- Chris Carter majored in journalism at California State University at Long Beach, California. He graduated in 1979 with a degree in journalism.
- He the wrote for the Surfing Magazine in San Clemente as an associate editor. he wrote and travelled extensivly.
- In 1982 after, watching Raiders of the Lost Ark six times in six days, he recognized his own need to tell stories and beacame interested in screen writing.
- His first screenplay was called National Pastime. It wasn't anything big, nothing happend with it.
- He wrote a second screenplay which was seen by Jeffery Katzenberg who worked for Disney. He signed Carter up a contract with Walt Disney in 1985. He was given an office, secretary, and $40,000. He stayed with the comapany for three years.
- At Disney Carter wrote and produced several television movies in addition to the television pilots Cameo By Night and The Nanny.
- He took a short leave to and co-produce the secod season of the comedy series Rags to Riches, then he returned to Disney to create and serve as an excutive producer of the comedy series, Brand New Life.
- Chris met Brandon Tartikoff, the president of NBC Entertainment over a softball game, he was the one who brought Carter to the NBC.
- Carter's work also impressed the president of the Stephen J. Cannell Productions, Peter Roth. When Roth switched to president at Twentieth
Century Fox he had Carter in mind , he signed an exclusive deal in the Twentieth Century Fox to develop new shows. The first thing he pitched to Fox was a show with a darker concept, The X-Files. Roth agreed with the idea and began developing the characters and premise. The first time he tired to sell the idea of 'The X-Files' Fox didn't buy it. They didnt understand it. There was nothing like it on TV. Carter went to Martha's Vineyard (why Mulder is associated with the Vineyard), where he met a Yale research psychologist, who gave him a book, a tract, which was a survey done by Dr. John Mack a Harvard Professor. It showed that 3 percent of the Americans say that they have been abducted by aliens. There were two guys, one from Harvard the other from Yale, saying there's something here. It was all he needed to go back to Fox.
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