Welcome to The Lone Gunmen

Isms from 'The Pilot'
Bond, Jimmy Bond
Eine Kleine Frohike
Like Water for Octane
Three Men and a Smoking Diaper(sorry, I missed it!)
Madame, I'm Adam
Planet of the Frohike's
Maximum Byers
Diagnosis: Jimmy
Tango de los Pistoleros

Geek TV. The Lone Gunmen

Lone Gunmen's old-fashoined
virtues enduring
Jacqueline Cutler, TVData Features Syndicate

For those who dabble in government conspiracy theories, and for those who can't get enough technology, The Lone Gunmen premiering Sunday on Fox, may be enticing.
But for those who prefer linear plots or some semblance of realism in their television fare, this show may prove too bizarre. The three main characters, John Fitzgerald Byers, Melvin Frohike, and Richard 'Ringo' Langly (Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood and Dean Haglund) are spun off from The X-Files, where they play computer hackers who help FBI Agents Scully and Mulder.
This, however is a spinoff in the same sense that Frasier was a spinoff from Cheers; the characters are the same, but this is clearly their own show. And in this case, that's not a terrible metter, though it's nothing to celebrate.
The title refers to the weekly newspaper the three publish. They encounter dangerous villians while ferreting out the truth, armed with high-tech gizmos and more bravery than sense. The result is a show that feels like The Three Stooges meets The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
In the pilot, Byer's father, a military man who was the privy to classified information, dies. Byers first believes it was murder, only to learn his father is indeed still alive. The special effects such as a plane nearly crashing into the World Trade Center, make for good suspense.
During the trio's misadventures, another character, Yves Adele Harlow -an anagram for Lee Harvey Oswald -steps in to help, only to stoke the conspiracy fires.
Perhaps the most endearing aspect is what the characters represent. "The virtues they extol are the old-fashioned American virtues of truth, justice, partiotism, and they always do the right thing in the end, which doesn't make them any money" co-creator Frank Spotnitz says.

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