The X-Files: TV Series Story and Production Facts

Story and premise

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.

Programme facts

• Title: The X-Files
• First aired: 1993-09-10
• Top cast: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi
• TMDB ID: 4087
• Genres: Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime
• Format: Scripted
• Original language: en
• Seasons: 11
• Episodes: 218
• Status: Ended
• IMDb ID: tt0106179

Season overview

• Season 1: 24 episodes; first listed air date 1993-09-10.
• Season 2: 25 episodes; first listed air date 1994-09-16.
• Season 3: 24 episodes; first listed air date 1995-09-22.
• Season 4: 24 episodes; first listed air date 1996-10-04.
• Season 5: 20 episodes; first listed air date 1997-11-02.
• Season 6: 22 episodes; first listed air date 1998-11-08.
• Season 7: 22 episodes; first listed air date 1999-11-07.
• Season 8: 21 episodes; first listed air date 2000-11-05.
• Season 9: 20 episodes; first listed air date 2001-11-11.
• Season 10: 6 episodes; first listed air date 2016-01-24.
• Season 11: 10 episodes; first listed air date 2018-01-03.

Source and classification

TMDB's series record classifies this programme as Scripted and lists English as its original language. This is a television-series guide, not an anime or reality-series classification. The catalogue supplies the synopsis, production fields and season records above. No current streaming availability is established by these production credits. This guide uses TMDB as a reference and is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.