The X-Cast: An X-Files Podcast

3x17 'Pusher' - Episode Analysis Our coverage of Season 3 continues as Tony Black takes the hosting chair alongside returning X-Cast guest Darren Mooney to discuss this legendary game of cat and mouse... Following the capture of a notorious criminal named 'Pusher', which leads to the death of a cop during his escape, Mulder & Scully are drafted in by local police to help catch a killer who Mulder ...

3x16 'Apocrypha' - Episode Analysis Our coverage of Season 3 continues as Darren Mooney takes the hosting chair alongside brand new X-Cast guest Christopher Irish, one of the brains behind The X-Files Lexicon, to discuss the second of this two-parter... With Alex Krycek now possessed by an alien entity, and partnered with Mulder on the search for the digital tape containing the Navajo alien intell...

The X-Cast pays tribute to Burt Reynolds - 1936-2018 Following the sad passing of Burt Reynolds, aka 'Mr. Burt' from Chris Carter's bizarre Season 9 episode 'Improbable', Paige Schector & Marlene Stemme join forces to pay tribute to his long & varied career, and his contribution to The X-Files. Host Paige Schector Guest Marlene Stemme Production Tony Black (Editor/Executive Producer), Kurt North (...

3x15 'Piper Maru' - Episode Analysis Our coverage of Season 3 continues as Darren Mooney takes the hosting chair alongside brand new X-Cast guest Christopher Irish, one of the brains behind The X-Files Lexicon, to discuss the first of this two-parter... When a French diving team uncovers the wreck of a WW2 fighter plane, Mulder is placed on the hunt for a UFO as it becomes apparent an alien lifefo...

3x14 'Grotesque' - Episode Analysis Our coverage of Season 3 continues as Tony Black takes the hosting chair alongside returning X-Cast guest Zach Moore to discuss this dark look into the human psyche... Following the murder of an artists model, Mulder & Scully are drawn into a series of dark murders apparently committed by a demonic force. As Mulder faces a reunion with old Violent Crimes mentor...

Interview with Frank Spotnitz - X-Files Producer (Seasons 2-IWTB) We are delighted to present the X-Cast interview with Frank Spotnitz, X-Files legend, writer & Executive Producer, in conversation with Tony Black. Frank discusses his career, his time working on The X-Files, plans for the movie franchise after Season 9, what he thinks of the revival seasons and where he sees the franchise going nex...

Hour 1 of The X-Cast Live On September 1st 2018, Tony Black undertook a 24-hour live marathon podcast celebrating 25 years of The X-Files with a range of fellow podcasters and special celebrity guests, in order to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society and the fight against dementia. In this first hour, Tony is joined by Sarah Blair to talk about how the X-Cast Live will work and their memories o...

Patron Roundtable #3: When did The X-Files 'Jump the Shark' & what would you change about the show? In this supplemental episode, Paige Schector hosts the third Patron-only Roundtable discussion answering the question - when did the show 'jump the shark'? Alongside new Patrons & guests Naomi Miller, Michael John Petty and Marlene Stemme, Paige talks both this topic and asks what would we change ab...

X-Files Top 10 Episodes: The Mythology Our supplemental episode this week is the first of our Top 10 episode lists, and for our first one we're going big - covering the X-Files Mythology. Carl Sweeney hosts, alongside guest Kurt North, to discuss what they consider to be the best of the best Mythology episodes of the show... Host Carl Sweeney Guest Kurt North Production Carl Sweeney (Editor/Produc...

3x14 'Syzygy' - Episode Analysis Our coverage of Season 3 continues as Sarah Blair takes the hosting chair alongside returning X-Cast guest Lauren Forry to discuss the mystery of the horny beast... After the bizarre death of a high school student which may have been caused by two high school friends, Mulder & Scully discover a small town in the grip of an unusual cosmic alignment, which begins to...

Whirlwind - Book Analysis In this supplemental episode, host Sarah Blair and guest Baz Greenland look at Charles Grant's 1994 tie-in novel, Whirlwind... Serial killers come in all shapes and sizes, but this one is particularly puzzling. There's no pattern to the mutilated bodies that have been showing up in Albuquerque: both sexes, all races, ages, ethnic groups. There is no evidence of rape or ri...

3x12 'War of the Coprophages' - Episode Analysis Our coverage of Season 3 continues as Clara Cook takes the hosting chair alongside returning X-Cast guest Matt Latham to discuss the next Darin Morgan comedy... The strange death of a bug exterminator in the small town of Miller's Grove coincides with Mulder spending his Saturday night UFO hunting in the area. When the local sheriff's department bri...

3x11 'Revelations' - Episode Analysis Our coverage of Season 3 continues as Carl Sweeney takes the hosting chair alongside comics writer & returning X-Cast guest Wayne Talbot to discuss this religious piece... Following the mysterious death of a church pastor, Mulder & Scully end up on a case of what appears to be stigmata revolving around Kevin, a young boy. While Mulder finds himself in the rare...

Character Profile: Dana Scully - Season 1 Our supplemental episode this week is our first in-depth character profile, looking at a particular X-Files character at a point in the show - in this case Scully in S1. Sarah Blair hosts, alongside guests Paige Schector & Jenn Ferguson, one of our illustrious Patrons, to discuss Scully's best moments from the season, why she stays with The X-Files, and so...

3x10 '731' - Episode Analysis Our coverage of Season 3 continues as Clara Cook takes the hosting chair alongside podcaster and X-Cast veteran Andrew Brooker to discuss part two of this memorable mythology episode... Mulder has boarded one of the government's secret railroad trains on the hunt for an alien-human hybrid, while Scully ends up, in her own search for answers, at a hidden leper colony d...

3x09 'Nisei' - Episode Analysis Our coverage of Season 3 continues as Clara Cook takes the hosting chair alongside podcaster and X-Cast veteran Andrew Brooker to discuss this key mythology episode... After the execution-style murder of a man selling supposedly real alien autopsy videos over mail order, Mulder & Scully are drawn quickly into a conspiracy involving Japanese scientists, a secret gove...

'Oubliette' - Deeper Analysis Our supplemental episode this week can be considered an add-on to our coverage of 3x08 'Oubliette'. Carl Sweeney and Chris Knowles explore the deeper themes and mythic symbology of the episode and its broader context within The X-Files...  Host Carl Sweeney Guest Chris Knowles Production Carl Sweeney (Editor/Producer) Tony Black (Executive Producer), Kurt North (Patro...

3x08 'Oubliette' - Episode Analysis Our coverage of Season 3 continues as Carl Sweeney takes the hosting chair alongside podcaster Brandon Shea-Mutala to discuss this powerful Mulder episode... Following the disappearance of a teenage girl in a small town, Mulder and Scully investigate when a former abduction victim, Lucy Householder, starts exhibiting what appears to be a psychic connection with...

Interview: Stefan Petrucha In this special episode, Darren Mooney speaks to Stefan Petrucha, writer of The X-Files Topps line of comic tie-ins written in the mid-1990's, to talk about his contribution to the series. They discuss how he came to be involved in The X-Files, details about his process of crafting the stories, his collaborations with 1013, and his work beyond the Topps comics themselves...

3x07 'The Walk' - Episode Analysis Our coverage of Season 3 continues as Sarah Blair takes the hosting chair alongside podcaster Clara Cook to discuss this tale of out of body, embittered soldiers... Mulder & Scully investigate the murder of a military officer on a US Army base which leads them into a conspiratorial web of a tortured colonel, an angry double amputee, and a possible case of astral ...

The X-Cast: LIVE on stage In this special supplemental episode, recorded LIVE on July 8th 2018 at the Birmingham Podcast Festival in the UK, Tony Black & Carl Sweeney attempt to explain the biggest mystery in The X-Files... the alien mythology. With the help of a (possibly) willing audience and a series of educational slides (that you can't see), Tony & Carl try their best to explain who the alien...

3x06 '2shy' - Episode Analysis Our coverage of Season 3 continues as Sarah Blair takes the hosting chair alongside author John Kenneth Muir to discuss this cautionary tale on stranger danger... Mulder & Scully investigate the death of a woman who had all of her fatty tissue removed by the killer. While Mulder suspects a 'fat-sucking vampire', Scully fights off institutionalised police sexism as th...

'Shipping' Mulder & Scully We let the shipper contingent take over this week as Sarah Blair hosts, joined by Patrons Jenn Ferguson & Michelle Milbauer, to discuss the phenomenon of wanting M&S to be a couple. They get into some of the shipper 'terms', discuss what it means to be an X-Files shipper, pick out their favourite shippy moments of the show, and much more... They also try and answer the m...

3x05 'The List' - Episode Analysis Our coverage of Season 3 continues as Carl Sweeney takes the hosting chair alongside podcaster Mike Schindler to discuss this dark Chris Carter stand-alone episode... Following a brutal murder inside a maximum-security prison of one of the guards, Mulder & Scully investigate what on the face of it appears to be a conspiracy amongst guards and inmates, but what Mu...

3x04 'Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose' - Episode Analysis Our coverage of Season 3 continues as Russell Hugo takes the hosting chair alongside guest, author Jim Beard, to discuss Darin Morgan's legendary comedy... Investigating the murder of a fortune teller, Mulder & Scully come into contact with Clyde Bruckman, a middle-aged man who claims to be able to see how people will die, and might well be p...