The X-Files

The X-Files

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FOX Ended Drama • Crime • Science-Fiction

11 Seasons · 218 Episodes · Premiered September 10, 1993 · Ended March 21, 2018

Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder (a believer) and Dana Scully (a skeptic), investigate unexplained cases where the paranormal might be involved while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

24 episodes
E01
Pilot
Sat, Sep 11 1993 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Special Agent Dana Scully is partnered with Special Agent Fox Mulder to validate his work on a special project called The X-Files. While he is a believer in the paranormal, fueled by a lost memory where his sister was abducted by aliens; she is a scientist and prefers to look for rational, logical explanations. Their first case takes them to Oregon, to investigate the unsolved deaths of several high school classmates, which Mulder believes are linked to an alien abduction.
E02
Deep Throat
Sat, Sep 18 1993 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Mulder and Scully head to Ellens Air Force Base to investigate the mysterious case of a military test pilot who disappeared after experiencing strange psychotic behavior. While on the case, Mulder meets a mysterious man dubbed 'Deep Throat', who claims to have classified information about his investigations into the paranormal.
E03
Squeeze
Sat, Sep 25 1993 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
One of Scully's friends from the FBI academy, now working in the Violent Crimes Unit, asks her to assist him on a homicide investigation involving no clear point of entry. Mulder realizes that this is similar to a series of X-Files case that have occurred every thirty years, and joins in the investigation to stop the latest cycle.
E04
Conduit
Sat, Oct 2 1993 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
As Section Chief Blevins expresses his concern with the direction of the X-Files department, Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case that closely parallels an 'encounter' he experienced as a child... the abduction of his kid sister, Samantha.
E05
The Jersey Devil
Sat, Oct 9 1993 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Mulder's trip to Atlantic City doesn't take him to the glittering casinos or luxury hotels. Instead, he plays a dangerous game of hunter-and-hunted with the maneater that haunts the back alleys and woods surrounding the city. However, it's not long before even Scully, the eternal skeptic, is lured back by the mounting evidence Mulder manages to drag out of tourist-wary local law enforcement agencies.
E06
Shadows
Sat, Oct 23 1993 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
When an unseen force commits several murders where a young woman is present, Mulder suspects that it is the spirit of the woman's former boss protecting her, while Scully believes the boss merely faked his own death.
E07
Ghost in the Machine
Sat, Oct 30 1993 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
A new intelligence gropes its way to life in the depths of wires and circuit boards - only to find itself perched on the edge of immediate extinction. When it fights back, killing Mulder's former partner in the process, he and Scully must find a way past its considerable defences.
E08
Ice
Sat, Nov 6 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
When an Arctic research team mysteriously kills each other and themselves only days after drilling deeper into the ice than ever before, Mulder and Scully accompany a team of doctors and scientists to investigate. They discover an organism which infects living creatures and amplifies the host's feeling of anger and paranoia, and the new team starts to deteriorate as they wonder who among them are killers.
E09
Space
Sat, Nov 13 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Mulder and Scully are contacted by a communications specialist from NASA who shows them evidence of sabotage in the space programme. Mulder's youthful hero-worship is shaken by the apparent involvement of a high-ranking astronaut.
E10
Fallen Angel
Sat, Nov 20 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
When a tract of lonely woodland is cordoned off between laser fences, and rapidly changing explanations are rampant, Mulder's curiosity carries him beyond the bounds of official jurisdiction-and into the middle of a UFO cleanup. Scully's attempts to protect Mulder from himself are only marginally successful, and neither agent seems capable of protecting the one innocent on the scene, Max Fenig.
E11
Eve
Sat, Dec 11 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
When two fathers on opposite sides of the country are unexplainably murdered at the exact same time in the exact same way, Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate. When they discover that both of the fathers eight-year-old daughters are identical twins, they realize that something even stranger is going on.
E12
Fire
Sat, Dec 18 1993 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
When an old Oxford girlfriend of Mulder's asks for his help in an international case concerning the unexplainable execution of several British dignitaries they encounter an assassin who can produce fire from his bare hands.
E13
Beyond the Sea
Sat, Jan 8 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Scully has a brush with the paranormal when her recently deceased father appears to her in a vision. Meanwhile, Mulder becomes a skeptic when a death row inmate he helped send to prison claims to be a psychic and offers to lead the agents to a serial killer.
E14
Genderbender
Sat, Jan 22 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders where the suspect seems to be both male and female. Their investigation leads them to the small town of Stevenston, Massachusetts, where a group called the Kindred have set up a village back in the woods.
E15
Lazarus
Sat, Feb 5 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
When FBI Agent Jack Willis is shot during a bank robbery, Agent Scully takes drastic steps to resuscitate him while the bank robber, Warren Dupre dies on the operating table. Afterward, Agent Willis begins to exhibit behavior strangely reminiscent of Dupre.
E16
Young at Heart
Sat, Feb 12 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Mulder becomes the target of someone from his past, John Barnett, a jewelry store robber with an itchy trigger finger that Mulder sent to prison when he first joined the Bureau. The only problem is that Barnett died four years ago.
E17
E.B.E.
Sat, Feb 19 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
A dramatic increase in UFO sightings and a bizarre attack on a transport truck convince Mulder that he's on the trail of a live alien being covertly transported cross-country. For her part, Scully, equally wary of the involvement of the Lone Gunmen as she is of Deep Throat, suspects a rather more earthly explanation.
E18
Miracle Man
Sat, Mar 19 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
A rash of deaths under the Miracle Ministry's traveling tent brings Scully and Mulder into the realm of miracles and shysters. When Samuel, reputed raiser of the dead and healer of the sick, indicates he has some knowledge of Mulder's long lost sister, Scully's convinced the young man is setting them up. Mulder isn't so sure.
E19
Shapes
Sat, Apr 2 1994 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Mulder and Scully travel to an American Indian reservation to investigate the death of an Indian man who was mistaken for a wild animal and may have been the legendary Manitou, a man who can shapeshift into a beast.
E20
Darkness Falls
Sat, Apr 16 1994 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
When a group of loggers in the Washington State National Forest disappear in the same way that another group disappeared 50 years ago, Mulder and Scully go along to investigate and find themselves trapped in a cabin surrounded by flesh eating insects that only attack at night.
E21
Tooms
Sat, Apr 23 1994 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Eugene Tooms, the genetic mutant, is released from the sanitarium and Mulder becomes personally involved to ensure that he is caught in the act of getting the last human liver he needs to go into hibernation for another 30 years.
E22
Born Again
Sat, Apr 30 1994 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
After a detective and his former partner die in unexplained circumstances, the accidents are linked to a little girl who witnessed both deaths and Mulder believes that she may be the reincarnation of a policeman murdered by his colleagues.
E23
Roland
Sat, May 7 1994 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
When a series of murders occur among a group of scientists working on advanced propulsion technology, Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate. All evidence seems to point to the janitor Roland, who is mentally handicapped.
E24
The Erlenmeyer Flask
Sat, May 14 1994 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
When Deep Throat points out a news story about a fugitive who apparently drowned, Mulder and Scully cannot see what makes the case special but they follow it up anyway. With Deep Throat's insistence, they discover evidence of secret government project code-named Purity Control, which uses human test subjects and infects them with extraterrestrial DNA. However, the evidence and everyone who has seen it is quickly being eliminated.

Season 2

25 episodes

Season 3

24 episodes

Season 4

24 episodes

Season 5

20 episodes

Season 6

22 episodes

Season 7

22 episodes

Season 8

21 episodes

Season 9

20 episodes

Season 10

6 episodes

Season 11

10 episodes

Cast

Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully
David Duchovny
David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder
Mitch Pileggi
Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
Robert Patrick
Robert Patrick as Special Agent John Doggett
Annabeth Gish
Annabeth Gish as Special Agent Monica Reyes

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