The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter.
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27 Facts About The X-Files
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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.
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The first five seasons of The X-Files were filmed and produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, before production eventually moved to Los Angeles to accommodate Duchovny.
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The series later returned to Vancouver to film The X-Files: I Want to Believe as well as the tenth and eleventh seasons of the series.
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The X-Files was a hit for the Fox network and received largely positive reviews, although its long-term story arc was criticized near the conclusion.
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The X-Files follows the careers and personal lives of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully .
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The X-Files is adamant about the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life and its presence on Earth.
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The X-Files's is partnered with Mulder initially so that she can debunk Mulder's nonconforming theories, often supplying logical, scientific explanations for the cases' apparently unexplainable phenomena.
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The initial run of The X-Files ends when Mulder is secretly subjected to a military tribunal for breaking into a top secret military facility and viewing plans for alien invasion and colonization of Earth.
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The X-Files is found guilty and sentenced to death but escapes punishment with the help of the other agents, and he and Scully become fugitives.
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The X-Files asked Duchovny if he could "please" imagine himself as an FBI agent in "future" episodes.
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Glen Morgan and James Wong's early influence on The X-Files mythology led to their introduction of popular secondary characters who continued for years in episodes written by others: Scully's father, William ; her mother, Margaret ; and her sister, Melissa .
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The X-Files felt that after several revisions, something still was not right.
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The X-Files later explained that the main problem was to create a story that would not require the viewer to be familiar with the broadcast series.
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The X-Files planned to write the script over the summer and begin production in spring or summer 2003 for a 2004 release.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe became the second film based on the series, after 1998's The X-Files: Fight the Future.
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The last episode was broadcast in June 2001 and ended on a cliffhanger which was partially resolved in a ninth-season episode of The X-Files titled "Jump the Shark", included in the DVD release of the series.
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The X-Files was converted into a comic book series published by Topps Comics during the show's third and fourth seasons.
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The X-Files received positive reviews from television critics, with many calling it one of the best series that aired on American television in the 1990s.
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The X-Files praised the new additions to the series' mythology and concluded that "many stand-alone episodes now look like classics".
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Club listed the ninth season and the 2008 film The X-Files: I Want to Believe as the "bad apple" of The X-Files franchise, describing the ninth season as "clumsy mish-mash of stuff that had once worked and new serialized storylines about so-called 'super soldiers'".
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The X-Files received prestigious awards over its nine-year run, totaling 62 Emmy nominations and 16 awards.
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In 1997, The X-Files won three awards out of twelve, including Gillian Anderson for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
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The X-Files was nominated for nine Satellite Awards, managing to win two of them; and two Young Artist Awards, winning one.
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The X-Files incorporated new technologies into storylines beginning in the early seasons: Mulder and Scully communicated on cellular phones, e-mail contact with secret informants provided plot points in episodes such as "Colony" and "Anasazi", while The Lone Gunmen were portrayed as Internet aficionados as early as 1994.
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The X-Files "caught on with viewers who wouldn't ordinarily consider themselves sci-fi fans".
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In 1998, The X-Files Game was released for the PC and Macintosh and a year later for the PlayStation.
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