As of July 2026, The X-Files Season 1 aired in 1993 with 24 episodes — streaming now on Disney Plus. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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The X-Files Season 1

1993 24 Episodes Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy ⭐ 8/10

If you want science fiction that respects its own premise, The X-Files Season 1 is available on and right now. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. An 8/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. David Duchovny anchors it with a performance that grounds the bigger ideas in something human. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

The X-Files Season 1 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. The X-Files Season 1 uses its genre premise as cover for asking bigger questions. 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. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1993. What separates The X-Files Season 1 from lesser genre entertainment is a willingness to let the concept cost the characters something. The consistency throughout is what elevates it — not every moment is the best, but none of them are a reason to stop watching.

For late-night viewing or a proper weekend binge, The X-Files Season 1 fits the bill. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. David Duchovny grounds the bigger ideas in something human. Once you are in, you will want to talk about it.

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🎬 The X-Files Season 1 — Episode Guide

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Jersey Devil

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

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

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.

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

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

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 retu...

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 i...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

🎭 Cast of The X-Files Season 1

David Duchovny

Gillian Anderson

Gillian Anderson

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