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On this date in 1985, the BBC committed to a second series of X-Files based on the overwhelmingly positive response the show had gotten during its initial run. | |
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: British X Files Source: Toronto Metro Labels: X-Files, UFO, BBC TV, British, Television.September 4
In 1985, BBC-TV started broadcasting the second series of its cult sci-fi hit 'The X-Files'. | |
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: British X Files Source: Toronto Metro Labels: X-Files, UFO, BBC TV, British, Television.January 10
On this date in 1986, BBC-TV began airing the third series of 'The X-Files'. | |
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: British X Files Source: Toronto Metro Labels: X-Files, UFO, BBC TV, British, Television.April 13
On this date in 1986, 'The X-Files' made its American TV debut on Boston's PBS affiliate WGBH. | |
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: British X Files Source: Toronto Metro Labels: X-Files, UFO, BBC TV, British, Television.August 9
On this date in 1986, BBC-TV began airing the fourth series of "The X-Files". | |
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: British X Files Source: Toronto Metro Labels: X-Files, UFO, BBC TV, British, Television.May 13
In 1987, Canada's CTV network bought the Canadian syndication rights to The X-Files. | |
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: British X Files Source: Toronto Metro Labels: X-Files, UFO, BBC TV, British, Television.April 17
In 1985, BBC-TV aired the pilot episode of The X-Files, a science fiction drama series inspired by rumors of the existence of a secret UFO archive in the offices of the British Ministry of Defence.British X file on reported UFO sightings by Chris Oakley
Most intriguing of all was the filing of an event from April 19, 1984. At 4pm on an unspecified small airport near the eastern coast of England air traffic controllers reported an 'Unusual Aerial Phenomenon'.
The men were air traffic controllers. Experienced, calm professionals. Nobody was drinking. But they were so worried about losing their jobs that they demanded their names be kept off the official report.
No one, they knew, would believe their claim that an unidentified flying object landed at the airport they were overseeing in the east of England, touched down briefly, then took off again at tremendous speed.
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