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How The Ghosts Stole Christmas

6.08 How The Ghosts
Stole Christmas

US Airdate: December 13, 1998

writer: Chris Carter

director: Chris Carter

STARRING:

David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully

Guest Cast:

Ed Asner as Maurice

Lily Tomlin as Lyda

Press release:

THE X-FILES Sunday, Dec. 13 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) finds Mulder convincing Scully to put aside her gift wrapping on the night before Christmas to help him stake out a reputed haunted house. But they discover a married couple living in the house (guest stars Lily Tomlin and Edward Asner) who are keeping a secret the agents never expected.

This one could be very interesting as it will feature only 4 characters, Mulder, Scully, and the two guest stars, Ed Asner and Lily Tomlin. Ed and Lily star as ghosts in a haunted house and I'm told the ep ends with Mulder and Scully reliving the ghosts' lives in some fashion and shooting each other. They then crawl onto the porch and wake up the next morning unscathed.

Ed would be familiar to fans of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" from the 70's, he played her boss, Lou Grant. The character went on to star in his own show, "Lou Grant". And if you don't know who Lily Tomlin is, get out of my website, you heathen! ;-) Very famous comedienne/actress, she caught her big break back on "Laugh-In", I believe. She recently starred as Candice Bergen's boss on the sitcom, "Murphy Brown". Hmmm ... they both played bosses on sitcoms, wonder if that will spill over to their roles here?

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