THE LONE GUNMEN (TV SERIES)

'''The Lone Gunmen''' is a spin-off of the popular series ''The X-Files'', it is a television show created by Chris Carter that was shown on FOX, featuring the three characters called The Lone Gunmen, who were originally from ''The X-Files''. The show was first broadcast in March 2001 and, despite good reviews, it was cancelled due to a drop in ratings^[2]. The last episode was broadcast in June 2001 and ended on a cliffhanger which was resolved in an episode of ''The X-Files''. Repeats of the series will be shown in autumn 2007 on CBC Country Canada.

Contents

Typicial plots

9/11 Foreshadowing

Episode list

Cast

Crew

DVD release

References

Typicial plots

Unlike ''The X-Files'', whose storylines dealt mainly with supernatural creatures and government alien conspiracies, episodes of ''The Lone Gunmen'' generally featured more "plausible" plots, such as cheating husbands, corporate crime, arms-dealers, and escaped Nazis. The show had a very light atmosphere and focused heavily on physical comedy. The trio were often aided (and sometimes hindered) by a mysterious thief named Yves Adele Harlow (Zuleikha Robinson).
The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

9/11 Foreshadowing

In a foreshadowing of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the plot of the March 4, 2001 pilot episode of the series depicts a secret U.S. government agency plotting to crash a Boeing 727 headed for Boston into the World Trade Center via remote control for the purpose of increasing the military defense budget and blaming the attack on foreign "tin-pot dictators" who are "begging to be smart-bombed." This episode was broadcast in Australia on August 30, less than two weeks before the 9/11 attacks.^[3][4]

Episode list

# Pilot (March 4 2001)
# Bond, Jimmy Bond (March 11 2001)
# Eine Kleine Frohike (March 16 2001)
# Like Water for Octane (March 18 2001)
# Three Men and a Smoking Diaper (March 23 2001)
# Madam, I'm Adam (March 30 2001)
# Planet of the Frohikes: A Short History of My Demeaning Captivity (April 6 2001)
# Maximum Byers (April 13 2001)
# Diagnosis: Jimmy (April 20 2001)
# Tango de los Pistoleros (April 27 2001)
# Lying Game (May 4 2001)
# All About Yves (May 11 2001), Season Finale
# Cap'n Toby Show (June 1 2001), "Lost Episode"

Cast

★ Tom Braidwood - Melvin Frohike

★ Dean Haglund - Richard "Ringo" Langly

★ Bruce Harwood - John Fitzgerald Byers

★ Zuleikha Robinson - Yves Adele Harlow

★ Stephen Snedden - Jimmy Bond
David Duchovny (Fox Mulder), Mitch Pileggi (Walter Skinner) and Michael McKean (Morris Fletcher) from ''The X-Files'' made guest appearances on the show.

Crew

★ Executive Producer - Chris Carter, Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz

★ Creators - Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, Frank Spotnitz

★ Frohike, Langly and Byers characters originally created by Glen Morgan and James Wong

DVD release

Fox Home Entertainment officially released the series (along with the episode of ''The X-Files'' entitled Jump the Shark which finishes the cliffhanger that ended ''The Lone Gunmen'' as an additional episode) on a three disc Region 1 DVD set on Tuesday 29 March, 2005. In the UK, it was released on the 31st January 2006.

References

1. The man who created The X-Files is coming back to Vancouver., , , , The Vancouver Sun,
2. http://lonegunmen.furvect.com/lgmrate.htm
3. excerpt from Lone Gunmen 9/11 show (4 minute excerpt on video google)
4. http://www.amazon.com/Lone-Gunmen-Complete-Gunman/dp/B0006UEVUE