The X-Files Mythology, Vol. 1 - Abduction (1993)

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Genre: Sci Fi Drama

Plot Outline:
     Enter the fascinating world of THE X-FILES with the first three seasons of the award-winning TV series, which ran for a remarkable nine seasons, remaining an audience favorite throughout its long tenure on the air. Created by Chris Carter, the show starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, assigned to investigate the FBI's unsolved mysteries of a paranormal persuasion. Mulder is a believer in the supernatural as a result of an 'encounter' he had as a child, while Scully's rational mind prefers to look for scientific explanations. The show's fantastical plotlines, however, are soon disclosing evidence of aliens, ghosts, mutants, and government conspiracies at every turn, and the X-Files team is charged with finding the common threads throughout. This in spite of the fact that their project is given little respect at home base, where they are regarded by many as crackpot detectives. In the first 16 episodes, viewers can follow the complex mythology that constitutes the shadowy world of THE X-FILES, augmented in this collection by extensive commentary from Chris Carter, and part one of the documentary THREADS OF MYTHOLOGY. Episodes include 'Deep Throat,' 'Little Green Men,' 'Red Museum,' and 'Anasazi.'

Series Cast Summary:
	David Duchovny
	Gillian Anderson

Studio:

Runtime: 700 min

Country: USA

Language: English

Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada)

Color: Color

Number of discs: 4

Sound Mix:

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Comments:
     Consists of collections of episodes grouped around certain themes that were central to Chris Carter's gripping, funny, and sometimes impenetrable sci-fi/suspense/horror series. The 15 episodes in the first volume,, are culled from the first three seasons of the show, and they introduce FBI agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who has been assigned to keep tabs on her new partner, the eccentric Fox Mulder (David Duchovny). Mulder's specialty is those cases that can't seem to be solved on normal parameters--the "X-Files"--because he believes that many years ago his sister was abducted by aliens. We meet a dizzying cast of supporting characters: FBI assistant director Skinner (Mitch Pileggi); a government informant, code-named "Deep Throat," who offers to get Mulder closer to the truth than he's ever imagined; apparent abductee Duane Barry (Steve Railsback); a trio of conspiracy theorists called the Lone Gunmen (Dean Haglund, Tom Braidwood, and Bruce Harwood); the mysterious Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis); and suspicious agent Krycek (Nicholas Lea). And the theme of alien abduction leads to deeper threads involving experiments with alien DNA, cloning, alien bounty hunters, and more. These early episodes are some of the best the series ever had to offer, and the reasonably pricedsets might be enticing for novices who would like to get a feel for the series without having to wade through all the story arcs and concepts that wandered through the nine seasons. (They're also conveniently packaged, with four discs in two Thinpaks.) X-philes, of course, would prefer the, with the multiple arcs as well as the numerous excellent standalone (a.k.a. "creature feature") episodes. The discs include new commentary tracks on five of the episodes by Chris Carter, writer Frank Spotnitz, or director R.W. Goodwin, and there's a new 28-minute documentary that provides an overview of the series and the pertinent episodes that's well suited to novices.For nine seasons, fans of ?The X Files? watched and waited for an ultimate explanation of the complex web of alien conspiracy theories, government cover-ups and shadow organizations woven by series creator Chris Carter. Now, for the first time, viewers can follow every twist and turn of the complete mythology story arc beginning with THE X FILES MYTHOLOGY: ABDUCTION. ABDUCTION consists of 16 episodes from seasons 1-3, and presents the government conspiracy episodes in order, beginning with the series pilot. The set also features commentary on selected episodes and part one of Chris Carter?s all-new documentary ?Threads Of Mythology,? which explains the meaning of ?The X Files? and how all lies lead to the truth.