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Premiered

Friday, September 10, 1993

Ended: Friday, May 13, 1994

When does The X-Files Season 1 come out?

The X-Files Season 1 premiered Friday, September 10, 1993 on FOX and ended Friday, May 13, 1994. The season has 24 episodes.

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.

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The X-Files Season 1 release schedule

The X-Files Season 1 episode release dates
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1. 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.

Friday · 33 years ago

2. 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.

Friday · 33 years ago

3. 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.

Friday · 33 years ago

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.

Friday · 33 years ago

5. The Jersey Devil

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

Friday · 33 years ago

6. Shadows

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

Friday · 33 years ago

7. 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.

Friday · 33 years ago

8. Ice

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

Friday · 33 years ago

9. Space

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

Friday · 33 years ago

10. 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 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.

Friday · 32 years ago

11. 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 is going on.

Friday · 32 years ago

12. 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.

Friday · 32 years ago

13. 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.

Friday · 32 years ago

14. 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.

Friday · 32 years ago

15. 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.

Friday · 32 years ago

16. 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.

Friday · 32 years ago

17. 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.

Friday · 32 years ago

18. 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.

Friday · 32 years ago

19. 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.

Friday · 32 years ago

20. 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.

Friday · 32 years ago

21. 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.

Friday · 32 years ago

22. 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.

Friday · 32 years ago

23. 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.

Friday · 32 years ago

24. The Erlenmeyer Flask Finale

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.

Friday · 32 years ago

The X-Files Season 1 guest stars

  • William B. Davis

    William B. Davis

    Cigarette Smoking Man

  • Mitch Pileggi

    Mitch Pileggi

    Walter Skinner

  • Doug Hutchison

    Doug Hutchison

    Eugene Victor Tooms

  • Harriet Sansom Harris

    Harriet Sansom Harris

    Dr. Sally Kendrick / Eve 6

  • Donnelly Rhodes

    Donnelly Rhodes

    Jim Parker

  • Dick Anthony Williams

    Dick Anthony Williams

    Agent Reggie Purdue

  • Ed Lauter

    Ed Lauter

    Col. Marcus Aurelius Belt

  • Carrie Snodgress

    Carrie Snodgress

    Darlene Morris

  • Xander Berkeley

    Xander Berkeley

    Dr. Hodge

  • Maggie Wheeler

    Maggie Wheeler

    Det. Sharon Lazard

  • Titus Welliver

    Titus Welliver

    Doug Spinney

  • Brent Hinkley

    Brent Hinkley

    Brother Andrew

  • Frederick Coffin

    Frederick Coffin

    Chief Joseph McGrath

  • Christopher Allport

    Christopher Allport

    Agent Jack Willis

  • R. D. Call

    R. D. Call

    Sheriff Maurice Daniels

  • Brad Dourif

    Brad Dourif

    Luther Lee Boggs

The X-Files Season 1 FAQ

When does The X-Files Season 1 come out?

The X-Files Season 1 premiered Friday, September 10, 1993 on FOX.

How many episodes are in The X-Files Season 1?

The X-Files Season 1 has 24 episodes.

Are new episodes of The X-Files Season 1 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the The X-Files Season 1 finale?

The The X-Files Season 1 finale (Episode 24) aired Friday, May 13, 1994.

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