Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 12/02/2008 Run time: 820 minutes Rating: Nr

Condition: New

Format: DVD

Box set; Closed-captioned; Color; DVD; NTSC

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The mythology episodes:

"The Beginning" An FBI committee decides that yes, the X-Files will be reopened, they will not however, include Agents Mulder and Scully. Agents Spinder and Fowler will take that role, both with a huge helping of duplicity. AD Skinner is still on their side though and leads them towards a case that involves the Alien/Syndicate conspiracy. Gibson Praise makes a return as well. "SR 819" Krycek makes a new appearance and he targets AD Skinner with alien created nanite technology.

"Two Fathers" & "One Son" Long awaited truths are finally revealed about the fifty year conspiracy between the syndicate and the aliens. The syndicate is all but destroyed by the alien rebels. Simply stated, these are the two episodes that every fan had been waiting five years for. No disappointment whatsoever.

"The Unnatural" I list this as a mythology episode, as it simply does not fit as a stand alone. This episode is singularly the best episode of the season as it contains some great humor and one of the most touching endings of the season. We are treated to meeting Arthur Dale or actually his brother, as he tells Mulder the tale of when he met his first alien.

"Biogenesis" As we learned in "One Son," the Syndicate is gone and with it the Alien/Syndicate conspiracy. Now we're treated to a new track on the mythology, as there still seems to be some sort of conspiracy evidenced by the discovery of an alien ship in Africa and Fox ending up in a loony bin. The conclusion will be on the Season Seven set.

Stand alone episodes:

"Drive" Our heroes run into a man who must continue moving west at a high rate of speed or his head will explode. "Triangle" a true X-Files classic as Mulder goes on a search for a ship that's been missing from the Bermuda Triangle since prior to WWII.

"Dreamland & Dreamland II" Mulder and Scully take a trip to Area 51, where they run into the "Men in Black" and they witness a UFO which literally makes Mulder switch bodies with one of the MIB's. These are simply two of the finest and most hilarious X-Files episodes of the entire nine year run. "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" a beautifully well written episode guest starring Ed Asner and Lily Tomlin.

"Terms of Endearment" another extremely well written episode as our heroes visit Roanoke, VA and run across a bedraggled demon who is in search of a normal child. This episode has another one of those wonderfully well written ironic endings that only Chris Carter is capable of. "The Rain King" Mulder and Scully take a trip to Kansas to investigate a man who can supposedly make rain at will. This episode is replete with some of the series most hilarious lines.

"Agua Mala" Mulder and Scully take a trip to Florida in the middle of a hurricane to investigate a family's disappearance and discover a sea creature. "Monday" this is an X-Files homage to "Ground Hog Day," that is superbly written and played. "Arcadia" in this beautiful episode our erstwhile heroes pose undercover as husband and wife to discover why three couples have disappeared from a planned community.

"Alpha" Mulder and Scully are summoned by an internet friend of his to find a mysterious wild animal that has been shipped to the US that has killed two merchant marines and then disappears. "Trevor" is an intriguing episode in which Mulder and Scully set off to find a prison escapee who supposedly died in a tornado, yet he's on the loose and exhibiting some interesting abilities.

"Milagro" this is an interesting yet horrifying episode in which a writer, fascinated with Scully moves in next to Mulder and begins spying on her. Meanwhile Mulder and Scully are investigating several deaths where victims' hearts have been removed, but there is no evidence as to how. "Three of a Kind" the quintessential "Lone Gunmen" episode that just shines with a pure brilliance that may well have been the precursor to their short lived spin off series. "Field Trip" our two heroes end up in North Carolina and run into a hallucinogenic fungal mountain. This episode definitely breeches the different barrier, even for this series!

Special features - Included, as with the other season's boxed sets, are some great special features to include my personal favorite - "Character profile on the Cigarette Smoking Man." The cover art for the boxed set and DVD's is fantastic as well. {ssintrepid}

Episode list:

The Beginning {mythology}
Drive
Triangle
Dreamland
Dreamland II
How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
Terms of Endearment
The Rain King
S.R. 819 {mythology}
Tithonus
Two Fathers {mythology}
One Son {mythology}
Agua Mala
Monday
Arcadia
Alpha
Trevor
Milagro
The Unnatural {mythology}
Three of a Kind
Field Trip
Biogenesis {mythology}

23 of 23 found the following review helpful:

Last of the outstanding seasons at a great price minus the last disk with the some of the extrasFeb 12, 2006
By WTDK "If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.-Albert Einstein"
The last truly outstanding season of "The X-Files" the complete sixth season ties up a few loose ends but the series begins to unravel in the process. The seventh season despite some fine episodes would suffer. While the eighth season would get a jolt of much needed energy from Robert Patrick the writing still wasn't quite up to previous years. "The X-Files: Fight the Future" appeared during the summer between season five and six. The set, like the other reduced price sets from Fox, will include all the episodes from season six. You'll be able to access special features for respective episodes such as commentary, deleted scenes and international clips.

"The Beginning" ties into the movie although the movie could stand independently on its own (which is just as well because despite some marvelous set pieces it basically was a rehashing of a number of alien movies). Mulder and Scully have been removed from the X Files and replaced by two new agents. One of the most interesting episodes includes "SR 819" where Assistant Director Skinner is black mailed into helping an old foe. Skinner has been infected with some mysterious organism that this other person can control to make Skinner do his bidding.

Bruce Campbell appears as a philandering husband in "Terms of Endearment". When his baby disappears and is apparently taken by a Demon Mulder and Scully are called in by local police to help with the case. Campbell gives an excellent performance.


The two part "Dreamland" is terrific with a great guest performance by Michael McKean ("Spinal Tap"). A black ops agent switches bodies with Mulder freeing him from his shrewish wife and stuffy lifestyle. Suddenly Mulder becomes a wild and crazy guy.

The humorous but suspenseful "Arcadia" plants Mulder and Scully in suburbia playing a husband and wife in one of those "planned communities" ruled by an iron fist. Houses have to be a certain color, portable basketball hoops are forbidden and residents who step out of line mysterious vanish or are killed.

Duchovny's "The Unnatural" is a clever tale involving Arthur Dale (here played by character actor M. Emmett Walsh when Darren McGavin wasn't available in a truly X-files twist), racism and baseball loving aliens set before baseball was integrated. Dale is assigned to protect a African American baseball player who's life has been threatened as they tour the South.

"How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" is a funny and fun episode with guest appearences by Ed Asner and Lily Tomlin. Mulder decides to check out a haunted out on Christmas Eve and a reluctant Scully goes to check on him. The two get pulled into a surreal story which makes them doubt their own sanity.

For mythology fans the two episodes "Two Fathers and "One Son" closes out the main conspiracy arc of the last five years. While threads remain (and show up in the fascinating "Biogenesis")many of the mysteries of the last five years are nicely wrapped up until we discover that there are aliens on Earth working beside us every day. To say more would spoil it and although it's unlikely you haven't seen it, I'd rather not spoil the conclusion and the set up for season seven.


21 of 22 found the following review helpful:

Quite good, but not up to the first five seasonsJan 31, 2004
By Chris Boyd
For five seasons, The X-Files was one of the best shows on television, and the feature film "Fight the Future" was similarly excellent. With the sixth season and the show's move to LA, however, The X-Files became merely good, not great.

In my opinion, the chief problem with Season 6 (and 7, for that matter) is the prescence of some poorly executed "humorous" episodes. In the early seasons, there would every so often be an episode that was funny and tongue-in-cheek, without losing that X-Files feel. With Season 6, however, such episodes ceased to be genuinely funny, and became simply silly and wacky, providing little laughter that isn't forced. This season's worst offender is "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas," in which Mulder and Scully are trapped on Christmas Eve in a haunted mansion, whose ghostly residents wish to goad the FBI agents into a murder-suicide - by spouting pop psychology at them. Episodes that aren't mainly spoofs are also harmed by the silliness. "Agua Mala," in which a hurricane lets a sea monster loose in an apartment building, could have been a genuinely creepy episode, except for the fact that the building's tenants are all trite stereotypes.

While there were problems, the good outweighed the bad in this season. The mythology episodes continued to be superb, especially "Two Fathers"/"One Son," a two-parter which essentially brings closure to the "Mytharc" running through the past five seasons. The season's only successfully humorous episodes are also mythology-related, namely the two-part "Dreamland," in which Mulder and an Area 51 operative switch bodies, and "The Unnatural," which tells the story of a star baseball player who is in fact an alien. The season finale "Biogenesis," which introduces a new stage of the mythology, is an intriguing episode, but its continuation in Season 7 is sadly disappointing.

This season also featured some excellent stand-alone episodes. Especially good are "Drive," in which a mysteriously ailing man must keep driving - or his head will explode, "Alpha," a werewolf story with a twist, and "Field Trip," in which Mulder and Scully are trapped by a hallucinogenic giant fungus.

Casual viewers may wish to stick with the first five seasons, which constitute the best of the series. Season 6 does, however, contain some really excellent episodes, and true fans will find plenty to enjoy. For the X-Files, "not quite as good" is still most definitely good enough.

36 of 45 found the following review helpful:

The point of no return.Jul 26, 2002
By Jose
This season was amazing. After the incredible Season 5 ending, the movie gave a vision of the mythology that was very well taken in Season 6. It opens with "The Beginning", where we see Gibson Praise again, as well as Agent Diane Fowley. It deals with the gestation of a new alien out from an infected person from the Black Oil.

Although the Season has its flaws like "The Rain King" (which started so good but had such a terrible conclusion), there are episodes like "One Son" and "Biogenesis" which make this season one of the most interesting. This is a season for answers, a lot of explanation of the conspiracy, the proyect and the syndicate in some big episodes. The tendency to leve more questions than answers is left behind. The Season Finalie ends in an amazing scene where Scully has an alien spaceship infront of her adn Mulder becomes the ultimate proof of the X Files.

Perhaps after this Season, the series mythology becomes more personal to Mulder and Scully, turning them into the foci of attention, but the truth is that this season is the point of no return for the mythology.

Grate Answers and astonishing writting. Defenitly worht of your money.

The Season 6 has 23 episodes:

The Beginning
Drive
Triangle
Dreamland
Dreamland II
Terms of Endearment
The Rain King
How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
Tithonus
S.R. 819
Two Fathers
One Son
Arcadia
Agua Mala
Monday
Alpha
Trevor
Milagro
Three of a Kind
The Unnatural
Field Trip
Biogenesis

8 of 8 found the following review helpful:

Previous reviews are wrong: this reduced-price set includes ALL extrasMay 13, 2006
By Jeffrey Blehar
Just a technical note for those considering purchasing this reduced price set: the reissued X-Files Complete Season Six set INCLUDES NEARLY ALL THE EXTRAS FOUND IN THE MORE EXPENSIVE SET.

I'm as surprised as anyone, so I wanted to post a review making sure others knew as well. The previous reduced-price Complete Season sets did NOT include all the extras (documentaries, TV promos, special effects shots w/commentary) though they DO contain what I consider to be the most important extras, the deleted scenes and episode commentaries.

The Season Six set, however, DOES contain all of these things, and you can find them on the sixth disc, after "Field Trip" and "Biogenesis." (Contents: "The Truth About Season Six" documentary, a collection of all the deleted scenes from the season w/commentary, 13 FX shots w/commentary, a character profile of CSM/C.G.B. Spender, a collection of FOX promos - very nice to have, these - and a DVD-ROM game.) I suspect it's because that disc only contains two actual episodes - there was enough room to put them all on without requiring an extra disc. Given that this is the case, there's absolutely no reason whatsoever to waste money on the more expensive version. In fact, from an economic standpoint I kind of wonder WHY they put them here...strange business decision, though lord knows I'm not complaining. Perhaps the more expensive set has an extra DVD not included here, but all the extras you might want are found on this cheaper edition.

Season Six was the last of the great X-Files seasons. Though it's weaker than the Fifth Season (I personally feel the show never recovered from its move to Los Angeles), and isn't a patch on the incredible Second and Third seasons (which remain the show's peak in my opinion), it's still well worth owning.

It has an odd character, though: the writers made a bold decision, in "Two Fathers"/"One Son," to wind up the main conspiracy arc that had been driving the show since the "The Erlenmeyer Flask," and as a result the season is light on "mythology" episodes (only five, one of which, "S.R. 819," is a standalone episode that always seemed peripheral to the main arc) and dangerously overloaded with comic ones. A full third of season is played either completely or mostly for laughs. Some of the comic episodes are worthy classics, like "Triangle" (the gimmickiness of which is saved by clever scripting, witty banter, and an irresistible World War II backdrop) and "The Unnatural," David Duchovny's warm, glowingly sincere tribute to America's Pastime. Others, however, are a bit twee: "Dreamland" attempts to extend its comic premise over two full hours and stretches itself thin in doing so, while "Arcadia" is essentially stunt casting (look, it's Mulder and Scully undercover as a married yuppie couple!) saved only by the interplay between Duchovny and Anderson. Worst of all, some of the lighthearted episodes fall completely flat, like the excruciating "How The Ghosts Stole Christmas" (a cutesy mess that seems strikingly off-key for an X-File) and the dismally unfunny "Rain King." Moreover, the fact that almost all of these episodes were broadcast back-to-back-to-back on consecutive weeks made it seem that The X-Files was devolving into a parody of itself.

However, the season was almost fully redeemed by several truly memorable "one-off" episodes. "Drive" is a tense, logical throwback to an earlier style of X-Files writing (most tonally reminiscent of time-is-running-out episodes like "Darkness Falls" and "F. Emasculata"). "Tithonus" manages the neat trick of being both frightening and moving as a meditation on the nature of death. "Agua Mala" is a good old-fashioned gross-'em-out monster episode. Even better, "Trevor" summons the spirit of classic standalone installments from the earlier seasons, giving us a memorable villain with a neat paranormal power who acts like a credible human being.

And I really can't offer enough praise for the incredible "Field Trip," one of the most inventively premised, tightly scripted, and psychologically penetrating episodes in the show's history. It's inarguably the high point of the season, working both on its surface as an imaginative and faultlessly executed story, and on a deeper level as the finest-ever exploration of Mulder and Scully's partnership dynamic. Ultimately, this episode isn't about what Mulder and Scully discover on their 'field trip,' it's about what they believe about each other, the faith they repose in each other, and the way in which they subconsciously rely upon each other to balance out and redeem their respective weaknesses. (The wordless image that concludes the episode touchingly captures all of this.) After six seasons and what was beginning to seem like sharply diminishing returns, "Field Trip" is a minor miracle, an hour that captures everything fans loved about the show: compelling sci-fi premises buttressed by the poignant, layered relationship between the two leads. It stands alongside "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," "Beyond The Sea," "Pusher," and "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'" as one of the five greatest non-mythology episodes of the entire series.

Your opinions may differ, though; with a show as consistently innovative and well-acted as The X-Files there's a lot of room for argument on these things. I just want to make sure Amazon customers realize that they're getting full value on the money for this set, and that it's unique among the first six reduced-price seasonal sets in giving you that value.

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