The X-Files: Season 1
20th Century Fox (1994)
Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
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IMDB   9.0
1104 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
David Duchovny Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson Dana Scully
William B. Davis Cigarette Smoking Man
Annabeth Gish Monica Reyes
Mitch Pileggi Walter Skinner
Jerry Hardin Deep Throat
Charles Cioffi Section Chief Scott Blevins
Cliff DeYoung Dr. Jay Nemman
Sarah Koskoff Theresa Nemman
Leon Russom Det. Miles
Zachary Ansley Billy Miles
Stephen E. Miller Coroner Truitt
Malcolm Stewart Dr. Glass
Alexandra Berlin Orderly
Director
Rob Bowman
Chris Carter
Producer Rob Bowman
Chris Carter
Writer Chris Carter
Frank Spotnitz
Cinematography John Bartley
Musician Mark Snow


This long running FOX drama lasted nine seasons and focused on the exploits of FBI Agents Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, John Doggett and Monica Reyes and their investigations into the paranormal. From genetic mutants and killer insects to a global conspiracy concerning the colonization of Earth by an alien species, this mind-boggling, humorous and occasionally frightening series created by Chris Carter has been one of the world's most popular sci-fi/drama shows since its humble beginnings in 1993.
Episodes
 60 mins    9/10/1993  1.  Pilot
Special Agent Dana Scully is partnered with Special Agent Fox Mulder to validate his work on a special project called the X-Files. While he is a believer in the paranormal fueled by a lost memory of his sister's abduction, she is a scientist and prefers to look for rational, logical explanations. Their first case takes them to Oregon to investigate the unsolved murders of several High School classmates who "Spooky" Mulder believes have been experimented on by aliens.
Director:  Robert Mandel  Writer:  Chris Carter 
Guest starring:  Stephen E. Miller, Malcolm Stewart, Alexandra Berlin, Katya Gardener, Cliff DeYoung, Sarah Koskoff, Leon Russom, Ken Camroux, Doug Abrahams, Ric Reid, Lesley Ewen, J. B. Bivens, Jim Jansen
 60 mins    9/17/1993  2.  Deep Throat
Mulder and Scully head to Ellens Air Force Base to 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 dubbed "Deep Throat" who claims to have classified information about his investigations into the paranormal.
Director:  Daniel Sackheim  Writer:  Chris Carter 
Guest starring:  Michael Bryan French,  Seth Green, Gabrielle Rose, Andrew Johnston, Lalainia Lindejerg, Vince Metcalfe, Doc Harris, Jon Cuthbert, Brian Furlong, Michael Puttonen, Sheila Moore, Monica Parker
 60 mins    9/24/1993  3.  Squeeze
One of Scully's friends from the FBI academy, now working in the Violent Crimes Unit, asks her to assist him on a homicide investigation involving no clear point of entry. Mulder realizes that this is similar to a series of X-Files cases that have occurred every thirty years and joins in the investigation to stop the latest cycle.
Director:  Harry Longstreet  Writer:  James Wong  / Glen Morgan 
Guest starring:  Donal Logue, Henry Beckman, Doug Hutchison, Kevin McNulty, Terence Kelly, Colleen Winton, James Bell, Gary Hetherington, Rob Morton, Paul Joyce
 60 mins    10/1/1993  4.  Conduit
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.
Director:  Daniel Sackheim  Writer:  Howard Gordon  / Alex Gansa 
Guest starring:  Carrie Snodgress, Michael Cavanaugh, Don Gibb, Joel Palmer, Taunya Dee, Shelly Owens, Don Thompson, Akiko Morison, Anthony Harrison, Glen Roald, Mauricio Mercado
 60 mins    10/8/1993  5.  The Jersey Devil
The murder of a homeless man that is very similar in detail to a murder committed in 1947 leads Mulder and Scully to a legendary man-beast roaming in the forest near Atlantic City.
Director:  Joe Napolitano  Writer:  Chris Carter 
Guest starring:  Claire Stansfield, Wayne Tippet, Gregory Sierra, Michael McRae, Jill Teed, Tamsin Kelsey, Andrew Airlie, Bill Dow, Jayme Knox, Hrothgar Mathews, Scott Swanson, Sean O'Byrne, D. Neil Mark, Jessica Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch
 60 mins    10/22/1993  6.  Shadows
When an unseen force commits several murders where a young woman is present, Mulder suspects that it is the spirit of the woman's former boss protecting her, while Scully believes the boss merely faked his own death.
Director:  Michael Katleman  Writer:  James Wong  / Glen Morgan 
Guest starring:  Barry Primus, Lisa Waltz, Lorena Gale, Veena Sood, Deryl Hayes, Kelli Fox, Tom Pickett, Tom Heaton, Janie Woods-Morris, Nora McLellan, Anna Ferguson
 60 mins    10/29/1993  7.  Ghost in the Machine
A computer with highly advanced Artificial Intelligence begins to kill in order to preserve its existence when it is deemed inefficient to continue controlling the workings of an office building.
Director:  Jerrold Freedman  Writer:  Howard Gordon  / Alex Gansa 
Guest starring:  Wayne Duvall, Rob LaBelle, Blu Mankuma, Gillian Barber, Marc Baur, Bill Finck, Theodore Thomas, Tom Butler
 60 mins    11/5/1993  8.  Ice
When members of an Arctic research team mysteriously kill each other and themselves only days after drilling deeper into the ice than ever before, Mulder and Scully accompany a team of doctors and scientists to investigate. They discover an organism that infects living creatures and accelerates the hosts' feelings of anger and paranoia, and the agents' colleagues on the expedition begin to question their government knowledge.
Director:  David Nutter  Writer:  James Wong  / Glen Morgan 
Guest starring:  Xander Berkeley, Felicity Huffman, Steve Hytner, Jeff Kober, Sonny Surwiec, Ken Kirzinger
 60 mins    11/12/1993  9.  Space
A mysterious force is sabotaging a space launch program, which leads directly back to the commander of the team who once led a mission to Mars and claimed to have seen an alien in space.
Director:  William Graham  Writer:  Chris Carter 
Guest starring:  Ed Lauter, Susanna Thompson, Tom McBeath, Terry David Mulligan, Tyronne L'Hirondelle, Norma Wick, Alfred E. Humphreys, David Cameron, French Tickner, Paul Desroches
 60 mins    11/19/1993  10.  Fallen Angel
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.
Director:  Larry Shaw  Writer:  Howard Gordon  / Alex Gansa 
Guest starring:  Frederick Coffin, Marshall Bell, Scott Bellis, Alvin Sanders, Sheila Paterson, Tony Pantages, Jane McDougall, Brent Stait, Freda Perry, Michael Rogers, William MacDonald, Kimberly Unger
 60 mins    12/10/1993  11.  Eve
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.
Director:  Fred Gerber  Writer:  Kenneth Biller  / Chris Brancato 
Guest starring:  Harriet Sansom Harris, Erika Krievins, Sabrina Krievins, George Touliatos, Janet Hodgkinson, Tasha Simms, Tina Gilbertson, Christine Upright-Letain, Gordon Tipple, Garry Davey, Joe Maffei, Maria Herrera, Robert Lewis, David Kirby
 60 mins    12/17/1993  12.  Fire
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.
Director:  Larry Shaw  Writer:  Chris Carter 
Guest starring:  Amanda Pays, Mark Sheppard, Dan Lett, Duncan Fraser, Lynda Boyd, Phil Hayes, Christopher Gray, Keegan MacIntosh, Alan Robertson, Laurie Paton
 60 mins    1/7/1994  13.  Beyond the Sea
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.
Director:  David Nutter  Writer:  James Wong  / Glen Morgan 
Guest starring:  Brad Dourif, Don S. Davis, Fred Henderson, Lisa Vultaggio, Chad Willett, Lawrence King, Don MacKay, Katherynn Chisholm, Randy Lee, Len Rose
 60 mins    1/21/1994  14.  Genderbender
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.
Director:  Rob Bowman  Writer:  Larry Barber  / Paul Barber 
Guest starring:  Brent Hinkley, David Thomson, Kate Twa, Peter Stebbings, Mitchell Kosterman, Michele Goodger, Aundrea MacDonald, John R. Taylor, Grai Carrington, Tony Morelli, Lesley Ewen, Nicholas Lea, Paul Batten, Doug Abrahams
 60 mins    2/4/1994  15.  Lazarus
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.
Director:  David Nutter  Writer:  Howard Gordon  / Alex Gansa 
Guest starring:  Christopher Allport, Cec Verrell, Jason Schombing, Callum Keith Rennie, Peter Kelamis, Jay Brazeau, Lisa Bunting, Mark Saunders, Russel Hamilton, Brenda Crichlow, Jackson Davies
 60 mins    2/11/1994  16.  Young at Heart
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.
Director:  Michael Lange  Writer:  Chris Carter  / Scott Kaufer 
Guest starring:  Dick Anthony Williams, Alan Boyce, Christine Estabrook, Graham Jarvis, Robin Mossley, David Peterson, Merrilyn Gann, Gordon Tipple, Courtney Arciaga
 60 mins    2/18/1994  17.  E.B.E.
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.
Director:  William Graham  Writer:  James Wong  / Glen Morgan 
Guest starring:  Allan Lysell, Peter LaCroix
 60 mins    3/18/1994  18.  Miracle Man
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.
Director:  Michael Lange  Writer:  Chris Carter  / Howard Gordon 
Guest starring:  R.D. Call, Scott Bairstow, Chilton Crane, Campbell Lane, Howard Storey, Lisa Ann Beley, Alex Doduk, Walter Marsh, Iris Quinn Bernard, Roger Haskett, George Gerdes, Dennis Lipscomb
 60 mins    4/1/1994  19.  Shapes
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.
Director:  David Nutter  Writer:  Marilyn Osborne 
Guest starring:  Ty Miller, Michael Horse, Donnelly Rhodes, Jimmy Herman, Renae Morriseau, Dwight McFee, Paul McLean
 60 mins    4/15/1994  20.  Darkness Falls
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.
Director:  Joe Napolitano  Writer:  Chris Carter 
Guest starring:  Jason Beghe, Tom O'Rourke, Barry Greene, David Hay, Ken Tremblett, Titus Welliver
 60 mins    4/22/1994  21.  Tooms
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.
Director:  David Nutter  Writer:  James Wong  / Glen Morgan 
Guest starring:  Doug Hutchison, Paul Ben-Victor, Timothy Webber, Frank C. Turner, Gillian Carfra, Pat Bermel, Jan D'Arcy, Jerry Wasserman, Mikal Dughi, Glynis Davies, Steve Adams, Andre Daniels, Catherine Lough, Henry Beckman
 60 mins    4/29/1994  22.  Born Again
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.
Director:  Jerrold Freedman  Writer:  Howard Gordon  / Alex Gansa 
Guest starring:  Brian Markinson, Mimi Lieber, Maggie Wheeler, Dey Young, Andrea Libman, P. Lynn Johnson, Leslie Carlson, Richard Sali, Dwight Koss, Peter Lapres
 60 mins    5/6/1994  23.  Roland
Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a scientist working on advanced propulsion technology. The mentally challenged janitor Roland, who has secretly been completely the scientist's work, is the prime suspect.
Director:  David Nutter  Writer:  Chris Ruppenthal 
Guest starring:  Zeljko Ivanek, Garry Davey, James Sloyan, Micole Mercurio, Kerry Sandomirsky, Matthew Walker, David Hurtubise, Sue Mathew
 60 mins    5/13/1994  24.  The Erlenmeyer Flask
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.
Director:  R.W. Goodwin  Writer:  Chris Carter 
Guest starring:  Lindsey Ginter, Anne DeSalvo, Simon Webb, Jim Leard, Ken Kramer, Phillip MacKenzie, Jaylene Hamilton, Mike Mitchell, John Payne
Edition Details
Edition Season 1
Series Television
Distributor 20th Century Fox
Release Date 5/9/2000
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles English; English (Closed Captioned); Spanish
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Dolby Digital Stereo [French]
Dolby Digital Surround [English]
Dolby Digital Surround [French]
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 7

Features
Disc 01 "The Making of..." Documentary Bonus Feature Deleted Scenes Director's Commentary Interactive Menus Scene Selection TV Spots