Tom Braidwood appeared as _Lone Gunman_ photographer Frohike in "E.B.E.", "Blood," "One Breath," "Fearful Symmetry," "Anasazi," "Paperclip," and "Nisei," and his name was used as the person taking over Howard Graves's parking spot in "Shadows" and as Mulder's alias to get into the secured government compound in Washington State in "E.B.E." Ken Kirzinger, stunt coordinator, appeared as Richter in "Ice." Hair Stylist Malcolm Marsden's name was used for the British PM in "Fire." Vladimir Stefoff, First Assistant Director, had his name (as Val Stefoff) used as Scully's alias to get into the compound in "E.B.E." Executive Producer R.W. Goodwin appeared as a gardener in "Anasazi," and Chris Carter appeared in the same episode as an FBI agent (the third one) grilling Scully. Story editor Darin Morgan appeared as the fluke creature in "Blood." Story ideas: _The X Files_, like almost all network TV shows, does not accept unsolicited scripts or story ideas. If you have them, you will need to get yourself an agent to submit them to the show. Story ideas or scripts sent to the show unagented will be returned or tossed in the trash. Ideas, scripts, and stories can be posted for other fans' enjoyment to the newsgroup alt.tv.x-files.creative. --------- Special Agent In Charge: Special Agent Pat Gonzales, gonza006@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Internet) or LauraHolt@aol.com (America Online) Assisting Special Agents: Tonya Yount, Cliff Chen, Kris Jones, James Drentner, Cory Scott, Laura F. Jenkins, Jerry Jones, Charmaine Lazaro, John Anthony Ruchak, Jeff Gostin, Charles Mcgrew, Andrew Waite, Paula J. Vitaris, Michael A. Chary, Manuel A. Quesada, Anne Jensen, Henry Lee, Scott Steyns, Paul Rabwin, Ngaire Genge, Steve Robson, Christopher Fusco, Ian Jones; Daniel Meijer, Felix Lopez ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---