X FILE 11291093 Part 4 of 5 11/1/97 /The Pregnancy/ Although actress Gillian Anderson was pregnant during the latter part of first season and the early part of second season, her condition was not reflected in the show's scripts. Anderson appeared in the first six episodes of second season and was written purposely out of the seventh. She returned in the eighth episode, "One Breath." The production company filmed "creatively" to disguise the pregnancy. Anderson gave birth to a daughter, Piper, on Sept. 25, 1994. /Merchandise/ *Wearing Apparel etc.* A variety of licensed merchandise is available: hats, mugs, innumerable t-shirts, posters, key chains, and an embroidered jacket, among other things. Suncoast Pictures, a video chain that carries related media merchandise, is carrying some of the above items; look for the store in a city near you. :-) In addition, these items have been found at another media chain, Musicland/Sam Goody stores, and in comics and t-shirt shops. Starland not only is carrying a variety of officially-licensed T-shirts, hats, posters, mugs, and magazines, but is showcasing their merchandise in a zine called "The X Factor!" This zine has information about the show as well as color photos of the merchandise. To get on their mailing list, e-mail your snail mail address to starland@aol.com, with in the subject heading. You can call with questions to 303 / 671-8735, order merchandise by calling 1-800-733-8735 (faxing to 303-671-0302) or sending your order snail mail to Starland, P.O. Box 24590, Denver, CO 80224-2590. Order hours are 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday. They also have a Website which containst their X Files catalog: http://www.dash.com/netro/sho/starland.html. Orion Traders carries a wide variety of X-Files merchandise, including over twenty different t-shirt designs (both embroidered and printed), polo shirts, sweatshirts, lettermen's jackets, hats, posters, photographs, and mugs. They also carry the X-Files novels and comic books, as well as current magazines.They accept VISA, MasterCard, or Discover, as well as check or money order. Though they do not produce a catalog, they do have a merchandise list that can be mailed out to people. They can be reached via their toll-free number at 888-88-SCI-FI, "local" phone or fax at 916/966-7447, or snail-mail at 10139 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Fair Oaks, CA 95628. They also have a Website at http://wwnm.com/orion. Mail order company 800-TREKKER has T-shirts, caps, mugs, and the X Files novel, and other UFO-related merchandise. They can be reached at 1-800-TREKKER (fax 1-800-FAX TREK), or through their web page at http://www.sufi.com/trader/trekker/files/index.html. Time Warner's Viewer's Edge, is offering an X File shirt and cap (different from Suncoast offerings). They can be reached at P.O. Box 3925, Milford, CT 06460; phone 1-800-947-3928 (24 hours a day) or (fax) 1-203-876-8234. Mere Mortals is a company that has put together a group of _X Files_ related merchandise, such as hats, mugs, shirts, comics, and limited run posters. For their catalog, send one dollar to Brent Lilley: Mere Mortals, 350 S. Tustin Ave., Orange, CA 92666. CPG Direct offers autographed photos of Duchovny and Anderson. Each photo is guaranteed to be hand autographed by the star, includes a certificate of authenticity, has an unconditional 30-day Money Back guarantee, comes double matted and ready for framing, and is 11 x 14 in size. A black metal custom frame is also available. Price is $50 each, with a %5.95 shipping fee. Framing is an additiona $25 extra. Checks, money orders, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover accepted. Their address is CPG Direct, Dep-SE, P.O. Box 1020, Valley Cottage, NY 10989; or call in an order at 1-800,392-3075 (24 hour phone lines) TV Merchandise (sales@tvmerch.com) sells a variety of X Files material, including shirts, hats, mugs, clocks, calendars, photos, trading cards, scripts, key chains, posters, postcards, and more. They accept all major credit cards and checks on line. For more information see their web site at http://www.tvmerch..com/ In the U.K., Escape Comic Books (7, Cheapside; Reading; Berkshire; RG1 7AG; UK) has access to a lot of X Files merchandise. (They're next door to the Odeon Cinema, says UK X-Phile Steve Robson).Their phone number is 0118-957-5131. Other U.K. merchandise sources are the (famous) Forbidden Planet, New Oxford Street, London; and The Vintage Magazine Company, 39/43 Brewer Street, London, NW1. Both stores apparently have mail order sections. Posters are also available from Rick's Movie Graphics, P.O. Box 23709, Gainesville, FL 32602-3709; phone 904-373-7202. This is *not* the "I Want To Believe" poster from Mulder's office; that was a special one made for the show and is not available. Scripts and photographs are also available through Hollywood Script Library, 8033 Sunset Blvd. Suite 982, Dept. N, Los Angeles, CA 90046. *Books/comics* Original novels are being published by HarperPrism. The first two X Files books were written by noted horror/fantasy writer Charles L. Grant. The first X Files book was _The X Files: Goblins_, ISBN 0-06-105414-3. The second book is entitled _Whirlwind_, ISBN 0-06-105415-1. An announced third book from Grant, _Hunter_, was dropped from the list. Kevin J. Anderson, most known for his Star Wars: Jedi Academy books, will be taking over as writer of the X Files novels. His first novel "Ground Zero" is out in hardcover, and will be available in July in paperback. The ISBN number for the hardcover is 0-06-05223X; cost is $20.The audiocassette of this book is read by Gillian Anderson herself. Cost is $17, ISBN is 06-945-1620-1. Anderson's second X Files novel, "Ruins,"is available. The ISBN number is 0-06-105247-7; the audiocasette version, read by Mitch Pileggi, is ISBN is 0-69451-688-0. A third X Files novel by Anderson, "Antibodies," is now available. Two series of paperbacks based on the episodes aimed at a younger (10 and older) audience are out in the children's sections of your local bookstore, or directly from HarperCollins. Check out their web page at http://www.harpercollins.com/kids/xfilepr.htm. -------- One series, aimed at the 10 year old and older, has these offerings: #1 - "X Files: X Marks The Spot" (based on the script for the pilot), ISBN 006440613x; W: Les Martin #2 - "X Files: Darkness Falls," ISBN 0064406148; W: L. Martin #3 - "X Files: Tiger, Tiger" (based on "Fearful Symmetry"), ISBN 0-06-440626-1. W: L. Martin. #4 - "X Files: Squeeze," ISBN 0-06-105247-7. W: Ellen Steiber #5 - "X Files: Humbug," ISBN 0-06-440627-X, W: L. Martin #6 - "X Files: Shapes," ISBN 0-06-440633-4. W: E. Steiber. #7 - "X Files: Fear" (based on "Blood"), ISBN 0-06-4406423. W: L. Martin #8 - "X Files: Voltage (based on "D.P.O."), ISBN 0-06-440643-1. W: E. Royce #9 - "X Files: E.B.E," ISBN 0-06-440653-9. W: L. Martin #10 - "X Files: Die, Bug, Die!" (based on "War of the Coprophages") ISBN: 0-06-440671-7. W: L. Martin #11 - "X Files: Ghost in the Machine," ISBN 0-06-440678-4. W: L. Martin ------- A second series, aimed at an older youth audience (teenagers?), has these novelizations based on the series episodes: #1 - "The Calusari," ISBN 0-06-447171-3. W: Garth Nix #2 - "Eve," ISBN 0-06-44717201. W: Ellen Steiber #3 - "Bad Sign" (based on the episode "Syzygy"), ISBN: 0-06-447170-5. W: Easton Royce. #4 - "Our Town," ISBN 0-06-447175-6. W: Easton Royce #5 - "Empathy" (based on the episode "Oubliette"). W: Ellen Steiber #6 - "Fresh Bones." W: Les Martin HarperCollins had come out with _The Truth Is Out There: The X Files Companion_, dealing with the various aspects of the show. The ISBN is 0-06-105330-9. The second volume, called "Trust No One" and covering third season X Files, is out. ISBN is 0-06-105353-8. The third volume, covering fourth season X Files, is called "I Want To Believe" and is now due out in January. Author is Andy Meisler. A second nonfiction book, published by Crown and called _The Unofficial X Files Companion_ (with a second volume), is available. Author is Ngaire Genge. A third nonfiction book, _The X-Files Book of the Unexplained: Volume 1_ and _Volume 2_, are available. Author is Jane Goldman. There are also other unofficial trivia and information books available. Information on X Files filming locations in Vancouver can be found in a book called "Reel Vancouver," by Ken MacIntyre, published by Whitecap Books. Topps Comics publishes an _X Files_ comic book. The first three issues are collector's items and a compilation of these, as well as reprints, have been released. Following issues have also appeared individually as well as in compilations. [Topps Copics is an arm of the baseball-card company, and currently produce comic books based on other TV and movie characters as well as the usual superheroes.] The current issue is 31. Mark Martinez keeps an X Files comics update, which can be found at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/8337/xfcomix.html. Topps has released three sets of X Files trading cards. Complete sets, which features illustrations and information from each seasons, contain 72 regular cards, foil parallel versions of those cards, 6 etched foil comic cover cards, and 4 chromium photo cards. Prices of individual 9-card packets and boxes vary. The third edition of a new Official X Files magazine is on the newstands. It is also available from the publisher, MVP Media, 1920 Highland Aave., Suite 220, Lombard, IL 60148. Cost is $5.95 ($6.95 for Canada) and $2.00 shipping (all in U.S. funds). The Topps company published two issues of an earlier official magazine. *Videos* Fox has released episodes from the first season on tape to the U.S. and Canadian markets. The pilot and "Deep Throat" are on the first video, "Conduit" and "Ice" on the second, and "Fallen Angel" and "Eve" on the third. In September 96, three more tapes were released: "Squeeze"/"Tooms", "Beyond the Sea"/"E.B.E.", and "Darkness Falls"/"Erlenmeyer Flask." In February 97, Fox released "Little Green Men"/ "The Host," "Sleepless"/ "Duane Barry," and "Ascension"/ "One Breath." In May97, Fox released "Humbug"/ "Anasazi," "Colony"/ "End Game," and "Irresistible"/ "Die Hand Die Verletzt. On Sept. 30, Fox released "The Blessing Way"/ "Paper Clip," "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"/ "War of the Coprophages," and "Nisei"/ "731." #The next video release will include: "Piper Maru"/ "Apocrypha," "Pusher"/ "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space,'" and "Wetwired"/ "Talitha Cumi." The release date is unknown.# The show has also been released on video and laser disk in various countries around the world, with various combinations different from the U.S. releases. Please contact video/laserdisk retailers in your country for more specific information, or the Official X Files Website at www.thex-files.com. *Music* An X Files "contributed" CD, "Songs in the Key of X," with music from various groups and singers and a song co-written by Chris Carter, has been produced by Don Was and is available. Mark Snow's X Files soundtrack CD was released in October 1996. Music director Mark Snow has written the music for 63 movies or miniseries, 7 movies, and 13 television shows (themes and/or episode music), including _Starsky and Hutch_ ('70s television series), _In the Line of Fire_ (movie), -_Born to be Wild_ (movie), _Children of the Dust_ (TV miniseries), and _Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All_ (TV miniseries), and Chris Carter's _Millennium_, among others. *Miscellaneous* An X Files phone card is available in the U.S. In the UK, 5 official UK X Files phone cards were released earlier this year by a company called Broadsystems Venture Ltd. (phone -- 0990 200 680). Each cones in an individual folder and shows a different design, with one closely resembling the U.S. design, and they retail for 8.95 UK pounds or 39.95 pounds for all 5. Genesis and SNES game cartridges are being planned for a future release. Landmark's 1998 calendar will be available soon; ISBN is 0-06-757486-6 (cost is $11.95), and the desk diary's ISBN is 0-06-757485-8 (cost is $15). X Files postcard books are also available. The X Files Collectible Card Game is a 360 card deck, available as a 60-card starter deck and 15-card booster packs. Special cards will be available in game magazines. NXT Games, the originator of the game,was bought up by the U.S. Playing Card Company. The USPCC has since discontinued the game and its website. Collector statuettes of the Flukeman and the Abducted Smoking Alien have been created and is being sold through Dark Horse. The 5000-statue limited runs are priced at $125 wholesale plus shipping and handling. For information call 1-800-862-0562. The long-expected X Files CD game is expected in 1998. /Fan Clubs/ *Official Fan Clubs* Creation Entertainment is sponsoring The Official X Files Fan Club in the U.S. For information contact them at 818 / 409-0960, or send a SASE to them at 411 N. Central Ave., #300, Glendale, CA 91203. A Creation UK X Files fan club is being arranged. In Australia, Photon Productions sponsors the official fan club. Contact them at: X Files Fan Club - Australia, c/o Photon Productions, G.P.O. Box 2067, Sydney 2001, Australia, or call them at 800-67-1701. In Italy, write to The Official X Files Fan Club, 2 Piazza Risorgimento, 00041 Abano Lazale (Roma), Italia. In France, write to The Official X Files Fan Club, 93, av du. General Leclerc, 75014 PARIS, FRANCE, or call them at 1.45.42.3945. *Unofficial Fan Clubs* The fan-run X-Files Fan Club was formed with the sanction of 20th Century Fox and Ten Thirteen Productions in March 1994. A year's subscription is $20 ($30 Canadian). The fan club, a nonprofit organization, produces a newsletter/magazine containing news, interviews, pictures, episode guides, bibliographic information, more information on topics brought up in the show, and other items. Although net-fandom will be well represented (one section of the newsletter will be called "The Buzz from the Net"), the newsletter is targeted at general fandom. Submissions are welcome! Electronic newsletter submissions may be sent to x-files@info.rutgers.edu. A postscript version of the fan club membership application may be ftp'd from ftp.rutgers.edu; the file is pub/x-files/membership/flier.ps. For more information, send a SASE to: X Files Fan Club, P.O. Box 3138, Nashau, NH 03061-3138 or X Files Fan Club, c/o S. Bartle, 4404 Perry St., Vancouver, BC Canada V5N 3X5 There are two X Files fan clubs in Australia. One can be reached by writing to: The X Files Fan Club of Australia, P.O. Box 402, Niddrie Vic. 3042. The other can be reached by writing to 11:21 -- the X-Files Fan Club of Australia, c/o Andrew Parkinson. Flat 2/10, Roseglen Street, Green Slopes, QLD 4120, Australia. There is a UK X Files fan club, reachable at: The X-Files UK Fan Club, P.O. Box 34, Liskeard, PL14 3YX. Membership is 14.95 UK pounds, and includes a special X Files pack containing a pen, keyring, and a membership card giving discounts on selected X Files merchandise. You will also receive a regular copy of X-Encounters, the official magazine of the UK Fan Club, plus an X Files T-Shirt which is not available anywhere else in the world. /Fanzines**Newsletters/ *Fanzines * NOTE: All listed fanzines are not-for-profit amateur publications and are not meant to infringe on copyrights held by Twentieth Century Fox, Ten Thirteen Productions, Chris Carter, or any other media orgainzations Because all of the fanzine information I had was from 1994, I am removing all of it, since I suspect most of it is outdated. If you *are* a fanzine editor, please e-mail me with current information. Karen Nicholas has a media fanzinie website which does have X Files fanzine listings. Check it out at http://members.aol.com/ksnicholas/fanfic/fanzine.html. There is a British Fanzine called Genetix, that deals with the X Files, basketball, and the general sci-fi scene. Price is 1 pound British. For information contact 106162.626@compuserve.com. "Wrapped in Plastic" (a Twin Peaks fanzine) devoted a full issue to the X Files in August. The 40-page issue contained a complete episode guide with commentary and analysis, map of the U.S. showing where each episode took place, and an interview with Gillian Anderson. The first printing sold out, and a second printing was done. WIP #12 is available from: Win-Mill Productions, 1912 E. Timberview Lane, Arlington, TX 76014. Cost is $6 ($5 plus $1 postage). *Newsletters* "X-Talk" is an X Files letterzine whose first issue premiered in September 1994. A 4-issue subscription will run $10, checks payable to Marg Baskin. Letters may be typed or on disks (WordPerfect 6.0/5.1/5.0, WordStar 6.0/4.0/3.3, or ASCII, 3.5 in. or 5.25 high or low density); label disks as they will be returned with your issue. Address letters, inquiries (include a SASE), or suggestions to Anime House Press, c/o Marg Baskin and Heather Bruton, 28 Woolwich St. S., Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA N2K 1R9. (They are accessible via e-mail at marg@asd.raytheon.CA) Donna Bakke puts out a newsletter "Tap On Line," A Newsletter for Extreme Possibilities. For information contact her at 7351 Wellington Ave., University City, MO. Also available is an X Files newsletter out of the UK called "Conduit," run by Amanda Smith, which comes out 6 times a year. In addition to the newsletter, subscribers receive a laminated card of your choice (a named I.D. card with either Mulder, Scully, or blank photo; FBI Visitors badge; or a Pentagon badge). Additional members at the same address cost an extra UK pound (includes another badge of your choice). Members also have access to an X Files merchandise list, trading card exchange, and library. Costs are: UK members - 8 UKpounds; Eire & Europe - 9.50UKP; USA & Canada - 15 UKP; other areas on request. For information contact Conduit, 13, Armour Place, Linwood, Renfrewshire, PA3 3DR, Scotland, UK. Subscription forms are available by sending an SAE (with IRC if from outside the UK) to the above address. For further information contact Gareth Burge at xphiles@rmplc.co.uk. Toni Johns is looking for submissions for a new publication called "The Unauthorised X Files Newsletter," which will contain a variety of articles of all sorts, fiction and nonfiction. Material should include name and snail mail address, and should be sent via e-mail to: tjohns@pepperdine.edu; toni.johns@cancom.com; or rob-e-one@msn.com; or via snail mail to: Toni Johns, 1721 S. Burnside Avenue #103, Los Angeles, CA 90019, USA. Please send your questions to Robert (the Australian staffer) at rob-e-one@msn.com. FoxFire is a monthly X-Files newsletter. For more information about subscribing check out http://members.aol.com/CappSci/FoxFire.htm. You will also find access to free X-Files images that you can download. /Conventions/ No conventions are currently scheduled. /Miscellaneous information/ Fox and Ten Thirteen Productions will be releasing a big-screen X Files movie to come out summer of 1998. This movie is expected to resolve the cliffhanger to Season 5. Chris Carter's new FBI drama, "Millennium," airs at 9 p.m. Eastern Friday nights. Former X Files executive producers/writers Glen Morgan and James Wong will be supervising the show during its second season. There is a list of Mulderisms and Scullyisms being kept by Samuel Ziegler (sam@jhu.edu) and is available through his X Files homepage (listed with FTP Sites and Home Pages) If you cannot access the Web, or wish to submit entries to the lists, please e-mail him. Kymberlee Ricke keeps a "Netpickers Guide to the X Files." For information about the Netpickers' list, e-mail her at kricke@aea16.k12.ia.us. Numbers: The number 11:21 that continues to appear on digital clocks in the show is a salute by Chris Carter to his wife, whose birthday is November 21. Ten Thirteen Productions was named after Carter's own birthday, October 13. Guns: Mulder and Scully have used a variety of guns in their X Files travails, but they currently brandish Sig Sauer P228s. Mulder's ankle gun is a Sig Sauer 230, .380 caliber. Mulder taped an "x" to his apartment window when he wants to signal the deep-cover agent X for information. He signaled Deep Throat during first season by shining a blue light out the window. Mulder has been shot twice: critically, in the upper femur in Beyond the Sea, not so seriously in the left shoulder by Scully to keep him from killing Krycek [Anasazi]; Scully has been shot once, in the chest (though she was wearing her protective vest at the time), in Young at Heart. Mulder and Scully have been quarantined three times after potential contact with an infectious organism -- at the end of the episodes Ice, Darkness Falls, and Firewalker. Mulder has lost time in the Pilot (9 minutes), Deep Throat (undetermined), E.B.E. (undetermined), Little Green Men (undetermined), and Max. Scully has lost time in the Pilot (9 minutes), E.B.E. (undetermined), Ascension/One Breath (approximately 3 months)., and Max (9 minutes). Scully's FBI ID number is 2317-616. Her home phone number is (202) 555-6431, [Ghost in the Machine.], and her cellular phone number is 555-3564 [Sleepless]. Her apartment number is #35. Her X File number (given to the file began after her abduction [Duane Barry]) is 73317. Scully and Mulder met for the first time on March 6, 1992 X.T. (X Files Time) [Pilot]. Mulder's address is 42-2630 Hegal Place, Alexandria, VA 23242. [Small Potatoes] He has a computer at home, and his password is TRUSTNO1. He was a fan of the television show "The Magician" as a child. [Little Green Men]. His badge number is JTT047101111. His phone number is 555-0199. The "saying" at the end of the opening credits, The Truth Is Out There, has changed seven times: Trust No One -- in Erlemneyer Flask, episode 1X23. Deny Everything -- in Ascension, episode 2X06 EI 'AANIIGOO 'AHOOT'E (The Truth Is Out There in Navajo) -- in Anasazi, episode 2X25. Apology is Policy -- in 731, episode 3X10 Everything Dies -- in Herrenvolk, episode 4X01. Deceive, Inveigle, Obfuscate. - in Teliko, episode 4X04 E Pur Si Muove ("but it does move," attributed to Galileo) -- in Terma, 4X10 Believe the Lie -- in Gesthemane, 4X24. Ten Thirteen's production crew has had cameos (names and bodies) in various episodes. First Assistant Director Tom Braidwood appeared as _Lone Gunman_ photographer Frohike in "E.B.E.", "Blood," "One Breath," "Fearful Symmetry," "Anasazi," "Paperclip," "Nisei," "Apocrypha," "Wetwired," and (voice only) "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man," and his name was used as the person taking over Howard Graves's parking spot in "Shadows" and as Mulder's alias to get into the secured government compound in Washington State in "E.B.E." Ken Kirzinger, stunt coordinator, appeared as Richter in "Ice." Hair Stylist Malcolm Marsden's name was used for the British PM in "Fire." Vladimir Stefoff, First Assistant Director, had his name (as Val Stefoff) used as Scully's alias to get into the compound in "E.B.E." Creator Chris Carter appeared in "The Erlenmeyer Flask" as an FBI agent (the third one) grilling Scully. Former story editor Darin Morgan appeared as the fluke creature in "Blood," and Eddie van Blundht in "Small Potatoes." Story ideas: _The X Files_, like almost all network TV shows, does not accept unsolicited scripts or story ideas. If you have them, you will need to get yourself an agent to submit them to the show. Story ideas or scripts sent to the show unagented will be returned or tossed in the trash. Currently, X Files is not accepting any outside scripts or story ideas. All stories are generated and assigned "in-house" among the staff writers. Ideas, scripts, and stories can be posted for other fans' enjoyment to the newsgroup alt.tv.x-files.creative, or in a variety of e-mail groups. Stories are kept in the Gossamer achives at http://gossamer.simplenet.com/, and a number of other independent archives. Information on how and where to post to the newsgroup is found in the FAQ at that site.