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Created By
Vince Gilligan
Chris Carter
John Shiban
The Lone Gunmen
Overview
After years of playing second fiddle to Agents Mulder and Scully on The X-Files, the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Lone Gunmen are finally heading out on their own. Never ones to stray far from the center of corporate and government intrigue, the threesome play like a misguided Mission Impossible team, embarking on a series of comic adventures that simultaneously highlight their genius and ineptitude.
Key Crew
Producer: Chris Carter
Top Cast
Bruce Harwood
John Fitzgerald Byers
Tom Braidwood
Melvin Frohike
Dean Haglund
Richard Langly
Stephen Snedden
Jimmy Bond
Zuleikha Robinson
Yves Adele Harlow
Seasons
Season 0 ()
No overview available.
2 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Defenders of Justice
Behind the scenes with the cast and crew of The Lone Gunmen.
Runtime: N/A minEpisode 2: Jump the Shark
2002-04-21X-Files Episode 9x15, bonus feature on the Lone Gunmen R1 DVD set: When Morris Fletcher approaches agents Doggett and Reyes with information related to "Super Soldiers", they turn to the Lone Gunmen. The Gunmen, however, are knee-deep in a bio-terrorist's plot to release a deadly toxin into the population but the Gunmen find that they may have to make the ultimate sacrifice for their cause.
Runtime: N/A min
Season 1 (2001)
No overview available.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Pilot
2001-03-04A Mission-Impossible style break-in as Frohike and Byers attempt to steal the Octium IV chip from E-Com-Con's top security room.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 2: Bond, Jimmy Bond
2001-03-11While searching for the killer of an infamous hacker, the three Lone Gunmen find a fourth member when they stumble upon a practice of a football team for the blind.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 3: Eine Kleine Frohike
2001-03-16Frohike has to disguise himself as the long-lost son of a woman who is believed to be a Nazi war criminal that the Gunmen are trying to smoke out of the woodwork. She was famed for poisoning the pastries of the French Resistance.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 4: Like Water for Octane
2001-03-18While searching for a water-powered car, the Gunmen encounter missile silos, rude government clerks, and cows.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 5: Three Men and a Smoking Diaper
2001-03-23The Lone Gunmen become reluctant and rather inept nursemaids to the illegitimate baby of a drunk, philandering, saxophone-playing Senator whose campaign-aide girlfriend died in a suspicious accident. This is the episode where, as Bruce Harwood put it in one chat, "Tom gets his nipples sucked!"
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 6: Madam, I'm Adam
2001-03-30Our heroes meet a strange man who may or may not have been transported by aliens from a parallel universe. Oh, and there's goo.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 7: Planet of the Frohikes
2001-04-06The team receives a plea for help via an email from an unknown source, but all evidence seems to point to a chimpanzee at a government laboratory
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 8: Maximum Byers
2001-04-13The mother of an inmate on death row request The Lone Gunmen to prove her son's innocence and expose the conspiracy behind the murder.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 9: Diagnosis: Jimmy
2001-04-20While the trio stalks a grizzly-bear poacher in a snowy forest, an injured Jimmy believes his doctor is a killer profiled on "America's Most Wanted."
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 10: Tango de los Pistoleros
2001-04-27After the Lone Gunmen ruin her first attempt to get close to a suspected smuggler, Yves arranges to become the man's partner in a tango competition -- with a little help from her... ah... friends.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 11: The Lying Game
2001-05-04The boys' investigation into the shooting death of the brother of Byers' college roommate, a blackmailer, yields a definite suspect: FBI Asst. Director Walter Skinner.
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 12: The Cap'n Toby Show
2001-06-01Langly's childhood hero, kid's show host Cap'n Toby, is accused of being an international spy. It's Gunmen to the rescue!
Runtime: 45 minEpisode 13: All About Yves
2001-05-11The Lone Gunmen team up with Man in Black agent Morris Fletcher to find Yves. What they uncover is Romeo-61, a secret government organization responsible for decades of major incidents. The sequel to this episode is X-Files S09E15 - Jump the Shark
Runtime: 45 min
