The X-Files

The X-Files
Seasons	11
Episodes	218
First premiered	September 10, 1993
Last aired	March 21, 2018

The X-Files is an American science fiction series created by Chris Carter. The series originally began its run on Fox in September 1993 and aired for nine seasons before concluding in May 2002. Due to the incredible success of the show, creator Chris Carter's two spin-off series Millennium and The Lone Gunmen were greenlit by the network. A revived tenth season of The X-Files began airing on Fox in January 2016 and was followed by an eleventh in January 2018.

Show Description

• Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are assigned to a department of the Federal Bureau of Investigation focused on unsolved (and regularly supernatural) cases known as "X-Files".

Episode List

• The following is a list of episodes of The X-Files. The series originally concluded with 202 episodes at the end of its ninth season before two following revival seasons increased the episode count to 218.

Season 1 (1993-94)

No.		Prod.	Premiere date	Title	Notes
1	1	1X79	September 10, 1993	Pilot
2	2	1X01	September 17, 1993	Deep Throat
3	3	1X02	September 24, 1993	Squeeze
4	4	1X03	October 1, 1993	Conduit
5	5	1X04	October 8, 1993	The Jersey Devil
6	6	1X05	October 22, 1993	Shadows
7	7	1X06	October 29, 1993	Ghost in the Machine
8	8	1X07	November 5, 1993	Ice
9	9	1X08	November 12, 1993	Space
10	10	1X09	November 19, 1993	Fallen Angel
11	11	1X10	December 10, 1993	Eve
12	12	1X11	December 17, 1993	Fire
13	13	1X12	January 7, 1994	Beyond the Sea
14	14	1X13	January 21, 1994	Gender Bender
15	15	1X14	February 4, 1994	Lazarus
16	16	1X15	February 11, 1994	Young at Heart
17	17	1X16	February 18, 1994	E.B.E.
18	18	1X17	March 18, 1994	Miracle Man
19	19	1X18	April 1, 1994	Shapes
20	20	1X19	April 15, 1994	Darkness Falls
21	21	1X20	April 22, 1994	Tooms
22	22	1X21	April 29, 1994	Born Again
23	23	1X22	May 6, 1994	Roland
24	24	1X23	May 13, 1994	The Erlenmeyer Flask

Season 2 (1994-95)

No.		Prod.	Premiere date	Title	Notes
25	1	2X01	September 16, 1994	Little Green Men
26	2	2X02	September 23, 1994	The Host
27	3	2X03	September 30, 1994	Blood
28	4	2X04	October 7, 1994	Sleepless
29	5	2X05	October 14, 1994	Duane Barry
30	6	2X06	October 21, 1994	Ascension
31	7	2X07	November 4, 1994	3
32	8	2X08	November 11, 1994	One Breath
33	9	2X09	November 18, 1994	Firewalker
34	10	2X10	December 9, 1994	Red Museum
35	11	2X11	December 16, 1994	Excelsis Dei
36	12	2X12	January 6, 1995	Aubrey
37	13	2X13	January 13, 1995	Irresistible
38	14	2X14	January 27, 1995	Die Hand Die Verletzt
39	15	2X15	February 3, 1995	Fresh Bones
40	16	2X16	February 10, 1995	Colony
41	17	2X17	February 17, 1995	End Game
42	18	2X18	February 24, 1995	Fearful Symmetry
43	19	2X19	March 10, 1995	Død Kalm
44	20	2X20	March 31, 1995	Humbug
45	21	2X21	April 14, 1995	The Calusari
46	22	2X22	April 28, 1995	F. Emasculata
47	23	2X23	May 5, 1995	Soft Light
48	24	2X24	May 12, 1995	Our Town
49	25	2X25	May 19, 1995	Anasazi

Season 3 (1995-96)

No.		Prod.	Premiere date	Title	Notes
50	1	3X01	September 22, 1995	The Blessing Way
51	2	3X02	September 29, 1995	Paper Clip
52	3	3X03	October 6, 1995	D.P.O.
53	4	3X04	October 13, 1995	Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
54	5	3X05	October 20, 1995	The List
55	6	3X06	November 3, 1995	2Shy
56	7	3X07	November 10, 1995	The Walk
57	8	3X08	November 17, 1995	Oubliette
58	9	3X09	November 24, 1995	Nisei
59	10	3X10	December 1, 1995	731
60	11	3X11	December 15, 1995	Revelations
61	12	3X12	January 5, 1996	War of the Coprophages
62	13	3X13	January 26, 1996	Syzygy
63	14	3X14	February 2, 1996	Grotesque
64	15	3X15	February 9, 1996	Piper Maru
65	16	3X16	February 16, 1996	Apocrypha
66	17	3X17	February 23, 1996	Pusher
67	18	3X18	March 8, 1996	Teso Dos Bichos
68	19	3X19	March 29, 1996	Hell Money
69	20	3X20	April 12, 1996	Jose Chung's From Outer Space
70	21	3X21	April 26, 1996	Avatar
71	22	3X22	May 3, 1996	Quagmire
72	23	3X23	May 10, 1996	Wetwired
73	24	3X24	May 17, 1996	Talitha Cumi

Season 4 (1996-97)

Note: Beginning with "Unruhe", new episodes move from Friday to Sunday.

No.		Prod.	Premiere date	Title	Notes
74	1	4X01	October 4, 1996	Herrenvolk
75	2	4X03	October 11, 1996	Home
76	3	4X04	October 18, 1996	Teliko
77	4	4X02	October 27, 1996	Unruhe
78	5	4X05	November 3, 1996	The Field Where I Died
79	6	4X06	November 10, 1996	Sanguinarium
80	7	4X07	November 17, 1996	Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
81	8	4X09	November 24, 1996	Tunguska
82	9	4X10	December 1, 1996	Terma
83	10	4X08	December 15, 1996	Paper Hearts
84	11	4X11	January 12, 1997	El Mundo Gira
85	12	4X14	January 26, 1997	Leonard Betts
86	13	4X13	February 2, 1997	Never Again
87	14	4X15	February 9, 1997	Memento Mori
88	15	4X12	February 16, 1997	Kaddish
89	16	4X16	February 23, 1997	Unrequited
90	17	4X17	March 16, 1997	Tempus Fugit
91	18	4X18	March 23, 1997	Max
92	19	4X19	April 13, 1997	Synchrony
93	20	4X20	April 20, 1997	Small Potatoes
94	21	4X21	April 27, 1997	Zero Sum
95	22	4X22	May 4, 1997	Elegy
96	23	4X23	May 11, 1997	Demons
97	24	4X24	May 18, 1997	Gethsemane

Season 5 (1997-98)

No.		Prod.	Premiere date	Title	Notes
98	1	5X02	November 2, 1997	Redux
99	2	5X03	November 9, 1997	Redux II
100	3	5X01	November 16, 1997	Unusual Suspects
101	4	5X04	November 23, 1997	Detour
102	5	5X06	November 30, 1997	The Post-Modern Prometheus
103	6	5X05	December 7, 1997	Christmas Carol
104	7	5X07	December 14, 1997	Emily
105	8	5X08	January 4, 1998	Kitsunegari
106	9	5X09	January 11, 1998	Schizogeny
107	10	5X10	February 8, 1998	Chinga
108	11	5X11	February 15, 1998	Kill Switch
109	12	5X12	February 22, 1998	Bad Blood
110	13	5X13	March 1, 1998	Patient X
111	14	5X14	March 8, 1998	The Red and the Black
112	15	5X15	March 29, 1998	Travelers
113	16	5X16	April 19, 1998	Mind's Eye
114	17	5X17	April 26, 1998	All Souls
115	18	5X18	May 3, 1998	The Pine Bluff Variant
116	19	5X19	May 10, 1998	Folie à Deux
117	20	5X20	May 17, 1998	The End

Season 6 (1998-99)

No.		Prod.	Premiere date	Title	Notes
118	1	6ABX01	November 8, 1998	The Beginning
119	2	6ABX02	November 15, 1998	Drive
120	3	6ABX03	November 22, 1998	Triangle
121	4	6ABX04	November 29, 1998	Dreamland
122	5	6ABX05	December 6, 1998	Dreamland II
123	6	6ABX08	December 13, 1998	How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
124	7	6ABX06	January 3, 1999	Terms of Endearment
125	8	6ABX07	January 10, 1999	The Rain King
126	9	6ABX10	January 17, 1999	S.R. 819
127	10	6ABX09	January 24, 1999	Tithonus
128	11	6ABX11	February 7, 1999	Two Fathers
129	12	6ABX12	February 14, 1999	One Son
130	13	6ABX14	February 21, 1999	Agua Mala
131	14	6ABX15	February 28, 1999	Monday
132	15	6ABX13	March 7, 1999	Arcadia
133	16	6ABX16	March 28, 1999	Alpha
134	17	6ABX17	April 11, 1999	Trevor
135	18	6ABX18	April 18, 1999	Milagro
136	19	6ABX20	April 25, 1999	The Unnatural
137	20	6ABX19	May 2, 1999	Three of a Kind
138	21	6ABX21	May 9, 1999	Field Trip
139	22	6ABX22	May 16, 1999	Biogenesis

Season 7 (1999-2000)

No.		Prod.	Premiere date	Title	Notes
140	1	7ABX03	November 7, 1999	The Sixth Extinction
141	2	7ABX04	November 14, 1999	The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
142	3	7ABX01	November 21, 1999	Hungry
143	4	7ABX05	November 28, 1999	Millennium
144	5	7ABX06	December 5, 1999	Rush
145	6	7ABX02	December 12, 1999	The Goldberg Variation
146	7	7ABX07	January 9, 2000	Orison
147	8	7ABX08	January 16, 2000	The Amazing Maleeni
148	9	7ABX09	January 23, 2000	Signs and Wonders
149	10	7ABX10	February 6, 2000	Sein und Zeit
150	11	7ABX11	February 13, 2000	Closure
151	12	7ABX12	February 20, 2000	X-Cops
152	13	7ABX13	February 27, 2000	First Person Shooter
153	14	7ABX14	March 12, 2000	Theef
154	15	7ABX15	March 19, 2000	En Ami
155	16	7ABX16	April 2, 2000	Chimera
156	17	7ABX17	April 9, 2000	all things
157	18	7ABX19	April 16, 2000	Brand X
158	19	7ABX18	April 30, 2000	Hollywood A.D.
159	20	7ABX20	May 7, 2000	Fight Club
160	21	7ABX21	May 14, 2000	Je Souhaite
161	22	7ABX22	May 21, 2000	Requiem

Season 8 (2000-01)

No.		Prod.	Premiere date	Title	Notes
162	1	8ABX01	November 5, 2000	Within
163	2	8ABX02	November 12, 2000	Without
164	3	8ABX04	November 19, 2000	Patience
165	4	8ABX05	November 26, 2000	Roadrunners
166	5	8ABX06	December 3, 2000	Invocation
167	6	8ABX03	December 10, 2000	Redrum
168	7	8ABX07	December 17, 2000	Via Negativa
169	8	8ABX09	January 7, 2001	Surekill
170	9	8ABX10	January 14, 2001	Salvage
171	10	8ABX12	January 21, 2001	Badlaa
172	11	8ABX11	February 4, 2001	The Gift
173	12	8ABX13	February 11, 2001	Medusa
174	13	8ABX08	February 18, 2001	Per Manum
175	14	8ABX14	February 25, 2001	This Is Not Happening
176	15	8ABX15	April 1, 2001	Deadalive
177	16	8ABX18	April 8, 2001	Three Words
178	17	8ABX17	April 22, 2001	Empedocles
179	18	8ABX16	April 29, 2001	Vienen
180	19	8ABX19	May 6, 2001	Alone
181	20	8ABX20	May 13, 2001	Essence
182	21	8ABX21	May 20, 2001	Existence

Season 9 (2001-02)

No.		Prod.	Premiere date	Title	Notes
183	1	9ABX01	November 11, 2001	Nothing Important Happened Today
184	2	9ABX02	November 18, 2001	Nothing Important Happened Today II
185	3	9ABX03	December 2, 2001	Dæmonicus
186	4	9ABX05	December 9, 2001	4-D
187	5	9ABX06	December 16, 2001	Lord of the Flies
188	6	9ABX08	January 6, 2002	Trust No 1
189	7	9ABX07	January 13, 2002	John Doe
190	8	9ABX04	January 27, 2002	Hellbound
191	9	9ABX10	March 3, 2002	Provenance
192	10	9ABX11	March 10, 2002	Providence
193	11	9ABX13	March 17, 2002	Audrey Pauley
194	12	9ABX09	March 31, 2002	Underneath
195	13	9ABX14	April 7, 2002	Improbable
196	14	9ABX12	April 14, 2002	Scary Monsters
197	15	9ABX15	April 21, 2002	Jump the Shark
198	16	9ABX17	April 28, 2002	William
199	17	9ABX16	May 5, 2002	Release
200	18	9ABX18	May 12, 2002	Sunshine Days
201	19	9ABX19	May 19, 2002	The Truth
202	20	9ABX20

Season 10 (2016)

Note: Beginning with "Founder's Mutation", new episodes move from Sunday to Monday.

No.		Prod.	Premiere date	Title	Notes
203	1	1AYW01	January 24, 2016	My Struggle
204	2	1AYW05	January 25, 2016	Founder's Mutation
205	3	1AYW03	February 1, 2016	Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster
206	4	1AYW02	February 8, 2016	Home Again
207	5	1AYW04	February 15, 2016	Babylon
208	6	1AYW06	February 22, 2016	My Struggle II

Season 11 (2018)

Note: Beginning with "My Struggle III", new episodes move from Monday to Wednesday.

No.		Prod.	Premiere date	Title	Notes
209	1	2AYW01	January 3, 2018	My Struggle III
210	2	2AYW02	January 10, 2018	This
211	3	2AYW03	January 17, 2018	Plus One
212	4	2AYW04	January 24, 2018	The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat
213	5	2AYW05	January 31, 2018	Ghouli
214	6	2AYW06	February 7, 2018	Kitten
215	7	2AYW07	February 28, 2018	Rm9sbG93ZXJz
216	8	2AYW09	March 7, 2018	Familiar
217	9	2AYW08	March 14, 2018	Nothing Lasts Forever
218	10	2AYW10	March 21, 2018	My Struggle IV

Specials

No.	Premiere date	Title	Notes
1	May 19, 1995	Secrets of the X-Files
2	May 10, 1996	More Secrets of the X-Files
3	February 1, 1998	Inside the X-Files
4	June 15, 1998	The X-Files Movie Special