Why the Crosswower X-Files with the CBS drama was canceled

The unusual drama of David E. Kelly “picket” debuted on CBS in 1992, and this, like many media outlets of the 1990s, aggressive removal of the previous generation. The name “picketers” was aimed at causing a quiet peace of the post-war baby boom, describing the overall function of the yard in the suburbs of the 1950s. The series, however, took place in Rome, Wisconsin, a place that was not only a plap. The stories surrounded the gloomy and sometimes unexplained crimes and the show regularly engaged in sensitive and political topics such as abortion, sexual violence, polyoamoria and the place of faith in the modern world.

“Picket Fencing”, with its soap stories and unusual tone, was clearly guidance (or just following the trends that started) David Lynch series 1990 “Twin Peaks”. This show is also aimed at deciding the media -medium -medium -1950s with dark violence and surreal mysteries.

But “picketing” also had kinship sisters in “X-Files”, a sci-fantastic series of Chris Carter about a couple of FBI agents, which are regularly assigned to paranormal cases. “X-Files” regularly represented UFOs, US cryptics and great, impossible conspiracies that oversee the shadow agencies within the US government. “X-Files” is usually captured by the 1990s after the Cold War paranoia and remains one of the decisive texts. Unusual, paranormal cases of “X-Files” would feel perfect at home on “pickets”.

As it happens, there used to be plans to have two shows. Carter and Kelly liked the idea of ​​Crosoover, and they brainstorming ideas about how Molder and Skali would come to visit Rome, Wisconsin. Unfortunately According to the article in Pajiba Information on search ManyCBS put the kibos on the idea. Crossover became separate episodes “X-Files” and “Picket Fence”.

In the episode “Fast” X-Files Red Museum (9 December 1994, During its pretty good second season), Malder (David Duhev) and Skali (Jillian Anderson) go to a city called Delta Glenn, Wisconsin to investigate a number of abductions. It seems that teenagers disappear for a short time, just to return, narcotic, with the phrases “he alone” or “she’s alone”, written on the back. Malder and Skali also find that some strange experiments were conducted on local cows. At first, FBI’s agents suspect that local cultists from the Red Museum Church are guilty. Later, they find that adolescents can be part of their constant investigation into government cover involving foreigners. Are teens injected with alien DNA?

In the “episode” picket “episode” in the Nursery “(December 16, 1994) Carter Pike (Keal Cone), resident of a medical expert Rome, revealed a similar conspiracy related to amazing experiments conducted on local wildlife; the cow gave birth to a man (!) Handy.

As it happens, the “Red Museum” and “Visiting Nursery” were only two broken halves “X-Files” https://www.slashfilm.com/ “Picket fences”. As you can see, two episodes share similar story points, and you can see how the corresponding writers of each show clearly began with the same pattern, even when the show ended with their own paths.

What happened to the crossovers? CBS did not approve. “X-Files”, the Fox series, was in the competing network, and CBS just didn’t want to play.

Carter and Kelly were for this, talking about their ideas in a wide conversation in the parking lot. It seems that the “Red Museum” and “visiting the nursery” had to become a two-story, one part was broadcast as an episode “X-Files” and the other-episode “picket”. So, when Crossover was shelter, each show was easy to rewrite its episodes as autonomous units.

According to old blog called pooobala“Visiting the Nursery” more closely clenched to the “X-Files” partnership, making obvious links to Delta Glen, in the episode where the “Red Museum” took place. There is also a reference to the Delta Glen plane crash, as well as a mysterious doctor named Larson, which was also mentioned in the Red Museum. The “picket” characters also mention that the FBI was in Delta Glen, who investigates things, although there is no mention of Malder and Skali agents. David E. Kelly may not have received permission to move from “X-Files”, but he still did.

“X-Files”, however, more thoroughly reading the links to the “picket”, since the creator of the Carter series seemed to want to make an autonomous episode as soon as possible. Indeed, watching (pretty not characteristic But by no means worse) Episode “X-Files”, you can almost feel that the crank had to turn at the last moment to include the “X-Files” de-riger. The plot about men in black and alien DNA feels everything. It feels in a hurry. What, of course, it was.

Would it be a fun television event for scientific showdowns? We can only think.