Episodes
Episodes marked with a double dagger are episodes in the series' Alien Mythology arc.
See also: List of The X-Files episodes| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
U.S. viewers (millions) |
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| 1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Robert Mandel | Chris Carter | September 10, 1993 (1993-09-10) | 1X79 | 12.0 |
| Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is assigned to work with Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) on the X-Files in an attempt to debunk his work on the paranormal. Their first case has them investigating apparent alien abductions. A near comatose man, Billy Miles (Zachary Ansley), is taking his classmates, including Theresa Nemman (Sarah Koskoff), into the woods, where they are killed in a flash of bright light. Also guest stars Cliff DeYoung, Leon Russom, and Alexandra Stewart. | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Deep Throat" | Daniel Sackheim | Chris Carter | September 17, 1993 (1993-09-17) | 1X01 | 11.1 |
| Mulder and Scully travel to Idaho in order to investigate the disappearance of a military test pilot. They observe unusual aircraft activity, prompting Mulder to proclaim the existence of a government conspiracy. Mulder sneaks onto the military base and is spotlighted by one of the craft, but is captured by soldiers and has his memory erased before he is released. Guest stars Jerry Hardin, Andrew Johnston, Gabrielle Rose, Michael Bryan French, Seth Green, Lalainia Lindbjerg, and John Cuthbert. | |||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Squeeze" | Harry Longstreet | Glen Morgan & James Wong | September 24, 1993 (1993-09-24) | 1X02 | 11.1 |
| Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders where there appears to be no tangible method for the murderer’s entrance and escape. Eugene Victor Tooms (Doug Hutchison), a seemingly normal janitor, is suspected by Mulder to be a mutant who kills his victims and extracts their livers in order to prolong his existence. Also guest stars Donal Logue, Henry Beckman, Kevin McNulty, Terence Kelly. | |||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Conduit" | Daniel Sackheim | Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon | October 1, 1993 (1993-10-01) | 1X03 | 9.2 |
| As Section Chief Scott Blevins (Charles Cioffi) 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, which dealt with alien abduction and an exploration of Mulder's determination to find his sister, Samantha Mulder (Vanessa Morley). Also guest stars Don Gibb. | |||||||
| 5 | 5 | "The Jersey Devil" | Joe Napolitano | Chris Carter | October 8, 1993 (1993-10-08) | 1X04 | 10.4 |
| The murder of a homeless man which is very similar in detail to a murder committed in 1947 leads Mulder and Scully to the legendary man-beast the Jersey Devil (Claire Stansfield) roaming in the forests surrounding Atlantic City. Also guest stars Wayne Tippit, Gregory Sierra, Jill Teed, Andrew Airlie, Bill Dow, and David Lewis. | |||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Shadows" | Michael Katleman | Glen Morgan & James Wong | October 22, 1993 (1993-10-22) | 1X05 | 8.8 |
| 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 who was believed to have committed suicide but was actually murdered and he is protecting her from his business partner. Guest starring Barry Primus and Lisa Waltz | |||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Ghost in the Machine" | Jerrold Freedman | Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon | October 29, 1993 (1993-10-29) | 1X06 | 9.5 |
| A computer with highly advanced artificial intelligence begins to kill in order to preserve its existence when it is deemed too inefficient to continue controlling the workings of an office building. Guest starring Rob LaBelle and Wayne Duvall. | |||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Ice" | David Nutter | Glen Morgan & James Wong | November 5, 1993 (1993-11-05) | 1X07 | 10.0 |
| When an Arctic research team mysteriously kill 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. Guest starring Xander Berkeley and Felicity Huffman. | |||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Space" | William Graham | Chris Carter | November 12, 1993 (1993-11-12) | 1X08 | 10.7 |
| A mysterious force is sabotaging a space launch program which leads directly back to the commander of the team, who once claimed to have seen an alien in space while witnessing Mars from Earth orbit. The so-called "alien" returns to Earth with him to torment him, and wreck his new space program. Guest starring Ed Lauter and Susanna Thompson. | |||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Fallen Angel" | Larry Shaw | Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa | November 19, 1993 (1993-11-19) | 1X09 | 8.8 |
| 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 (Scott Bellis), 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 Fenig is more than meets the eye and ignores Scully to try to save him instead. Guest-starring Marshall Bell and Frederick Coffin. | |||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Eve" | Fred Gerber | Kenneth Biller & Chris Brancato | December 10, 1993 (1993-12-10) | 1X10 | 10.4 |
| 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 find that their eight-year-old daughters are perfect twins (Erika and Sabrina Krievins) and were created in order to continue The Litchfield Experiment, a eugenics project of the 1950s which produced cloned boys named Adam and girls named Eve who have heightened strength and intelligence, but are prone to psychotic behavior. Guest starring Harriet Sansom Harris. | |||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Fire" | Larry Shaw | Chris Carter | December 17, 1993 (1993-12-17) | 1X11 | 11.1 |
| Mulder investigates the deaths of British dignitaries at the behest of an old Oxford girlfriend. Cecil L'Ively is a pyrokinetic, and he wants Sir Malcolm Marsden's wife. Cecil attempts to kill Marsden, with his ability to make fire come out of his hands, but Mulder stops him. Guest starring Mark Sheppard and Amanda Pays. | |||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Beyond the Sea" | David Nutter | Glen Morgan & James Wong | January 7, 1994 (1994-01-07) | 1X12 | 10.8 |
| A death row inmate named Luther Lee Boggs claims that he is psychic and can lead Mulder to a serial killer in exchange for a lesser sentence of life in prison. The agents' roles are reversed in this episode, with Mulder doubting Boggs's claim and Scully believing him after she is told that she can communicate through him with her recently deceased father. Guest starring Brad Dourif, Don S. Davis and Sheila Larken. | |||||||
| 14 | 14 | "Gender Bender" | Rob Bowman | Larry Barber & Paul Barber | January 21, 1994 (1994-01-21) | 1X13 | 11.1 |
| A series of identical sexual murders, where the killer appears to be both male and female, draw Mulder and Scully to an Amish-type community of people who may be of alien origin, leading to the discovery of a man who can change sex. Guest starring Brent Hinkley and Nicholas Lea. | |||||||
| 15 | 15 | "Lazarus" | David Nutter | Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon | February 4, 1994 (1994-02-04) | 1X14 | 12.1 |
| 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. Guest starring Cec Verrell and Christopher Allport. | |||||||
| 16 | 16 | "Young at Heart" | Michael Lange | Scott Kaufer and Chris Carter | February 11, 1994 (1994-02-11) | 1X15 | 11.5 |
| A psychotic criminal from one of Mulder's past cases—John Barnett—is back to get revenge on Mulder for incarcerating him. Before Barnett’s release, a renegade doctor had found a way to reverse the aging process - using Barnett as his test subject. Mulder and Scully rush to catch the now-unrecognizable youthful Barnett before he carries out his threat to kill all of Mulder's loved ones. Guest starring Dick Anthony Williams and William B. Davis. | |||||||
| 17 | 17 | "E.B.E." | William Graham | Glen Morgan & James Wong | February 18, 1994 (1994-02-18) | 1X16 | |
| 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. Guest starring Bruce Harwood, Dean Haglund and Tom Braidwood. | |||||||
| 18 | 18 | "Miracle Man" | Michael Lange | Chris Carter & Howard Gordon | March 18, 1994 (1994-03-18) | 1X17 | 11.6 |
| Mulder and Scully travel to Tennessee to investigate the "Miracle Ministry" and its star attraction - a young man with the ability to heal people with his touch - when a person dies shortly after being healed. Guest starring Scott Bairstow, George Gerdes, R. D. Call and Dennis Lipscomb. | |||||||
| 19 | 19 | "Shapes" | David Nutter | Marilyn Osborn | April 1, 1994 (1994-04-01) | 1X18 | 11.5 |
| Mulder and Scully head to an Indian reservation in northwestern Montana to investigate a manslaughter case which Mulder believes may relate to the very first X-File ever created at the FBI, and its main subject: lycanthropy. Guest-starring Ty Miller, Donnelly Rhodes and Michael Horse. | |||||||
| 20 | 20 | "Darkness Falls" | Joe Napolitano | Chris Carter | April 15, 1994 (1994-04-15) | 1X19 | 12.5 |
| Mulder and Scully travel to a remote area of Washington State National Forest after an entire group of thirty loggers goes missing. They soon discover that an unseen force that was lying dormant has been awakened. Guest starring Jason Beghe and Titus Welliver. | |||||||
| 21 | 21 | "Tooms" | David Nutter | Glen Morgan & James Wong | April 22, 1994 (1994-04-22) | 1X20 | 13.4 |
| Tooms is released from the psychiatric sanitarium in which he was incarcerated for assaulting Scully – and he needs to kill once more to get the final liver which will allow him to hibernate for another thirty years. Mulder and Scully race against time to find evidence of his involvement in the past string of murders before Tooms disappears again. Guest starring Mitch Pileggi and Doug Hutchison. | |||||||
| 22 | 22 | "Born Again" | Jerrold Freedman | Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa | April 29, 1994 (1994-04-29) | 1X21 | 13.7 |
| 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. Guest-starring Maggie Wheeler and Andrea Libman. | |||||||
| 23 | 23 | "Roland" | David Nutter | Chris Ruppenthal | May 6, 1994 (1994-05-06) | 1X22 | 12.5 |
| Agents Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders in Mahan Propulsion Laboratory as a team of scientists die one by one and the only suspect is a mentally handicapped cleaner named Roland. Guest-starring Željko Ivanek and James Sloyan. | |||||||
| 24 | 24 | "The Erlenmeyer Flask" | R. W. Goodwin | Chris Carter | May 13, 1994 (1994-05-13) | 1X23 | 14.0 |
| A seemingly unrelated car chase leads Mulder and Scully to a scientific lab encompassing a secret which could provide proof of a government conspiracy. Guest starring Jerry Hardin and William B. Davis. |
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