The X-Files

tv show

poster for The X-Files

218 total episodes

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11 seasons

The truth is out there.

First Aired September 10, 1993

Overview

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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Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man

Season 4 - Episode 7 - 1h 45m

Air Date

November 17, 1996

Overview

The Lone Gunmen reveal the (possibly fake) secret history of the Cigarette Smoking Man to Mulder and Scully; from a young captain in the U.S. Army recruited to assassinate President Kennedy, to becoming the mysterious man in the shadows at the height of a global conspiracy.