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Story highlights The hit Fox show, which aired until , could be returning Co-star David Duchovny has said "It looks good" There were two "X-Files" movies, a spinoff and a board game. TV Wise is reporting that Fox is very close to pushing the button on a new season of "The X-Files," which aired from to The original stars, Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, are said to be on board for the revival of the hit show about a pair of FBI agents who investigate the paranormal.

Well into its third season, X-Files shows no sign of flagging inspiration; its ability to find paranoia in the paranormal appears to be limitless. Week after week, Carter sends our furrowed-brow heroes, FBI agents Dana Scully Gillian Anderson and Fox Mulder David Duchovny , off on cases that have included everything from a surly slacker who can control lightning to a bitter quadruple amputee who can send out able-bodied images of himself to commit murder. These are isolated oddballs, however, compared with the other sort of story line Carter is fond of: grand governmental conspiracy, in which Scully and Mulder must confront their own superiors with evidence that the leaders of our country are involved in cover-ups, lies, and worse.

Will The X-Files strike future viewers the same way a few decades from now? Mostly it's a lighthearted lark, until a controversially tragic ending that divides the show's fans to this day. As a Millennium story, it's not terribly satisfying; as an X-Files episode it's better than average, and particularly memorable for the intimate moment Mulder and Scully share after the ball drops in Times Square.

Chad Donella brilliantly plays the tragic antihero, a black-eyed mutant who needs to eat brains to survive, though he longs to be better than his instincts. It's up to Mulder and Scully mostly Mulder, since Anderson's workload was reduced to accommodate her pregnancy to figure out what's going on. Tense and humorous in equal measure, the episode still feels second-tier overall. But the episode, which ends with the discovery of an alien corpse in an icy mountaintop, is still mostly a throat-clearing exercise that won't payoff until Season 5's two-part opener "Redux" and "Redux II.

It's a solid introduction to the series' new dynamic, though plenty of fans complained and plenty still do about the moment when Scully shuts away Mulder's desk name plate in a drawer. Anderson also nails her final scene -- a confessional monologue that powerfully breaks the fourth wall.

Davis, is credited with penning this intriguing mythology entry in which the actor's devilish character entices Scully to take a dangerous and revealing road trip. It's fun to see both these actors play off each other, and adds further complications to the series' greatest villain. But then, in this first part of a two-part mythology story, our heroine discovers that she is biologically related to a child made using the ova stolen from her during her abduction.

A nice setup episode for much tearjerking to come. Brimming with Christian symbolism Scully, not for the last time, is likened to the Virgin Mary , Anderson is superb as she attempts to keep a clinical distance from the girl, who begins to waste away from some unspecified disease.

In the course of the case, Scully begins to have visions of her dead "daughter" Emily and must come to terms with her grief. Series composer Mark Snow's theme for the Roland character is equally superb, at once childlike and ominous.

A very solid scare ep with some great visuals and a quite memorable projectile-vomit sequence. Emasculata" Season 2 This is a gross-out episode par excellence, and Mulder and Scully investigate a viral breakout at a prison, and then chase after one of the infected escaped inmates. Among the affected is Scully, who becomes convinced Mulder is out to get her. Gillian Anderson gives good unhinged in this suspenseful episode written by the series' visual effects supervisor Mat Beck.

It's an intriguing beginning to one of the series' most deliriously overstuffed arcs. Could alien life have an Earthly origin? Very much a middle episode, though still gripping in all its jam-packed craziness. An epic and intimate journey with an especially tender climactic conversation between Mulder and Scully that hints at some fervently melodramatic narrative twists to come.

With Scully's help he traces his whereabouts over the past few days, all the while having flashes of a young Cigarette Smoking Man Chris Owens arguing with his father and mother about his sister Samantha.

Mulder's true paternity was one of the biggest mysteries in the series, and this riveting episode is one of the clearest indicators of where that answer lies. Much of the trial itself tends toward lethargic exposition, but it's bookended by some of the show's finest scenes, especially the final conversation between Mulder and Scully a mirror of the pilot episode's standout motel room sequence , which puts a profoundly hopeful spin on an extremely dire situation.

This Vince Gilligan-penned installment is a superb showcase for Robert Patrick, and one of only two episodes during the series helmed by a woman in this case, future Breaking Bad house director Michelle MacLaren. It's also the first episode to hint at the cancer diagnosis -- revealed mid-season 4 -- that will turn Scully's world upside down.

It's expertly directed by series regular Kim Manners and offers some beautifully subtle insights into the Mulder-Scully dynamic. A queasily satisfying installment. While the agents investigate two bodies found desiccated in a field, they inhale some hallucinogenic spores. It's fun to watch the duo think their way out of a situation where their senses can't be trusted. It's a solid procedural made essential by a mid-episode conversation between the agents during which they wax philosophical about Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and note the similarities between their work on the X-Files and Captain Ahab's quixotic quest.

Also, Scully's pet Pomeranian Queequeg meets a sad end. FBI brass forces him to go rogue in order to investigate the latest bit of extraterrestrial derring-do. A good mythology episode that sets up Mulder's eventual exit from the unit he's devoted his life to. In flashback, we see how Scully found herself pregnant. Prepare to scream at the heavens like Scully.

The finale, in which the two agents are finally reunited, is a tear-duct-stoking tour de force. Mulder, meanwhile, escapes from the Russian gulag, returns to help Scully deal with a Congressional inquiry panel, and then does everything possible to get that rock back.

Deliriously entertaining, no more so than when "ratboy" Alex Krycek, in a beautiful bit of poetic justice, loses an arm. It's emotional, with an especially affecting teaser sequence told in still pictures and poetic voiceover. This poignant story arc conclusion sports moving scenes between Doggett and his ex-wife, played by Robert Patrick's real-life spouse Barbara, and one of Mark Snow's best musical cues -- searing, soaring, and powerful. The agents pay dearly for their investigation, which comes to a close thanks to a fiery intervention by the Cigarette Smoking Man.

Reassignment doesn't stop them from pursuing a lead about some alien goings-on in Puerto Rico. A terrific palate cleanser for the dramatic twists to come, this is the first episode to show actual scenes of the abduction of Mulder's sister Samantha.

A nice example of the potent themes that the series could explore with the two agents on separate ground. Many tears are shed and not just by the characters.

A suspenseful and propulsive installment. It features an interaction between Mulder and Scully that was eight, long years in the making. And as is so often the case with Gilligan's installments, the partners' relationship is put under a revealing microscope.

Creepy in the extreme, this installment features a superbly unhinged turn by guest star Harriet Harris as the doctor who has a mysterious connection to both youngsters. A beautiful calm-before-the-storm installment. This atmospheric installment also marks the first appearances of both the duplicitous Alex Krycek and Mulder's terse new informant X Steven Williams.

The episode's highlight is a Duck Soup -inspired bit of lunacy between Duchovny and McKean in front of a full-length vanity mirror. Most interesting about the episode is how it debunks in a relatively serious manner the importance of Area 51 to Mulder's ongoing quest. Entertaining as many Season 7 mythology episodes are, there is occasionally a sense that wheels are being spun; this installment puts everything solidly back on track. The new duo's chilly antagonism, and Mulder's cringe-inducingly graphic torture at the hands of unseen extraterrestrials, breathes new propulsive life into the series.

A new era of The X-Files intriguingly begins. Of course it needs to inhabit a human host first, and Scully is a prime candidate. Designed to make you go "Yuck! An exceedingly fun episode, with a detour into a virtual reality zone where Mulder loses some pieces of himself and Scully shows off several kick-ass kung fu moves.

Guest star Carrie Snodgress is especially affecting as the missing teenager's strong-willed mother. A boisterous episode elevated by the presence of guest stars Edward Asner and Lily Tomlin as the mischievous spectres.

A strung-out woman turns out to be their only hope for survival. A stalwart sci-fi plot that nonetheless makes for a moving standalone. Trivia buffs should note that the installment was named after Gillian Anderson's then-infant daughter. It's a stirring exploration of mortality. The sequence in which she grants Mulder's wish for "world peace" is especially incisive and hilarious.

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