The X Files: Fire (1993)

Date of Original Broadcast: 17 December 1993
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: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
Co-Producers: Paul Rabwin, Paul Barber, Larry Barber
Line Producer: Joseph Patrick Finn
Production Manager: J.P. Finn
Production Coordinator: Roberta Henriksen
Assistant Production Coordinator: Anita Truelove

SCRIPT
Script / Creator: Chris Carter

DIRECTION
Director: Larry Shaw
1st Assistant Director: Brian Giddens
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 Labs

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Heather MacDougall
Assistant Editor: Jeff Cahn
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: Malcolm Marsden
Costume Designer: Larry Wells
Costume Supervisor: 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: Gary P. Allen
Set Decorator: Shirley Inget
Property Master: Ken Hawryliw
Construction Coordinator: Rob Maier

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Director: Wendy McLean
Transportation Coordinator: Bob Bowe

LOCATIONS
Locations: British Columbia, Canada
Location Manager: Todd Pittson

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)
Amanda Pays (Phoebe Green)
Mark Sheppard (Bob / Cecil Lively)
Dan Lett (Sir Malcolm Marsden)
Laurie Paton (Lady Marsden)
Duncan Fraser (Beatty)
Phil Hayes (driver #1)
Keegan Macintosh (Michael)
Linda Boyd (woman in bar)
Christopher Gray (Jimmie)
Alan Robertson (grey-haired man)

SUMMARY

Mulder and Scully are contacted by a former paramour of Mulder's, British cop Phoebe Green, "the terror of Scotland Yard", in the States to protect a visiting Parliamentarian. An alarming number of British politicians and aristocrats have recently been put to death by a serial killer whose unusual kink is that he sets fire to his victims. The arrival in Cape Cod of Sir Malcolm Marsden and his family brings the pyrotechnic maniac to the attentions of the X Files duo and Mulder must confront his own personal demons (an intense fear of fire) in order to bring the killer to book.

CAPSULE REVIEW

Despite a tendendy towards the usual Hollywood stereotyping of the British characters, Fire is generally wittily and intelligently plotted. Sheppard is excellent as the deranged killer Cecil Lively and Duchovny is given a chance to shine in a story that fleshes out his character considerably. Scully seems rather less sceptical this time out, though her reasoning for the killer's behaviour and modus operandi are more pragmatic than Mulder's. How much her reluctance to dismiss Mulder's ideas are due to the jealousy arousing presence of the delectable Phoebe are unclear, though one suspects it plays a prominent role. (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

children, clones, eugenics, fbi, twins

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008