Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9497 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-12-27
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 6
• Formats: Box set, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 45 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Following the X-Files feature film in the summer of 1998, "The Beginning" quickly crowbars an attempt at fitting the film into the TV chronology before it picks up plot points left dangling from the fifth-season finale, "The End" (note the guard asleep at the nuclear power plant console is named Homer!). Between arc threads are several pleasing excursions: time travel to a Bermuda Triangle boatload of Nazis ("Triangle"), further temporal escapades akin to Groundhog Day ("Monday"), a demonic baby case featuring genre stalwart Bruce Campbell ("Terms of Endearment"), and Duchovny being able to play someone else via personality switching ("The Dreamland, Parts 1 and 2"). Back in the real scheme of things, Mulder chases "S.R. 819," a Senate resolution tying conspiracies together. "Two Fathers" and "One Son" indicate that the abductee experiments are intended to cure the black oil disease. The year finishes with "BioGenesis," in which we're asked to ponder, are we from Mars? A beach-buried UFO leaves Scully wondering. --Paul Tonks

Synopsis
Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) continue to investigate that which cannot be explained in this collection of series six of the series. Every episode from the 1998-1999 campaign is included, as a millennial frenzy builds and cover-ups abound. Episodes included in this collection are "Triangle," "Dreamland," "Arcadia," "The Rain King," "Agua Mala," "The Unnatural," "Milagro," "One Son," and "Two Fathers."

Customer Reviews

One of the better x-files seasons.
Being one of the late comers to the show, having started watching it around the 5th season, I decided to watch all the seasons in order, as I would understand it a lot more. Sitting through them all, I would have to say that season 6 is probably one of the finest, and most entertaining seasons of the lot. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson looks like they are really enjoying themselves in some of the most interesting episodes of the entire show.

The season kicks off with "The beginning" which is sort of a follow up to the movie. Unfortunately, the episode isn't one of my favourite openings, but it was exciting, as it showed the return of Gibson Praise, and also guest-starred one of the aliens from the movie. The next couple of episodes are some of the seasons' best. "Drive" is one of my personal favourites, as it is about a man who is forced to drive Mulder around the highways at high speed, or he will die. The opening scene to that episode is one of my favourites. "Triangle" is a very entertaining episode, in which Mulder crosses through the Bermuda triangle and gets caught up on a ship that was said to have disappeared during world war II. "Dreamland I/Dreamland II" is a very humorous episode, in which Mulder switces body with another man, after a UFO is seen flying over them. And "How the ghosts stole christmas" is an intertesting story were Mulder and Scully get locked in a house which is believed to be haunted by a married couple at Christmas eve.

Other good episodes include "Two fathers/One son" which basically closes of about 5 years of mythology in the show. The conclusion to the episode is breathtaking. "Monday" is another of my personal favourites, in which a woman has to relive the same day over and over again, until she can save Mulder and Scully from being killed by her boyfriend. "Arcadia" shows Mulder and Scully going undercover as a maried couple to try to investigate the disappearences of people in a small neighbourhood. It starts of very fun, but ends in a sort of disturbing way. "The Unnatural" is a great episode, in which a story is told about one of America's greatest baseball players being an alien. It includes a guest appearence by Brian Thompson as the alien bounty hunter. "Field trip" is a very unsettling and confusing episode.

A few episodes do let the season down: "The rain king" is a stupid episode which mostly revolves around a weather man trying to have the guts his long-time friend out. "Alpha" seemed like a good episode, about a killer dog on ther loose, but it just fell flat. "Terms of endearment" wasn't a bad episode, it was just average really, about a man who just wants to have a normal baby and he will do anything to make it happen. It does have a good guest-starring Bruce Campbell (The Evil dead films).

The season-finale didn't really seem exciting to me, as it didn't really have a good cliffhnager (the best ones would be Season 2's "Anasazi" and Season 4's "Gethsamane").

Still, this is probably one of the more experimental seasons of the show. Mixed with episodes of comedy, and some just straight-ahead horror stories.

Just when you thought it couldnt get better!
Following on from its peak ratings and the cinematic release of the X Files Movie comes season 6. Thinking season 5 couldnt be improved on was a mistake,although its thought by many that this season was the beginning of the end, and nearing the start of David Duchovneys 'other projects' and Gillian Andersons 'contractual obligations'.

This is my personal favorite season, possibly, sorry it is hard to choose between them. It has everything and feels as fresh as season 1. It starts off continuing from the movie, this story is further expanded in later episodes, the long running conspiracies are finally put to rest and to some degree Mulder wins! The constant doubts Mulder had in season 5 are all gone though at the start of the season both Mulder and Scully have been assigned away from the X Files, but as ever its not long before theyre right back on them.

The stand alone episodes, (which I have to say is what I watch X Files for, Ive never been one for the long running deep conspiracies, too slow for my liking and to straight faced) are better than ever involving time travel, the Bermuda Triangle, Vice Versa style body shifting, ghosts, Demons having babies, sea monsters Groundog Day, honestly this season has it all! Even the episode with the Lone Gunmen is good!

As usual there are a couple of sub standard episodes but that is to be expected in a long season, The Rain King is just poor and The Unnatural is way too American for a UK audience, but worth watching for the close interaction between Mulder and Scully at the end of the episode.

What becomes more obvious throughout this season is the bond between Mulder and Scully there are several occasions when the chemistry sets the screen alight! Building on the will they wont they get it on debate!

As ever we are left with a cliff hanger ending with Mulder committed and acting like a Basket Case and Scully finding a big spaceship under some sand in Africa that could be the answer to life on earth, phew! Cant wait for season 7!

The Truth is Out There
My first impression of season 6 was that there was a strong comedy element embedded within a number of the episodes. A refreshing change from some of the darker episodes of the previous seasons.

In a nut shell Mulder and Scully return from Antartica after the events of The Movie and find out that they are not dealing with the X Files anymore. Good old Cassandra Spender returns to inform Mulder that there is an Alien threat of colonization.

The season climaxes in Biogenesis where an extraterrestrial artefact is found of the coast of Africa which could hold the key to the very origins of life on Earth.

My top episodes this season:

Dreamland Part1+2
How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
Agua Mala
Monday
Arcadia
Three of a Kind