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Strange Arrivals

INTERVIEW 5: Glen Morgan

Strange Arrivals

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6982 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

An interview with Glen Morgan, writer and producer for The X-Files. Glen talks about how he came to be involved in the series, the development of the X-Files mythology and how an episode is conceived.

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0:00.0

In the 90s, New York Detective Louis Scarcella locked up the worst criminals.

0:04.7

Putting bad guys away.

0:06.3

There's no feeling like it.

0:08.0

Then jailhouse lawyers took game led by Derek Hamilton.

0:11.5

Scracella took me to the precinct and alive.

0:14.3

20 men eventually walked free.

0:16.6

Now, in the Burden Podcast, after a decade of silence,

0:20.6

Louis Scarsella finally tells his story, and so does Derek Hamilton.

0:25.0

Listen to the burden on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

Strange Arrivals is a production of I Heart 3D audio.

0:37.0

For full exposure, listen with headphones. In November of 2020, I spoke with Glenn Morgan.

0:50.0

Glenn is a prolific screenwriter and producer involved in writing and producing among many many others

0:56.8

the Lour Television Show the Twilight Zone reboot and most notably for Strange Arrivals, the X-files. I talked to Glenn

1:06.5

about the Genesis of the show, how episodes were written, and much more. Why don't you start by introducing yourself?

1:17.0

I'm glad Morgan.

1:18.0

I was one of the exec producers of the X-files in the year one, two, four, and, the last time.

1:25.0

And how did you, you know, how did you become involved in the X files?

1:30.0

How did that start?

1:32.0

Well, I worked with my partner Jim Wong who are high school

1:35.8

buddies from alcohol in California, where probably many people have been abducted.

1:41.4

And we were many people have been abducted. We were going to go on some other show a romantic

1:47.7

comedy that was the hit pilot of that season and Peter Roth who was the head of Fox TV, had said, you know, he had helped us out a lot when we worked on 21 Jump Street at Stephen Kownell.

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