The X-Files (Season 4) DVD

Rated: Not Rated
Genre: TV Series
Length: 999 minutes
Director: Various
Year: (1997)

Britt Gillette's The X-Files (Season 4) DVD Review

Nominated for 12 Golden Globes and 61 Emmys, including 4 for Outstanding Drama Series, The X-Files is one of the world's most popular science-fiction drama shows. Premiering in the Fall of 1993 on the Fox Network, home of popular programs such as The Simpsons (1989) and King Of The Hill (1997), The X-Files created an entire fictional world of conspiracies and secret organizations, building a legion of fanatic followers as devoted to the series as Trekkies are to Star Trek. Creator Cris Carter, a former writer for numerous TV shows in the late-80s/early-90s - The Nanny (1993) is one example - brings together the finest aspects of suspense-laden spy novels and alien science fiction. The result is one of the top sci-fi franchises ever produced, spawning its own line of merchandise and even a full length feature film - The X-Files: Fight The Future (1998). With nine successful seasons to its credit, The X-Files is one of the longest-running sci-fi series in television history…

The X-Files follows the exploits of four FBI agents assigned to investigate a series of unsolved and mysterious cases known only as "The X-Files". FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), John Doggett (Robert Patrick), and Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish) are the primary agents investigating these unusual cases which could never be solved by conventional investigatory methods. But Mulder and Scully in particular play prominent roles in the series. The partnership and friendship the two develop during the course of the series sets the tone for their investigations into the paranormal with Scully, a medical doctor, playing the skeptic to Mulder's deeply held beliefs in widespread government conspiracies and alien abductions. Through the course of the series, The X-Files covers a wide-range of frightening and mysterious subjects from killer insects and secret world government organizations to the colonization of Earth by parasitic aliens. In so doing, it adds its own unique brand of humor and an original blend of creativity that fans of the genre will certainly appreciate…

The X-Files (Season 4) DVD features a number of suspense riddled episodes including the season premiere "Herrenvolk" in which an alien bounty hunter is hot on the trail of Mulder and Jeremiah Smith. Jeremiah takes Mulder to a farm to hideout, a farm populated by identical girls who are clones of his sister (and all of them being of the same age when she was abducted). When the bounty hunter discovers them, he kills Jeremiah. Meanwhile, the Syndicate fears a traitor is within its ranks, and it will go to any lengths necessary to eliminate the problem… Other notable episodes from Season 4 include "Tunguska" in which a rock with Martian origins threatens to have dangerous implications for humanity at large, and "Synchrony" in which Mulder suspects that a scientist is involved in a time travel expedition in order to stop his own creation from becoming reality…

Below is a list of episodes included on The X-Files (Season 4) DVD:

Episode 74 (Herrenvolk) Air Date: 10-04-1996
Episode 75 (Home) Air Date: 10-11-1996
Episode 76 (Teliko) Air Date: 10-18-1996
Episode 77 (Unruhe) Air Date: 10-27-1996
Episode 78 (The Field Where I Died) Air Date: 11-03-1996
Episode 79 (Sanguinarium) Air Date: 11-10-1996
Episode 80 (Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man) Air Date: 11-17-1996
Episode 81 (Tunguska) Air Date: 11-24-1996
Episode 82 (Terma) Air Date: 12-01-1996
Episode 83 (Paper Hearts) Air Date: 12-15-1996
Episode 84 (El Mundo Gira) Air Date: 01-12-1997
Episode 85 (Leonard Betts) Air Date: 01-26-1997
Episode 86 (Never Again) Air Date: 02-02-1997
Episode 87 (Memento Mori) Air Date: 02-09-1997
Episode 88 (Kaddish) Air Date: 02-16-1997
Episode 89 (Unrequited) Air Date: 02-23-1997
Episode 90 (Tempus Fugit) Air Date: 03-16-1997
Episode 91 (Max) Air Date: 03-23-1997
Episode 92 (Synchrony) Air Date: 04-13-1997
Episode 93 (Small Potatoes) Air Date: 04-20-1997
Episode 94 (Zero Sum) Air Date: 04-27-1997
Episode 95 (Elegy) Air Date: 05-04-1997
Episode 96 (Demons) Air Date: 05-11-1997
Episode 97 (Gethsemane) Air Date: 05-18-1997

Britt Gillette

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Posted on 28 June 2005