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X-Files and Picket Fences crossover?
Apr. 11th, 2019 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
froodleOver on The Hollywood Reporter today, there’s an interview/conversation between Tara Butters and her husband Marc Guggenheim. Butters is the showrunner for Agent Carter (which debuts tonight) and Guggenheim is an exec producer on Arrow. The two were also assistants on The X-Files together. It’s an interesting conversation about the superhero shows, and at one point, the two introduce the idea of a crossover episode between Agent Carter and Arrow, which are on two different networks, which prompts this exchange:
Guggenheim: You guys are the only people I can ask this question because you’re the only two who would understand the reference: We should totally do an Agent Carter-Arrow crossover the way they crossed over X Files and Picket Fences.
Butters: Picket Fences was on CBS and X-Files was on Fox and the networks wouldn’t allow it. So they had FBI agents who came in to Picket Fences who were originally supposed to be Mulder and Scully who they just recast.
Wait, what? There was a planned crossover episode between The X-Files and Picket Fences? Granted, I watched both series in their entirety on syndication, but I don’t know how that fact escaped me. But it’s true.
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Guggenheim: You guys are the only people I can ask this question because you’re the only two who would understand the reference: We should totally do an Agent Carter-Arrow crossover the way they crossed over X Files and Picket Fences.
Butters: Picket Fences was on CBS and X-Files was on Fox and the networks wouldn’t allow it. So they had FBI agents who came in to Picket Fences who were originally supposed to be Mulder and Scully who they just recast.
Wait, what? There was a planned crossover episode between The X-Files and Picket Fences? Granted, I watched both series in their entirety on syndication, but I don’t know how that fact escaped me. But it’s true.
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