Season 1 Episodes

1x79 Pilot 9/10/93
FBI Agent Dana Scully is paired with maverick agent Fox Mulder, who has made it his life’s work to explore unexplained phenomena. The two are dispatched to investigate the mysterious deaths of a number of high school classmates in Oregon.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by Robert Mandel

1x01 Deep Throat 9/17/93
Acting on a tip from an inside source called Deep Throat, Mulder and Scully travel to Idaho to investigate unusual disappearances of army test pilots.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by Daniel Sackheim

1x02 Squeeze 9/24/93
Mulder and Scully try to stop a mutant killer, Eugene Tooms, who can gain access through even the smallest spaces and awakens from hibernation every 30 years to commit murder.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by Harry Longstreet

1x03 Conduit 10/1/93
A teenage girl is abducted by aliens, compelling Mulder to confront his feelings about his own sister’s disappearance.
Written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon
Directed by Daniel Sackheim

1x04 Jersey Devil 10/8/93
Scully and Mulder investigate murders thought to be the work of the legendary man-beast living in the New Jersey woods.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by Joe Napolitano

1x05 Shadows 10/22/93
Mulder and Scully investigate unusual murders committed by an unseen force protecting a young woman.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by Michael Katleman

1x06 Ghost in the Machine 10/29/93
A computer with artificial intelligence begins killing in order to preserve its existence.
Written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon
Directed by Jerrold Freeman

1x07 Ice 11/5/93
Mulder and Scully and a small party in the Arctic are trapped after the unexplained deaths of a research team on assignment there.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by David Nutter

1x08 Space 11/12/93
A mysterious force is sabotaging the United States space shuttle program and Scully and Mulder must stop it before the next launch.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by William Graham

1x09 Fallen Angel 11/19/93
Scully and Mulder investigate a possible UFO crash site, which Mulder believes the government is covering up.
Written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon
Directed by Larry Shaw

1x10 Eve 12/10/93
Two bizarre, identical murders occur simultaneously on different coasts, each involving a strange young girl.
Written by Kenneth Biller and Chris Brancato
Directed by Fred Gerber

1x11 Fire 12/17/93
Mulder and Scully work with Mulder’s old flame to stop an assassin who can start fires with the touch of his hand.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by Larry Shaw

1x12 Beyond the Sea 1/7/94
Scully and Mulder seek the aid of a death row inmate, Luther Lee Boggs, who claims to have psychic abilities, to help them stop a killer who is on the loose.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by David Nutter

1x13 Genderbender 1/21/94
Scully and Mulder seek answers to a bizarre series of murders committed by one person who kills as both a male and a female.
Written by Larry Barber and Paul Barber
Directed by Rob Bowman

1x14 Lazarus 2/4/94
When an FBI agent and a bank robber are both shot during a bank heist, the robber is killed but the agent begins to take on the criminal’s persona.
Written Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon
Directed by David Nutter

1x15 Young at Heart 2/11/94
Mulder finds that a criminal he put away who was supposed to have died in prison has returned, taunting him as he commits a new spree of crimes.
Written by Chris Carter and Scott Kaufer
Directed by Michael Lange

1x16 E.B.E. 2/18/94
Scully and Mulder discover evidence of a government cover-up when they learn that a UFO shot down in Iraq has been secretly transported to the United States.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by William Graham

1x17 Miracle Man 3/18/94
The agents investigate a young faith healer who seems to use his powers for both good and evil.
Written by Chris Carter and Howard Gordon
Directed by Michael Lange

1x18 Shapes 4/1/94
Mulder and Scully travel to an Indian reservation to examine deaths caused by a beast-like creature.
Written by Marilyn Osborn
Directed by David Nutter

1x19 Darkness Falls 4/15/94
Mulder and Scully are called in when loggers in a remote Pacific Northwest forest mysteriously disappear.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by Joe Napolitano

1x20 Tooms 4/22/94
Mulder becomes personally involved when Eugene Tooms, the serial killer who extracts and eats human livers, is released from prison.
Written by Glen Morgan and James Wong
Directed by David Nutter

1x21 Born Again 4/29/94
A series of murders is linked to a little girl who may be the reincarnated spirit of a murdered policeman.
Written by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon
Directed by Jerrold Freedman

1x22 Roland 5/6/94
Mulder and Scully investigate the murders of two rocket scientists apparently linked to a retarded janitor.
Written by Chris Ruppenthal
Directed by David Nutter

1x23 The Erlenmeyer Flask 5/13/94
Working on a tip from Deep Throat, Mulder and Scully discover that the government has been testing alien DNA on humans with disastrous results.
Written by Chris Carter
Directed by R.W. Goodwin

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