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The X-Files
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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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- E1 PilotNext upSep 10, 1993 · 49 min · ★ 7.9
Synopsis
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 (Cigarette Smoking Man), Cliff DeYoung (Dr. Jay Nemman), Sarah Koskoff (Theresa Nemman), Leon Russom (Detective Miles), Zachary Ansley (Billy Miles), Stephen E. Miller (Coroner Truitt), Malcolm Stewart (Dr. Glass), Alexandra Berlin (Orderly)
- E2 Deep ThroatSep 17, 1993 · 46 min · ★ 7.7
Synopsis
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 (Paul Mossinger), Seth Green (Emil), Johnny Cuthbert (Commanding Officer), Andrew Johnston (Lt. Col. Robert Budahas), Gabrielle Rose (Anita Budahas), Monica Parker (Ladonna), Sheila Moore (Verla McLennen), Lalainia Lindbjerg (Zoe)
- E3 SqueezeSep 24, 1993 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
Synopsis
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 (Eugene Victor Tooms), Donal Logue (Agent Tom Colton), Henry Beckman (Detective Frank Briggs), Kevin McNulty (Agent Fuller), Terence Kelly (George Usher), Colleen Winton (Examiner), Gary Hetherington (Kennedy), Rob Morton (Kramer)
- E4 ConduitOct 1, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 7.4
Synopsis
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 (Darlene Morris), Michael Cavanaugh (Sheriff Jack Withers), Donald Gibb (Kip), Joel Palmer (Kevin Morris), Shelley Owens (Tessa), Don Thompson (Holtzman), Akiko Morison (Leza Atsumi), Taunya Dee (Ruby)
- E5 The Jersey DevilOct 8, 1993 · 45 min · ★ 7.0
Synopsis
Mulder and Scully track a legendary creature that has roamed the New Jersey countryside for over forty years.
Guest stars: Claire Stansfield (The Jersey Devil), Wayne Tippit (Detective Thompson), Gregory Sierra (Dr. Diamond), Michael MacRae (Ranger Peter Brullet), Jill Teed (Glenna), Tamsin Kelsey (Ellenn), Andrew Airlie (Rob), Bill Dow (Dad)
- E6 ShadowsOct 22, 1993 · 46 min · ★ 7.2
Synopsis
Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of two men believed to have been killed by a powerful psychokinetic force.
Guest stars: Barry Primus (Robert Dorlund), Lisa Waltz (Lauren Kyte), Lorena Gale (Ellen Bledsoe), Veena Sood (Ms. Saunders), Deryl Hayes (Webster), Kelli Fox (Pathologist), Tom Pickett (Cop), Tom Heaton (Groundskeeper)
- E7 Ghost in the MachineOct 29, 1993 · 46 min · ★ 6.9
Synopsis
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 (Brad Wilczek), Wayne Duvall (Agent Jerry Lamana), Blu Mankuma (Claude Peterson), Tom Butler (Drake), Gillian Barber (Jane Spiller), Marc Baur (Man in Suit), Bill Finck (Sandwich Man), Ted Thomas (Clyde)
- E8 IceNov 5, 1993 · 46 min · ★ 8.3
Synopsis
In the claustrophobic isolation of a remote outpost in Alaska, Mulder and Scully investigate the horrifying deaths of scientists.
Guest stars: Xander Berkeley (Dr. Hodge), Felicity Huffman (Dr. Nancy Da Silva), Steve Hytner (Dr. Denny Murphy), Jeff Kober (Bear), Ken Kirzinger (Richter), Sonny Surwiec (Campbell)
- E9 SpaceNov 12, 1993 · 47 min · ★ 6.4
Synopsis
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 (Col. Marcus Aurelius Belt), Susanna Thompson (Michelle Generoo), Tom McBeath (Scientist), Terry David Mulligan (Mission Controller), Tyronne L'Hirondelle (Databank Scientist), Alf Humphreys (2nd Controller), David S. Cameron (Young Scientist), French Tickner (Preacher)
- E10 Fallen AngelNov 19, 1993 · 46 min · ★ 7.7
Synopsis
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 (Chief Joseph McGrath), Marshall Bell (Colonel Calvin Henderson), Scott Bellis (Max Fenig), Alvin Sanders (Deputy Sheriff Jason Wright), Sheila Paterson (Gina Watkins), Tony Pantages (Lt. Fraser), Jane MacDougall (Laura Dalton), Brent Stait (Corporal Taylor)
- E11 EveDec 10, 1993 · 46 min · ★ 7.9
Synopsis
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 (Dr. Sally Kendrick / Eve 6), Erika Krievins (Cindy Reardon / Eve 10), Sabrina Krievins (Teena Simmons / Eve 9), George Touliatos (Dr. Katz), Janet Hodgkinson (Waitress), Tasha Simms (Ellen Reardon), Tina Gilbertson (Donna Watkins), David Kirby (Ted Watkins)
- E12 FireDec 17, 1993 · 46 min · ★ 7.1
Synopsis
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 (Phoebe Green), Dan Lett (Sir Malcolm Marsden), Duncan Fraser (Beatty), Lynda Boyd (Woman in Bar), Laurie Paton (Mrs. Marsden), Christopher Gray (Jimmie), Alan Robertson (Grey-haired Man), Keegan MacIntosh (Michael)
- E13 Beyond the SeaJan 7, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 7.8
Synopsis
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 (Luther Lee Boggs), Fred Henderson (Agent Thomas), Lisa Vultaggio (Liz Hawley), Chad Willett (Jim Summers), Don MacKay (Charlie), Randy Lee (Paramedic), Len Rose (E.R. Doctor), Don S. Davis (Captain William Scully)
- E14 Gender BenderJan 21, 1994 · 45 min · ★ 7.1
Synopsis
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 (Brother Andrew), Kate Twa (Marty (Female)), Peter Stebbings (Marty (Male)), Mitchell Kosterman (Detective Horton), Michèle Goodger (Sister Abigail), Aundrea MacDonald (Pretty Woman), John R. Taylor (Husband), Grai Carrington (Tall Man)
- E15 LazarusFeb 4, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 7.0
Synopsis
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 (Agent Jack Willis), Jason Schombing (Dupre), Cec Verrell (Lula Phillips), Callum Keith Rennie (Tommy), Peter Kelamis (O'Dell), Jay Brazeau (Prof. Varnes), Jackson Davies (Agent Bruskin), Lisa Bunting (Doctor #1)
- E16 Young at HeartFeb 11, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 7.2
Synopsis
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 (Cigarette Smoking Man), Dick Anthony Williams (Agent Reggie Purdue), Alan Boyce (Young John Barnett), David Ross Paterson (John Barnett (uncredited)), Graham Jarvis (NIH Doctor), Merrilyn Gann (Prosecuting Attorney), Robin Mossley (Dr. Joe Ridley), Courtney Arciaga (Young Child)
- E17 E.B.E.Feb 18, 1994 · 45 min · ★ 8.0
Synopsis
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 (Chief Rivers), Peter LaCroix (Ranheim / Frank Druce), Roger Cross (Officer Green (uncredited)), Ellie Harvie (Ticket Agent (uncredited)), Jerry Hardin (Deep Throat - Ronald), Bruce Harwood (John Fitzgerald Byers), Dean Haglund (Richard 'Ringo' Langly), Tom Braidwood (Melvin Frohike)
- E18 Miracle ManMar 18, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 7.1
Synopsis
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 (Sheriff Maurice Daniels), Scott Bairstow (Samuel Hartley), George Gerdes (Reverend Calvin Hartley), Dennis Lipscomb (Leonard Vance), Campbell Lane (Hohman's Father), Chilton Crane (Margaret Hohman), Lisa Ann Beley (Student), Alex Doduk (Young Samuel)
- E19 ShapesApr 1, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 7.0
Synopsis
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 (Jim Parker), Michael Horse (Sheriff Charles Tskany), Ty Miller (Lyle Parker), Dwight McFee (Commander), Jimmy Herman (Ish), Renae Morriseau (Gwen Goodensnake), Paul Anthony McLean (Dr. Josephs)
- E20 Darkness FallsApr 15, 1994 · 44 min · ★ 7.9
Synopsis
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 (Doug Spinney), Jason Beghe (Larry Moore), Barry Greene (Perkins), Ken Tremblett (Dyer), Tom O'Rourke (Steve Humphreys), David Hay (Clean Suited Man)
- E21 ToomsApr 22, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 8.1
Synopsis
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: William B. Davis (Cigarette Smoking Man), Mitch Pileggi (Walter Skinner), Doug Hutchison (Eugene Victor Tooms), Henry Beckman (Old Man), Paul Ben-Victor (Dr. Aaron Monte), Frank C. Turner (Doctor Collins), Timothy Webber (Detective Talbot), Pat Bermel (Frank Ranford)
- E22 Born AgainApr 29, 1994 · 45 min · ★ 7.0
Synopsis
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 (Det. Sharon Lazard), Brian Markinson (Tony Fiore), Andrea Libman (Michelle Bishop), Dey Young (Judy Bishop), Peter Lapres (Harry Linhart), Richard Sali (Leon Felder), Mimi Lieber (Anita Fiore), P. Lynn Johnson (Dr. Sheila Braun)
- E23 RolandMay 6, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 7.4
Synopsis
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: Željko Ivanek (Roland Fuller / Dr. Arthur Grable), Micole Mercurio (Mrs. Stodie), Kerry Sandomirsky (Tracy), Garry Davey (Dr. Keats), James Sloyan (Dr. Frank Nollette), Matthew Walker (Dr. Ronald Surnow), David Hurtubise (Barrington), Suleka Mathew (Lisa Dole)
- E24 The Erlenmeyer FlaskMay 13, 1994 · 46 min · ★ 8.6
Synopsis
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 (Cigarette Smoking Man), John Payne (Guard), Lindsey Ginter (Crew Cut Man), Simon Webb (Dr. William Secare), Ken Kramer (Dr. Terrance Allen Berube), Phillip MacKenzie (Medic), Jaylene Hamilton (Reporter), Mike Mitchell (1st Uniformed Cop)
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GenerationofSwineSep 8, 2024
I can't believe I'm the only idiot writing an X-Files review here. Anyway, I still don't understand Piper Maru, it was a good episode but not really worth the praise it gets, and let's be honest, the Monster of the Week episodes were always better than the Mytharc ones... ... mostly better. There was were some pretty darn good mythology episodes, and there were ones like Piper Maru that were OK but not great. It was probably the ultimate television drama and an infl… Read more
uence to everyone that wanted to achieve greatness on the small screen. It really showed what you could do with a one hour time slot and we were all blessed to have this done, not only because it was done so well, acted so well, and written in a way that invested the audience, but because it pathed the way for people that wanted to achieve that level of greatness. Television got better because of the X-Files, movies got better... and then politics came and it all sucks now, but for a little while, the X-Files raised the bar for everything.
