The (X) Hamster Files

You know what this very pedestrian detective drama of revenge and second chances needs...a Salamander hand! Thus says Chris Carter, leaving Frazer unsure about his ability to understand his own show...

An X-File from the early 90s with a mission to tell a story about sexual politics, body transformation and healing powers. What could possibly go wrong?

It's a Shippers world! Doctor Who author Mags L Halliday joins me of the X-Files journey to talk about one of the most popular episodes of all time - and the seminal breaking out episode for Scully...

'Some clever blokes been giving the aristocracy a scare!' Does Amanda Pays play the most British person to ever appear in an American show? Is Scully jealous of Phoebe? What about Mulder's never heard of again fear of fire?

The best episode to date...or at least the best mystery to date? Ioan & I investigate the mucky world of cloning and what happens when it goes very, very wrong...

A most atypical X-File this week as we are thrown straight into the (Scullyless) action! Iain & Joe come this close to seeing a real UFO and then learn that all is not as it seems with Deep Throat...

The worst X-Files episode of all time? I draft in the self confessed 'champion of the damned' agent Frazer Gregory to discuss the many strengths of this episode...

Gripping...or derivative? The best episode to date? I bring together two Agents to discuss the stellar guest cast and some of the most rivetting Mulder/Scully scenes to date...

Evil sentient technology…a portent of the future? How does The X-Files tackle HAL? Agent Morris is with me to do all the hard work and let me take all the credit!

Frazer makes his first steps into The X-Files with a tale of revenge and ghosts and weapons supply...

The first dud? Jack Coyer, a man who has never seen the series before, is on hand to give his verdict...

When Ruby goes missing in the woods, her mother becomes obsessed that she has been abducted. Scully is sceptical, but Mulder thinks this might be linked to the disappearance of his sister...

Responsible for my every nightmare for about a decade - Eugene Victor Tooms! The baby faced, contorting, liver eating mutant!

The second episode of The X-Files comes under examination by the second contributor to this new paranormal thread. Nathan Bottomley from Flight Through Entirety joins me on a sinister airbase…

A brand new thread of Hamster, covering another old flame of mine - The X-Files. Ioan Morris joins me to see just how well the Pilot holds up all these years later...