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  • Oct 25, 1996
  • FOX
  • Oct 25, 1996
Millennium

Summary Millennium was a television series that premiered on Friday October 25, 1996. The series was Chris Carter's much anticipated follow-up to the very popular The X-Files. Millennium focused on the work of ex-FBI profiler Frank Black, who had retired but was brought back in as a consultant. Frank had a special ability to see into the minds o...

Created By: Chris Carter

  • FOX
  • Oct 25, 1996
  • FOX
  • Oct 25, 1996
Millennium
Season 1
Season Premiere: Oct 25, 1996
Metascore Generally Favorable
71
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 8 User Ratings
8.4
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Summary Millennium was a television series that premiered on Friday October 25, 1996. The series was Chris Carter's much anticipated follow-up to the very popular The X-Files. Millennium focused on the work of ex-FBI profiler Frank Black, who had retired but was brought back in as a consultant. Frank had a special ability to see into the minds o...

Created By: Chris Carter

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Episode 1 • Oct 25, 1996 • 46 m
The Pilot
Frank, Peter Watts from the Millennium Group and Lt. Bletcher and Det. Giebelhouse from the Seattle P.D. are after "The Frenchman", a sexually confused serial killer obsessed with prophecies, who targets strippers and gay male hookers.
Episode 2 • Nov 1, 1996 • 1 h
Gehenna
Discovery of cremated human remains in a public park, leads Frank, his mentor Mike Atkins and Peter Watts from the Millennium Group to a doomsday cult of teenage telemarketers brainwashed by their mysterious monstrous leader.
Episode 3 • Nov 8, 1996 • 1 h
Dead Letters
Frank teams up with Jim Horn, a troubled profiler and candidate for the Millennium Group, in order to catch a deranged serial killer, but Horn's psyche starts to crack under pressure.
Episode 4 • Nov 15, 1996 • 1 h
The Judge
Frank Black is called in to catch a bizarre serial killer who mails his victims' body parts to seemingly random addresses. However, Frank senses that the killer may just be someone's puppet.
Episode 5 • Nov 22, 1996 • 1 h
5-2-2-6-6-6
Frank and Peter head to Washington in order to help the FBI investigate a serial bomber.
Episode 6 • Nov 29, 1996 • 1 h
Kingdom Come
Frank investigates a serial killer who seems to be targeting the clergy.
Episode 7 • Dec 6, 1996 • 1 h
Blood Relatives
Frank tries to catch a troubled young pretender who is the main suspect in a string of brutal murders at funerals.
Episode 8 • Dec 20, 1996 • 1 h
The Well-Worn Lock
Catherine tries to help a now adult traumatized victim of incest take her influential father to criminal court before he does the same thing to her young sister.
Episode 9 • Jan 3, 1997 • 1 h
Wide Open
Frank tries to catch a killer who is targeting families with expensive security systems. Catherine tries to help the traumatized little daughter of two of his victims.
Episode 10 • Jan 10, 1997 • 1 h
The Wild and the Innocent
Frank is brought in to help the sheriff's office catch a troubled girl and her murderous boyfriend who are seemingly on a killing spree, but Frank suspects that they may actually be searching for someone.
Episode 11 • Jan 24, 1997 • 1 h
Weeds
Frank investigates a series of abductions of teen boys in a small gated community. After one of them is found dead and a cryptic message is found, Frank tries to figure out the killer's motives before more kids end up dead.
Episode 12 • Jan 31, 1997 • 1 h
Loin Like a Hunting Flame
A pharmacist drugs unsuspecting couples and forces them to enact his sexual fantasies.
Episode 13 • Feb 7, 1997 • 1 h
Force Majeure
The Group investigates the suicides of identical twin girls born seven years apart in different families. Dennis Hoffman, a noisy man obsessed with the apocalyptic planetary alignment prophesied to occur in 2000, helps Frank on the case.
Episode 14 • Feb 14, 1997 • 1 h
The Thin White Line
Frank links two seemingly unrelated murders to the modus operandi of a psychopathic serial killer caught twenty years before while trying to kill Frank, and who's still in prison serving his life sentence.
Episode 15 • Feb 21, 1997 • 1 h
Sacrament
When his sister-in-law is kidnapped at her child's baptism, Frank must calm his brother and find the kidnapper before it is too late. For the first time, Frank's daughter shows signs that she has inherited some of Frank's strange gift.
Episode 16 • Mar 21, 1997 • 1 h
Covenant
Frank is asked to develop a psychological profile on a sheriff who confessed to murdering his entire family.
Episode 17 • Mar 28, 1997 • 1 h
Walkabout
After waking up in an alley with blood oh his hands and no memory of the last few days, Frank has the bad feeling that someone has been murdered. Watts helps him retrace his steps back to a clinic specialized for clinical trials.
Episode 18 • Apr 18, 1997 • 1 h
Lamentation
While assisting the FBI in the hunt for an escaped serial killer, a mad doctor he put in prison, Frank unknowingly meets his demonic, inhuman nemesis and the mastermind of unspeakable evil who claims the life of someone close to him.
Episode 19 • Apr 25, 1997 • 1 h
Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions
Told in flashback, the story follows Frank and the Millennium Group who become pawns in the otherworldly battle between the devilish lawyer of a schizoid satanic serial killer and a mysterious young man.
Episode 20 • May 2, 1997 • 1 h
Broken World
Frank hunts down a serial-killer-in-the-making who takes pleasure in slaughtering horses.
Episode 21 • May 9, 1997 • 1 h
Maranatha
Frank and Peter try to catch a Russian murderer with links to Chernobyl. In their search they discover chilling information with apocalyptic ramifications.
Episode 22 • May 16, 1997 • 1 h
Paper Dove
Frank is asked to clear the name of a man who may have been mistakenly convicted of murdering his wife. His investigation leads to a serial killer who's just claimed his latest victim. Meanwhile, Frank's stalker comes for Catherine.

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Generally Favorable Based on 4 Critic Reviews
71
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100
Jun 26, 2013
With its creepy soundtrack, terrifying visuals and ingenious plot twists, Millennium is far and away the best new show of the year.
By Joe Queenan FULL REVIEW
83
Jun 12, 2013
Although Millennium hasn't quite found its tone, it's got great visuals and a commanding performance by Henriksen.
By Ken Tucker FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 2, 2013
Yet as over the top as Millennium can get, the show does succeed at creating a marvelously unrelenting sense of unease.
By Ginia Bellafante FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 12, 2013
In the beginning, I thought it was well done, marvelously quirky and creepy, beautifully photographed, extraordinarily moody and well acted. But I can't imagine a reason to watch another episode. [27 Oct 1996]
By Marvin Kitman FULL REVIEW

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Universal Acclaim Based on 8 User Ratings
8.4
88% Positive
7 Ratings
0% Mixed
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13% Negative
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13% Negative
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