USA, 10 September 1993
50m
35mm film, colour, 4:3
stereo, English
Series: The X Files (1993-2018) – series 1, episode 1
An American science fiction television episode directed by Robert Mandel.
Plot Summary
Sceptical FBI agent Dana Scully is given a new assignment, put to work with Special Agent Fox ‘Spooky’ Mulder who obsessively runs the Bureau’s obscure X Files project from his basement office. Her first assignment takes her to Bellefleur in northwest Oregon where a teenage girl has been found dead in the woods, her nose bleeding and two strange marks on her lower back. Mulder has on file a number of similar bodies, all bearing the same inexplicable wounds and believes that aliens have been using local boy Billy as an unwitting agent to abduct teenagers for use in only vaguely understood experiments.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Directed by: Robert Mandel
© 1993 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Twentieth Century Television
Executive Producer: Chris Carter
Supervising Producer: Daniel Sackheim
Written by: Chris Carter
Director of Photography: Thomas Del Ruth
Editor: Stephen Mark
Music by: Mark Snow
Sound Mixer: Michael Williamson
Costume Designer (LA): Deborah Everton
Costume Designer (Vancouver): Sheila Bingham
Make-up: Fern Levin
Hair Stylist: Malcolm Marsden
Special Effects: Rory Cutler
Visual Effects Producer: Mat Beck
Production Designer: Michael Nemirsky
Filmed on location in British Columbia, Canada
Casting by: Randy Stone
This production has not been approved, endorsed or authorised by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Production Code: #1X79
Cast
David Duchovny (Fox Mulder)
Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully)
Charles Cioffi (Chief Blevins)
Cliff DeYoung (Dr Jay Nemman)
Sarah Koskoff (Theresa Nemman)
Leon Russom (Detective Miles)
Zachary Ansley (Billy Miles)
Stephen E. Miller (Coroner Truitt)
Malcolm Stewart (Dr Glass)
Alexandra Berlin (orderly)
Jim Jansen (Dr Heitz Werber)
Ken Camroux (third man)
Doug Abrams (patrolman #1)
William B. Davis (smoking man)
Katya Gardener (Peggy O’Dell)
Ric Reid (assistant coroner)
Lesley Ewen (receptionist)
J.B. Bivens (truck driver)
Amram Ducovny [man on plane] *
Links
Extracts included in
The Making of the X-Files Movie (1998)
Reflections on The X-Files (2004)
Secrets of the X Files Part 1 (1995)
Secrets of the X Files Part 2 (1996)
The X Files: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (1996)
The X Files: The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat (2018)
References
Periodicals
- Fangoria no.136 (September 1994, pp.62-69 – illustrated synopsis, review (The X Files: Episode Guide by Thomas Deja)
- Starburst no.197 (January 1995) p.43 – review (It’s only a movie by John Brosnan)
- Starburst no.201 (May 1995) pp.16-19 – illustrated interview with Chris Carter (Creating the X-Files by Joe Nazzaro)
- Starburst no.211 (March 1996) pp.25-40 – illustrated article (The X Files: Report # 1 by Jane Killick)
- Starburst Special May 1995 pp.16-19 – illustrated interview with Chris Carter (Creating the X-Files by Joe Nazzaro)
- TV Guide vol.42 no.9 (26 February 1994) p.8 – illustrated review (The couch critic by Jeff Jarvis)
- TV Guide vol.44 no.20 (18 May 1996) p.37 – illustrated note (What’s in a name? by Rich Sands)
