VHS
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VHS is a videotape storage format. Until the advent of DVD, VHS was the main storage medium for home video. Every season of The X-Files has been released on VHS. There were also releases for Millennium. Due to the date of its release, The Lone Gunmen was only available commercially on DVD.
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[edit] United States of America
[edit] United Kingdom
[edit] The X-Files
[edit] Early Season 1 Releases
The earliest VHS releases of The X-Files in the United Kingdom were four volumes, each with two of the first eight episodes of Season 1; this method of releasing the first season was never completed.
- Volume 1 ("Pilot" and "Deep Throat")
- Volume 2 ("Squeeze" and "Conduit")
- Volume 3 ("Jersey Devil" and "Shadows")
- Volume 4 ("Ghost in the Machine" and "Ice")
[edit] The Files
Key two- or three-parters were edited into feature length editions and given their own individual release. The first release was "The Unopened File", as the resolution to "Anasazi" had yet to be broadcast in the UK.
Typically, these compilations would have their titles superimposed over the normal credit sequence of The X-Files. Also, earlier releases were packaged with trading cards, with artwork based on the tape's story. Some releases featured interviews with Chris Carter.
- File 1: The Unopened File ("Anasazi", "The Blessing Way" and "Paper Clip") This tape's title refers to both the contents of the DAT tape in the episode and the fact that "The Blessing Way" and "Paper Clip" had yet to be screened on UK television
- File 2: Tooms ("Squeeze" and "Tooms") This tape's title is both the surname of Eugene Victor Tooms (the main villain in both episodes) and the title of the latter episode
- File 3: Abduction ("Duane Barry", "Ascension" and "One Breath") Refers to Scully's abduction, which is the focus of each episode
- File 4: Colony ("Colony" and "End Game")
- File 5: 82517 ("Nisei" and "731") Refers to the number of a train car in which Mulder is trapped during much of the latter episode
- File 6: Master Plan ("Talitha Cumi" and "Herrenvolk") Refers to the Master Plan for Colonization mentioned several times in the episodes
- File 7: Tunguska ("Tunguska" and "Terma")
- File 8: Tempus Fugit ("Tempus Fugit" and "Max")
- File 9: Redux ("Gethsemane", "Redux" and "Redux II")
- File 10: Emily ("Christmas Carol" and "Emily")
- File 11: Patient X ("Patient X" and "The Red and the Black")
- File 12: The End ("The End")
- File 13: One Son ("Two Fathers" and "One Son")
- File 14: Biogenesis ("Biogenesis", "The Sixth Extinction" and "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati")
- File 15: Closure ("Sein Und Zeit" and "Closure")
- Requiem ("Requiem", "Within" and "Without")
- DeadAlive ("This is Not Happening" and "DeadAlive") Also released on DVD
- Existence ("Essence" and "Existence") Also released on DVD
- Nothing Important Happened Today ("Nothing Important Happened Today" and "Nothing Important Happened Today II") Also released on DVD
- Providence ("Provenance" and "Providence") Also released on DVD
- The Truth ("The Truth") Also released on DVD
Other
- Piper Maru ("Piper Maru" and "Apocrypha"; this was given a special mail-order-only release)
- Dreamland ("Dreamland" and "Dreamland II"; this was not given a "file number" like its fellow releases)
- Forensic Evidence Box (A special container designed to hold the first four "files"; it comes with an additional Secrets of The X-Files tape)
- Forensic Evidence Box Set 2 (A special container designed to hold a further four "files"; it comes with an additional More Secrets of The X-Files tape)
- Millennium (features the episode of The X-Files titled "Millennium", plus the Millennium episodes "Via Dolorosa" and "Goodbye to All That")
[edit] Season Sets
Each season was also released individually as a box set. These sets generally contained five tapes, with each having up to five episodes per tape.
[edit] Movie
The X-Files Movie also received a VHS release.
[edit] Millennium
In 1998, the first season of Millennium was released on VHS in the UK, with each volume containing two episodes.
- Volume 1 - "Pilot" & "Gehenna"
- Volume 2 - "Dead Letters" & "Kingdom Come"
- Volume 3 - "The Judge" & "5-2-2-6-6-6"
- Volume 4 - "Blood Relatives" & "The Well-Worn Lock"
- Volume 5 - "Wide Open" & "Weeds"
- Volume 6 - "The Wild and the Innocent" & "Loin Like a Hunting Flame"
- Volume 7 - "Force Majeure" & "The Thin White Line"
- Volume 8 - "Sacrament" & "Walkabout"
- Volume 9 - "Covenant" & "Lamentation"
- Volume 10 - "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" & "Broken World"
- Volume 11 - "Marantha" & "Paper Dove"
