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The Lone Gunmen

Sun, Mar 4, 2001
  • Comedy
  • Drama
Series · Synopsis

Synopsis

After years of playing second fiddle to Agents Mulder and Scully on  The X-Files, the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Lone Gunmen are finally heading out on their own. Never ones to stray far from the center of corporate and government intrigue, the threesome play like a misguided Mission Impossible team, embarking on a series of comic adventures that simultaneously highlight their genius and ineptitude.

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Cast

Top of the call sheet

  • Bruce Harwood
    Bruce Harwood
    as John Fitzgerald Byers
  • Tom Braidwood
    Tom Braidwood
    as Melvin Frohike
  • Dean Haglund
    Dean Haglund
    as Richard Langly
  • Stephen Snedden
    Stephen Snedden
    as Jimmy Bond
  • Zuleikha Robinson
    Zuleikha Robinson
    as Yves Adele Harlow
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Episodes

1 season · 13 episodes

Ended · 13 aired
Season 1
13 episodes · 13 aired
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  • E1
    Pilot
    Aired · Mon, Mar 5, 2001 · 60m

    The Lone Gunmen attempt to steal a computer chip, not knowing a thief is watching them. Byers gets bad news and the Gunmen investigate. The investigation leads to a government plot to commit terrorism on American soil.

  • E2
    Bond, Jimmy Bond
    Aired · Mon, Mar 12, 2001 · 60m

    The Lone Gunmen are trying to find out who killed a fellow hacker. In the midst of their adventures they meet a not-so-bright football player named Jimmy Bond.

  • E3
    Eine Kleine Frohike
    Aired · Sat, Mar 17, 2001 · 60m

    After the Gunmen receive a tip which could lead them to a female baker who poisoned members of the French Resistance back in World War II, Frohike goes deep undercover as her long lost son.

  • E4
    Like Water for Octane
    Aired · Mon, Mar 19, 2001 · 60m

    The Lone Gunmen and Jimmy search for the long lost water powered car that Frohike saw with his own eyes back in 1962... but they're not the only ones looking.

  • E5
    Three Men and a Smoking Diaper
    Aired · Sat, Mar 24, 2001 · 60m

    A baby is dropped into the lives of the Lone Gunmen as a link between a popular senator running a campaign for re-election and one of his campaign workers who died in a very suspicious accident.

  • E6
    Madam, I'm Adam
    Aired · Sat, Mar 31, 2001 · 60m

    A man contacts the Lone Gunmen, believing his life has been stolen after being abducted by aliens. They end up getting caught in a love triangle involving a one-eyed stereo salesman, brainwashing, and a wrestling dwarf.

  • E7
    Planet of the Frohikes
    Aired · Sat, Apr 7, 2001 · 60m

    The Gunmen receive an email for help from a 'slave' subjected to secret government tests, who turns out to be a super-intelligent chimp called Peanuts.

  • E8
    Maximum Byers
    Aired · Sat, Apr 14, 2001 · 60m

    Byers and Jimmy pose as prisoners on death row in an attempt to prove a man's innocence.

  • E9
    Diagnosis: Jimmy
    Aired · Sat, Apr 21, 2001 · 60m

    While recovering in a hospital, Jimmy begins to suspect that his doctor is a wanted killer. Meanwhile, the Gunmen attempt to stop a poacher who kills grizzly bears to sell their gallbladders.

  • E10
    Tango de los Pistoleros
    Aired · Sat, Apr 28, 2001 · 60m

    In an effort to thwart an arms trade at an upcoming tango competition, Yves and Frohike separately go undercover as tango dancers.

  • E11
    The Lying Game
    Aired · Sat, May 5, 2001 · 60m

    While investigating the death of Byers' college roommate, the Lone Gunmen find evidence implicating FBI Assistant Director Skinner.

  • E12
    The Cap'n Toby Show
    Aired · Sat, Jun 2, 2001 · 60m

    To solve the murders of two undercover FBI agents, The Lone Gunmen investigate a Chinese spy ring operating out of a television show for kids.This episode is referred to as a "lost episode" due to it airing three weeks after the show's series finale.

  • E13
    All About Yves
    Aired · Sat, May 12, 2001 · 60m

    The Lone Gunmen team up with "Man in Black" Morris Fletcher to find Yves when she is suspected of being a member of Romeo-61, a secret government organization responsible for decades of major incidents.Due to this being the series finale and ending on a cliffhanger, the episode's story and the series as a whole were wrapped up in the events of "Jump the Shark", episode 15 of season 9 of The X-Files.