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Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-100
Production Code:
4C79
Original Airdate:
1996-10-25
Millennium Episode Trivia:
- The Pilot episode of Millennium attracted over 17 million viewers when it premiered in 1996, at its time, the highest rating network premiere in history.
- The address of the Black's new home, commonly referred to as 'the Yellow House' is the fictional address 1910 Ezekiel Drive, Seattle, WA 98924.
- Before it was to be known as Millennium, the shows working title was 2000. The Pilot episode is sometimes referred to as 2000 or The Frenchman after Elizabeth Hand's reconstructed novel.
- The famous Yellow House is unique in the Pilot episode. The rest of the series used a different but similar looking residence as the original neighbourhood didn't want a film crew camped outside of their homes on a semi-permanent basis. The replacement house shown in every subsequent episode appeared in the second episode of The X-Files.
- FOX network originally wanted William Hurt to play Frank Black, but Chris Carter was adamant about Lance Henriksen playing the lead role. (Thank God!)
- Mark Snows dark theme song for the series was inspired contrary to popular belief, by the opening of a traditional Scottish song that Chris Carter allegedly sent him by Ceilidh (pronounced Kaylee) Minogue, and not the catchy dance/pop song 'Confide in Me' by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. Ceilidh (pronounced Kaylee) is a form of traditional folk music that originated in Scotland. Visit Ceilidh Minogue's website for examples of their work.
- The poem that the Frenchman recites to the strippers in the episode Pilot was composed by William Butler Yeats and is called The Second Coming.
- In the opening title sequence, and in many promotional materials, the word "Millennium" was spelled with two upper-case M's (MillenniuM) The Roman numeral MM means 2000, the year which marks the turn of the Millennium. Many fans therefore spell the show as MillenniuM on the Internet.
- Such was Chris Carter's standing with the FOX network at the time, that he was given an entire month to shoot the pilot with little or no network interference - almost unheard of indulgences for a brand new show.
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-101
Production Code:
4C01
Original Airdate:
1996-11-01
Millennium Episode Trivia:
George Joseph, who played Eedo Bolow's father, is better known as a stunt man.
Credit: David Nutter, commentary on Gehenna
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-102
Production Code:
4C02
Original Airdate:
1996-11-08
Millennium Episode Trivia:
Dead Letters is the first episode where Frank is paged by the Millennium Group with the simple message, '2000'.
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-104
Production Code:
4C04
Original Airdate:
1996-11-15
Millennium Episode Trivia:
First mention of Legion.
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-105
Production Code:
4C05
Original Airdate:
1996-11-22
Millennium Episode Trivia:
Kaboom, better known as Raymond Dees used a phone tone 'bomb alert code' during this episode in similar fashion to that used by the IRA. The code entered was 522666 which equates to Kaboom when converted to each phone key letter.
Jordan has a nightmare about her father.
The name of the English themed pub was The Queen's Arms, 424, 37th Street, Washington DC.
Frank Black's mobile phone number was 202-555-1367.
Lance Henriksen was noted for performing most of his own stunts, and did so during repeated takes for this episode's scenes.
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-103
Production Code:
4C03
Original Airdate:
1996-11-29
Millennium Episode Trivia:
This was the first episode to be aired out of production order. The reason given was that a senior Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, had died November 14, 1996, the day before it was due to air and was re-scheduled out of respect. However, others think this may have been a publicity ploy by Fox to bolster Millennium's falling ratings by putting it back in the news.
Credit: Brian Dixon, The Millennial Abyss
Credit: The Unofficial Millennium Companion by N. E. Genge
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-106
Production Code:
4C06
Original Airdate:
1996-12-06
Millennium Episode Trivia:
Sorry, there is no additonal Millennium Episode Trivia currently available for this episode.
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-107
Production Code:
4C07
Original Airdate:
1996-12-20
Millennium Episode Trivia:
Sorry, there is no additonal Millennium Episode Trivia currently available for this episode.
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-108
Production Code:
4C08
Original Airdate:
1997-01-03
Millennium Episode Trivia:
The little girl is called Patricia Highsmith - probably for the crime writer most popularly known for her Ripley books.
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-110
Production Code:
4C10
Original Airdate:
1997-01-10
Millennium Episode Trivia:
Sorry, there is no additonal Millennium Episode Trivia currently available for this episode.
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-109
Production Code:
4C09
Original Airdate:
1997-01-24
Millennium Episode Trivia:
Sorry, there is no additonal Millennium Episode Trivia currently available for this episode.
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-111
Production Code:
4C11
Original Airdate:
1997-01-31
Millennium Episode Trivia:
The episode's title is taken from "The Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait" by Dylan Thomas. Among the quatrains included in the six-page poem is one that reads, "And steeples pierce the cloud on her shoulder / And the streets that the fisherman combed / When his long-legged flesh was a wind on fire / And his loin was like a hunting flame." The poem is known for its surrealistic metaphors concerning sex and sexuality and, as a result, the line chosen as the episode's title seems an apt means of depicting the fantasy-prone sexual mindset of serial killer Art Nesbitt.
Credit: Brian Dixon, The Millennial Abyss
Character: Nesbitt, who was unable to consummate his marriage.
Nesbitt's operation or plication is a surgical procedure to correct a deformity of the penis.
Credit: Libby of TIWWA
Succlynocide: Clearly spoken by Terry O'Quinn and spelled that way in subtitles. However, a web search shows no reference other than the transcript. Probably based on the real drug succinylcholine (pron. suk-sin'l-koleen), a muscle-relaxant that has been used in real-life murder.
Credit: Libby of TIWWA
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-112
Production Code:
4C12
Original Airdate:
1997-02-07
Millennium Episode Trivia:
While the planetary alignment of May 5, 2000 was an actual event, during which the six innermost planets of our solar system aligned, the predicted cosmic catastrophe associated with it never came to pass. The same celestial alignment will not to occur again until the year 2675. Coincidentally, May 5, 2000 was also Lance Henriksen's 60th birthday.
Credit: Brian Dixon, The Millennial Abyss
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-113
Production Code:
4C13
Original Airdate:
1997-02-14
Millennium Episode Trivia:
Writers Glen Morgan and James Wong, like the show's other writers, clearly spent time researching the stories of real life serial killers. The conversation between Frank Black and Richard Alan Hance, which provides one of this episode's highlights, was directly inspired by famed FBI profiler Robert Ressler's interview with serial killer Edmund Kemper. Similarly, Jacob Tyler's delusions, in which he seems to believe his victims are volunteering themselves, were inspired by delusions professed by real life serial killer Herbert Mullin.
This episode marks the first occasion in the series, and one of a scant few, wherein Frank Black takes up a firearm. Both Chris Carter and Lance Henriksen were adamantly opposed to depicting Frank as a character who was willing to use guns or take the life of another person, regardless of circumstances.
The death cards seen throughout the episode serve as a means of delivering Glen Morgan and James Wong's trademark references to their work on the science fiction drama Space: Above and Beyond. Each playing card bears the insignia of Space's 58th Squadron along with their motto, "Expect no mercy." Each of the cards left by Jacob Tyler throughout the episode corresponds to the call sign of a character from that series.
At the end of the episode Frank Black shouts to Jacob Tyler, "You are not who you are!" The line is taken from The X-Files episode "Ice," also written by Morgan and Wong.
Credit: Brian Dixon, The Millennial Abyss
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-114
Production Code:
4C14
Original Airdate:
1997-02-21
Millennium Episode Trivia:
While there are occasional references throughout the series to the fact that Frank Black has a brother or brothers - most notably in "Midnight of the Century" and "Seven and One" - this episode marks the only appearance of one of these blood relations.
While there is foreshadowing throughout the first season, "Sacrament" grants viewers the first clear indications that Jordan Black has inherited her father's unusual powers of insight. This theme, and its potential ramifications, would be explored throughout the series.
Credit: Brian Dixon, The Millennial Abyss
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-116
Production Code:
4C16
Original Airdate:
1997-03-21
Millennium Episode Trivia:
It has been said that the first cut of "Covenant" was approximately one hour and twenty minutes long, nearly twice the length of a standard one-hour network drama. As a result, nearly half of the episode was trimmed in the cutting room and is now lost to viewers. Copies of the original shooting script for the episode reveal those scenes that were lost.
Credit: Brian Dixon, The Millennial Abyss
This episode marked the final appearance of nosy neighbour
Jack Meredith.
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-115
Production Code:
4C15
Original Airdate:
1997-03-28
Millennium Episode Trivia:
Proloft, the experimental drug featured in this episode, is named after anti-anxiety drugs Prozac and Zoloft.
Credit: Brian Dixon, The Millennial Abyss
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-117
Production Code:
4C17
Original Airdate:
1997-04-18
Millennium Episode Trivia:
- Lamentation contains one of the more subtle and amusing Ten-Thirteen sight gags. While Frank and Peter are discussing matters on the concrete staircase at Quantico, a strikingly familiar pair walk by them. Appearing from a distance as if they were Agents Mulder and Scully, the extras in this scene were actually David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson's stand-ins from The X-Files.
Credit: Brian Dixon, The Millennial Abyss - It is said that Bill Smitrovich's character Bob Bletcher was written out of the series in this episode (much to the sadness of the show's fans) because of an alleged fued between Bill and Millennium's lead actor Lance Henriksen.
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-118
Production Code:
4C18
Original Airdate:
1997-04-25
Millennium Episode Trivia:
The only proper names for angels provided by Scripture are Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. Other angelic names can be gleaned from various apocryphal sources, however. With a name literally translating to "poison angel," Sammael is known primarily as the angel of death, characterized in some instances as a figure representing "the severity of God."
The episode takes its title from Sammael's powerful invocation, which reference four of the nine orders of angels identified by Scripture: Seraphims, Cherubims, Thrones, Dominions, Principalities, Powers, Virtues, Archangels, and Angels.
Credit: Brian Dixon, The Millennial Abyss
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-119
Production Code:
4C19
Original Airdate:
1997-05-02
Millennium Episode Trivia:
Millennium editor Chris Willingham informed the Millennium Abyss website that "Broken World" was one of those episodes that was trimmed in the cutting room as a result of its graphic nature. "There have most definitely been shots that were not used for censorship reasons. In 'Broken World,' there was a lot of slaughterhouse footage that could not be used due to its graphic nature. Watching the dailies was difficult for the editor."
Credit: Brian Dixon, The Millennial Abyss
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-120
Production Code:
4C20
Original Airdate:
1997-05-09
Millennium Episode Trivia:
The helicopter Yaponchik utilizes for his escape from the hospital rooftop is labeled on its underside with the registry number 666, the number noted in Revelation to be the mark of the Beast.
This episode's closing is unique in that it represents the only occasion, in sixty-seven episodes, that the final scene fades to white instead of black. Frank Black opens a door and steps into blinding white light and, in what is a negative inverse of the traditional closing, the executive producer credit that ends the episode appears as black text on a pure white background.
Credit: Brian Dixon, The Millennial Abyss
Season:
1
MLM Code:
#MLM-121
Production Code:
4C21
Original Airdate:
1997-05-16
Millennium Episode Trivia:
Once again, Millennium's writers created a fictional serial killer built from real world research. The fate of Marie France Dion was directly inspired by acts committed by real life serial killer Ed Kemper. Like Henry Dion, Kemper was driven to commit his crimes by a nagging, overbearing mother. Upon beheading her on Easter Sunday in 1973, Kemper removed her larynx and forced it into a garbage disposal, precisely as Henry does during this episode's climax.
Two of the FBI Special Agents that appear in this episode, Agent Devlin and Agent Emmerich, are named for writer/producers Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. The creative duo is best known for their science fiction films, including Stargate, Independence Day, and the American Godzilla.
Credit: Brian Dixon, The Millennial Abyss