Millennium : Synopsis, Pictures, Photos, Trivia, Filming Locations

Chris Carter named the main character Frank Black after the former lead singer of Indie/Rock band The Pixies.

The show's level of violence sparked a short-lived call for curtailment of violence on television. Although the series was cancelled long before the actual Millennium occurred, the story of Frank Black was (more or less) resolved in a 1999 episode of _"X-Files, The" (1993)_ entitled "Millennium."

The title sequence in the first season includes the words "Wait", "Worry" and "Who Cares?". This changed in the second season to "This is Who We Are" and "The Time is Near". Season three combined the two, with "Wait", "Worry" and "The Time is Near".

The FOX network considered casting William Hurt in the role of Frank Black but Chris Carter was adamant that the part should go to Lance Henriksen.

Mark Snow's dark theme music was partly inspired by a traditional Irish track that Chris Carter sent him and the opening to Kylie Minogue's "Confide in Me".

Such was Chris Carter's standing with the FOX network at the time, that he was given an entire month to shoot the pilot with little or no network interference - almost unheard of indulgences for a brand new show.

The poem that the Frenchman recites to the stripper in the pilot episode is by William Butler Yeats.

Frank Black's yellow house is different in the rest of the series from the pilot as the original neighborhood didn't want a film crew camped out there on a semi-permanent basis. The replacement house was the same house as used in the second ever episode of "The X-Files".

In the opening title sequence, and in many promotional materials, the word "Millennium" was spelled with two upper-case M's (MillenniuM) The Roman numeral MM means 2000, the year which marks the turn of the Millennium.

Reportedly, the character of Lt. Bob Bletcher was written out of the series (in the episodes "Lamentation" and "Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions") because of an on-set feud between Bill Smitrovich and Lance Henriksen.

Whenever Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) enters a crime scene, his jacket or coat is always buttoned up to the very top and stays that way until he leaves.

Frank and Lara both get passphrases to use for the voice identification of the Millennium Group network. Both are references to classic science fiction movies: Franks phrase "Soylent Green is people" is taken from 'Stanley R. Greens' Soylent Green (1973), while Lara's passphrase "Open the pod bay doors please, Hal" refers to Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

The fictional address of the Black's 'yellow house' is: 1910 Ezekiel Drive, Seattle, Washington 98924 (tel: 206 555-1130). Their previous address was 108 Mariner Lane, Seattle.