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Season 1

Season 1

The X-Files

1993
Episodes: 24

Overview

Two agents from vastly different backgrounds join forces to solve cases the FBI has labeled X-Files, involving paranormal or unexplained phenomena. Both are determined to uncover hidden truths — one searching for otherworldly answers, the other for more earthbound scientific explanations. Together they will make discoveries neither could have ever imagined.

Episodes

Pilot

1. Pilot

September 10, 1993

7.9
49 min

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.

Guest Stars: William B. Davis, Cliff DeYoung, Sarah Koskoff

Deep Throat

2. Deep Throat

September 17, 1993

7.8
46 min

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.

Guest Stars: Michael Bryan French, Seth Green, Johnny Cuthbert

Squeeze

3. Squeeze

September 24, 1993

8.2
43 min

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.

Guest Stars: Doug Hutchison, Donal Logue, Henry Beckman

Conduit

4. Conduit

October 1, 1993

7.4
45 min

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.

Guest Stars: Carrie Snodgress, Michael Cavanaugh, Donald Gibb

The Jersey Devil

5. The Jersey Devil

October 8, 1993

6.9
45 min

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

Guest Stars: Claire Stansfield, Wayne Tippit, Gregory Sierra

Shadows

6. Shadows

October 22, 1993

7.3
46 min

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

Guest Stars: Barry Primus, Lisa Waltz, Lorena Gale

Ghost in the Machine

7. Ghost in the Machine

October 29, 1993

6.9
46 min

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

Guest Stars: Rob LaBelle, Wayne Duvall, Blu Mankuma

Ice

8. Ice

November 5, 1993

8.4
46 min

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

Guest Stars: Xander Berkeley, Felicity Huffman, Steve Hytner

Space

9. Space

November 12, 1993

6.4
47 min

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

Guest Stars: Ed Lauter, Susanna Thompson, Tom McBeath

Fallen Angel

10. Fallen Angel

November 19, 1993

7.7
46 min

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.

Guest Stars: Frederick Coffin, Marshall Bell, Scott Bellis

Eve

11. Eve

December 10, 1993

7.9
46 min

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.

Guest Stars: Harriet Sansom Harris, Erika Krievins, Sabrina Krievins

Fire

12. Fire

December 17, 1993

7.1
46 min

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.

Guest Stars: Amanda Pays, Dan Lett, Duncan Fraser

Beyond the Sea

13. Beyond the Sea

January 7, 1994

7.8
46 min

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.

Guest Stars: Brad Dourif, Fred Henderson, Lisa Vultaggio

Gender Bender

14. Gender Bender

January 21, 1994

7.0
45 min

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.

Guest Stars: Brent Hinkley, Kate Twa, Peter Stebbings

Lazarus

15. Lazarus

February 4, 1994

7.0
46 min

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 Stars: Christopher Allport, Jason Schombing, Cec Verrell

Young at Heart

16. Young at Heart

February 11, 1994

7.2
46 min

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.

Guest Stars: William B. Davis, Dick Anthony Williams, Alan Boyce

E.B.E.

17. E.B.E.

February 18, 1994

8.1
45 min

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 Stars: Allan Lysell, Peter LaCroix, Roger Cross

Miracle Man

18. Miracle Man

March 18, 1994

7.1
46 min

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.

Guest Stars: R. D. Call, Scott Bairstow, George Gerdes

Shapes

19. Shapes

April 1, 1994

7.0
46 min

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.

Guest Stars: Donnelly Rhodes, Michael Horse, Ty Miller

Darkness Falls

20. Darkness Falls

April 15, 1994

8.0
44 min

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.

Guest Stars: Titus Welliver, Jason Beghe, Barry Greene

Tooms

21. Tooms

April 22, 1994

8.1
46 min

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.

Guest Stars: Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, Doug Hutchison

Born Again

22. Born Again

April 29, 1994

7.0
45 min

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.

Guest Stars: Maggie Wheeler, Brian Markinson, Andrea Libman

Roland

23. Roland

May 6, 1994

7.5
46 min

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.

Guest Stars: Zeljko Ivanek, Micole Mercurio, Kerry Sandomirsky

The Erlenmeyer Flask

24. The Erlenmeyer Flask

May 13, 1994

8.7
46 min

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.

Guest Stars: William B. Davis, John Payne, Lindsey Ginter

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