X-Files FAQ: Conspiracy, aliens, more! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob Andelman

Today's Guest: John Kenneth Muir, author of The X-Files FAQ, Horror Films of the 1970s, Horror Films FAQ.
 

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Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of guys who didn’t make the cut as members of The Lone Gunmen… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

When my future wife and I started living together, the first appointment TV series in our lives was ABC’s daytime soap, “All My Children.”

Her addiction, not mine, but it was silly fun.

We always watched TV together after work – as we do even now -- and the next series I remember us committing to in the 1990s was Fox’s long-running bit of alien abduction weirdness, “The X-Files.” We watched every episode with bated breath, sometimes amused and awed, sometimes left scratching our heads in total confusion.
JOHN KENNETH MUIR podcast excerpt: "Every week, 'The X-Files' brought up these mysteries. There was an episode about the Loch Ness Monster, many episodes about UFOs. They also talked about religion, about faith and, in general, what is belief. I think that really connected with people. The writing was extremely intelligent."
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But – and this is important – we were always eager for the next installment.

We watched all nine seasons together, worrying about Mulder’s addiction, his sister Samantha’s abduction, Sculley’s pregnancy, and Smoking Man’s ever impending doom. We even watched the spinoff series “Millenium” and “The Lone Gunmen” and the first feature film, Fight the Future. (We never did get around to the second, I Want to Believe.)

Oh, and we followed Fox Mulder – I mean actor David Duchovny – through his uncomfortably ographic Show