Season 1
🎬 24 Episodes 📅 1993 ⏱ 44 min
A vanished research facility and inexplicable biological specimens point toward something The X-Files have warned about for years: extraterrestrial involvement in classified government programs. As Mulder and Scully navigate layers of bureaucratic deception, they discover that the conspiracy runs deeper than either anticipated, forcing a skeptic to confront the impossible. Trust becomes their only weapon against forces determined to silence them forever.
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📊 Season Stats
24
Episodes
1993
Year
44
min / ep
17.6
Watch Hours
1/11
Season No.
⭐ 8.7
Best Episode
Ep. 24 · The Erlenmeyer Flask
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🎬 Episodes 24 episodes
1
⭐ 8.0
Pilot
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.
🎬 Robert Mandel ✍️ Chris Carter
2
⭐ 7.8
Deep Throat
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.
🎬 Daniel Sackheim ✍️ Chris Carter
3
⭐ 8.2
Squeeze
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.
🎬 Harry Longstreet ✍️ James Wong
4
⭐ 7.4
Conduit
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.
🎬 Daniel Sackheim ✍️ Howard Gordon
5
⭐ 6.9
The Jersey Devil
Mulder and Scully track a legendary creature that has roamed the New Jersey countryside for over forty years..
🎬 Joe Napolitano ✍️ Chris Carter
6
⭐ 7.3
Shadows
Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of two men believed to have been killed by a powerful psychokinetic force.
🎬 Michael Katleman ✍️ James Wong
7
⭐ 6.9
Ghost in the Machine
It's Halloween, and Mulder and Scully are investigating the strange death of a corporate executive in a sophisticated high-tech building.
🎬 Jerrold Freedman ✍️ Howard Gordon
8
⭐ 8.4
Ice
In the claustrophobic isolation of a remote outpost in Alaska, Mulder and Scully investigate the horrifying deaths of scientists.
🎬 David Nutter ✍️ James Wong
9
⭐ 6.5
Space
Mulder and Scully are contacted by a communications specialist from NASA who shows them evidence of sabotage in the space programme.
🎬 William A. Graham ✍️ Chris Carter
10
⭐ 7.7
Fallen Angel
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 retu…
🎬 Larry Shaw ✍️ Howard Gordon
11
⭐ 7.9
Eve
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 i…
🎬 Fred Gerber ✍️ Chris Brancato
12
⭐ 7.1
Fire
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.
🎬 Larry Shaw ✍️ Chris Carter
13
⭐ 7.9
Beyond the Sea
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.
🎬 David Nutter ✍️ James Wong
14
⭐ 7.1
Gender Bender
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.
🎬 Rob Bowman ✍️ Larry Barber
15
⭐ 7.0
Lazarus
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.
🎬 David Nutter ✍️ Howard Gordon
16
⭐ 7.2
Young at Heart
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.
🎬 Michael Lange ✍️ Scott Kaufer
17
⭐ 8.1
E.B.E.
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.
🎬 William A. Graham ✍️ James Wong
18
⭐ 7.2
Miracle Man
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.
🎬 Michael Lange ✍️ Howard Gordon
19
⭐ 7.1
Shapes
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.
🎬 David Nutter ✍️ Marilyn Osborn
20
⭐ 8.0
Darkness Falls
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.
🎬 Joe Napolitano ✍️ Chris Carter
21
⭐ 8.2
Tooms
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.
🎬 David Nutter ✍️ James Wong
22
⭐ 7.0
Born Again
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.
🎬 Jerrold Freedman ✍️ Howard Gordon
23
⭐ 7.4
Roland
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.
🎬 David Nutter ✍️ Chris Ruppenthal
24
⭐ 8.7
The Erlenmeyer Flask
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 su…
🎬 R. W. Goodwin ✍️ Chris Carter