"X-Files" wins 3 Golden Globes 1997

On a night when Evita and The English Patient were all the buzz, The X-Files took home three Golden Globe Awards at the 54th annual ceremony, held January 19, 1997.  David Duchovny won for Best Actor.  Gillian Anderson won for Best Actress.  The series won Best Drama Series.  The X-Files won every category in which it was nominated. 

Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny, a series I didn't know had aired and need to find it, also won three Golden Globes.  Alan Rickman for Best Actor for a Miniseries or Television Movie.  Sir Ian McKellen won for Best Supporting Actor. The show won for Best Miniseries or Television Movie.

Helen Mirren won Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Movie for her work in Losing Chase.

The X-Files episode "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" airs 1998

I'm always looking for horror-comedies, so the sixth episode of the sixth season of the X-Files How the Ghosts Stole Christmas is a treat. It aired December 13, 1998.  Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) explore a haunted house.  Apparently, two lovers killed each other in a lovers' pact some 81 years before, but it seems they still reside there.

Lily Tomlin had previously mentioned her interest in appearing in an episode and Ed Asner was also on board for the episode.  Scares and laughs abound.  It is a great episode and I look forward to watching it again.

Helen Mirren wins 3rd Primetime Emmy Awards 2006

Dame Helen Mirren won her third Primetime Emmy at the 58th ceremony held August 27, 2006. She took home the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her performance in Elizabeth I, a miniseries aired on HBO. It was her ninth nomination.

Gillian Anderson was also nominated for the same award for her performance in Bleak House.

Megan Mullaly won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance in Will & Grace.

Jeremy Irons won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Elizabeth I.

The wonderful Cloris Leachman won Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her appearance in Malcolm in the Middle.

The X-Files episode "Darkness Falls" airs 1994

One of my favorite X-Files episodes, Darkness Falls, aired April 15, 1994, the twentieth episode of the first season.  Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) investigate the disappearance of a group of loggers in the remote Pacific Northwest, and find a swarm of deadly, prehistoric insects that come out only at night.  Cut off from the outside world, they have to manage to survive.

It was the first time I saw Titus Welliver. :)

The X-Files episode "Nothing Important Happened Today" airs 2001

The first episode of the ninth season of the X-Files, Nothing Important Happened Today, aired November 11, 2001.  I had lost touch with the series, but when I saw Lucy Lawless in the promos, I made a point to watch it.  David Duchovny was not in this episode, so Gillian Anderson (Agent Scully) was paired with Robert Patrick (Agent Doggett), as they investigate a beautiful woman (Lucy Lawless) who can breathe underwater.  

Cary Elwes also appears in this episode.  

The X-Files episode "D.P.O." airs 1995

The third episode of the third season of X-Files, D.P.O., aired October 6, 1995.  Scully and Mulder investigate a young man who appears to possess electrokinesis, the ability to manipulate electricity.  Sound familiar?  A man in Oklahoma who can control lightning?

Oh, well.

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny portray their characters of Scully and Mulder.  Giovanni Rabisi plays the man with the ability to conjure lightning bolts and Jack Black plays the same character he does in almost all his movies.

  

Gillian Anderson wins Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress 1997

Amazing and beautiful Gillian Anderson won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Dr. Dana Scully in the X-files at the 49th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony September 14, 1997.

Dame Helen Mirren presented the award and Gillian told her how much she admired Helen's work.

The X-files was nominated for Best Drama Series Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. 

David Duchovny was nominated as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

James Wong was nominated for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series.

Peter Boyle wins Emmy for guest appearance in "The X Files" 1996

Peter Boyle won a Primetime Emmy for his role as Clyde Bruckman on the X-Files episode Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, September 8, 1996.  Boyle played a psychic who could see people's death.  At the end of the episode, Bruckman commits suicide.

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny appeared as FBI agents Scully and Mulder.

The X-files episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" aired 1996

For the first few seasons of The X-Files, one episode contained dark humor and a little lighter mood than the rest of the episodes.  In Season 3, that episode was the twentieth, Jose Chung's From Outer Space.  It is one of my favorite episodes of the show.  Charles Nelson Reilly stars as a science fiction writer writing a non-fiction book about an alien abduction.  The accounts from the witnesses seem to differ greatly, so anything could have happened.

Jesse Ventura and Alex Trebek appear as Men in Black.

The X-Files episode "Eve" airs 1993

One of the creepier episodes of the X-Files, Eve, aired December 10, 1993.  It was more psychological thriller than anything.  I like actress Harriet Harris, who is extremely versatile, playing a hilariously psychotic agent on the television show Frasier to a psycho on the X-Files. 

Mulder and Scully are called to investigate to identical murders that happened at the exact same time, but on different coasts.  While investigating, they realize the two victims each had a daughter and the girls are identical.  Things get stranger from there, and takes the concept of "evil twin" to a new level.

David Duchovny starred as Mulder and Gillian Anderson as Scully.

"The X Files" premieres 1993

Talk about cutting edge television and pushing the envelope!  The X-Files, creepy, spooky and totally entertaining, premiered on September 10, 1993.  A skeptical FBI agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is assigned to assist FBI's premium pariah, Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) in his investigations in the X-files, cases that involve strange phenomena and nobody else wants to handle.

The series, created by Chris Carter, covers everything from alien abduction, supernatural beings and paranormal events.  Over the span of its initial 11 seasons and now into the second season of its recent incarnation, the show has received 212 nominations including Primetime Emmys and Golden Globes and has won 96 of them.

It is listed as #86 on the highest ranked-television programs on imdb.com.

The X-Files episode "Død Kalm" airs 1995

One of the first episodes of the X-Files I ever saw, Dod Kalm, aired March 10, 1995, is still one of my favorites.  As usual with X-Files, an eerie, seemingly paranormal or science-fiction setting has a factual conclusion.  But they can make anything creepy.

When a U.S. naval ship disappears in the Norwegian Sea, survivors are picked up several hours later, having aged considerably.  Only one survives the trip back to the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland but no one will tell Scully what happened.

Mulder manages to get them on a boat, the captain is the only one who will take them to the last place the ship was known to be.  They find the ship (although satellites and search boats cannot) in dead calm waters.  The ship's captain is still alive but extremely aged.  The bodies of the crew are mummified and the vessel is in advanced stages of corrosion, as if it has been at sea for decades instead of months.

Soon, Mulder and Scully get symptoms of aging and they realize they have little time to figure out what is happening, if they are to get out alive.

"The X-Files" premieres 1993

One of my favorite shows ever, The X-Files, premiered on Fox TV September 10, 1993.  Starring David Duchovny as Fox Mulder, Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully and Mitch Pileggi (woof!) as Walter Skinner, the show delved into the paranormal, aliens and government conspiracies.

Bad Blood, Season 5 Episode 12, with Luke Wilson as the vampire sheriff is probably my favorite episode of the series.

X-Files episode "War of the Coprophages" aired 1996

(Why, yes, I have personally been attacked by a flying cockroach.)

One of the best, funniest and creepiest X-Files episodes, "War of the Coprophages" aired January 5, 1996.  People in a small town fear they are being invaded by giant, man-eating cockroaches that can swallow a person whole.  Mulder goes to investigate mysterious deaths, supposedly caused by cockroaches.  Scully, of course, has a logical explanation for everything even though she's on the phone with Mulder most of the time. 

According to imdb.com, the car crash in this scene was actually real.  Gillian Anderson never breaks character and continues the scene when she realizes no one is hurt.

X-Files controversial episode "Home"

When "Home" aired on October 11, 1996, it was the only X-Files episode at that time to receive a TV-MA rating, because of its controversial nature.  Mulder and Scully investigate the case of a severely deformed infant who was buried alive in a picturesque, small-town America place, Home, Pennsylvania.  The leads take them to a household where the deformed, monster-like Peacock brothers live.

Although the Fox network banned the episode after it aired, it has been one of the most critically acclaimed episodes of the series.  During a particularly gruesome scene, "Wonderful, Wonderful" a song by Johnny Mathis is playing in the background.  Mathis refused to allow his version of the song be used so a sound-alike was used instead.  I won't be able to listen to the song anymore, no matter who is singing it, without remembering this episode.

Happy birthday, Gillian Anderson!

Just a few days ago, David Duchovny celebrated his birthday and today is his X-files' co-star Gillian Anderson's birthday, born August 9, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois.  As Special Agent Dana Scully, she was the perfect counterpart, always cynical and forever skeptical, to Duchovny's Fox "Conspiracies are Us" Mulder.  I think she surprised us X-philes when she recognized an informant's story as an episode from a "Rocky and Bullwinkle Show"!  I always thought Mulder should've figured that one out.

She won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama, Television for her performance as Dana Scully