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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David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
Mitch Pileggi
Walter Skinner
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24 episodes • 1993Avg: 7.6
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pilot | Sep 10, 1993 | 8.2 |
| 2 | Deep Throat | Sep 17, 1993 | 8.0 |
| 3 | Squeeze | Sep 24, 1993 | 8.5 |
| 4 | Conduit | Oct 1, 1993 | 7.5 |
| 5 | The Jersey Devil | Oct 8, 1993 | 6.9 |
| 6 | Shadows | Oct 22, 1993 | 7.1 |
| 7 | Ghost in the Machine | Oct 29, 1993 | 6.7 |
| 8 | Ice | Nov 5, 1993 | 8.7 |
| 9 | Space | Nov 12, 1993 | 6.2 |
| 10 | Fallen Angel | Nov 19, 1993 | 7.7 |
| 11 | Eve | Dec 10, 1993 | 8.0 |
| 12 | Fire | Dec 17, 1993 | 7.2 |
| 13 | Beyond the Sea | Jan 7, 1994 | 8.6 |
| 14 | Gender Bender | Jan 21, 1994 | 7.3 |
| 15 | Lazarus | Feb 4, 1994 | 7.0 |
| 16 | Young at Heart | Feb 11, 1994 | 7.2 |
| 17 | E.B.E. | Feb 18, 1994 | 8.4 |
| 18 | Miracle Man | Mar 18, 1994 | 7.1 |
| 19 | Shapes | Apr 1, 1994 | 7.0 |
| 20 | Darkness Falls | Apr 15, 1994 | 8.4 |
| 21 | Tooms | Apr 22, 1994 | 8.2 |
| 22 | Born Again | Apr 29, 1994 | 7.1 |
| 23 | Roland | May 6, 1994 | 7.2 |
| 24 | The Erlenmeyer Flask | May 13, 1994 | 8.9 |
25 episodes • 1994Avg: 7.8
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little Green Men | Sep 16, 1994 | 8.0 |
| 2 | The Host | Sep 23, 1994 | 8.2 |
| 3 | Blood | Sep 30, 1994 | 7.4 |
| 4 | Sleepless | Oct 7, 1994 | 7.6 |
| 5 | Duane Barry (1) | Oct 14, 1994 | 8.6 |
| 6 | Ascension (2) | Oct 21, 1994 | 8.6 |
| 7 | 3 | Nov 4, 1994 | 6.3 |
| 8 | One Breath | Nov 11, 1994 | 8.3 |
| 9 | Firewalker | Nov 18, 1994 | 7.1 |
| 10 | Red Museum | Dec 9, 1994 | 7.5 |
| 11 | Excelsis Dei | Dec 16, 1994 | 6.9 |
| 12 | Aubrey | Jan 6, 1995 | 7.3 |
| 13 | Irresistible | Jan 13, 1995 | 8.0 |
| 14 | Die Hand Die Verletzt | Jan 27, 1995 | 8.1 |
| 15 | Fresh Bones | Feb 3, 1995 | 7.1 |
| 16 | Colony (1) | Feb 10, 1995 | 8.7 |
| 17 | End Game (2) | Feb 17, 1995 | 8.7 |
| 18 | Fearful Symmetry | Feb 24, 1995 | 6.4 |
| 19 | Død Kalm | Mar 10, 1995 | 7.4 |
| 20 | Humbug | Mar 31, 1995 | 8.5 |
| 21 | The Calusari | Apr 14, 1995 | 7.4 |
| 22 | F. Emasculata | Apr 28, 1995 | 8.0 |
| 23 | Soft Light | May 5, 1995 | 7.8 |
| 24 | Our Town | May 12, 1995 | 7.8 |
| 25 | Anasazi (1) | May 19, 1995 | 9.1 |
24 episodes • 1995Avg: 8.0Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Blessing Way (2) | Sep 22, 1995 | 8.6 |
| 2 | Paper Clip (3) | Sep 29, 1995 | 9.0 |
| 3 | D.P.O. | Oct 6, 1995 | 7.7 |
| 4 | Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose | Oct 13, 1995 | 9.2 |
| 5 | The List | Oct 20, 1995 | 7.1 |
| 6 | 2Shy | Nov 3, 1995 | 7.4 |
| 7 | The Walk | Nov 10, 1995 | 7.1 |
| 8 | Oubliette | Nov 17, 1995 | 7.6 |
| 9 | Nisei (1) | Nov 24, 1995 | 8.5 |
| 10 | 731 (2) | Dec 1, 1995 | 8.7 |
| 11 | Revelations | Dec 15, 1995 | 7.1 |
| 12 | War of the Coprophages | Jan 5, 1996 | 8.6 |
| 13 | Syzygy | Jan 26, 1996 | 7.5 |
| 14 | Grotesque | Feb 2, 1996 | 7.3 |
| 15 | Piper Maru (1) | Feb 9, 1996 | 8.4 |
| 16 | Apocrypha (2) | Feb 16, 1996 | 8.5 |
| 17 | Pusher | Feb 23, 1996 | 8.4 |
| 18 | Teso Dos Bichos | Mar 8, 1996 | 5.9 |
| 19 | Hell Money | Mar 29, 1996 | 7.0 |
| 20 | Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" | Apr 12, 1996 | 8.8 |
| 21 | Avatar | Apr 26, 1996 | 7.6 |
| 22 | Quagmire | May 3, 1996 | 8.0 |
| 23 | Wetwired | May 10, 1996 | 8.3 |
| 24 | Talitha Cumi (1) | May 17, 1996 | 8.5 |
24 episodes • 1996Avg: 7.9Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Herrenvolk (2) | Oct 4, 1996 | 8.4 |
| 2 | Home | Oct 11, 1996 | 8.8 |
| 3 | Teliko | Oct 18, 1996 | 6.6 |
| 4 | Unruhe | Oct 27, 1996 | 8.0 |
| 5 | The Field Where I Died | Nov 3, 1996 | 6.6 |
| 6 | Sanguinarium | Nov 10, 1996 | 7.2 |
| 7 | Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man | Nov 17, 1996 | 9.0 |
| 8 | Tunguska (1) | Nov 24, 1996 | 8.5 |
| 9 | Terma (2) | Dec 1, 1996 | 8.1 |
| 10 | Paper Hearts | Dec 15, 1996 | 8.7 |
| 11 | El Mundo Gira | Jan 12, 1997 | 6.6 |
| 12 | Leonard Betts | Jan 26, 1997 | 8.3 |
| 13 | Never Again | Feb 2, 1997 | 7.4 |
| 14 | Memento Mori | Feb 9, 1997 | 8.4 |
| 15 | Kaddish | Feb 16, 1997 | 6.9 |
| 16 | Unrequited | Feb 23, 1997 | 7.2 |
| 17 | Tempus Fugit (1) | Mar 16, 1997 | 8.4 |
| 18 | Max (2) | Mar 23, 1997 | 8.4 |
| 19 | Synchrony | Apr 13, 1997 | 7.7 |
| 20 | Small Potatoes | Apr 20, 1997 | 8.9 |
| 21 | Zero Sum | Apr 27, 1997 | 8.1 |
| 22 | Elegy | May 4, 1997 | 7.7 |
| 23 | Demons | May 11, 1997 | 7.8 |
| 24 | Gethsemane (1) | May 18, 1997 | 8.6 |
20 episodes • 1997Avg: 8.0Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Redux (2) | Nov 2, 1997 | 8.6 |
| 2 | Redux II (3) | Nov 9, 1997 | 9.0 |
| 3 | Unusual Suspects | Nov 16, 1997 | 8.4 |
| 4 | Detour | Nov 23, 1997 | 8.1 |
| 5 | The Post-Modern Prometheus | Nov 30, 1997 | 8.5 |
| 6 | Christmas Carol (1) | Dec 7, 1997 | 7.7 |
| 7 | Emily (2) | Dec 14, 1997 | 7.6 |
| 8 | Kitsunegari | Jan 4, 1998 | 7.6 |
| 9 | Schizogeny | Jan 11, 1998 | 6.9 |
| 10 | Chinga | Feb 8, 1998 | 7.5 |
| 11 | Kill Switch | Feb 15, 1998 | 7.8 |
| 12 | Bad Blood | Feb 22, 1998 | 9.2 |
| 13 | Patient X (1) | Mar 1, 1998 | 8.2 |
| 14 | The Red and the Black (2) | Mar 8, 1998 | 8.3 |
| 15 | Travelers | Mar 29, 1998 | 7.4 |
| 16 | Mind’s Eye | Apr 19, 1998 | 7.6 |
| 17 | All Souls | Apr 26, 1998 | 7.2 |
| 18 | The Pine Bluff Variant | May 3, 1998 | 8.0 |
| 19 | Folie à Deux | May 10, 1998 | 8.5 |
| 20 | The End | May 17, 1998 | 8.8 |
22 episodes • 1998Avg: 8.1Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Beginning | Nov 8, 1998 | 8.1 |
| 2 | Drive | Nov 15, 1998 | 8.5 |
| 3 | Triangle | Nov 22, 1998 | 8.5 |
| 4 | Dreamland (1) | Nov 29, 1998 | 8.9 |
| 5 | Dreamland II (2) | Dec 6, 1998 | 8.8 |
| 6 | How the Ghosts Stole Christmas | Dec 13, 1998 | 8.2 |
| 7 | Terms of Endearment | Jan 3, 1999 | 7.7 |
| 8 | The Rain King | Jan 10, 1999 | 7.3 |
| 9 | S.R. 819 | Jan 17, 1999 | 7.8 |
| 10 | Tithonus | Jan 24, 1999 | 8.3 |
| 11 | Two Fathers (1) | Feb 7, 1999 | 8.5 |
| 12 | One Son (2) | Feb 14, 1999 | 8.8 |
| 13 | Agua Mala | Feb 21, 1999 | 7.3 |
| 14 | Monday | Feb 28, 1999 | 8.7 |
| 15 | Arcadia | Mar 7, 1999 | 8.4 |
| 16 | Alpha | Mar 28, 1999 | 6.4 |
| 17 | Trevor | Apr 11, 1999 | 7.2 |
| 18 | Milagro | Apr 18, 1999 | 7.5 |
| 19 | The Unnatural | Apr 25, 1999 | 8.4 |
| 20 | Three of a Kind | May 2, 1999 | 7.8 |
| 21 | Field Trip | May 9, 1999 | 8.5 |
| 22 | Biogenesis (1) | May 16, 1999 | 8.1 |
22 episodes • 1999Avg: 7.5
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Sixth Extinction (2) | Nov 7, 1999 | 7.7 |
| 2 | The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati (3) | Nov 14, 1999 | 7.7 |
| 3 | Hungry | Nov 21, 1999 | 7.8 |
| 4 | Millennium | Nov 28, 1999 | 7.8 |
| 5 | Rush | Dec 5, 1999 | 7.3 |
| 6 | The Goldberg Variation | Dec 12, 1999 | 8.2 |
| 7 | Orison | Jan 9, 2000 | 7.5 |
| 8 | The Amazing Maleeni | Jan 16, 2000 | 8.1 |
| 9 | Signs and Wonders | Jan 23, 2000 | 6.5 |
| 10 | Sein Und Zeit (1) | Feb 6, 2000 | 7.9 |
| 11 | Closure (2) | Feb 13, 2000 | 8.0 |
| 12 | X-Cops | Feb 20, 2000 | 8.4 |
| 13 | First Person Shooter | Feb 27, 2000 | 6.0 |
| 14 | Theef | Mar 12, 2000 | 7.3 |
| 15 | En Ami | Mar 19, 2000 | 8.0 |
| 16 | Chimera | Apr 2, 2000 | 7.3 |
| 17 | all things | Apr 9, 2000 | 7.0 |
| 18 | Brand X | Apr 16, 2000 | 7.5 |
| 19 | Hollywood A.D. | Apr 30, 2000 | 7.2 |
| 20 | Fight Club | May 7, 2000 | 5.9 |
| 21 | Je Souhaite | May 14, 2000 | 8.3 |
| 22 | Requiem | May 21, 2000 | 8.5 |
21 episodes • 2000Avg: 7.7
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Within (1) | Nov 5, 2000 | 8.1 |
| 2 | Without (2) | Nov 12, 2000 | 8.2 |
| 3 | Patience | Nov 19, 2000 | 7.4 |
| 4 | Roadrunners | Nov 26, 2000 | 8.0 |
| 5 | Invocation | Dec 3, 2000 | 7.5 |
| 6 | Redrum | Dec 10, 2000 | 8.3 |
| 7 | Via Negativa | Dec 17, 2000 | 7.4 |
| 8 | Surekill | Jan 7, 2001 | 6.8 |
| 9 | Salvage | Jan 14, 2001 | 6.7 |
| 10 | Badlaa | Jan 21, 2001 | 6.7 |
| 11 | The Gift | Feb 4, 2001 | 7.7 |
| 12 | Medusa | Feb 11, 2001 | 7.3 |
| 13 | Per Manum | Feb 18, 2001 | 7.8 |
| 14 | This Is Not Happening (1) | Feb 25, 2001 | 8.2 |
| 15 | Deadalive (2) | Apr 1, 2001 | 8.2 |
| 16 | Three Words | Apr 8, 2001 | 8.0 |
| 17 | Empedocles | Apr 22, 2001 | 7.0 |
| 18 | Vienen | Apr 29, 2001 | 7.8 |
| 19 | Alone | May 6, 2001 | 7.7 |
| 20 | Essence (1) | May 13, 2001 | 8.3 |
| 21 | Existence (2) | May 20, 2001 | 8.7 |
20 episodes • 2001Avg: 7.4
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing Important Happened Today (1) | Nov 11, 2001 | 7.2 |
| 2 | Nothing Important Happened Today II (2) | Nov 18, 2001 | 7.3 |
| 3 | Dæmonicus | Dec 2, 2001 | 7.1 |
| 4 | 4-D | Dec 9, 2001 | 7.7 |
| 5 | Lord of the Flies | Dec 16, 2001 | 6.8 |
| 6 | Trust No 1 | Jan 6, 2002 | 7.3 |
| 7 | John Doe | Jan 13, 2002 | 7.3 |
| 8 | Hellbound | Jan 27, 2002 | 7.0 |
| 9 | Provenance (1) | Mar 3, 2002 | 7.4 |
| 10 | Providence (2) | Mar 10, 2002 | 7.2 |
| 11 | Audrey Pauley | Mar 17, 2002 | 7.4 |
| 12 | Underneath | Mar 31, 2002 | 6.9 |
| 13 | Improbable | Apr 7, 2002 | 7.2 |
| 14 | Scary Monsters | Apr 14, 2002 | 7.2 |
| 15 | Jump the Shark | Apr 21, 2002 | 7.2 |
| 16 | William | Apr 28, 2002 | 7.5 |
| 17 | Release | May 5, 2002 | 8.1 |
| 18 | Sunshine Days | May 12, 2002 | 7.6 |
| 19 | The Truth (1) | May 19, 2002 | 8.2 |
| 20 | The Truth (2) | May 19, 2002 | 8.2 |
6 episodes • 2016Avg: 7.4
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Struggle | Jan 24, 2016 | 7.8 |
| 2 | Founder's Mutation | Jan 25, 2016 | 7.8 |
| 3 | Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster | Feb 1, 2016 | 8.0 |
| 4 | Home Again | Feb 8, 2016 | 7.2 |
| 5 | Babylon | Feb 15, 2016 | 6.4 |
| 6 | My Struggle II | Feb 22, 2016 | 7.0 |
10 episodes • 2018Avg: 7.4
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Struggle III | Jan 3, 2018 | 6.4 |
| 2 | This | Jan 10, 2018 | 7.2 |
| 3 | Plus One | Jan 17, 2018 | 7.7 |
| 4 | The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat | Jan 24, 2018 | 8.1 |
| 5 | Ghouli | Jan 31, 2018 | 7.8 |
| 6 | Kitten | Feb 7, 2018 | 7.3 |
| 7 | Rm9sbG93ZXJz | Feb 28, 2018 | 8.0 |
| 8 | Familiar | Mar 7, 2018 | 8.0 |
| 9 | Nothing Lasts Forever | Mar 14, 2018 | 6.6 |
| 10 | My Struggle IV | Mar 21, 2018 | 7.2 |
