The X-Files (1993)

The X-Files (1993) - FOX

FOX

Series

1993

TV14

Drama

Science fiction

FBI special agents probe cases involving phenomena that defy conventional explanations.

Where to Stream

1993–2018 Series 11 Seasons219 Episodes

Upcoming TV Airings

The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.

Friday, March 14

Sleepless

Season 2 • Episode 4

Mulder investigates a claim that Marines were surgically deprived of sleep.

Friday, March 14

Duane Barry

Season 2 • Episode 5

Mulder deals with a hostage-taker who claims to be the victim of alien experimentation.

Saturday, March 15

Ascension

Season 2 • Episode 6

In a desperate attempt to rescue Scully, Mulder pursues the fugitive Duane Barry into the hills.

Saturday, March 15

3

Season 2 • Episode 7

Mulder is attracted to a suspect while investigating vampire-like murders.

Saturday, March 15

One Breath

Season 2 • Episode 8

Mulder tries desperately to give Scully a reason to live after she is found in a coma.

Saturday, March 15

Firewalker

Season 2 • Episode 9

Scientists studying an erupting volcano meet mysterious deaths.

Saturday, March 15

Red Museum

Season 2 • Episode 10

The detectives probe a link between a cult and disappearances of several Wisconsin children.

Sunday, March 16

Excelsius Dei

Season 2 • Episode 11

Mulder and Scully investigate reports of nursing-home occupants encountering supernatural forces.

Sunday, March 16

Aubrey

Season 2 • Episode 12

A police detective discovers the body of an agent killed more than 40 years ago.

Sunday, March 16

Irresistible

Season 2 • Episode 13

The pursuit of a serial killer who takes trophies from his victims awakens Scully's personal demons.

Sunday, March 16

Die Hand Die Verletzt

Season 2 • Episode 14

A New Hampshire teen is found murdered and displayed according to occult practices.

Sunday, March 16

Fresh Bones

Season 2 • Episode 15

Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of soldiers thought to be suicides.

Monday, March 17

Colony

Season 2 • Episode 16

Mulder and Scully track an alien who is killing doctors but leaving no bodies.

Monday, March 17

End Game

Season 2 • Episode 17

Mulder must capture the murderous alien bounty hunter who has kidnapped Scully.

Monday, March 17

Fearful Symmetry

Season 2 • Episode 18

Animals are abducted from a zoo located near a known UFO hot spot.

Monday, March 17

Dod Kalm

Season 2 • Episode 19

A Navy destroyer that was missing for two days turns up with a drastically aged crew.

Tuesday, March 18

Humbug

Season 2 • Episode 20

Mulder and Scully visit a town where retired circus and sideshow performers live.

Tuesday, March 18

The Calusari

Season 2 • Episode 21

Mulder and Scully seek the truth about a boy deemed evil by his grandmother.

Tuesday, March 18

F. Emasculata

Season 2 • Episode 22

A mysterious sickness kills a dozen men and puts a prison under quarantine.

Tuesday, March 18

Soft Light

Season 2 • Episode 23

Mulder and Scully discover a scientist at a chemical testing plant is missing.

Wednesday, March 19

Our Town

Season 2 • Episode 24

Investigating unexplained burn marks in a field unearths strange secrets of a small town.

Wednesday, March 19

Anasazi

Season 2 • Episode 25

Computer hacker's findings put Scully's and Mulder's lives and sanity in question.

Wednesday, March 19

The Blessing Way

Season 3 • Episode 1

The FBI continues its search for the computer disk believed to contain information about aliens.

Wednesday, March 19

Paperclip

Season 3 • Episode 2

A reunited Mulder and Scully continue their investigation without the FBI's help.

Thursday, March 20

D.P.O.

Season 3 • Episode 3

Mulder and Scully suspect a teenager caused a series of lightning-related deaths.

Thursday, March 20

Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

Season 3 • Episode 4

A psychic refuses to aid Mulder and Scully in their search for a serial killer.

Thursday, March 20

The List

Season 3 • Episode 5

Mulder and Scully investigate the possible return of an executed prisoner.

Thursday, March 20

2Shy

Season 3 • Episode 6

The agents follow the trail of a serial killer whose victims have several similarities.

Friday, March 21

The Walk

Season 3 • Episode 7

Mulder and Scully are called to a military hospital to investigate a supposedly suicidal patient.

Friday, March 21

Oubliette

Season 3 • Episode 8

When child is abducted, detectives seek another hostage's help.

Friday, March 21

Nisei

Season 3 • Episode 9

Mulder discovers a video of an alien autopsy.

Friday, March 21

731

Season 3 • Episode 10

When Scully is forced to trust a mystery person, the situation becomes dangerous.

Saturday, March 22

Revelations

Season 3 • Episode 11

Mulder and Scully try to protect a child who may be threatened by a religiously motivated murderer.

Saturday, March 22

Nisei

Season 3 • Episode 9

Mulder discovers a video of an alien autopsy.

Saturday, March 22

731

Season 3 • Episode 10

When Scully is forced to trust a mystery person, the situation becomes dangerous.

Saturday, March 22

Talitha Cumi

Season 3 • Episode 24

The agents uncover a dangerous secret from Mulder's past.

Saturday, March 22

Herrenvolk

Season 4 • Episode 1

Mulder and Scully's manhunt may lead them to the truth about alien existence.

Saturday, March 22

Memento Mori

Season 4 • Episode 14

Mulder and Scully probe the circumstances surrounding Scully's previous abduction.

Saturday, March 22

Tempus Fugit

Season 4 • Episode 17

Mulder and Scully investigate a plane crash involving a well-known alien abductee.

Saturday, March 22

Max

Season 4 • Episode 18

The agents continue to search for the real cause of the plane crash.

Saturday, March 22

Gethsemane

Season 4 • Episode 24

Mulder discovers proof of extraterrestrial life; Scully faces her own mortality.

Saturday, March 22

Redux

Season 5 • Episode 1

Skinner is suspected of being responsible for Scully's illness.

Sunday, March 23

Redux II

Season 5 • Episode 2

The future of the X-Files is endangered as Scully lingers near death.

Sunday, March 23

War of the Coprophages

Season 3 • Episode 12

Mulder comes to regard the cockroaches found at a murder scene as suspects.

Sunday, March 23

Syzygy

Season 3 • Episode 13

Mulder and Scully investigate a series of bizarre deaths plaguing a small town.

Monday, March 24

Grotesque

Season 3 • Episode 14

A former mentor helps Mulder and Scully investigate a possessed serial killer.

Monday, March 24

Piper Maru

Season 3 • Episode 15

A diving crew is stricken with illness while attempting to recover WWII wreckage.

Monday, March 24

Apocrypha

Season 3 • Episode 16

Mulder and Scully continue to investigate the origins of a bizarre disease.

Monday, March 24

Pusher

Season 3 • Episode 17

A suspect who seems able to bend people to his will manipulates Mulder into a dangerous endgame.

Tuesday, March 25

Teso Dos Bichos

Season 3 • Episode 18

The agents investigate deaths that seem to be linked to political terrorism.

Tuesday, March 25

Hell Money

Season 3 • Episode 19

A string of deaths brings Mulder and Scully to San Francisco's Chinatown.

Tuesday, March 25

Jose Chung's From Outer Space

Season 3 • Episode 20

Mulder and Scully investigate a couple who claim to have been abducted by aliens.

Tuesday, March 25

Avatar

Season 3 • Episode 21

Mulder and Scully unravel a conspiracy when they try to clear Skinner of murder charges.

Wednesday, March 26

Quagmire

Season 3 • Episode 22

Mulder and Scully investigate deaths centered around a lake in a small town.

Wednesday, March 26

Wetwired

Season 3 • Episode 23

A conspiracy behind a series of small-town murders tests Scully's trust in Mulder.

Wednesday, March 26

Talitha Cumi

Season 3 • Episode 24

The agents uncover a dangerous secret from Mulder's past.

Wednesday, March 26

Herrenvolk

Season 4 • Episode 1

Mulder and Scully's manhunt may lead them to the truth about alien existence.

Thursday, March 27

Teliko

Season 4 • Episode 3

The mysterious deaths of several black men leads Scully to suspect an unusual medical disorder.

Thursday, March 27

Unruhe

Season 4 • Episode 4

A terrifying photograph is Mulder and Scully's only clue to the bizarre abduction of a young woman.

Thursday, March 27

The Field Where I Died

Season 4 • Episode 5

Agents Mulder and Scully investigate evil deeds at a cult compound.

Thursday, March 27

Sanguinarium

Season 4 • Episode 6

Bizarre deaths in a hospital's plastic surgery unit make the agents suspect a supernatural force.

Friday, March 28

Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man

Season 4 • Episode 7

The agents uncover what may be the true identity of the cigarette-smoking man (William B. Davis).

Friday, March 28

Tunguska

Season 4 • Episode 8

Mulder and Scully become involved with a smuggler carrying deadly cargo.

Friday, March 28

Terma

Season 4 • Episode 9

Mulder and Scully investigate a deadly smuggler's conspiracy.

Friday, March 28

Paper Hearts

Season 4 • Episode 10

An old case haunts Mulder when a serial killer he put away exerts a strange influence over him.

Saturday, March 29

El Mundo Gira

Season 4 • Episode 11

Agents Mulder and Scully seek out a mythical beast after a deadly rain in a migrant workers' camp.

Saturday, March 29

Leonard Betts

Season 4 • Episode 12

Mulder and Scully investigate a man's death when the corpse vanishes.

Saturday, March 29

Never Again

Season 4 • Episode 13

Scully finds her life in danger when she pursues a lead alone, involving a man with a deadly tattoo.

Saturday, March 29

Memento Mori

Season 4 • Episode 14

Mulder and Scully probe the circumstances surrounding Scully's previous abduction.

Saturday, March 29

Kaddish

Season 4 • Episode 15

The agents investigate apparent vengeance killings following a murder in the Jewish community.

Sunday, March 30

Unrequited

Season 4 • Episode 16

Mulder and Scully race to catch the assassin of a high-ranking military official.

Sunday, March 30

Tempus Fugit

Season 4 • Episode 17

Mulder and Scully investigate a plane crash involving a well-known alien abductee.

Sunday, March 30

Max

Season 4 • Episode 18

The agents continue to search for the real cause of the plane crash.

Sunday, March 30

Synchrony

Season 4 • Episode 19

A suspect claims innocence because a seer had foretold the murder.

Sunday, March 30

Small Potatoes

Season 4 • Episode 20

Mulder and Scully visit a small town where bizarre pregnancies have occurred.

Monday, March 31

Zero Sum

Season 4 • Episode 21

Mulder investigates a bizarre death in which the main suspect appears to be his superior, Skinner.

Monday, March 31

Elegy

Season 4 • Episode 22

In a murder case where each victim had a warning from the dead, clues point to a mental institution.

Monday, March 31

Demons

Season 4 • Episode 23

Scully worries when Mulder suffers a memory loss and is the only suspect in a double homicide.

Monday, March 31

Gethsemane

Season 4 • Episode 24

Mulder discovers proof of extraterrestrial life; Scully faces her own mortality.

Tuesday, April 1

Redux

Season 5 • Episode 1

Skinner is suspected of being responsible for Scully's illness.

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