The Amazing Maleeni [SEP] series
The Amazing Maleeni
"The Amazing Maleeni" is the eighth episode of the seventh season of the science fiction television series "The X-Files". It premiered on the Fox network in the United States on January 16, 2000. It was written by Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, and Frank Spotnitz and directed by Thomas J. Wright. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "The Amazing Maleeni" earned a Nielsen household rating of
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Production.
Production Writing.
"The Amazing Maleeni" was inspired by executive producer Frank Spotnitz's long-standing desire for an episode to deal solely with "magic and illusion"; Spotnitz had been championing this idea since he first joined the series' writing staff during season two. Eventually, during the seventh season, Vince Gilligan was assigned to write the episode, something he described as "agony". Gilligan explained, "The episode started with Frank, because he—for several years—had