The X Files: Beyond the Sea (1994)

Date of Original Broadcast: 7 January 1994
Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
Sound: stereo

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Ten Thirteen Productions / Twentieth Century Fox Television
Executive Producer: Chris Carter
Co-Executive Producers: James Wong, Glen Morgan, R.W. Goodwin
Supervising Producers: Howard Gordon, Alex Hansa
Line Producer: Joseph Patrick Finn
Co-Producers: Paul Rabwin, Paul Barber, Larry Barber
Production Manager: J.P. Finn
Production Coordinator: Roberta Henriksen
Assistant Production Coordinator: Anita Truelove

SCRIPT
Script: Glen Morgan, James Wong
Creator: Chris Carter

DIRECTION
Director: David Nutter
1st Assistant Director: Tom Braidwood
2nd Assistant Director: Collin Leadley

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: John S. Bartley
Camera Operator: Rod Pridy
Focus Puller: Marty McInally
Chief Lighting Technician: David Tickell
Key Grip: Al Campbell
Processing: Gastown Film Labs

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: James Coblentz
Assistant Editor: J.J. Rogers
Post Production Coordinator: G.R. Potter
Telecine: Gastown Post and Transfer
Electronic Assembly: Encore Video

MUSIC
Music: Mark Snow
Music Editor: Jeff Charbonneau

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Michael Williamson
Supervising Sound Editor: Thierry Couturier
Post Production Sound: West Productions Inc

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Fern Levin
Hair: Michael Marsden
Costume Designer: Larry Wells
Assistant Costume Designer: Jenni Gullett

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: David Gauthier

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Producer: Mat Beck
Main Title Sequence: Castle / Bryant / Johnsen

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Graeme Murray
Assistant Art Director: Clyde Klotz
Set Decorator: Shirley Inget
Props Master: Ken Hawryliw
Construction Coordinator: Rob Maier

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Director: Wendy McLean
Transportation Coordinator: Bob Bowe

LOCATIONS
Locations: British Columbia, Canada
Location Manager: Louisa Gradnitzer

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Ken Kirzinger

CASTING
Casting: Rick Millikan
Vancouver Casting: Lynne Carrow
Original Casting: Randy Stone

CAST
David Duchovny (Fox Mulder)
Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully)
Brad Dourif (Luther Lee Boggs)
Don Davis (Captain Scully)
Sheila Larken (Maggie Scully)
Lawrence King (Lucas Henry)
Fred Henderson (Agent Thomas)
Don MacKay (Warden Joseph Cash)
Lisa Vultaggio (Liz Hawley)
Chad Willett (Jim Summers)
Kathryn Chisholm (nurse)
Randy Lee (paramedic)
Len Rose (ER doctor)

SUMMARY

While Scully tries to deal with the death of her father, she joins Mulder in tracking down a serial killer who abducts, tortures and ultimately murders young student couples. Following up a mysterious lead, the duo confront convicted serial killer Luther Lee Boggs awaiting execution on death row after being caught using a profile prepared by Mulder. Boggs is now claiming psychic abilities and demands an audience with an unusually sceptical Mulder. Scully is alarmed when Boggs claims to be in contact with the recently deceased Captain Scully and she becomes convinced of his claims when he begins to sing Beyond the Sea, the song played at her father's funeral and Boggs uses the dead man's pet name for his daughter, Starbuck. Meanwhile, the race is on to find the killer - and Mulder has walked into an elaborate trap set by the incarcerated killer in revenge for his capture...

CAPSULE REVIEW

Another stand-out season one episode and the first real chance for Anderson to show us what she's really made of - for much of the episode, Mulder is incapacitated, leaving Scully to solve the case largely unaided. It may well be rather reminiscent of both Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Exorcist III (1990) (even down to Brad Dourif playing much the same role) but like Ice, it plays the familiar riffs with such remarkable style that one is willing to overlook this blatant paoching of ideas. (Full Review)

AVAILABILITY

Germany
DVD Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Japan
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (PCBP-00065)

UK
Television Distributors: BBC1; BBC2; Sky One
Video Distributor: Fox Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Encore
DVD Distributor: Fox Home Video

USA
Television Distributors: Fox
Video Distributor: Fox Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

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KEYWORDS

executions, fbi, funerals, ghosts, prisons, psychics, serial killers

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008