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Get Off The Bus & Get On The X-Files Mobile
This compilation is reason enough to purchase a DVD player. I have never encountered such sheer volume & quality in a media package as the X-Files Season Box Sets. Although I own Season 1 on Video, the DVD purchase is fantastically packaged as a momento of the ground-breaking first serise of Mulder & Scully's forray into the world of the unknown & includes some excellent episodes including Beyond The Sea, Gender Bender, E.B.E, The Erlenmeyer Flask & Tooms to name but a few. 24 episodes, all the TV teasers, behind the scenes interviews, this is an outstanding package which will be hard for another DVD manufacturer to emulate. Fox cares for its audience & with the X-Files having some of the most loyal fans in the world, Chris Crter & the boys have gone all-out to ensure that said fans (including myself) remain that way. Go on, relive those early daus with Dana & Fox, & remember the initial frisson that TVs premiere sci-fi show gave in digital quality. I can't wait until season 4 onwards are released............

Strong first season has only a few missteps 4 1/2 stars
Chris Carter clearly has found his niche as a writer. "The X-Files" combines elements of "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" (a series I loved as a kid) with other elements (including David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" where Duchovny appeared as a cross dressing FBI agent during the first season)to create a unique, scary and fun television series that captured the media & public's attention for 9 years.

Having purchased the first and second seasons when they first became available on VHS back in the 90's, I'm a happy camper that they finally appeared on DVD at a reasonable price. The first season looks exceptional on DVD. I had forgotten how good "Ice", "Deep Throat", "Squeeze", "Tooms", The Erhlanger Flask", the outstanding "Beyond the Sea" and many of the other outstanding episodes were here. Some weren't all that great to begin ("Space" being a prime example) but they only served to highlight how good the show was when it was firing on all cylinders.

The extras aren't quite as extensive as on later sets. We get a couple of deleted scenes from the pilot, international clips where we get to hear what Mulder and Scully sound like in other countries. We also get an 11 minute featurette on the first season where Carter and the other producers/writers/directors comment on the series and its formative first year. There's also a number of clips that were used for promos when "The X-Files" was being exclusively shown on FX network. These include segments were we meet some of the folks behind the scenes on the series including the special effects make up guy (who has always done a great job on helping to fashion a quality show that held its own against the best of TV and movies) and others.

If you're buying this for the extras, it's the wrong purchase as they aren't as extensive here as later sets. The original uncut episodes (including the deleted scenes of Scully's love interest)make this set worthwhile. While the price is a bit more reasonable than before, I'd like to see this set come down to the same price as "Buffy", "Gilmore Girls", "Dead Like Me" and other popular series. It seems only fair to make the show available to the mass audience that always supported it.

it's got it...
X-Files is a show that just has what it takes to captivate you. from the minute the show came on air it showed so strongly how brilliant it was that know one could stop it...

The show may be over now, but movies is still in the workings...

This show will never die... and every season of X-Files is worth every penny.... Simply brilliant

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