The X-Files TV series premiered on Fox, introducing audiences to FBI agents Mulder and Scully investigating paranormal phenomena.
The first feature film based on The X-Files series, titled The X-Files: Fight the Future, was released in theaters.
The original run of The X-Files ended with the airing of its ninth season finale.
The second feature film in The X-Files franchise, titled The X-Files: I Want to Believe, was released.
Fox announced the revival of The X-Files series with new episodes to be produced.
The revived tenth season of The X-Files premiered on Fox.
The eleventh season of The X-Files premiered, continuing the revived series storyline.
Alien colonists secretly begin infiltrating Earth, a key event in the show's overarching mythology revealing the presence of extraterrestrial beings.
Fox Mulder joins the FBI and becomes fascinated with paranormal activities, eventually being assigned to the X-Files division.
Dana Scully is assigned to work with Fox Mulder to provide scientific analysis of X-Files cases and to keep Mulder grounded.
The Cigarette Smoking Man solidifies his influence within the government conspiracy surrounding the extraterrestrial colonization plan.
Mulder and Scully discover the existence of the Black Oil, an alien virus capable of taking over human hosts.
Dana Scully is abducted by unknown forces and subjected to mysterious medical experiments believed to be related to alien-human hybridization.
Despite numerous challenges, Mulder and Scully deepen their professional partnership and personal trust while investigating paranormal cases.
Mulder encounters an alien bounty hunter sent to silence those involved in exposing the alien conspiracy.
The FBI uncovers a government project attempting to create alien-human hybrids as part of the colonization plan.
Mulder and Scully help destroy laboratories producing the Black Oil virus to prevent further alien infection spread.
Scully is diagnosed with cancer believed to be caused by her alien abduction and subsequent medical procedures.
Evidence surfaces that alien colonists plan to begin open invasion and colonization of Earth soon.
Mulder is abducted by aliens but later returns with new knowledge critical to stopping the colonization plan.
Mulder and Scully confront the conspiracy head-on, attempting to thwart the impending alien colonization of Earth.