Given the popularity of The X-Files at the time – not to mention the amount of time Mulder and Scully used to spend on their cellphones – it was hardly surprising that Vodafone decided to gently spoof the show in a series of ads for their network in the mid-1990s.

Perhaps the best of the bunch (all of which featured Twin Peaks star Kyle McLachlan in the David Duchovny role) is this venture into a backstreet garage in Liverpool, which also features a familiar time traveller making his final screen appearance…