Facts

• There are over 80 episodes.
• At the 3 1/2 season mark the no. of flashlights used was 166.
• Also at the 3 1/2 season mark the ratio of flea bag motels to UFOS was 19 to 7.
• David Duchovny's dog is named Blue.
• David Duchovny is a vegetarian.
• Gillian Anderson after meeting Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters's invited him and his wife to do a walk on part in episode 65 "Pusher" ,which he excepted.
• A Californian surfer named Chris Carter created and produces The X-Files and the show Millenium.
• When asked where the stories come from Carter said "Very little comes out of paranormal literature. A lot of it comes out of science journals like Scientific American."
• The most expensive episode to shoot was "Herrenvolk".
• The least expensive episode to shoot was " Deep Throat".
• A former girlfriend of Duchovny's by the name of Perry Reeves played a kinky vampire into of course blood sports in the episode "3" (name not number).
• Duchovny's dog gets nearly the same amount of fan mail as Anderson's child Piper.
• At the 3 1/2 season mark the number of autoposies performed is 17 and the number of times someone looks at a clock to find that the time is 11:21 p.m. is 4.
• 11/21 is Chris Carter's mother's birthday.
• David Duchovny has had the lead roles in several unrated pornographic films. (talk about the truth being out there).
• Scully's now deceased dog Qeequeg was named after a sailor in Moby Dick.
• A Vikings vs. Redskins (both of which have a Carter in the ranks) footbal game is shown on a tv screen while an anouncer was saying catch by Chris Carter in the episode "Irresistible".
• Chaco Chicken is just a damn neat phrase that was used as the name of a factory in the episode "Our Town".
• The character Cancer man smokes a version of cigarettes known as Morleys but if you look closely you will see that they're just a rip off of marbs.
• William B. Davis (The CSM) doesn't smoke in real life. On the set he smokes herbal cigarettes.
• William B. Davis waterskis. Just a few years ago he even won a competition in it.
• At the 3 1/2 seaon mark the number of references to agent Mulder's predilection for pornography is 5.
• The special effects coordinator David Gauthier worked on Macgyver and Look Who's Talking Now.
• Mark Snow's (music composer for the X-Files and Millenium) favorite episode is the same as my father's "Humbug".
• The actual name of the X-Files theme song is "Materia".
• The production designer Graeme Murray worked on "Wiseguy" and is so maticulous about the look of the show that he even worries about what brand of flashlights the characters are using.
• At the begining of the episode "Anasazi" the tag line "The Truth is Out There" was translated into Navajo because the episode was New Mexico based.
• Chris Carter's top ten favortie episodes are 10"Ice" 2)"Beyond the Sea" 3)"The Erienmeyer Flask" 4)"Duane Barry" 5)"Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" 6)"End Game" 7)"Pusher" 8)"Anasazi" 9)"The Blessing Way" 10)"Paper Clip"
• Gillian Anderson's top five episodes are 1)"Beyond the Sea" 2)"Irresistible" 3)"Piper Maru 4)"Ice" 5)"Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"
• David Duchovny's top three episodes are 1)"Ice" 2)"Duane Barry" 3)"Anasazi"
• The aristocratic British lord Sir Malcolm Marsden, who is threatened in the episode "Fire was actually named for the shows chief hairdresser.
• "TenThirteen Porductions" is named for series creator Chris Carter's birthday which is October 13, 1956.
• Piper Maru Anderson, Gillian Anderson's daughter, born September 25, 1994 had an episode named after her.
• Gillian Anderson is allergic to cats.