The X-Files - Scully meets Mulder for the first time [1x01 - Pilot]

[@micwilli10]

For those who want to know, this scene was shot in the basement of the CBC main studios in Vancouver…..and it was day 1 of shooting for the pilot episode. We did reshoot part of it later but if memory serves, it was the slideshow section. Oh and this was shot after Scully met up with her boyfriend/fiancé who was a news producer…which is why we were at CBC…we needed a news studio control room.

[@codedlogic]

Love these details - thanks for sharing! You did sound for the show?

[@micwilli10]

@@codedlogic main unit sound mixer for seasons 1 - 5, and the 2nd movie. I didn’t follow the show to Los Angles and was busy on Man in the High Castle when they came back to Vancouver for the revisited seasons.

[@codedlogic]

@@micwilli10 That's awesome! Both are great shows!

[@micwilli10]

@Deep.Development and she is deserving of that. We both kinda grew up on this show. She’ll always be like a little sister to me.

[@Carloszavalalol]

​@@micwilli10sweet home Alabama

[@southernarts4443]

Their chemistry is unmatched, and the cases are fascinating. One of the best series' ever produced!

[@onlythewise1]

i agree

[@HansensUniverseT-A]

They couldn't have picked a better set of characters, you really care about Scully and Mulder, i just find them highly likeable, def a big part of the success.

[@oneandy2]

The actors did not get along at the time, IIRC. Which, I guess speaks to their professionalism.

[@PesseJinkman]

99.1% pure.

[@JJONNYREPP]

The X-Files - Scully meets Mulder for the first time [1x01 - Pilot] 1336pm 1.11.23 i felt tension on the first meeting and i dont think it was part of the act... and i think if ad lib was king in this show as opposed to stringent measures to have them adhere to script then it might have allowed a decent double act... it might become apparent as the series plods on. i have been indulging in some semblance of nostalgia and i am currently gettin' through the old timey complete back catalogue... so who knows.... and i have been enjoying this show. i have no idea if people have a problem with this show. anyone have any ideas? the british broadcasting corp being what it is - it aired the show first time out - means that channel 4, the new vehicle for this series, might have to pop on over to channel 5 to ask for the final two series to air - so we can see what occurs when the duo finally call it quits. fav episode would be the wolfman episode - so far!!!!!!!

[@DanaX09]

They were such babies here!

[@artembaranov]

Hehe 👍👍

[@AdhvaithSane]

@@mieczyslawm7093 So you’re skeptical about everything, y’know.. like extraterrestrials, ancient advanced human (or non-human) civilisations, invisible dimensional beings/creatures, universal governments conspiracy, secret humanity technological potential and all these stuff you’re skeptical about?

[@dustynmiller2497]

Respect 🙏

[@RavenLynn.007]

X-Files was the best show I ever had the pleasure to watch. The chemistry between Mulder and Scully, the stories, the characters, just everything about the show was spot on every time. I miss it so much.

[@ChrisBrown-ir6sf]

It became mid after season 5

[@80srenaissance67]

Scully would see totally unexplainable phenomena week after week, yet every time in the subsequent episode, she would always tell Mulder there must be a logical explanation 😂

[@wittylibrarian]

30 years later, still one of the best character introductions in television history. A thousand fanfic works can be traced to this moment... and even for other shows and characters!!!

[@slchance8839]

i agree. It's been 3 decades, and i stopped everything I was doing and was rivetted by every second of this scene. My next thought : "is X-files on Netflix? Crackle? Hulu?"

[@guyfawkesuThe1]

I would not say that but a good scene. They killed the show when they ended it in the Brady Bunch house!?!? WTF a middle finger to all the fans!

[@tammylovesmakeup]

I admired Scully. As a girl, I wanted to be smart as her. She was a prudent, intelligent and professional woman

[@7haro]

greatest female in the screen

[@TheYouthquaker]

That’s so funny you say that because when I was a kid I spent an entire year referring to myself as Dana Scully because I wanted to be like her.

[@StephNuggs]

I wanted to be like Mulder so I could hang out with Scully

[@buak809]

proof that you can make strong, intelligent woman as a main character without the need to push the political and feminist agenda

[@DarknessIsThePath]

And then they ruined her character in season 10-11, esp 11, worst garbage ever.

[@gizmomac1520]

Her smile at the end when she finally got to really meet him. She knew she could trust him. What a perfect match.

[@backwashjoe7864]

That smile steals and breaks my heart! :)

[@dannyb9140]

100%

[@cagneybillingsley2165]

i think the smile at the end of the scene shows she's satisfied that she gets to do field work instead of being sequestered at the academy. and this is really the universal desire, to manifest action from the realm of thought. most people are stuck in thought.

[@adibudica]

She knew they were going to room together in Oregon. One hotel room, one bed. Pakapaka woah badam bum woaaah

[@mikespearwood3914]

@@adibudica lol!😆

[@mellowtrax1979]

This is how the greatest adventure began!

[@CornerHustles]

She is a beautiful white Queen I might add♥️

[@tonyc7301]

It's been written that Mulder fell for Scully immediately and you can see his expression when he first sees her. His eyes are fixed on her and his mouth opens slightly. He is smitten for sure.

[@stevenmitchell2996]

The day the best television show ever created was born. Nothing has made a dent on it since not even to this day.... Totally untouchable.

[@knsnsy]

the day gillian anderson went from a no name to a star. david duchovny resented being in a tv show but i doubt any movie role he’d land would surpass this unique experience

[@Jiub_SN]

Minecraft story mode Netflix?

[@OhManTFE]

Supernatural TV show maybe?

[@greentombdive]

What about The West Wing ?

[@capitanfuturo594]

_Married with Childrens_ is the best TV show in the history.

[@Mademoiselle_Katie]

The scene that started it all 🥰

[@Ghostrider-ul7xn]

Ikr? Their chemistry is so perfect

[@antonboludo8886]

I certainly is. @@Ghostrider-ul7xn

[@brettpritchard265]

Scully definitely had more than a whiff of Clarice Starling to her in the early days. Later she morphed into her own thing.

[@raksh9]

Now that you mention it, the resemblance is there.

[@RayJames-mk3yq]

I always imagined Silence of the Lambs as an epic 2-parter episode premiere to an episodic cop drama that never was, about a young criminal profiler. Sadly it came out before prestige television was a thing. Luckily we got the x-files.

[@lowellcalavera6045]

Mulder lays out his innermost self: “I have plenty of theories.”

[@troyandrew6154]

The birth of an iconic team in the pilot episode of a masterpiece

[@loganblackwood2922]

Duchovny looks so young here. He's always been handsome and charismatic in all of his roles but I loved him most as Mulder.

[@chemicalspore]

When this show was on the air, my friends would go out every Friday night. I was at home, glued to the TV watching this gem.

[@yad-thaddag]

That's why they are happily married and you still live with your mom. 😋

[@chemicalspore]

@@yad-thaddag my mom's dead

[@ThomasCorfield]

Aliens?@@chemicalspore

[@squamish4244]

@@yad-thaddagCome on man. A lot of us teens did just that. The show was compelling enough to keep us in on a Friday night, which means it had some serious mojo.

[@randomstuff797]

It was Wednesday 8:30 pm for me very week in Australia never missed an episode and my mum use to say the opening theme would freak her the hell out

[@tiagombg]

Oh the atmosphere in this is brilliant. Scully as a doctor chasing Mulder's ideas of something beyond the realm of Science. Case after case through the entire show. This is absolutely the best show ever done.

[@Alemiha]

When you put like that it makes me think of Holmes and Watson.

[@crosslink1493]

Some of the early episodes were made more interesting in that they involved real phenomenon that are/were still theories in science. After about season 4 things started to get into the realm of weird conspiracy theories.

[@sirsancti5504]

Crosslink.. I guess they ran out of stuff to write/produce on..

[@ismaelvasquez-vk3it]

30 years of this show happy thirty aniversary

[@HansensUniverseT-A]

I am rewatching this for the billionth time, it's just so damn good, love the atmosphere and mystique, they don't make series like this anymore sadly.

[@Auriniam]

@@AcademiaCondorcet I'm just about to finish season 7, my first run through. I'm watching it on SBS on Demand, it has all seasons (not the movies though, if I'm correct). 15 and 17 is perfectly fine for this show in my opinion, but if you're worried about the content look online for reviews and parents guides and make your own judgement :)

[@DamienJasper]

Lord that music when she was walking down the hall. Sounded so...stock for early 90's police procedurals. Really static and not at all X-Files. Hard to explain, but it just doesn't belong with our heroes.

[@rchdb]

Yeah, very Law & Order like.

[@TheGamingRhino300]

I liked it. Yea it’s pretty slow and generic but i thought it was a cool opening sequence to introduce our characters.

[@TrockeyTrockey]

I noticed this music, too. Like criminal.

[@Vintage-28]

Definitely a “Miami Vice” vibe

[@Willrobert92]

I dig it tbh

[@walterheisenberg251]

What’s ironic here is that in real life it’s Gillian Anderson believes in extraterrestrials while David Duchovny does not.

[@iamallisonreynolds]

yep i read in an 'X-file' book, David is the skeptic one.

[@r0bw00d]

The only way that can be ironic is if it's without the understanding of how acting works.

[@davideberhardt6150]

@@r0bw00d not the point. the comment is a 4th wall break, acting has nothing to do with it. It _is_ ironic, like Sir Anthony Hopkins playing Hannibal Lecter but being a vegetarian in real life.

[@r0bw00d]

@@davideberhardt6150 Dude, you're behaving as if actors only play exaggerated versions of themselves. No, that's not how acting works.

[@dkthg]

@@r0bw00d Yes it is now stfu and enjoy the video clip.

[@OGSoundFX]

Ok, this was randomly suggested to me this morning... I am watching the X-files all over again!!!

[@backerthehacker3700]

Every every police/detective/monster hunter show since ex files has been desperately trying to copy x files since then. To date it's the only American 'villain of the week' type show to ever actually feel engaging and not just like filler episodes until the overarching plot starts again towards the season finale

[@smokeynewton]

Scully is making the assumption that our science is complete and there's nothing new to learn.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

Most people do sadly.

[@c3ka]

The pandemic has been the best demonstration of that arrogance.

[@manisandhu9358]

Happy 30th anniversary to THE X-FILES! The pilot episode aired Sept 10th, 1993

[@twilomix]

We so need a 4K release for the whole collection

[@gyobfan22]

Not sure if 4K would make that much difference from the blu rays.

[@ismaelvasquez-i1k]

this TV show is a great 90s show

[@philosopher1a]

Great show the chemistry was right there from the beginning

[@Bullitt3401]

This popped on my homepage today and wow, I had forgotten how beautiful Gillian was. I have the first couple of seasons on VHS, I should break them out and give them a watch sometime.

[@thehermit2923]

X fills will always bring me back to sitting in my grandpas living room watching x files before bed

[@ehrenloudermilk1053]

The "will they/wont they" of the 90's

[@Kaazzaam88]

The beginning of a legendary era.

[@Warschibarschi]

1:50 Funny. Those are simply peptide bonds of aminoacid (AA) chains like in peptides (100 AAs). Without knowing what the respective side chain (R) is, it is impossible to say of what kind of aminoacids the chain is made of, letting alone to tell what kind of peptide or protein it is. Scully was at least able to identify it as an organic molecule (what any highschool graduate should be capable of). Medical doctors aren't necessarily good in chemistry or biochemestry.

[@mcjs8640]

Just booked tickets to see and meet David at his London gig in November! 🧡

[@alexreaves8921]

I wanted to be Fox Mulder when i was a kid

[@artembaranov]

What about now?)

[@alexreaves8921]

@@artembaranov kind of. But not as much. Doesn't help that I'm already in my thirties. And Mulder was already an Oxford graduate AND an accomplished FBI criminal profiler before he hit 30.

[@mcjs8640]

He is my role model and spirit animal.

[@southernarts4443]

My oldest daughter looks like Dana Sculley. I can't watch her in anything without picturing my child. Stunning!

[@mcjs8640]

I just want Fox Mulder. 💜

[@HarjSaroay]

The start of a epic partnership

[@289CHJL]

season 1 is so good I always rewatch it once every year.

[@X-1993]

Baby Mulder and baby Scully❤Young and beautiful

[@lindsayhengehold5341]

Loved this show and the actors in it but it got too dark for me with the later seasons. Love David Duchevony & Gillian Andersen.

[@Pink_pr1ncess]

Yeah this shows kinda scary but so entertaining

[@nataliealtemose9191]

once it was doggett and monica I was out as a kid lol

[@raksh9]

X Files always had darker elements and stories, but Millennium was much darker. Unrelentingly grim. I never finished watching because I tried to binge it and got mired halfway through season 2.

[@Bullitt3401]

I gave up on the show when they moved the production from British Columbia to Los Angeles. The earlier seasons were great 1990s television.

[@mapledripcomics]

This was such a cool original concept for a show

[@melanievandermeulen616]

Love the fresh faces and the old tech!

[@RampartPh]

i'd like to rewatch this series

[@thomyk2]

You can.... on disney+

[@Konstantinsen]

So this is where it begins. I remember watching this as a kid on bootleg channels in the mid-2000s. Fascinating stuff.

[@borednow5838]

One of the best character intro lines ever!

[@Leonardoeditor37]

Let's face it: since the very begining the creators of the serie developed Scully to be a sort of Clarice Starling.

[@bbaker4117]

I rewatched the series during COVID lockdowns. It took a while for the show to get it's legs underneath it, but it was easily one of the best series ever produced. You can really feel Vince Gilligan's influence when he joined the writing staff near the end of Season 2.

[@ThornySnailPictures]

Lol I thought this was a troll comment about Vince influencing every single film, media ever produced but he actually did work on Xfiles!!!

[@bbaker4117]

@@ThornySnailPictures VG eventually came to run the X-Files writers room, and both Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul guest starred during his tenure which is what made him think of them for Walter and Jesse.

[@madamx7422]

Day one - The chemistry was clear and the height difference was considerable

[@mrwest5552]

she smiled a truly special smile.

[@renzopinasco2206]

i think its time to rewatch this gem

[@xyz-yb6ep]

this was so damn well written

[@knsnsy]

the smile in the end says it all

[@btsarmyzona8541]

To think that they wanted to cast Pamela Anderson as Dana Scully because Fox wanted a hot, blonde, busty actress. Gillian fits the role perfectly. She’s beautiful, smart, sassy and has great chemistry with David (Mulder). It was a match made in heaven.

[@gizmomac1520]

Happy 30 years to these twooo

[@Kurt-Wylde]

I always thought this scene was made perfectly.

[@tanzimrahmathullah6667]

An iconic series made during the iconic 90's!❤

[@user-vr2tx4tt6b]

And thus began a very beautiful in every way relationship of 2 very good people.

[@elena9.7.77]

If only they knew...❤️❤️❤️

[@САШКАСЕРАГОВ-ч4ш]

Russian joke: In Major Pronin's car, the steering wheel is on the left. In the James Bond car, the steering wheel is on the right. In Special Agent Mulder's car, the steering wheel is not known where, but it must be somewhere nearby.

[@ismaelvasquez-i1k]

agent Mulder and agent Scully two great protagonist of this TV show

[@samofmizoram]

My favourite show of all time.

[@louwinters508]

What I find 'fantastic' is any notion that their are answers beyond the relms of science. Scully was awsome from the start.

[@SimonsBand1]

my heart at seeing this. My fave show and one of the best ever made. My childhood wrapped up in an era before the widespread internet, when conspiracy theories were peak.

[@zaftra]

quite striking how 80's the sound track is.

[@ronburgundy244]

I mean the '90s were still basically the '80s until grunge music got popular.

[@zaftra]

@@ronburgundy244 not in the UK, there was a huge change, thankfully for the better. Indie music, rave music, fashion became more sensible, somebody dressed in 90's clothes, especially females, could still go out in them now and look ok, with the 80's it would have to be a theme night. Grunge was part of it but not as much as in America.

[@AscensionINC-zi1jz]

I think the early 90s still had that 80s sound while it was transitioning.

[@jordynstevens3945]

Just started watching the show, but being the show is pretty old and pretty famous, I know how this relationship ends up. For my money-mulder fell in love right then and there. I love watching it all for the first time thinking that Mulder is in love with her all this time. Now seven seasons of edging😭😭

[@hesitatenothing]

Damn Mulder goes Hank moody once in awhile with his lines ''Sorry, nobody down here besides the F.B.I.’s most unwanted!''

[@SilvanaPuris2310]

Until now I have only seen season 4, but until now I still remember that first meeting moment and the bond of Mulder and Scully I like the way it developed: for me, I felt it was not love at first sight, it was not a forced hatred either because they were opposites in their thinking, they were 2 people starting to trust each other. It's curious that Scully had already heard about Mulder, but when they met they didn't think about everything she would experience.

[@mltsr]

Two great quotes that show the effortlessly great writing on this show. 1 Sorry nobody down here but the FBI’s most unwanted 2 That’s why they put the eye in FBI Superb

[@TheMisanthropistTM]

The biggest flaw of Krycek's introduction is Mulder didn't research him as much as he did Scully

[@VikingKong.]

maybe there wasn't much to research.

[@mcjs8640]

There wouldn't have been anything dodgy in Krycek's files - the Smoking Man would have seen to that.

[@sherazuki]

Just get married already

[@salmanedy]

And lo, people were introduced to and fell in love with one of the best TV duos ever conceived.

[@freddiemolinajr.8397]

Good first meeting between scully and Mulder

[@titanayrum]

best duo since Tom and Jerry

[@nicholasdickens2801]

Ah those were the days. Long summer nights watching The X-Files and Babylon 5 for hours on end.

[@benjaminnatanielbincthomps1591]

30 years ago today this legendary show was born 🐐👽🛸

[@adamantium4797]

Yes

[@votpavel]

i need to watch this again, never understood the show as a kid

[@J_GoTTi]

*”Sorry, nobody down here besides the F.B.I.’s most unwanted!”* The beginning of my favorite series relationship, and show of all time…

[@Chris-cf2kp]

All those late nights I remember watching parts of the X-files as my parents thought I was asleep in my room - when I was all the while sneakily catching the late night tv from the stairs - I loved the atmosphere and mystery, and how competent they seemed at figuring out how to solve the cases they encountered. Nowadays I think I take a similar open-minded approach to the world, with a curiosity for the inexplainable or as Mulder put it, "fantastical" when no other explanations seem to exist. One real-world category of missing person's cases in particular that is referred to as the 'Missing 411' is something you'd expect to have seen amidst an X-files series, yet it is a phenomena that is being documented in ongoing study by a few dedicated individuals, including the man who coined the category. They are all cases with similar characteristics in relationship to one another, in sequence of events, demographic, and locations with similar, if not identical geography. I wonder how Skully and Mulder would go about investigating it. Sometimes fiction only exists as fiction in description, or otherwise, a complete lack of description.

[@iamallisonreynolds]

at one point i thought i was the one who wrote this comment. 😂because I've experienced the exact thing. my parents thought I was asleep in my room , but the truth is I was sneakily watching this series from the stairs while my sister who is allowed to stay up late, was watching it on tv.

[@MrDjordansmith]

In an effort to channel Scully I would put forth that almost 99 percent of the cases put forth by the missing 411 guy and his books can be explained as people that were caught in the wilderness unprepared. On a personal note i would further say the authors use of the tragedies of real people that have died in the national forests to push a story that there is something sinister going on in the national forests and that the parks department is in on it is straight up ghoulish and opportunistic. Hes a former big foot grifter whos riding the current popularity in missing person stories to make money and I find it morally repugnant.

[@Chris-cf2kp]

@@MrDjordansmith If you understood the difference between the missing 411 cases and people who died due to inexperience in the wilderness, you wouldn't be revealing how little you've actually taken the time to review the circumstances presented in these cases.

[@MrDjordansmith]

@@Chris-cf2kp I have actually, my ex was obsessed with them and onwed several of the books which I read. Again while they are all very tragic stories 99 percent can be chalked up to getting lost and being unprepared. The last 1 percent are mysterious less In a supernatural way and more so in a why were they out there in the first place manner. Also if you look up and read about the cases you'll often find that the facts surrounding many of the cases are different than what the 411 books make them out to be in some cases failing all together to mention that the person's involved were actually found and still alive. All of which strain the credibility of the evidence put forth by the author.

[@AJM01]

This is my favourite tv series ever! I can't believe how long ago this was. At the time, my mates took to calling me "Mulder" because one of my nicknames was very similar sounding and I absolutely loved this programme.

[@cazia9]

I love her expression at the end - ‘oh this is going to be fun’

[@JuanARivera-z9d]

Scully why don't you go and wear your sunglasses at night.

[@ismaelvasquez-vk3it]

i love this show

[@Winter2k23]

Iconic scene. Circa 2023 - Actually bought the complete X files blu ray set, on season 3 at the moment. (Next is Stargate SG -1 no blu ray yet In Australia.)

[@ajr01-x6e]

Ugh. This almost makes me want to rewatch it again.

[@PigzHeadNz]

Yeah! I want to watch series all over again. 👍👍

[@jeromerizzo423]

When you watch this first episode you learn Mulder is a psychologist, author, serial killer hunter prior to opening the X-Files section. He was once a highly, respectable agent. It also explains his brilliance throughout the series.

[@monicad99]

so respectable that he couldn’t bother to consult a chemist or team of chemists to find out what that substance was, huh?

[@jeromerizzo423]

@@monicad99 he probably did.

[@Marcus-gw4bb]

@@monicad99 He's an FBI agent. You think he hasn't done that already?

[@monicad99]

shouldn’t he have said: “nor do any of our specialists.” instead of “nor do i.”? or whatever his line was? why doesn’t scully mention this? why doesn’t she inquire more about the facts of the situation? she’s a newcomer to the case. also, fbi agents aren’t gods, they’re just people. what i’m trying to say is that mulder jumps pretty fast to conclusions. and scully is always the skeptical one, but never touches on the obvious breaches in his scenarios, only on the more plausible lines lf thought he has. @@Marcus-gw4bb

[@timonsolus]

@@monicad99: Mulder was just testing Scully’s credentials. Nothing more.

[@countquackula8539]

Scully was so pretty 😍

[@tavernadodevilhunter6732]

I love how they have some differents thoughts, scully tries to use science to explain, and mulder more like paranormal. And in the end both respect each other

[@tony1876]

Fox Mulder is one of the greatest tv characters of all time.

[@mcjs8640]

THE greatest.

[@saulolimalemos]

The day TV was invented

[@edinpandzic5838]

hmm I should rewatch this show again...

[@sft8693]

His true love being tricked and fooled by her twin lover ❤

[@ismaelvasquez-vk3it]

the 90s was a great decade

[@mrespanfanx]

forgot how beautiful Scully was!

[@matthewwhitton5720]

What an incredibly beautiful woman she is.

[@mcjs8640]

And he's an incredibly beautiful man.....💜

[@mcjs8640]

I have shaken David's hand! 💜💜💜💜💜

[@karanbalwani]

The way he talks, I can still hear Hank Moody.

[@mcjs8640]

I can't.

[@Smokedship]

One of the greatest series’ ever made.

[@mcjs8640]

THE greatest.

[@anjie3048]

i have such a crush on both of them !! what a great show

[@southernarts4443]

Me, too!

[@AndreNitroX]

Magic happened in that room