THE X-CAST continues with guest host Carl Sweeney investigating Season 2 Episode 24, 'Our Town'... After the disappearance of a health food inspector in the town of Dudley, Arkansas, Mulder takes Scully to the small town in the hopes of discovering strange demons linked to foxfires. What he and Scully find is a strange conspiracy of silence, extra-marital affairs, and something potentially quite deadly around long-standing community business Chaco Chicken... Joined for the first time (bar the X-...
Jun 06, 2017•1 hr 5 min
THE X-CAST continues with guest host Andrew Brooker investigating Season 2 Episode 23, 'Soft Light'... When a man disappears in a hotel in what first appears to be a locked room mystery, Mulder and Scully are soon placed on the hunt for Dr Chester Ray Banton, a physicist working for Polarity Magnetics and a man involved in experiments involving light, shadow and dark matter, that have turned deadly. As Scully helps a former student turned police detective face internal prejudices, Mulder ends up...
Jun 01, 2017•57 min
THE X-CAST takes a break from episodes this week as Tony Black invites back on the show Matthew Dow Smith, IDW Publishing artist involved in The X-Files ongoing series, to discuss the extended comics universe. Matthew talks about the second series of his spin-off comic, The X-Files Origins: Dog Days of Summer, written alongside Jody Houser, which continues the story of teenage Mulder & Scully. We discuss his contribution to The X-Files: Funko Universe one-shot comic and how he came to be on ...
May 26, 2017•41 min
THE X-CAST continues with Tony Black investigating Season 2 Episode 22, 'F. Emasculata'... Assigned to help investigate the escape of two criminals from a maximum security prison, Mulder and Scully soon realise they are embroiled in the release of a seemingly deadly, unexplained contagion. As Mulder helps US Marshals hunt down the prisoners before they can spread the pathogen, Scully begins to expose from the inside a pharmaceutical conspiracy which may lie behind the disease... Joined by author...
May 23, 2017•1 hr 20 min
THE X-CAST continues with guest host Carl Sweeney investigating Season 2 Episode 21, 'The Calusari'... After the tragic accidental death of a little child, Mulder and Scully investigate the Holvey family as accusations of possible child abuse circle around the parents. Mulder has evidence suggesting a poltergeist may be connected to the death of young Teddy, but as they come to discover the family's connection to deeper Romanian mysticism and a strange group known as 'the Calusari', they realise...
May 16, 2017•1 hr 11 min
THE X-CAST continues with guest host Carl Sweeney investigating Season 2 Episode 20, 'Humbug'... Following the trail of an almost thirty year long series of attacks on circus sideshow performers in Florida, Mulder & Scully arrive to investigate a very eccentric sideshow community made up of colourful characters. As the deaths continue, and both Mulder & Scully become increasingly connected to these people, they discover the most unlikely and tragic suspect... Joined by X-Files super-fan ...
May 05, 2017•1 hr 17 min
THE X-CAST takes a break from episodes this week as Tony Black interviews Joe Harris, writer of The X-Files Season 10/11 comics from IDW Publishing, the event series continuation comics, and the Audible Cold Cases audio drama. In this conversation, Joe discusses his X-Files fandom by answering the Five Questions of X, talks the origins and genesis of the Season 10/11 comics, why Season 11 ended early in the comic series, exactly what Cold Cases will involve in terms of storylines, and some excit...
May 01, 2017•1 hr
THE X-CAST continues with guest host Sarah Blair investigating Season 2 Episode 19, 'Dod Kalm'... After a group of US Navy sailors appear in ocean having aged rapidly, Mulder & Scully find themselves on a salvage mission to a Naval vessel which disappeared several years before. Along with a Norwegian salvage captain, they explore this strange vessel which Mulder believes may have been connected to experiments exploring time/space wormholes on Earth. What they find throws them into a situatio...
Apr 28, 2017•1 hr 8 min
THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black going in depth on Jonathan Maberry's 2017 The X-Files: Origins prequel book, 'Devil's Advocate'. In the spring of 1979, fifteen-year-old Dana Scully has bigger problems than being the new girl in school. Dana has always had dreams. Sometimes they've even come true. Until now, she tried to write this off as coincidence. But ever since her father's military career moved the family across the country to Craiger, Maryland, the dreams have been more like visi...
Apr 21, 2017•1 hr 11 min
THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black investigating Season 2 Episode 18, 'Fearful Symmetry'... When a seemingly invisible elephant tramples to death a construction worker in Idaho before dying, Mulder & Scully begin investigating the troubled Fairfield Zoo where animals are disappearing and then reappearing. As the agents come into contact with a passionate zoo worker looking to adopt a gorilla, a ruthless animal rights activist, and a hardline zoo manager, Mulder begins to suspect an ex...
Apr 14, 2017•1 hr 18 min
THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black investigating Season 2 Episode 17, 'End Game'... After Scully is abducted by the Alien Bounty Hunter, while pretending to be Mulder, it's left to Mulder--alongside his sister Samantha, having inexplicably returned as an adult--to seek out the help of Skinner in rescuing her from mortal danger. What he discovers is a shocking truth about Samantha, about what he's come to believe, and a desperate race to find the shapeshifting extra-terrestrial before he e...
Apr 07, 2017•1 hr 32 min
THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black investigating Season 2 Episode 16, 'Colony'... Following the death of multiple identical men working as abortion doctors, Mulder and Scully investigate and find themselves embroiled in a case which connects to a ruthless bounty hunter on a mission of assassination. As Scully discovers science which may be extra-terrestrial, Mulder unexpectedly faces a family emergency which will change his life forever... Joined once again by Darren Mooney, of The Irish ...
Apr 02, 2017•1 hr 36 min
THE X-CAST continues with guest host Carl Sweeney introducing the second Roundtable episode, featuring fans and guests of the podcast. Joined by previous guest Sarah Blair, Carl invites for the first time Sam Turton, Andrew Blaker and Russell Hugo, as they discuss The X-Files Episode Tournament underway on Twitter, and put forward their arguments for four episodes, as voted by you, which will go head to head. Sarah discusses S7's Je Souhaite, Sam talks S3's Quagmire, Andrew takes S5's Detour and...
Mar 28, 2017•1 hr 7 min
THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black investigating Season 2 Episode 15, 'Fresh Bones'... When a former US Marine dies suspiciously, Mulder & Scully investigate when suggestions are made that he was involved with voodoo practices that lead back to a Haitian refugee camp, where the agents discover a sinister history of riots, potentially concealed deaths, and a powerful voodoo priest who may, in particular, put Scully's life in jeopardy... Joined for the first time by Jim Beard, one of th...
Mar 24, 2017•1 hr 24 min
THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black investigating Season 2 Episode 14, 'Die Hand Die Verletzt'... In the town of Milford Haven, Massachusetts, following the ritualistic murder of a teenager, Mulder and Scully arrive to investigate and discover a town riven with legend, hysteria, and belief in occult conspiracy. As they seek to understand why the boy was murdered, the PTA group at the local school attempt to conceal the Satanic worship they begin to fear may have summoned a darker force tha...
Mar 17, 2017•1 hr 10 min
THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black investigating, in the first Spotlight episode on one of The X-Files' writers, Chris Carter's recent 2014 pilot, The After... A group of strangers become trapped in a parking lot lift in Los Angeles on what appears to be a normal day, until upon working together to escape they emerge into a world devastated by some kind of unknown event which has caused mass panic. What they find as they explore this new landscape is a truth none of them could have imagin...
Mar 10, 2017•1 hr 3 min
THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black investigating Season 2 Episode 13, 'Irresistible'. After a series of corpse mutilations in Minneapolis, Mulder and Scully arrive to investigate what Mulder soon comes to believe is an 'escalating fetishist', someone with a powerful compulsion to desecrate the dead who may be preparing for his first kill. At the same time, the fetishist--seemingly normal delivery man Donnie Pfaster--undergoes a transformation as his disturbing compulsion grows. As Mulder ...
Mar 03, 2017•1 hr 19 min
THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black going in depth on Kami Garcia's 2017 The X-Files Origins prequel book, 'Agent of Chaos'. In the spring of 1979, seventeen-year-old Fox Mulder has bigger problems than applying for college. Five years ago, his younger sister disappeared from their home and was never heard from again. Mulder blames himself, and his mother blames his father, who has retreated into his top-secret work for the State Department. In Fox's senior year, his dad has moved him to W...
Feb 24, 2017•1 hr 6 min
THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black looking back at The X-Files Season 2 episode 12 - 'Aubrey', written by Sara B. Charno, and directed by Rob Bowman. In the small town of Aubrey, Missouri, a detective named BJ Morrow in a delirious outburst uncovers the long buried remains of two FBI agents missing since the 1940's. Mulder & Scully arrive to investigate BJ's strange discovery, and how it links to a historic series of violent murders in Aubrey, in which the word 'SISTER' was carved on ...
Feb 10, 2017•1 hr 15 min
THE X-CAST takes a break from episodes this week as Tony Black interviews, for the very first time, an actor who has appeared on The X-Files - guest star Scott Bellis, aka Max Fenig from S1's 'Fallen Angel' & S4's 'Tempus Fugit' & 'Max'. In this conversation, Scott discusses how he came to be cast on The X-Files during the early days of its production, his working dynamic with David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson, and his experiences filming 'Fallen Angel' and then returning for a pivot...
Feb 03, 2017•44 min
THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black looking back at THE X-FILES Season 2 episode 11 - 'Excelsis Dei', written by Paul Brown, and directed by Stephen Surjik. Following the violent sexual attack on a nurse by what seems to be some kind of spirit being, Mulder and Scully head for the Excelsis Dei elderly care home after the nurse files a lawsuit against the Federal government, alleging one of the elderly patients raped her. What they find is a conspiracy among the patients to conceal a remark...
Jan 27, 2017•1 hr 3 min
THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black looking back at the very first published novel in THE X-FILES world - 'Goblins', published by Harper Collins in 1994 and written by Charles Grant. In the small town of Marville, after a spate of seemingly unrelated deaths, Mulder & Scully are ordered by new FBI Section Chief Arlen Douglas to investigate. Joined by green junior agent Hank Webber and his tough partner Licia Andrews, and with Mulder's old reporter friend Carl Barelli close behind, they ...
Jan 20, 2017•1 hr 9 min
THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black looking back at THE X-FILES Season 2 episode 10 - 'Red Museum', written by Chris Carter, and directed by Win Phelps. In the small town of Delta Glen, Wisconsin, Mulder and Scully investigate the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy who reappeared bearing the words 'HE IS ONE' on his back, who the local sheriff believes may have been possessed. Drawn into probing the new age Church of the Red Museum as suspects, Mulder and Scully soon discover someth...
Jan 13, 2017•1 hr 11 min
THE X-CAST takes a break from episodes this week as Tony Black interviews New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Maberry, the mastermind behind the three X-Files prose anthology books. In this conversation, Jonathan discussed how Trust No One, The Truth Is Out There & Secret Agendas anthologies came to be, including how they're recognised canon by Chris Carter, and talks about the newly released young adult books Devil's Advocate & Agent of Chaos (written by Kami Garcia) involving t...
Jan 06, 2017•57 min
THE X-CAST brings you a very special episode to see out 2016, as Tony Black hosts the very first X-Quiz mega episode. Ten rounds of questions devoted to The X-Files and its cast & crew, from across the entire series run to date, with two teams in competition - Team QUIZQUEG aka Carl Sweeney & Sarah Blair, and Team THE GHOSTS WHO STOLE QUIZMAS aka Baz Greenland & in her debut on the show, Amy Walker. Who will reign supreme as the X-Champions 2016 - tune in, find out and test yourselve...
Dec 26, 2016•1 hr 19 min
THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black looking back at THE X-FILES Season 2 episode 9 - 'Firewalker', written by Howard Gordon, and directed by David Nutter. After the mysterious disappearance of legendary vulcanologist Dr. Daniel Trepkos inside Mount Avalon, where he was heading a scientific expedition with the experimental 'Firewalker' probe, Mulder & Scully--now back at work and back on the case--are called in to make contact with the radio silent volcano research team. What they find ...
Dec 16, 2016•1 hr 19 min
THE X-CAST doesn't just change pace but also show this week as Tony Black looks at MILLENNIUM, and the upcoming documentary about the show to celebrate 20 years since it premiered, Millennium After the Millennium. Talking to producers Troy Foreman & Jason Morris, Tony examines this exciting new project set to debut in 2017, featuring exclusive interviews with creator Chris Carter, star Lance Henriksen, and beyond. They discuss how the documentary came to be, tease what we can expect from it,...
Dec 09, 2016•1 hr 1 min
THE X-CAST continues with host Tony Black looking back at THE X-FILES Season 2 episode 8 - 'One Breath', written by Glen Morgan & James Wong, and directed by RW. Goodwin. Scully reappears in hospital, out of nowhere, in a coma and at death's door. As her family, including spiritually-minded elder sister Melissa, prepare themselves for Dana's natural passing, Mulder in his desperate bid to find the conspiratorial government forces responsible begins a blood-soaked campaign of vengeance. Meanw...
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr 39 min
THE X-CAST experiments this week by presenting our first X-FILES Roundtable, featuring writers involved in the X-Cast blog answering key TXF topic questions, posed by themselves and listeners of the show. Joining host Tony Black for the first Roundtable are Carl Sweeney, Sarah Blair, Baz Greenland and Paige Schector to discuss topics including... Could The X-Files survive without Mulder & Scully? Favourite Monster of the Week How might William feature in a theoretical Season 11? And which X-...
Nov 30, 2016•1 hr 8 min
THE X-CAST takes a break from episodes this week as Tony Black, alongside fellow podcaster Brandon Shea-Mutala, interviews none other than the musical composer for The X-Files, Mark Snow. In this conversation, Mark talks about how he came to be involved in the series, the creation of his legendary music, and his contributions to Millennium and beyond. He also gives some insider hints about the status of SEASON 11 of The X-Files (which you may not find elsewhere!) and talks some fascinating stori...
Nov 25, 2016•1 hr 8 min
