Millennium | |
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Genre |
Crime drama Horror Thriller |
Created by | Chris Carter |
Starring |
Lance Henriksen Megan Gallagher Klea Scott Terry O'Quinn Brittany Tiplady Bill Smitrovich Stephen J. Lang |
Composer(s) | Mark Snow |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 67 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Chris Carter Michael Duggan Chip Johannessen Glen Morgan James Wong |
Running time | 45 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Ten Thirteen Productions 20th Century Fox Television |
Distributor | 20th Television |
Release | |
Original network | Fox |
Picture format | 4:3 season 1. 16:9 seasons 2–3. |
Audio format | Dolby Surround 2.0 |
Original release | October 25, 1996 | – May 21, 1999
Chronology | |
Related shows |
The X-Files The Lone Gunmen |
Millennium is an American television series created by Chris Carter (creator of The X-Files), which aired on Fox between 1996 and 1999. The series follows the investigations of ex-FBI agent Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), now a consultant, with the ability to see inside the minds of criminals, working for a mysterious organization known as the Millennium Group.
The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, though most episodes were ostensibly set in or around Seattle, Washington. The theme music was composed by Mark Snow, who also created the distinctive theme music for The X-Files.
Although the series premiered with impressive ratings, viewership declined throughout its three-season run, and it was canceled by Fox in early 1999. A seventh season episode of The X-Files, titled "Millennium", featured the Millennium Group and Frank Black, as a way of giving the show some closure.
Millennium featured Frank Black, a freelance forensic profiler and former FBI agent with a unique ability to see the world through the eyes of serial killers and murderers, though he says that he is not psychic. Black worked for the mysterious Millennium Group, whose power and sinister agenda were explored throughout the series.
Black lived in Seattle with his wife Catherine and daughter Jordan. Jordan was revealed to have inherited some measure of her father's "gift", suggesting that Frank's abilities might be at least partly psychic, since Jordan's are clearly natural, not learned.