1x01 Pilot - The X-Files Episode Guide

The X-Files

- Episode 01x01

Episode: 01x01 (pilot)
Title: Pilot
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 1X79
First Aired: Sep. 10, 1993

Season 1 » Episode #01 - Pilot

Summary: Special Agent Dana Scully is partnered with Special Agent Fox Mulder to validate his work in a division called The X-Files. While he is a believer in the paranormal, due to memories in which his sister was abducted by aliens, she is a skeptic and a scientist who prefers to look for rational, logical explanations.After a number of Oregon high school teens begin to die mysteriously, Agents Scully and Mulder are called to investigate the matter. Mulder believes those murders are linked to alien abduction.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Deep Throat	played by Jerry Hardin
Paul Mossinger	played by Michael Bryan French
Emil	played by Seth Green
Anita Budahas	played by Gabrielle Rose
Ladonna	played by Monica Parker
Verla McLennen	played by Sheila Moore
Zoe	played by Lalainia Lindbjerg
Colonel Robert Budahas	played by Andrew Johnston (II)
Commanding Officer	played by Jon Cuthbert

	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot Mulder: They're here aren't they? Deep Throat: Mr. Mulder, THEY'VE been here for a long, long time.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot Scully: Mulder, did you see their eyes? If I were that high... Mulder: Ooh! If you were that high, what? Scully: Mulder, you could've shown that kid a picture of a flying hamburger and he would've told that's exactly what he saw.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: When Scully is asleep in the car and a UFO (presumably) flies overhead, the glass shatters in the back. However, later, when Mulder and Scully are being detained by the "National Security" guys, the back windshield is shown intact.

TRIVIA

When Scully is examining the newspaper on microfiche, the name of the reporter is listed as C. Carter.
Principle setting: Southwest Idaho.
The license plate number investigated by Scully is CC-1356. Chris Carter (I) was born on 13 October 1956.
First appearance of Deep Throat.
The house used for the exterior shots of the Budahas residence would also become Frank Black's yellow house in "Millennium" (1996/I).