Product Details

• Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Robert Patrick, Tom Braidwood
• Writers: Chris Carter
• Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English, German
• Number of tapes: 3
• Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: May 9, 2000
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305809453
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,947 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Episodes:
Tape 1: "Leonard Betts" and "Memento Mori"
Tape 2: "Tempus Fugit" and "Max"
Tape 3: "Small Potatoes" and "Gethsemane"

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read this review..., May 14, 2000

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This review is from: The X-Files - Wave 8 Triple Pack [VHS] (VHS Tape)

First of all the latest wave has taken way too long to appear (a year and a month)...and as a previous reviewer noted, the cards are no longer there...though the boxes for Season 4 have been the best ever. As for the episodes: Tempus Fugit and Max had to appear, though they are hardly that entertaining. Gethsemane, Leonard Betts, and Memento Mori are necessary viewing AND entertaining. Do note that Vince Gilligan's introduction to Memento Mori has a glaring error: Memento Mori means "Remember to die", NOT "Memo to the Dead"...and the real Latin meaning makes far more sense as the episode title. Small Potatoes is perhaps the best of the fourth season and were it not to be here the whole concept of the waves should be abandoned. But we still would like to see Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man and Elegy (the most hauntingly beautiful of the cancer episodes)...and as for the DVDs, the last reviewer is right...no way before 2003 for Season 4.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What REALLY happened to Mulder?, January 15, 2001

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Kari (Longview, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The X-Files - Wave 8 Triple Pack [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This new box set of VHS tapes contains some of the most memorable episodes of the series, in my opinion. Who could forget "Small Potatoes," and Luke Skywalker's lightsaber? I think the question that episode raises in the mind of every 'Shipper is, "If that had really been Mulder and not Van Blundht, would Scully have given it up?"

In the more serious episodes, we find out about Scully's cancer. And then, of course, the climatic cliffhanger episode "Gethesmane." When that episode originally aired at the end of the fourth season, that summer was the longest summer of my life. I could not wait to find out what REALLY happened to Mulder. "Gethesmane" leads into Season 5, one of the best seasons of the show.

Over all, this is a nice box set. I received mine for Christmas, actually. My only complaint is that it's not DVD. Still, the episodes chosen for this set are the best of the season--a nice blend of comedic, gross, scary, sad, and simply dramatic.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great season for a great series, May 29, 2000

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Ryan Fredric Steinbeck (Porter, in) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The X-Files - Wave 8 Triple Pack [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I don't know what that one reviewer Lee was talking about when referring to Tempus Fugit/Max. The two-parter included in this set is phenomenal. If you ever wonder what it is like to be in a plane crash, Tempus Fugit/Max will show you what it's like. That's not all either, this two-parter, though not tied in with the Mythology, is one of my favorites, it has all the aspects that got me to watch the X-files way back in season one,...aliens, conspiracy, dark government officials, cover-up...you name it. Leonard Betts and Memento Mori continue the development of Scully's cancer. Small Potatoes, the comical take on the ability to change appearance,..all superb writing in this season. And Gethsemane,..I could watch this one over and over! I have nothing bad to say. Season 4 and season 6 have been two of the best seasons,..and thanks to the DVD releases coming soon, we are going to be able to have all of the episodes from these two...as well as all the other, seasons.