Gallery: 10 Top X-Files Episodes

Deep Throat: "Calling it a night, Mr Mulder?"
Mulder: "My mother usually likes me home before the street lights come on."

Nearing the end of its first season, The X-Files had garnered a fair amount of attention already with its 'freak of the week' stories and some minor nods toward shady goverment dealings and the occasional alien appearance.

But it wasn't until the season's end, an epsiode in which Mulder and Scully both come so tantalisingly close to evidence of extra terrestrial life, that the show began to develop the "mytharc" that underpinned each and every episode.

Highlight: The moment Scully picks up the flask, only to be distracted by the inevitable shooting of Deep Throat. Never again will she get so close to the evidence she and Mulder so desperately seek.