ALIENS Pt 22: The X-Files (1993-2018)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
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🗓️ 12 November 2021
⏱️ 142 minutes
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The truth is out there! This week Mike is joined by Anna Bogutskaya to tackle one of the most influential TV shows of the last 30 years...The X-FILES! We begin by discussing the history and influences of the show, followed by it's mythology, then list our 20 favourite monster-of-the-week episodes...
Music by Jack Whitney.
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| 0:00.0 | In the early 1990s TV writer Chris Carter pitched a sci-fi horror TV show idea to Fox |
| 0:29.4 | about FBI agents investigating the paranormal and unexplained phenomena. Initially Fox |
| 0:35.6 | weren't interested, but Carter returned to pitch it a second time. This time armed |
| 0:40.9 | with data about real eyewitness accounts of UFO sightings and percentages of how many |
| 0:47.1 | people in the US genuinely believe in alien abductions. Fox eventually agreed to commission |
| 0:54.7 | a first season of the X-Files. The show took 1950s horror sci-fi style stories akin to |
| 1:01.9 | the Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits, whilst also jumping on the success of FBI procedures |
| 1:07.5 | like the Silence of the Lams. The result was one of the most popular and influential |
| 1:13.0 | cult television shows of all time. A TV show that spanned over 20 years and 200 episodes, |
| 1:20.3 | and its peak would be watched by nearly 30 million people per week. Join me as we continue |
| 1:29.4 | exploring the evolution of alien horror and we discuss Chris Carter's 90s TV phenomenon, |
| 1:36.1 | the X-Files. |
| 1:44.5 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munter and as ever I am your host. |
| 1:50.4 | If you tune in for the first time, then welcome. On this podcast, we explore and dissect |
| 1:54.6 | the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at a particular sub-jummer as |
| 1:58.7 | one series at a time. We are currently in the middle of our seventh series exploring the |
| 2:03.4 | evolution of alien, sci-fi and cosmic horror, and this is part 22. This week, as that intro |
| 2:10.5 | suggested, we are going to be looking at Chris Carter's incredible TV show, The X-Files. |
| 2:16.0 | So it's always tricky to cover television in a single discussion, but what we are going |
| 2:21.4 | to do is kind of do a broad overview of the program as a whole. So in the first half |
| 2:27.6 | of this episode, we'll be talking about the show, its history, its legacy, its mythology, |
| 2:33.0 | and then in the second half, me and my guest will be listing our 20 favourite episodes. |
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