The X Files: Space (1993)

Date of Original Broadcast: 5 November 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: Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa
Co-Producer: Paul Rabwin
Line Producer: Joseph Patrick Finn
Production Manager: J.P. Finn
Production Coordinator: Roberta Sheehy
Assistant Production Coordinator: Anita Truelove

SCRIPT
Script / Creator: Chris Carter

DIRECTION
Director: William Graham
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 Labs

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Heather McDougall
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 Prods 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: Clyde Klotz
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: 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)
Ed Lauter (Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt)
Susanna Thompson (Michelle Generoo)
Tom McBeath (scientist)
Terry David Mulligan (mission controller)
French Tickner (preacher)
Norma Wick (reporter)
Alf Humphreys (2nd controller)
David Cameron (young scientist)
Tyronne L'Hirondelle (databank scientist)
Paul DesRoches (paramedic)

SUMMARY

Something is afoot at NASA's space shuttle program, with the latest mission being repeatedly sabotaged and delayed. Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate, much to Mulder's delight as the project is being headed up by Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt, one of his childhood heroes. That devotion is put to the test, however, when it is revealed that Belt had encountered a ghostly alien which resembled the image in photographs of the Cydonia region of Mars, the infamous 'face on Mars' while taking a space walk, a creature that has now possessed his body and is determined to stop the shuttle program.

CAPSULE REVIEW

After the enormously impressive and revealing Ice, this was major disappointment, a failed exercise in cost cutting that even writer Chris Carter himself has dismissed as the very worst of season one. Designed to use much NASA stock footage in effort to keep down the spiralling production costs, Space ended up going over budget again (most of its predecessors had failed to stay within their financial limits) and resulted in a flat, uninvoilving and frankly rather silly outing.

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

aliens, astronauts, fbi, martians, possession, space shuttles, space travel

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008