Summary: This article, which appeared in TV Week (Canada) May 4-10 2002 issue, gives a rundown on the magazine's favourite guest stars on the show throughout its run. It was transcribed by and appears courtesy of Megan.

Be Our Guest

From TV Week (Canada)- May 4-10, 2002 Issue
Transcribed by Megan
Written by Dave Waldon

The Lone Gunmen. Cigarette-Smoking Man. Krycek. Spender. Deep Throat. X. The X-Files universe is populated with several notable supporting characters, but even more recognizable names popped up during the course of the series' nine seasons, particularly when guest-starring on the show became the hip thing to do. Thus, a run-down of the celebrities who marked their r?sum?s with an X:

Ed Asner and Lily Tomlin: The veteran actors portrayed a not-so-dearly departed couple who show up in a haunted house at holiday time in How The Ghosts Stole Christmas.

Peter Boyle: Best known as the cantankerous dad on Everybody Loves Raymond and Young Frankenstein's creation, Boyle showed a different side - and won an Emmy - as an unfortunate insurance salesman who has the ability to foresee how people will die in Clyde Bruckman's Finale Repose.

Bryan Cranston: Malcolm in the Middle's doting dad has a serious inner-ear problem that was alleviated only by travelling at high speeds in Drive.

Cary Elwes: Elwes assumed a recurring role this season as an FBI agent who's also a former parmour of Reyes.

Lucy Lawless: The former warrior princess played an old Marine buddy of Doggett's who had been transformed into a "super soldier" - and expert skinny-dipper - in the ninth-season launch, Nothing Important Happened Today.

Jesse L. Martin: Now Jerry Orbach's partner on Law & Order (and one of Ally McBeal's former beaus), Martin swung for the fences as an alien masquerading as a black baseball player in the '40s for The Unnatural.

Michael McKean: In the two-part Dreamland, the actor and part-time Spinal Tap rocker played a nerdy Area 51 officer who swapped bodies with Mulder; he returned later this season in the Jump The Shark episode.

Charles Nelson Reilly: The Match Game denizen got a rare chance to show off his acting chops as Jose Chung, a sci-fi author based on a "real-life" alien abduction, in Jose Chung's From Outer Space. (The same episode included cameos by the unlikely pair of future governor Jesse Ventura and Jeopardy host Alex Trebek as two of those pesky "men in black.")

Burt Reynolds: In Improbable, Reynolds played a mysterious character who knew his way around a deck of cards. Some have described the role as God-like; fitting, since Reynolds was His gift to women back in the day.

Mimi Rogers: She actually stuck around for several episodes as Agent Diana Fowley, a former colleague - and lover - of Mulder's who was working both sides of the conspiracy fence and may (or may not) be dead.

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