Another recent interview with Glen Morgan on The X-Files, this time text-based and not an audio podcast, on the website Gold Derby. Many points repeat the Strange Arrivals interview I covered recently, or other past interviews. Here are some tidbits that sound new to me:

On the monsters-of-the-week: “Chris would’ve done UFO episodes every week. The network didn’t want that. They wanted a monster show. I remember being in the office late at night — which was like a box; it was just a dump on the Fox lot — and we’re just sitting there trying to think of ideas.”

On 1X02: Squeeze: “Regarding the 30 years, my brother told me, “I think that you stole a Night Stalker. There was a thing where there was a guy who comes out every 30 or 50 years.” I’m like, “What?!” We loved that show with Darren McGavin. The episodes weren’t readily available until recently, so I don’t know if I lodged that in my subconscious. Chris had been in France, and he was fascinated by how they make foie gras, so that’s where it came about that Tooms ate livers.”

On 1X20: Tooms: “Skinner was named after my mom’s friend.”

On 1X07: Ice: “When I was a kid, there was an unknown movie called Report to the Commissioner, and at the end of the trailer, the two people were in an elevator with guns on each other. That image had a big effect on me — so let’s do that!”

On 1X12: Beyond the Sea: “we wanted to introduce [Scully] to the possibility of a paranormal event. We felt that the one thing that people might be open to is wanting to see a loved one that had moved along. The experience has a great deal of watching my mom when my grandfather passed away.”

On 2X14: Die Hand Die Verletzt: “John Bartley was the director of photography, and he lit that fourth act essentially with two flashlights, which were I think $3,000 each and the wire went up Duchovny’s coat. It was not done on TV where an entire act was just that level of darkness.”

On 4X03: Home: “My grandmother and grandfather, my mom’s parents, lived in Rochester, and they had a family next door who was a very nice family, maybe a little chaotic, named the Peacocks. I just thought, what a great name, and so we named [the “Home” family] the Peacocks.”