Chris Owens Autograph Card

Here is a signed card of actor Chris Owens as Jeffrey Spender from The X-Files, an FBI agent who definitely is the son of the Cigarette-Smoking Man and alien abductee Cassandra Spender, and possibly main protagonist Fox Mulder's half-brother:

It's card #A-5 from Inkworks' 2005 The X-Files Connections set; however, I have never purchased a pack of cards from this set - instead, these come from a "Celebrity Repack" by card company Razor and was in a sealed top loader with a sticker that said "Authentic Uncirculated", like this:

Apart from playing in The X-Files, Owens has had bit parts in many other TV series and small parts in the films Cocktail starring Tom Cruise (1988), The Recruit starring Al Pacino and Colin Farrell, (2003), The Incredible Hulk starring Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth and William Hurt (2008) and RED with Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman and Mary-Louise Parker (2010).

I have yet to watch the current X-Files season, because I like to buy the DVDs/Blu-rays and binge-watch, so I'm always a season late on everything, but at least I don't have to deal with either commercials or  having to wait one to four weeks for the next episode.

Erik Estrada Material Swatch Card

I heard the cries: ''someone call the cops because Martin Brodeur just stole himself another Vezina nomination!''

Well, here he is, and not just any cop - a member of TV's CHiPs (which was the acronym for ''California Highway Patrol'', by the way), Officer Francis ("Frank") "Ponch" Poncherello, or as he is known in real life, Erik Estrada.

CHiPs was really Estrada's biggest role, and he played in all six seasons of the show's run, although a contractual dispute kept him off the first seven episodes of the fifth season. His regular partner, Larry Wilcox (Officer Jonathan A. Baker) played in the first five seasons. Estrada didn't know how to ride motorcycles before getting the gig, so he had to enter an extensive eight-week program to learn before shooting started; most of the time, Wilcox and Estrada actually rode the bikes themselves and performed the smaller stunts. And throughout the course of the series, they never took their handguns out.

After CHiPs, Estrada worked mainly in Spanish telenovelas (those cheap Spanish-language soap operas) and appeared in many a Reality TV show; he also does voice work in cartoons, namely Sealab 2021. He can also be seen in videos for Bad Religion, Eminem and Butthole Surfers.

In addition to all that, he is always involved in charitable work, as can attest this segment of his Wikipedia page.


This card (#TS-EE), from the 2008 Donruss Americana II set, by the company now known as Donruss Playoff LP (TV Stars materials sub-set) features a square swatch of material guaranteed to have been worn by Mr. Estrada. Look at it, look at its colour: it's pretty obvious it's from a CHiPs uniform, too. It is numbered 467/500.