Kill Switch (The X-Files)
Mulder and Scully face a rogue AI with satellite weapons.
The fifth season of The X-Files includes "Kill Switch" as its eleventh episode, which first aired on February 15, 1998 via the Fox network.[1] Cyberpunk novelist William Gibson and science fiction author Tom Maddox are credited as the writers of this episode.[2]
Quick Facts
- Series
- The X-Files
- Season
- 5
- Episode
- 11
- Air date
- 15 February 1998
- Production
- 5X11
- Writer
- William Gibson; Tom Maddox
- Director
- Rob Bowman
- Length
- 45 minutes
Facts from the source article.
Making and release
Gibson and Maddox approached the production company with an offer to write an episode after discussing various collaborations.[2] The story was developed by Gibson, Maddox, and series creator Chris Carter during consecutive weekends at Carter's West End apartment.[3] The episode was viewed by 18.04 million viewers and earned a Nielsen rating of 11.1 with a 16 share.[1] Because series creator Chris Carter and executive producer Frank Spotnitz had other commitments, more than twelve months passed before the episode's rewrite and completion occurred.[4]
Revisions made by Carter and Spotnitz included increasing the "attitude" displayed by the character Esther.[4] During the show's original Vancouver production period, "Kill Switch" held the record for highest cost per episode, with filming spanning 22 days.[5] The Westham Island Bridge, which crosses Canoe Pass in British Columbia, served as the location for the bridge scenes.[5] Mulder's discovery of an abandoned house was filmed at a site called "Read House," a locally known historical landmark.[6]
What the cited sources add
Strachan noted that Gibson was on set a lot during filming "but only because my daughter insisted on being there."[3] VanDerWerff highlighted the moment when a virtual Scully performs a roundhouse kick on nurses as being among the episode's finest shots.[7]
References
- Wikipedia, "Kill Switch (The X-Files)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Goodwin, "The X-Files: The Complete Fifth Season", 20th Century Fox, 2002; Meisler, p. 284; Meisler, p. 284 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Kill Switch (The X-Files)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Goodwin, "The X-Files: The Complete Fifth Season", 20th Century Fox, 2002; Meisler, p. 154; "Tom Maddox Unreal-Time Chat", Shop Talk, 3 March 1998; Strachan, "Gibson writes this Sunday's X-Files", Local Entertainment, 14 February 1998; Strachan, "Gibson writes this Sunday's X-Files", Local Entertainment, 14 February 1998 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Strachan, "Gibson writes this Sunday's X-Files", Local Entertainment, 14 February 1998. facts only, no text reused. mjq.net
- Wikipedia, "Kill Switch (The X-Files)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Meisler, p. 154 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Kill Switch (The X-Files)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Carter, "The X-Files: The Complete Fifth Season", 20th Century Fox, 2002; Hurwitz and Knowles, pp. 123–124 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Kill Switch (The X-Files)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gradnitzer and Pittson, p. 168–170 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Kill Switch (The X-Files)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: VanDerWerff, "'Kill Switch'/'Goodbye, Charlie'", The A.V. Club, 28 May 2011; Love, "The X-Files: Killswitch", TV Squad, 21 July 2008; Vitaris, "Fifth Season Episode Guide", Cinefantastique, October 1998, p. 29–50; Vitaris, "Fifth Season Episode Guide", Cinefantastique, October 1998, p. 29–50; Vitaris, "Fifth Season Episode Guide", Cinefantastique, October 1998, p. 29–50 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Kill Switch (The X-Files) (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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