Product Details

• Directors: Richard Compton, James A. Contner, Allen Coulter, Tucker Gates, Ralph Hemecker
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: March 26, 1996
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303972942
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #22,768 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars X at the begining, August 17, 2000

By	John Nelson (North Fond du Lac, WI) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The pilot episode of the X Files and the second episode DEEP THROAT are the reasons why the first season of the show was the best. A true aura of mystery surrounded the episodes, nor would all the parts to the puzzle be filled in at the end and the foreshadowing was very high.

In PILOT, FBI instructer Dr. Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is brought to her superiors with a new assignment. She is to be the partner of loose cannon agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) a brilliant agent whose theroies on the paranormal and mythology in his cases have alienated him from his fellow investagaters. It is Scully's job to find validity and scientific proof to Mulder's claims of alien involvment in his cases.

Their first adventure takes them to Oregon where strange occurances are affecting the young members of a small town. The towns people know what is going on, and don't want it spreading around or being discovered.

A good start for the show, characters are being introduced and we see development too. Most importantly we learn why Mulder is determined to find what is "out there" which will become a staple of plots in many episodes. Not to mention a particular scene where we see how much trust Mulder and Scully can show for each other.

DEEP THROAT is even better. Mulder is warned by a mysterious old man not to pursue interest in a case involving an Airforce base in Idaho where it's members are being affected by something strange. Despite this warning, Mulder and Scully go anyway to investigate the matter and end up in a desperate fight for the truth and probably their life.

This tape is great for the person who wants to get into the show. Because there is no better place to start then the begining, especially with this particular show and this particular season of episodes.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So, you wanna know what all the fuss is about?, March 16, 2002

By	Reginald D. Garrard "the G-man" (Camilla, GA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Check out the pilot that started it all. Jerry Hardin, as the enigmatic "Deep Throat" is so good that one can believe that he was involved in a little thing called "Watergate."

An "X-Files" fan can relish in the look of a much younger, and slightly pudgier Anderson, while Duchovny's infancy as an actor is intriguing alone. Just to see how he "grew" as a performer is a revelation.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Beginnings Of A Great Show, June 15, 1998

By A Customer

This video is the first piece of the X-Files puzzle that has drawn so many fans to this show over the past number of years...We meet our two main protagonists, Fox "Spooky" Mulder, an FBI agent who doesn't follow cases by the book and is fascinated by "The X-Files", cases of the paranormal. He is driven by the abduction of his sister, Samantha as a child to seek "the truth" about the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Dana Scully,a forensics doctor,is assigned by FBI bureaucrats, including a mysterious cigarette smoking man, as a partner to Mulder to debunk his work, to maintain a scientific explanation for the paranormal events that they investigate. These two episodes are the perfect introduction to the agents X-Philes have learned to love. The pilot episode features very good special effects...(especially blood spurting out through a person's nose, and a leaf blowing sequence which Carter explains in an interview on the tape) and the second episode, "Deep Throat" introduces us to the conspiracy we as X-philes have been trying to explain for the past five years along with the introduction of a character that still remains a favorite on the show to this day. This video is the perfect introduction for newer fans of the show and a great thrill ride for us X-Philes. Highly recommended. END