The X-Files - The Complete Seventh Season
20th Century Fox (1999)
Sci-Fi, TV Series
In Collection
#1635
7*
Seen It:  Yes
(6/13/2011)
024543069775
IMDB   9.0
1064 mins USA/English
DVD  Region 1   NR
David Duchovny Fox Mulder (1993-2001, 2002)
Gillian Anderson Dana Scully
Robert Patrick John Doggett (2000-2002)
Annabeth Gish Monica Reyes (2001-2002)
Mitch Pileggi Walter Skinner (1994-2002)
William B. Davis Cigarette Smoking Man/CGB Spender (1994-2000, 2002)
Tom Braidwood Melvin Frohike
Jerry Hardin Deep Throat
John Neville The Well-Manicured Man
Director Kim Manners
Rob Bowman
Chris Carter
Producer David Amann
Rob Bowman
Chris Carter
David Nutter
Michael W. Watkins
Writer Chris Carter
David Amann
Vince Gilligan
Steven Maeda
Frank Spotnitz


With the original conspiracy plot arc having fallen into a muddle of loose ends, once-hungry lead actors on the verge of big-screen careers and making demands for more time off or shots at writing and directing, and the initial wish list of monsters-of-the-week long exhausted, it's a miracle that by its seventh season The X-Files was still making its airdates, let alone managing something pretty good every other show and something outstanding at least once every four episodes. The season opens with a dreary two-parter ("Sixth Extinction" and "Amor Fati") and winds up with the traditional incomprehensible cliffhanger ("Requiem"), but along the way includes a clutch of episodes that may not match the originality of earlier seasons but still effortlessly equal any other fantasy-horror sci-fi on television.

The highlights: "Hungry," a brain-eating mutant story told from the point of view of a monster who tries to control his appetite by going to eating disorder self-help groups; "The Goldberg Variation," a crime comedy about a weasely little man who has the gift of incredible good luck, which means Wile E. Coyote-style doom for anyone who crosses him; "The Amazing Maleeni," guest-starring Ricky Jay in a rare nonfantastic crime story about a feud between stage magicians that turns out to be a cover for a heist; "X-Cops," a brilliant skit on the TV docusoap Cops with Mulder and Scully caught on camera as they track an apparent werewolf in Los Angeles (season-best acting from David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson); "Theef," a complex revenge drama with gaunt Billy Drago as a hillbilly medicine man stalking a slick doctor; "Brand X," a horror-comic tale of corruption in the tobacco industry; "Hollywood AD" (written and directed by Duchovny), in which Tea Leoni (Duchovny's wife) and Garry Shandling are cast as Scully and Mulder in a crass movie version of a real-life X-file; and "Je Souhaite," a deadpan comedy about a wry, cynical genie at the mercy of trailer-trash masters who haven't an idea what to wish for. --Kim Newman
Episodes
Disc 01
 60 mins    11/7/1999  1.  The Sixth Extinction (2)
While Scully travels to Africa to piece together the meaning of the symbols on the spaceship beached on the Ivory Coast, Mulder is imprisoned by his own frenetic brain activity. He manages to get a message to Skinner who finds Kritschgau, and together they try to understand what is happening to Mulder before it is too late.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Chris Carter 
Guest starring:  Warren Sweeney, Mari Weiss, Abdoulaye N'Gom, Anthony Okungbowa, Michael Ensign, Jo Nell Kennedy, Conrad Roberts
 60 mins    11/14/1999  2.  The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (3)
Scully frantically searches for a way to help her ailing partner without having anyone to turn to for help, while a catatonic Mulder's dreams lead him away from his mission and the X-Files to a place which he believes is a better life.
Director:  Michael W. Watkins  Writer:  Chris Carter  / David Duchovny 
Guest starring:  Henry Schwartz, Megan Leitch, Brian George, Arlene Pileggi, Anthony Anselmi, Fritz Greve, Warren Sweeney, Andrew Cavarno, Steven Cavarno, Martin Grey, Rebecca Toolan
 60 mins    11/21/1999  3.  Hungry
A monster who feeds on human brain matter tries to lead a normal life, but he soon cannot control his feelings of hunger.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Vince Gilligan 
Guest starring:  Chad E. Donella, Mark Pelligrino, Judith Hoag, Lois Foraker, Bill Lee Brown, Chasen Hampton, Kerry Zook, Steve Kiziak, Kevin Porter, Susan Slome
 60 mins    11/28/1999  4.  Millennium
As the year 2000 draws closer, the agents are up against a man from the Millennium Group who believes that he can bring about the end of the world on the 31st of December if he resurrects four former members from the dead. To gain more insight into the group and its practices, Mulder and Scully enlist criminal profiler Frank Black to assist them in the investigation.
Director:  Thomas J. Wright  Writer:  Frank Spotnitz  / Vince Gilligan 
Guest starring:  Dick Clark, Monnae Michaell, Octavia Spencer, Romy Walthall, Stephen Ramsey, Eulan Middlebrooks, Michael Dempsey, Lance Henriksen, Holmes Osborne, Colby French, William Forward, Brittany Tiplady, Marilyn McIntyre, Donald Trump
Disc 02
 60 mins    12/5/1999  5.  Rush
A young man who has gained the ability to move faster than the eye can see begins to use his new power to kill his enemies, including the local sheriff who happens to be his father.
Director:  Robert Lieberman  Writer:  David Amann 
Guest starring:  Rodney Scott, Scott Cooper, Nicki Lynn Aycox, Ann Dowd, Tom Bower, Les Lannom, Christopher Wynne, Rachel Winfree
 60 mins    12/12/1999  6.  The Goldberg Variation
Mulder and Scully get caught in a real-life Rube Goldberg device when they meet Henry Weems, who just may be the luckiest man on Earth - except everyone around him doesn't seem to be that lucky.
Director:  Thomas J. Wright  Writer:  Jeffrey Bell 
Guest starring:  Willie Garson, Alyson Reed, Ramy Zada, Tony Longo, Nicholas Worth, Dom Magwili, Marshall Manesh, Ernie Lee Banks, Chip Fogelman, Dominique DiPrima, Bobby Moynahan, Shia LaBeouf
 60 mins    1/9/2000  7.  Orison
Reverend Orison hopes to save Donnie Pfaster's soul by helping him break out of prison, but Donnie immediately plans to go after the victim that once escaped him... Scully.
Director:  Rob Bowman  Writer:  Chip Johannessen 
Guest starring:  Scott Wilson, Nick Chinlund, Steve Rankin, Emilio Rivera, Lisa Kushell, Rick Cramer, Tara Buck, Irene Muzzy, Eric Buker
 60 mins    1/16/2000  8.  The Amazing Maleeni
When a small-time magician performs a trick where it appears that he turns his head all the way around but is then found in his van dead with his head neatly sawed off, Mulder and Scully suspect he was murdered and get caught up in an intricate scheme planned by two magicians trying to rob a bank.
Director:  Thomas J. Wright  Writer:  Frank Spotnitz  / Vince Gilligan  / John Shiban 
Guest starring:  Ricky Jay, Jonathan Levit, Robert LaSardo, Jim Maniaci, Rick Marzan, Mark Chaet, Dennis Keiffer, Dan Rice, Sherri Howard, J. David, Steven Barr, Adam Vernier
Disc 03
 60 mins    1/23/2000  9.  Signs and Wonders
Snakes are killing the unrighteous, but Mulder and Scully doubt that this is a case of divine intervention.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Jeffrey Bell 
Guest starring:  Randy Oglesby, Tracy Middendorf, Michael Childers, Eric Nenninger, Beth Grant, Philip Lenkowsky, Clement E. Blake, Stevie Johnson, Phyllis Franklin, Dan Manning, Elyse Donalson, Donna May
 60 mins    2/6/2000  10.  Sein und Zeit (1)
A young girl inexplicably disappears from her home, and Mulder requests the case even though it is a full FBI matter, not just an X-File. When Mulder takes some outrageous leaps to convince the girl's parents that she will be found, Scully fears that Mulder is becoming too personally involved with the case because of his sister's abduction.
Director:  Michael W. Watkins  Writer:  Chris Carter  / Frank Spotnitz 
Guest starring:  John Harnagel, Marie Chambers, John Bisom, Nancy Tiballi, Dylan Stjepovic, Mark Rolston, Rebecca Toolan, Shareen J. Mitchell, Megan Corletto, Spencer Garrett, Kim Darby, Martin Grey, Randall Bosley
 60 mins    2/13/2000  11.  Closure (2)
After arresting the murderer of Amber-Lynn LaPierre and discovering a mass grave site containing the bodies of dozens of missing children, a man comes to Mulder and claims to have had visions of other victims who aren't buried at the site. Despite Scully's objections, he takes Mulder on a journey which reveals what truly happened to his sister.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Chris Carter  / Frank Spotnitz 
Guest starring:  Patience Cleveland, Christopher Wynne, Ed Beechner, Megan Corletto, Nicholas Stratton, Fort Atkinson, Jeff Xander, Norman Smith, Anthony Heald, Stanley Anderson, Rebecca Toolan, Mimi Paley
 60 mins    2/20/2000  12.  X-COPS
A Los Angeles police officer who is being filmed for the show COPS is attacked by a strange monster and Mulder and Scully are investigating the case. Scully is wary of having their faces put on national television but Mulder welcomes the publicity.
Director:  Michael W. Watkins  Writer:  Vince Gilligan 
Guest starring:  Judson Mills, Dee Freeman, Perla Walter, J.W. Smith, Curtis C., Michael Maher, Tara Karsian, Lombardo Boyar, Maria Celedonio, John Michael Vaughn, Daniel Emmett, Frankie Ray, Solomon Eversol, Cheryl Comstock, Ron Gilbert, Diane Harris, Boris Nikolof, Scott Arger, Kevin Bo
Disc 04
 60 mins    2/27/2000  13.  First Person Shooter
The Lone Gunmen call Mulder and Scully to a virtual reality development lab where they learn that one of the program testers was killed inside the computer generated game environment by the digital image of a woman. Needing to get his yah-yah's, Mulder enters the game to fight the woman, but Scully must step in to save him.
Director:  Chris Carter  Writer:  William Gibson  / Tom Maddox 
Guest starring:  Krista Allen, Jamie Marsh, Constance Zimmer, Billy Ray Gallion, Ryan Todd, James Geralden, John Marrott, Christopher Ng, Michael Bower
 60 mins    3/12/2000  14.  Theef
Mulder and Scully suspect that hexcraft is the source of threats against a doctor's family.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Frank Spotnitz  / Vince Gilligan  / John Shiban 
Guest starring:  Billy Drago, James Morrison, Kate McNeil, Cara Jedell, Tom Dahlgren, Sage Allen, Pamela Gordon, Michael Sidney, Matthew Sutherland, Dylan Kussman, Aaron Braxton, Leah Sanders, Mark Thompson
 60 mins    3/19/2000  15.  En Ami
The Cigarette-Smoking Man offers to show Scully the cure for all diseases if she travels with him, but on one condition: Mulder must not know about her trip.
Director:  Rob Bowman  Writer:  William B. Davis 
Guest starring:  Timothy Landfield, Cory Parravano, Michael Canavan, Jacqueline Schultz, Thomas Roe, Tom Bailey, Michael Shamus Wiles, Louise Latham
 60 mins    4/2/2000  16.  Chimera
As Mulder investigates a missing person case with a key feature being a menacing raven, he learns to enjoy the creature comforts of a well-tended home while Scully must tough it out on an uncomfortable stakeout.
Director:  Clifford Bole  Writer:  David Amann 
Guest starring:  Wendy Schall, Charles Hoyes, Ashley Edner, Michelle Joyner, Gina Mastrogiacomo, F. William Parker, John Mese
Disc 05
 60 mins    4/9/2000  17.  all things
A series of coincidences leads Scully to a married man she had an affair with during medical school but left him to protect his family.
Director:  Gillian Anderson  Writer:  Gillian Anderson 
Guest starring:  Colleen Flynn, Stacy Haiduk, Stephen Hornyak, Nicolas Surovy, Victoria Faerber, Carol Banker, Elayn Taylor, Cheryl White, Scott Vance
 60 mins    4/16/2000  18.  Brand X
While protecting a man due to testify against the Morley cigarette company, Skinner is horrified when the witness dies mysteriously. What the agents soon discover is that a new brand of cigarette has a dangerous secret.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Steven Maeda  / Greg Walker 
Guest starring:  Arthur Rosenberg, Ron Marasco, Pat Destro, Caryn West, Rick Deats, David Sawyer, Greg Poland, Matthew T. Wilson, Dennis Boutsikaris, Tobin Bell, Shannon O'Hurley, Richard Cox
 60 mins    4/30/2000  19.  Hollywood A.D.
Mulder and Scully watch a movie with themselves as characters and are thoroughly disgusted at how they and their case are portrayed on the big screen. They recount how 18 months earlier they were followed around by a Hollywood producer while investigating a case concerning The Lazarus Bowl - a mythical piece of pottery reputed to have inscribed on it the words that Jesus Christ spoke when he raised Lazarus from the dead.
Director:  David Duchovny  Writer:  David Duchovny 
Guest starring:  Tim Roe, Barry K. Thomas, Tina M. Ameduri, Bill Millar, Tony Amendola, Garry Shandling, Téa Leoni, Harris Yulin, Wayne Federman, Paul Lieber, Chris Carter, David Alan Grier, Minnie Driver
 60 mins    5/7/2000  20.  Fight Club
Mulder and Scully cross paths with two women who are identical and have followed each other across 17 states in the last three years, causing chaos and mayhem wherever they are.
Director:  Paul Shapiro  Writer:  Chris Carter 
Guest starring:  Randall Tex Cobb, Art Evans, Jack McGee, Gene LeBell, Kathy Griffin, Arlene Pileggi, Steve Kiziak, Cory Blevins, John O'Brien, Christopher Michael, Brian Chenoweth, Jim Hanna, Nicole Bush, Paul Hansen Kim, John Mack, Rob Szatkowski
Disc 06
 60 mins    5/14/2000  21.  Je Souhaite
Mulder and Scully discover a genie in a rug who, after 500 years of granting wishes, has come to the conclusion that people are still as greedy and self-centered as they always have been, and she begins to corrupt the wishes she grants if they are not specific enough.
Director:  Vince Gilligan  Writer:  Vince Gilligan 
Guest starring:  Brett Bell, Paula Sorge, Will Sasso, Kevin Weisman, Paul Hayes
 60 mins    5/21/2000  22.  Requiem
Mulder and Scully return to the town of their first X-Files investigation where a UFO has crashed in the forest. The Cigarette-Smoking Man arranges for Krycek to be released from prison in order for him to make contact with the aliens and begin rebuilding the "Project", while Scully's health appears to be taking a turn.
Director:  Kim Manners  Writer:  Chris Carter 
Guest starring:  Brian Thompson, Peter MacDissi, Grace Demontesquiou, Kelly Demontesquiou, Leon Russom, Andy Umberger, Sarah Koskoff, Gretchen Becker, Darin Cooper, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Judd Trichter, Grace and Kelly de Montesquiou
Edition Details
Edition Season 7
Series X-Files
Distributor 20th Century Fox
Release Date 5/13/2003
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio 1.78:1
Subtitles English; Spanish
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Surround
SPANISH: Dolby Digital Surround
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 6
Personal Details
Purchase Date 5/13/2003
Owner Thomas Eisenmann
Store Best Buy
Purchase Price $99.99
Condition Excellent
Reviewed Not Reviewed
Anamophic Yes
Links Amazon.com
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Features
Disc 01 Anamophic
Color Closed-captioned Widescreen Box set
Disc 02 Anamophic
Disc 03 Anamophic
Disc 04 Anamophic
Disc 05 Anamophic
Disc 06 Anamophic
All-New Documentary: The Truth About Season Seven
10 Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary By Chris Carter
13 Special Effects Sequences With Commentary By Paul Rabwin
Episode Commentary On First Person Shooter By Chris Carter
Episode Commentary On All Things By Gillian Anderson
Episode Commentary On Je Souhaite By Vince Gilligan
44 Promotional Television Spots
17 International Language Clips
All-New DVD-ROM Game Maitreya 2.0
Playstation 2 Game Preview

Widescreen Review
01. The Sixth Extinction 1999-11-07
While Scully tries to piece together the meaning of the symbols on the spaceship beached in Africa, Mulder is imprisoned by his own frenetic brain activity.(Source:Fox)

02. The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati 1999-11-14
An unconscious Mulder's dreams lead him astray from the X-Files, but Scully stays the course in her search to find him.(Source:Fox)

03. Hungry 1999-11-21
Mulder and Scully investigate a number of disturbing murders that lead to the discovery of a "monster" who commits murder to feed a gruesome habit.(Source:Fox)

04. Millennium 1999-11-28
Agents Mulder and Scully enlist the help of former FBI agent Frank Black to unravel a mystery of apocalyptic proportions. The agents race against time to stop members of the Millennium Group who hold the ability to summon the dead and plan to use this power to end the world as the millennium draws to a close.(Source:Fox)

05. Rush 1999-12-05
After an innocent teen is accused of a gruesome and unexplained murder, Mulder and Scully's investigation leads to the discovery of supernatural forces at work.(Source:Fox)

06. The Goldberg Variation 1999-12-12
Mulder and Scully investigate a man upon whom fortune has smiled a few too many times, and witness first hand the theory of cause and effect and the consequences that occur when coincidence, chance and luck collide.(Source:Fox)

07. Orison 2000-01-09
A series of prison breaks bring Agents Mulder and Scully face to face with Scully's former kidnapper, Donnie Pfaster, as Scully is forced to question her faith and confront the clash of morality and religion.(Source:Fox)

08. The Amazing Maleeni 2000-01-16
While agents Mulder and Scully investigate the gruesome and unexplained death of a magician, they are drawn into the world of magic and illusion and learn that, at first glance, nothing is as it appears to be.(Source:Fox)

09. Signs and Wonders 2000-01-23
Mulder and Scully investigate a gruesome and unexplained snake-bite death, which points to a religious group in the deep south.(Source:Fox)

10. Sein und Zeit 2000-02-06
During the course of Mulder and Scully's investigation of the disappearance of a child, Mulder discovers information that shakes his beliefs and reopens the case of his sister's abduction 25 years earlier.(Source:Fox)

11. Closure 2000-02-13
While Mulder and Scully continue to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young girl, Mulder confronts the demons from his past and continues to search for clues to his sister Samantha's abduction. The search culminates in a race against time to find the long-sought-after answers to her fate.(Source:Fox)

12. X-Cops 2000-02-20
Agents Mulder and Scully are followed documentary-style by a COPS camera crew throughout the course of their investigation.(Source:Fox)

13. First Person Shooter 2000-02-27
Agents Mulder and Scully investigate a murder inside the high-tech world of a virtual reality game. As the stakes of the virtual game are raised, Mulder and Scully must battle with a deadly digital character to save their lives.(Source:Fox)

14. Theef 2000-03-12
In an episode pitting modern medicine against ancient folklore practices, agents Mulder and Scully confront the world of voodoo and hexcraft while investigating a string of gruesome murders tied to the occult.(Source:Fox)

15. En Ami 2000-03-19
Vowing to atone for his many nefarious deeds, Cigarette-Smoking Man offers a skeptical Agent Scully a most enticing gift.(Source:Fox)

16. Chimera 2000-04-02
Fear, passion and small town jealousies collide in a mysterious string of murders committed by an unknown force, bringing Agent Mulder to Vermont to investigate.(Source:Fox)

17. "all Things" 2000-04-09
A seemingly random series of coincidences ignites a journey of self-discovery for Agent Scully as she re-examines a relationship from her past.(Source:Fox)

18. Brand X 2000-04-16
While investigating the gruesome death of a tobacco company executive, agents Mulder and Scully uncover a dangerous conspiracy that brings Mulder to the brink of death.(Source:Fox)

19. Hollywood A.D. 2000-04-30
A Hollywood producer follows Agents Mulder and Scully during the course of a murder investigation as research for an upcoming movie, in which Garry Shandling portrays Mulder and Tea Leoni portrays Scully.(Source:Fox)

20. Fight Club 2000-05-07
Mulder and Scully investigate bizarre disturbances in a previously quiet town with all signs pointing to the sisters as the root of the trouble. For the town's sake, the agents must prevent the two from coming in contact with each other.(Source:Fox)

21. Je Souhaite 2000-05-14
Agents Mulder and Scully investigate a bizarre occurrence in a southern town and discover the dangerous consequences of getting what you ask for.(Source:Fox)

22. Requiem 2000-05-21
As they revisit the case that brought them together seven years ago, Agents Mulder and Scully investigate a series of potential alien abductions that threatens their partnership.