The X Files: Little Green Men (1994)

Date of Original Broadcast: 16 September 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
Producer: Paul Brown
Line Producer: Joseph Patrick Finn
Co-Producer: Paul Rabwin
Associate Producer: Crawford Hawkins
Production Manager: J.P. Finn
Production Coordinator: Anita Truelove
Assistant Production Coordinator: Joanne Service

SCRIPT
Script / 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: Stephen Mark
Assistant Editor: Ron South
Post Production Coordinator: Kenneth Dennis
Telecine: Gastown Post and Transfer
Electronic Assembly: Encore Video

MUSIC
Music: Mark Snow
Scoring Mixer: Larold Rebhun
Music Editor: Jeff Charbonneau

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Michael Williamson
Re-Recording Mixers: David John West, Nello Torri, Craig Hunter
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 MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: Toby Lindala

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: David Gauthier

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Producer: Mat Beck
Computer Graphics: Northwest Imaging & FX
Main Title Sequence: Castle / Bryant / Johnsen

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

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Wendy McLean
Transportation Coordinator: Bob Bowe

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

CASTING
Casting: Rick Millikan
Vancouver Casting: Lynne Carrow
Original Casting: Randy Stone
Casting Associate: Coreen Mayrs

CAST
David Duchovny (Fox Mulder)
Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully)
Raymond J. Barry (Senator Richard Matheson)
William B. Davis (Smoking Man)
Les Carlson (Dr Trotsky)
Mike Gomez (Jorge Concepcion)
Vanessa Morley (Samantha (Age 8))
Mitch Pileggi (Assistant Director Walter S. Skinner)
Marcus Turner (Mulder (Age 12))
Fulvio Cecere (aide)
Deryl Hayes (Agent Morris)
Dwight McFee (Commander)
Lisa Anne Beley (student)
Gary Hetherington (Lewin)
Bob Wilde (Rand)

SUMMARY

Increasingly depressed and wracked with self-doubt, Mulder abandons his position on a routine wire tap to chase up a lead provided by SETI-supporting senator Richard Matheson. Learning that an automatic tracking facility in Puerto Rico has been receiving transmissions, apparently in response to the Voyager missions, Mulder races against the Blue Beret UFO Crash Retrieval Team to reach the facility and find out what's going on before the government destroy the evidence. Discovering a terrified local, Mulder learns that something has indeed been paying visits to the Arecibo Observatory. A blinding light announces their return and Mulder is suddenly face to face with the beings that took away his beloved sister...

CAPSULE REVIEW

Duchovny shoulders the burden of attention with one of his strongest and most impassioned performances, though Anderson (already beginning to show the effects of her pregnancy) isn't given an awful lot to do except rush around after Mulder and play the role of 'Doctor's Assistant', asking endless dumb questions. But as a season opener and a reaffirmation of what The X Files stands for, it's spot on. It plunges us back into the bizarre world of Mulder and Scully, where alien forces are ever present and where the greatest thing we have to fear is not the inscrutable extraterrestrials, but the agents of own governments and law enforcers. (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

aliens, conspiracies, cover-ups, fbi

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008