If only Condi watched the Lone Gunmen!

[bookman]

The Lone Gunmen, the Complete Series (Fox)
Back in 2001, when The X-Files was breathing its last prime-time gasp, this oddball spinoff series hit the airwaves for 13 episodes. The three unlikely conspiracy investigators built their own little cult following with the show, still shot in Vancouver after the original fled to sunny California.

The Lone Gunmen had provided comic relief for Scully and Mulder since season 1 and got their own X-Files episode in 1998, when the stars were tied up with the X-Files big-screen movie.

The most remarkable episode in the short-lived series aired just a few months before 9/11 with an incredibly prescient plot about terrorists hijacking an airliner and threatening to crash it into the World Trade Center. Except, in this plot, the terrorists were a cabal within the U.S. government itself.

After the series was cancelled, the boys were given a Jump the Shark episode back on The X-Files in which they were killed off as heroes and were buried in Arlington cemetery. (Or were they? Hmmm.)

The Lone Gunmen

[ewagner]

1. Is the series

out on DVD?

I didn't see the episode about the planes and I also missed the X-Files where they were killed off...

[bookman]

2. Just out..

..this week.