Mulder and Scully are heading to a TV near you, and Fox has decided to grace The X-Files eager and waiting fan base with a short one-minute clip, available exclusively at DoYouStillBelieve.com.
The lights darken, and David Duchovny’s sultry voice comes over your tinny laptop speakers. “My name is Fox Mulder. Since my childhood I've been obsessed by a controversial global phenomenon," Mulder said. "In 1993, the FBI sought to impugn my work, bringing in a scientist and medical doctor to debunk it, which only deepened my obsession for the better part of a decade, during which time that agent, Dana Scully, had her own faith tested.”
Visitors to DoYouStillBelieve.com can also make a The X-Files “Want To Believe” inspired poster in the same vein as thought as Facebook’s profile picture overlay generator.
The X-Files will officially come back to TV screens the nation over as six-part mini-series Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. PST, 10 p.m. EST. and 9 p.m. CST after the end of the NFC Championship football game. The second episode of the mini-series will air the following night at 8 p.m. PST and EST respectively.
The first and last episodes of the mini-series will deal with the overarching story, but the cream filling – meaning episode 2-5 – will be standalone episodes like those of yore. The first standalone episode to air, called “Founders Mutation,” will feature the dynamic duo investigating a case about a mad scientist and his superpower-capable subjects.
If you’ve never seen The X-Files, the show is currently available to be streamed online via Netflix or Amazon Instant Video. Wired has a great guide for binge watching the 202 episodes of The X-Files that are out there, and hopefully you have some free time, because it’ll take you 38 days to watch all of them -- and that’s if you watch 4 hours’ worth of The X-Files every day.
Alternatively, Fox has posted a short 21-minute long sneak peek that covers the major mythology and thematic high points of the earlier seasons to gear up viewers for the upcoming mini-series.
The X-Files, which won numerous Emmy and Golden Globe awards during its tenure as the longest-running sci-fi series in network television history, spawned a pedigree of TV industry insiders. The Hollywood Reporter recently wrote an oral history of The X-Files, and it’s worth checking out.