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The X-Files was inspired by earlier television series which featured elements of suspense and speculative fiction, including The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales from the Darkside, Twin Peaks, and especially Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

Roughly one third of the series' episodes follow a complex story arc about a planned alien invasion, whereas the other two-thirds are " monster of the week" episodes that each focus on a one-off villain, mutant, or monster. Mulder and Scully's shared adventures lead them to develop a close platonic bond, which by series' end develops into a romantic relationship.

The agents also discover an agenda of the government to keep secret the existence of extraterrestrial life. Early in the series, both agents become pawns in a larger conflict and come to trust only each other and a few select people. Mulder is a skilled criminal profiler, an ardent supernaturalist, and a conspiracy theorist who believes in the existence of the paranormal, whereas Scully is a medical doctor and a skeptic who has been assigned to scientifically analyze Mulder's discoveries. The series revolves around Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny) and Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson), who investigate the eponymous " X-Files": marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. In addition to the television series, two feature films have been released: The 1998 film The X-Files and the stand-alone film The X-Files: I Want to Believe, released in 2008, six years after the original television run had ended. Following the ratings success of this revival, The X-Files returned for an eleventh season of ten episodes, which ran from January to March 2018. A short tenth season consisting of six episodes ran from January to February 2016. During its original run, the program spanned nine seasons, with 202 episodes. The original television series aired from September 1993 to May 2002 on Fox. The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter.
