The Lone Gunmen

2001 star 6.7 tv1 Season play_circle13 Episodes

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.

Comedy Drama

tv Seasons & Episodes

Episode 1
E1

Pilot

A Mission-Impossible style break-in as Frohike and Byers attempt to steal the Octium IV chip from E-Com-Con's top security room.

Mar 4, 2001

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Episode 2
E2

Bond, Jimmy Bond

While searching for the killer of an infamous hacker, the three Lone Gunmen find a fourth member when they stumble upon a practice of a football team for the blind.

Mar 11, 2001

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Episode 3
E3

Eine Kleine Frohike

Frohike has to disguise himself as the long-lost son of a woman who is believed to be a Nazi war criminal that the Gunmen are trying to smoke out of the woodwork. She was famed for poisoning the pastries of the French Resistance.

Mar 16, 2001

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Episode 4
E4

Like Water for Octane

While searching for a water-powered car, the Gunmen encounter missile silos, rude government clerks, and cows.

Mar 18, 2001

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Episode 5
E5

Three Men and a Smoking Diaper

The Lone Gunmen become reluctant and rather inept nursemaids to the illegitimate baby of a drunk, philandering, saxophone-playing Senator whose campaign-aide girlfriend died in a suspicious accident. This is the episode where, as Bruce Harwood put it in one chat, "Tom gets his nipples sucked!"

Mar 23, 2001

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Episode 6
E6

Madam, I'm Adam

Our heroes meet a strange man who may or may not have been transported by aliens from a parallel universe. Oh, and there's goo.

Mar 30, 2001

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Episode 7
E7

Planet of the Frohikes

The team receives a plea for help via an email from an unknown source, but all evidence seems to point to a chimpanzee at a government laboratory

Apr 6, 2001

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Episode 8
E8

Maximum Byers

The mother of an inmate on death row request The Lone Gunmen to prove her son's innocence and expose the conspiracy behind the murder.

Apr 13, 2001

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Episode 9
E9

Diagnosis: Jimmy

While the trio stalks a grizzly-bear poacher in a snowy forest, an injured Jimmy believes his doctor is a killer profiled on "America's Most Wanted."

Apr 20, 2001

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Episode 10
E10

Tango de los Pistoleros

After the Lone Gunmen ruin her first attempt to get close to a suspected smuggler, Yves arranges to become the man's partner in a tango competition -- with a little help from her... ah... friends.

Apr 27, 2001

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Episode 11
E11

The Lying Game

The boys' investigation into the shooting death of the brother of Byers' college roommate, a blackmailer, yields a definite suspect: FBI Asst. Director Walter Skinner.

May 4, 2001

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Episode 12
E12

The Cap'n Toby Show

Langly's childhood hero, kid's show host Cap'n Toby, is accused of being an international spy. It's Gunmen to the rescue!

Jun 1, 2001

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Episode 13
E13

All About Yves

The Lone Gunmen team up with Man in Black agent Morris Fletcher to find Yves. What they uncover is Romeo-61, a secret government organization responsible for decades of major incidents. The sequel to this episode is X-Files S09E15 - Jump the Shark

May 11, 2001

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people Cast

Bruce Harwood

Bruce Harwood

John Fitzgerald Byers

Tom Braidwood

Tom Braidwood

Melvin Frohike

Dean Haglund

Dean Haglund

Richard Langly

Stephen Snedden

Stephen Snedden

Jimmy Bond

Zuleikha Robinson

Zuleikha Robinson

Yves Adele Harlow

apartment Production Companies

apartment Ten Thirteen Productions
apartment Millennium Canadian Productions Ltd.
20th Century Fox Television 20th Century Fox Television

public Countries

United States of America