01 What is The X-Files?
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This article is from the uk.media.tv.sf.x-files FAQ, by Paul Tang paul@asfafa.demon.co.uk with numerous contributions by others.
01 What is The X-Files?
BBC
Season Three will probably be screened on BBC 1 on Thursday 12th
September at 9.30pm, with the end-of-season-2 climax episode, Anasazi,
aired on Monday 9th September. The BBC will be showing the episodes
completely uncut.
Sky
The X-Files is a one hour program on Sky, due to the insertion of
adverts. Season 3 has been aired on Sky One, Tuesdays at 9pm, uncut!!
(well, almost.) Season 4 will begin in February, 1997.Currently, Season
2 episodes are being repeated on Sky One, on Sundays at 8pm.
The X-Files is produced by Ten Thirteen Productions for Twentieth
Century Fox Television.
About
The X-Files is a television program that deals with, basically, the
paranormal. There are two main characters, Dana Scully (played by
Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (played by David Duchovny). Both work
for the FBI, in the Violent Crimes section.
Neither character is normally referred to by their forenames; they
refer to each other as 'Scully' and 'Mulder'.
The characters work from opposite viewpoints, Mulder being the believer
and Scully being the dis-believer. Scully was assigned to help Mulder
with the X-Files and to debunk his theories. She has been unable to do
this with some of the cases.
The majority of The X-Files is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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 they are real X
Files.
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