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The X-Files

The truth is out there.

MysterySci-Fi & FantasyCrime

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.

Sep 10, 199311 seasons218 episodesEndedEN

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David Duchovny

Fox Mulder

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Gillian Anderson

Dana Scully

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Mitch Pileggi

Walter Skinner

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Seasons

Season 1

24 episodes

Premiered Sep 10, 1993

Season 2

25 episodes

Premiered Sep 16, 1994

Season 3

24 episodes

Premiered Sep 22, 1995

Season 4

24 episodes

Premiered Oct 4, 1996

Season 5

20 episodes

Premiered Nov 2, 1997

Season 6

22 episodes

Premiered Nov 8, 1998

Season 7

22 episodes

Premiered Nov 7, 1999

Season 8

21 episodes

Premiered Nov 5, 2000

Season 9

20 episodes

Premiered Nov 11, 2001

Season 10

6 episodes

Premiered Jan 24, 2016

Season 11

10 episodes

Premiered Jan 3, 2018

Episodes

1–6 of 24

Ep 1

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.

Ep 2

Deep Throat

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.

Ep 3

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.

Ep 4

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.