The X-Files

The X-Files (1993) TV

11 Seasons Ended Mystery Sci-Fi & Fantasy Crime

Network: FOX

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

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Pilot 1
S01E01
Pilot
Sep 10, 1993 49m

Agent Dana Scully is assigned to work with Agent Fox Mulder on the X-Files in an attempt to debunk his work on the paranormal. Their first case takes them to Oregon to investigate the unsolved murders of several high-school classmates.

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Deep Throat 2
Sep 17, 1993 46m

Mulder and Scully 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 who claims to have classified information about investigations into the paranormal.

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Squeeze 3
S01E03
Squeeze
Sep 24, 1993 43m

Mulder and Scully search for a killer whose savage murder spree reoccurs every thirty years, where there appears to be no tangible method for the murderer's entrance and escape.

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Conduit 4
S01E04
Conduit
Oct 1, 1993 45m

As Section Chief Blevins expresses his concern with the direction of the X-Files, Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case that closely parallels an encounter he experienced as a child: the abduction of his kid sister, Samantha.

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The Jersey Devil 5
Oct 8, 1993 45m

Mulder and Scully track a legendary creature that has roamed the New Jersey countryside for over forty years..

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Shadows 6
S01E06
Shadows
Oct 22, 1993 46m

Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of two men believed to have been killed by a powerful psychokinetic force.

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Ghost in the Machine 7
Oct 29, 1993 46m

It's Halloween, and Mulder and Scully are investigating the strange death of a corporate executive in a sophisticated high-tech building.

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Ice 8
S01E08
Ice
Nov 5, 1993 46m

In the claustrophobic isolation of a remote outpost in Alaska, Mulder and Scully investigate the horrifying deaths of scientists.

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Space 9
S01E09
Space
Nov 12, 1993 47m

Mulder and Scully are contacted by a communications specialist from NASA who shows them evidence of sabotage in the space programme.

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Fallen Angel 10
Nov 19, 1993 46m

Mulder puts the future of the X-Files in jeopardy when he heads to a UFO crash site being rapidly covered up by the military. He is arrested, and while in jail he meets Max Fenig, a UFO nut whose NICAP group has followed Mulder's work on the X-Files. When Mulder is released, Scully urges him to return to Washington to face his superiors and try to save his job, but Mulder finds out that Max is more than meets the eye and ignores Scully to try and save him instead.

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Eve 11
S01E11
Eve
Dec 10, 1993 46m

When two fathers on opposite sides of the country are inexplicably murdered at the exact same time in the exact same way, Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate. When they discover that the two fathers' eight-year-old daughters are identical twins, they realize that something even stranger is going on.

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Fire 12
S01E12
Fire
Dec 17, 1993 46m

An old Oxford girlfriend of Mulder's asks for his help on an international case concerning the unexplainable execution of several British dignitaries, and they encounter an assassin who can produce fire from his bare hands.

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Beyond the Sea 13
Jan 7, 1994 46m

When death row inmate Luther Lee Boggs claims to be psychic and can lead Mulder to a serial killer in return for a lesser sentence of life in prison, Scully becomes an unwilling believer when Boggs tells her that she can communicate through him with her recently deceased father.

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Gender Bender 14
Jan 21, 1994 45m

A series of sexually-oriented murders, which are identical except that the killer appears to be both male and female, draws Scully and Mulder to an Amish-type community of people called the Kindred.

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Lazarus 15
S01E15
Lazarus
Feb 4, 1994 46m

When FBI Agent Jack Willis and bank robber Warren Dupre are both shot at the same time during a robbery attempt, Dupre dies when Willis is brought back to life. When Willis rushes out of the hospital and begins acting strangely, Mulder concludes that Dupre has come back to life in Willis' body.

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Young at Heart 16
Feb 11, 1994 46m

Mulder becomes the target of someone from his past named John Barnett. He was 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.

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E.B.E. 17
S01E17
E.B.E.
Feb 18, 1994 45m

Mulder and Scully receive information from Deep Throat about a UFO that was shot down over Iraq and has been secretly transported to the US. However, Deep Throat then intentionally misleads the agents to prevent them from discovering the truth.

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Miracle Man 18
Mar 18, 1994 46m

A young man who has the power to heal people with his touch begins to question his gift when people start dying after he has supposedly healed them.

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Shapes 19
S01E19
Shapes
Apr 1, 1994 46m

Mulder and Scully travel to a Native American reservation to investigate the death of a man who was mistaken for a wild animal and may have been the legendary Manitou, a man who can shape-shift into a beast.

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Darkness Falls 20
Apr 15, 1994 44m

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.

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Tooms 21
S01E21
Tooms
Apr 22, 1994 46m

Eugene Tooms 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.

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Born Again 22
Apr 29, 1994 45m

After a detective and his former partner die in unexplained circumstances, the accidents are linked to a little girl who witnessed both deaths. Mulder believes that she may be the reincarnation of a policeman murdered by his colleagues.

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Roland 23
S01E23
Roland
May 6, 1994 46m

Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a scientist working on advanced propulsion technology. The mentally challenged janitor Roland, who has secretly been completing the scientist's work, is the prime suspect.

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The Erlenmeyer Flask 24
May 13, 1994 46m

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 follow it up anyway. With Deep Throat's insistence, they discover evidence of a 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.

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๐ŸŽ™๏ธ SYSK Episodes

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SYSKโ€™s Summer Movie Playlist: What's the deal with Bond, James Bond? "I think he informs the character Alex Krychek from X Files" โ€” Josh Josh draws a comparison between Bond villain Alec Trevelyan and an X-Files character.
Jun 27, 2025
#081315
Hula-Hoops: The Toy That's A Shape "Let's go watch some x-files. Um Let's actually yeah, the movie's coming out soon, right?" โ€” Chuck Chuck mentions X-Files in the context of 1990s nostalgia and notes that a new movie is coming out.
Aug 13, 2015
#120914
How The Hum Works "the X-Files mentioned the hum in an episode called Drive" โ€” Josh The hosts mentioned that the TV show X-Files had an episode about the hum phenomenon they were discussing.
Dec 9, 2014
#111314
What's the deal with crop circles? "among people who watch the X-Files" โ€” Josh Josh mentioned the show when discussing how the paranoid 1990s atmosphere helped crop circle popularity explode.
Nov 13, 2014
#080714
What is a Numbers Station? "It was like perfect timing, because there was Y2K going on, there was millennium angst, there was the X-Files" โ€” Josh Josh mentions The X-Files as part of the cultural context that made the Conet Project compilation popular in the 1990s.
Aug 7, 2014
#112113
Who killed JFK? "The lone gunman, they made an appearance in the X files" โ€” Josh Josh mentions how JFK conspiracy elements have become entrenched in popular culture.
Nov 21, 2013
#082013
How Ejection Seats Work "You're up against Tolkien, the X-Files, Star Trek" โ€” Chuck Chuck reads from a listener email that mentions X-Files among other geeky pursuits the listener and their friend discuss.
Aug 20, 2013
#081513
How Cockroaches Work "Have you ever seen the X-Files episode with the cockroaches?" โ€” Josh Josh brings up a specific X-Files episode about cockroaches as one of his top five episodes to relate to their discussion of cockroaches.
Aug 15, 2013
#041613
How Marriage Works "Do you remember the dude from Lost and then he was in one episode of X-Files?" โ€” Josh Josh mentioned an actor who appeared in one episode of X-Files after being on Lost.
Apr 16, 2013
#122012
How Barbie Doll Works "X-Files Barbie. That's a little strange." โ€” Chuck Referenced as an unusual themed Barbie and Ken set dressed as Fox Mulder and Scully
Dec 20, 2012
#112012
Should we be designing our children? "It sort of had an ex-files vibe." โ€” Josh Josh compares Fringe to The X-Files when describing the show's atmosphere and style.
Nov 20, 2012
#072612
How Time Travel Works (Live at SD Comic-Con) "I have always been more of a moulder than a scully" โ€” Chuck Chuck references the characters Mulder and Scully to describe himself as more of a believer than a skeptic when it comes to time travel theories.
Jul 26, 2012
#011712
Are contrails actually chemtrails? "I think about one of the number one shows of that decade, X Files." โ€” Josh Josh mentioned X-Files when discussing the rise of conspiracy theories in the 1990s leading up to the millennium.
Jan 17, 2012
#033111
SYSK Live from SXSW: How UFOs Work "Chuck, Josh, have you ever heard of the X-Files? Oh, yeah. It turns out a lot of that was true." โ€” Josh Josh mentions The X-Files to introduce the topic of UFOs and suggests some aspects of the show were based on real phenomena.
Mar 31, 2011
#020111
How Munchausen Syndrome Works "And it was on the X-Files. They investigated munchausen by proxy." โ€” Chuck Chuck mentions that The X-Files had an episode about Munchausen by proxy, though he doesn't remember it well.
Feb 1, 2011
#071510
What's the deal with Bond, James Bond? "I think he informs the character alex crycheck from x files" โ€” Josh Josh theorizes that the Bond character Alec Trevelyan influenced the X-Files character Alex Krycek.
Jul 15, 2010
#050709
How can a lake explode? "Sounds like an X files episode. Definitely. It's exactly what it sounds like." โ€” Chuck Chuck compared the mysterious Lake Nios explosion that killed 1700 people to something that would be featured on The X-Files.
May 7, 2009

Cast

David Duchovny
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
Mitch Pileggi
Mitch Pileggi
Walter Skinner

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