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On October 25, 1996, Fox Network premiered Carter's latest vision (during the beginning of The X-Files' Season 4). The pilot saw the highest ratings of any Fox program at that time! Soon, the darkness of the show and the bleak storylines each week, ripping the lid off the dark, seamy underbelly of America seemed to get to viewers, and the ratings promptly dropped.

But the show had a loyal and enthralled fan base turning up each week to see Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) and Peter Watts (the incomparable Terry O'Quinn) solving disturbing serial killer cases and apocalyptic codes as the millennium approached.

Season 1 saw such terrific hours of television as "Pilot", "Gehenna" (death cult in San Francisco), "Dead Letters" (murderer in Portland, OR), "The Judge" (creepy man passing judgement on victims), "522666" (mad bomber in DC), "Blood Relatives" (guy goes after bereaved), "The Well-Worn Lock" (disturbing tale of child molestation and incest), "The Wild and the Innocent" (brilliant Bonnie & Clyde road trip), "Weeds" (claustrophobic gated community story), "Loin Like a Hunting Flame" (sexual predator in Boulder, CO), "Force Majeure" (brilliant story of clones readying for apocalypse), "The Thin White Line" (a copycat haunts Frank from his past), "Sacrament" (Frank's sister-in-law is kidnapped), "Covenant" (brilliant story of falsely accused man who confesses to murdering his family in Utah), "Walkabout" (Frank is amnesiac after drug trial), "Lamentation" (Frank's partner is killed by demonic forces), "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" (a satanic force continues to threaten Frank and his family), "Broken World" (a man kills horses and escalates to psycho-sexual murders of human beings!), "Maranatha" (the Russian Antichrist is behind shotgun murders in Brighton Beach), and the season finale, "Paper Dove", a part 1 of 2 in which Catherine (Frank's wife played by Megan Gallagher) is kidnapped in the end by her polaroid shooting stalker.

The only one of these 22 episodes which gave me nightmares and trouble sleeping was the disturbing episode 9 "Wide Open" in which a man in Seattle takes refuge in real estate open houses and kills the native family after they're asleep (in their safely secure home). A girl sees him murder her family and becomes mute and traumatized by the experience. This one had me checking all the locks 3 times and even then I wanted to sleep with the light on (I was just shy of my 14th Birthday though)...

"MillenniuM" thrived despite bad ratings, due to an unending support base from fans all over the world. Season 2 went under new management with Chris Carter stepping back and Glen Morgan & James Wong (The X-Files/Space: Above & Beyond) taking over exec producer duties. It was the best 23 hours of television ever, and certainly in the history of this show.

Season 3 failed to garner as much intrigue and involvement, taking Chris Carter back as sometimes writer and Chip Johannessen and the disastrous Michael Duggan (wanna blame him for cancellation?) as exec producers. The story tried to finagle a bit of life out of the end of season 2 (an apocalyptic story which ended with the apparent wiping out of the west coast!) but it wasn't as daring, interesting or involving, still a fine piece of work most weeks and well worth owning for continuities' sake.

"MillenniuM" was ahead of its time. It's 1999-2000 (season 4) end date was never reached officially till a band of united fans wrote 22 brilliant online scripts and week after week gave us something to love and look forward to on the internet. It was a proper ending to the show, recovering as best as possible from the less than stellar season 3.

Now the show is coming to DVD, just 8 years after its debut and 5 years after the end of season 3/online scripts of season 4. But the show isn't over.

Soon, on the internet, a weekly first season of 10 minute short episodes will air under the name "MillenniuM: Apocalypse". It will star a model and be crewed by fans/amateur filmmakers. It will be a low budget DIGITAL webcast series in which we follow the weekly exploits of Jordan Black, all grown up (near future?) as she follows her father's footsteps to the Millennium Group, as well as gains new and improved psychic insights and powers (genetically). It looks terrific, and proves whatever the numbers say, the legacy and fan's love of MILLENNIUM lives on!

I plan to buy Season 1 the day it comes out, and have even taken on a summer job picking raspberries in Seattle, WA to pay for it while looking for a regular min. wage type job. I look very forward to season 2 (9/04!) and also season 3 (2005!).

MILLENNIUM is something never to be forgotten. A CLASSIC!

(P.S. buy Millennium and Carter's Harsh Realm if you want to see Space: Above & Beyond come to DVD next year!) PLEASE!

Finally, The time is here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After years of waiting, after years of suffering through FOX DVD releases like "Simple Life" and "Family Guy" , we finally get to own the most daring show FOX has ever aired, MILLENNIUM. Why did this take so long? Perhaps it was the dark subject matter, or the fact that the show was ahead of it's time, and still is. Whatever the reason, I have never forgotten the power this show held over me. Lance Henriksens incredible portrayal of "Frank Black" a tortured soul that can "see what the killer sees" is very hard to forget. This premise has been very poorly copied many times since. Terry O'Quinn as "Peter Watts" created a strong counterpoint to the lead.
The very first episode titled "The Frenchman" but referred to as "Pilot" sets the pace of the show. Strong follow-up episodes include "Lamentation" "Powers , Principalities, Thrones and Dominions" and "Maranatha"
Hopefully we will see the next 2 seasons as well. Episodes like "The Curse of Frank Black" and "Midnight of the Century" are quite possibly the best stories ever told on the small screen.

Special thanks to Peter Staddon for his continued struggle to bring this extraordinary series to DVD.

It's About Time!!!
If only today's tv shows could have half of the imagination of this short lived series, TV would be much more interesting to watch. I can't wait for Season 2!