The third episode of The X-Files introduces us to the Monster of the Week scenario and shows that it isn’t going to be just about UFOs and alien abductions. It also introduced us to an immediately iconic villain with Eugene Victor Tooms (Doug Hutchison). Squeeze, written by Glen Morgan and James Wong, first aired on…
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The X-Files (1993) – Pilot, and Deep Throat
10 September, 1993. Man, that feels like a long time ago, despite the fact that my mind tells me that the 80s were only a couple of years ago. Weird. Sounds like an x-file. Much like my watching of Star Trek, tons has been written by other fans and critics about Chris Carter’s creation, so…
Miami Vice (1987) – God’s Work, and Missing Hours
Castillo (Edward James Olmos) gets a bit of the limelight in this episode written by Edward Tivnan, which first aired on 6 November, 1987. When the son, Felipe (Esai Morales) of a drug dealer, Jorge (Juan Cejas – who will always be a Joan Wilder fan to me) returns to town, the team is trying…
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) – Chris Carter
The last episode of season 9, and the presumed end of the series before its relaunch in 2016 aired on 19 May, 2002, six years later Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are put into action again, and so am I as I investigate the cinematic entries for the Sci-Fi Chronicles book….
The Mind Reels chats with Jeremy Lalonde!
it’s always a joy when our friend Jeremy Lalonde comes back into the studio to chat with us. We can always guarantee that there will be talk about up-coming projects (listen to the one he’s working on now!) as well as follow-up on other works, and as usual, we get nicely sidetracked by our love…
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