The X-Files: Kill Switch (1998)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 15 February 1998
Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Executive Producer: Vince Gilligan
Producers: Rob Bowman, Kim Manners, Paul Rabwin
Co-Producers: Lori Jo Nemhauser, John Shiban
Consulting Producer: Ken Horton
Production Manager: Ron French
Unit Manager: Brett Dowler
Production Coordinator: Anita Meehan-Truelove
Assistant Production Coordinator: Linda McAteer

SCRIPT
Script: William Gibson, Tom Maddox
Executive Story Editor: Tim Minear
Story Editor: Billy Brown

DIRECTION
Director: Rob Bowman
1st Assistant Director: Vladimir Stefoff
2nd Assistant Director: Mark D. Currie

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Joel Ransom
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Attila Szalay
Camera Operator: Marty McInally
Focus Puller: Simon Jori
Key Grip: Al Campbell

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Heather MacDougall
Assistant Editors: Jeff Hodge, Sue Kesler
Post Production Supervisor: Denise Pleune

MUSIC
Score Mixer: Larold Rebhun
Music Editor: Jeff Charbonneau

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Michael T. Williamson
Re-Recording Mixers: Harry Andronis, Kurt Kassulke, David John West
Supervising Sound Editor: Thierry J. Couturier

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Key Make Up: Laverne Basham
Key Hair: Anji Bemben
Costume Supervisor: Shane Deschamps

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: David Gauthier

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisor: Laurie Kallsen-George

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Graeme Murray
Art Director: Vivian Nishi
Head Painter: Louis Solyom
Property Master: Kenneth H. Hawryliv
Greensman: Frank Haddad

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Patricia Barry
Assistants to Chris Carter: Mary Astadourian, Joanne Service
Transportation Coordinator: Bob Bowe
DaVinci Colourist: Philip Azenzer

LOCATIONS
Location Manager: Todd Pittson

STUNTS
Driving and Firearms Stunt Double For Gillian Anderson: Christine Lyons

CASTING
Casting: Rick Millikan
Vancouver Casting Associate: Heike Brandstatter
Los Angeles Casting Associate: Stacy Wise
Extras Casting: Lisa Ratke

CAST
Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully)
David Duchovny (Fox Mulder)
Kristin Lehman (Esther Nairn)
Tom Braidwood (Frohike)
Bruce Harwood (Byers)
Dean Haglund (Langly)
Kate Luyben (Nurse Nancy)
Ted Cole (2nd paramedic)
Rob Daprocida (Bunny)
Steven Griffith (1st paramedic)
Patrick Keating (Donald Gelman)
Jerry Schram (US Marshall Gerald Boyce)
Dan Weber (US Marshall Charles Figgis)
Peter Williams (Jackson)

PLOT SUMMARY

Mulder and Scully investigate a rogue computer virus which has attained super-intelligence and which is loose on the Internet. As the FBI agents try to find a way to stop the lethal virus, ity finds a way to track down its creator, trying to destroy him when he tries to eradicate the software.

1998
February
15: USA - television broadcast (on The Fox Network); Canada - television broadcast (on Global)

April
14: New Zealand - television broadcast (on TV2)

May
6: Australia - television broadcast (on Network Ten)
8: Canada - television broadcast (on Space)

November
16: Germany - television broadcast (on Pro7)

1999
January
6: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)
31: Australia - television broadcast (on Fox8)

June
25: Canada - television broadcast (on Space)

August
22: Australia - television broadcast (on Fox8)

December
7: Canada - television broadcast (on Space)

2000
May
7: Australia - television broadcast (on Fox8)
22: Germany - television broadcast (on Pro7)

July
19: Canada - television broadcast (on Space)

September
10: Australia - television broadcast (on Fox8)
15: Canada - television broadcast (on Space)

2001
January
30: Australia - television broadcast (on Fox8)

April
26: Germany - television broadcast (on Premiere)

May
8: Canada - television broadcast (on Canal Z)

July
3: Netherlands - television broadcast (on Yorin)

August
10: Australia - television broadcast (on Fox8)
21: Canada - television broadcast (on Canal Z)

November
19: UK / Ireland - television broadcast (on Sky One)

December
23: Australia - television broadcast (on Fox Kids)

2002
January
14: UK / Ireland - television broadcast (on Sky One)

February
7: Australia - television broadcast (on Fox Kids)
21: Australia - television broadcast (on Fox8)

May
1: Canada - television broadcast (on Space)

July
26: Germany - television broadcast (on Premiere)
29: Australia - television broadcast (on Fox8)

August
11: Canada - television broadcast (on CTV)

September
9: Canada - television broadcast (on Space)

2003
January
10: USA - television broadcast (on TNT)

February
5: Australia - television broadcast (on Fox8)

Clic mortel - French title
Intelligenza artificiale - Italian title
El Interruptor Asesino - Spanish title

1998
Emmy Awards, USA
Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Series (Heather MacDougall) - winner

KEYWORDS

artificial intelligence; computers; computer viruses; cyberpunk; fbi