Scully, Looks like an X-Phile: Top Fifteen X-Files Episodes (15-11)
Top Fifteen X-Files Episodes
In three parts, nonetheless. Here we go:
15. "Hollywood A.D." (Air date: April 30, 2000) - Agents Mulder and Scully investigate a bombing at a Christ Church and Scully finds a bowl that, after being acoustically analyzed, has an unearthly sound to it. Is it the sound of Jesus' voice or really an incantation to raise the dead? Meanwhile, Skinner is talking with a Hollywood friend. It seems that a movie is being based on the 'X-Files' and Scully will be played by Tea Leoni, Mulder will be played by Garry Shandling, and Skinner will be played by Richard Gere.
Trivia: David Duchovny wrote and directed this episode as a "thank you" to the cast and crew of the show.
14. "X-Cops" (Air date: February 20, 2000) - Agents Mulder and Scully are investigating a monster that feeds on fear while an episode of "COPS" is being filmed. Mulder eats up the spotlight while Scully cringes from it.
Trivia: This episode was shot by the same cameraman from the "COPS" TV series.
13. "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" (Air date: December 12, 1998) - Mulder convinces Scully to investigate a supposed "haunted house" on Christmas Eve where a couple (played by Ed Asner and Lily Tomlin) made a lovers suicide pact years previous. What follows is trickery by the ghosts themselves.
Trivia: The role played by Ed Asner was originally written for Bob Newhart, who turned it down.
12. "Gender Bender" (Air date: January 21, 1994) - Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders which are identical and sexually-motivated. The killers appear to be male and female. They are led to the small town of Stevenston, Massachusetts where an Amish-like group called The Kindred whose members have the ability to change sex.
Trivia: Nicholas Lea plays a hospitalized victim in this episode. Producers and fans liked him so much that he would later return as Agent Alex Krycek.
11. "Beyond the Sea" (Air date: January 7, 1994) - Scully's father (played by the late Don S. Davis) passes away. While Mulder interrogates prisoner Luther Boggs (Brad Dourif), Boggs displays a psychic connection to Scully's father. Mulder is skeptical and believes Boggs is just buying time.
Trivia: This was the first episode in which Mulder was shot.
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5 Comments
Post a CommentHollywood AD? Is that a joke? That episode was an embarrassment for the series.
I agree with the other comments. There are so many great episodes they should be on the list but instead we get some of the worst episodes the series gave us (e.g. HAD) and a great deal of mediocre eps. Memento Mori, Redux, Gethsemane, Irresistible, Deep Throat, Small Potatoes, Wetwired, Unususal Suspects, Anasazi should be here
Hollywood AD is the worst episode of the series! It was a joke. I like comic episodes like small potatoes, bad blood and humbug (those eps are brilliant) but hollywood ad is not even funny. I didn't laugh during the whole episode, not even once. Some parts were totally lame. It was a bad saga of duchovny's inside jokes that have nothing to do with the mood or the atmosphere of the series. Also the direction was horrible.
I agree with Frank Black, all the episodes he mentioned are fantastic. Also Unruhe, The Unusual Suspects, Small Potatoes, Never Again, One Breath, The Erlenmeyer Flask, Fallen Angel are all such great episodes!
I don't agree with many epsiodes on the list like Hollywood AD (worst episode the series ever produced), Gender Bender and some others. Especially when in No 15 I saw Hollywood AD i thought I was watching the worst episode list. There were so many brilliant episodes they should be included instead : Memento Mori, Deep Throat, E.B.E., Anasazi/The Blessing Way/Paper Clip of the mythology and Detour, Squeeze/Tooms, Leonard Betts, Ice, Irresistible and many many others MOTW.