The eighth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files commenced airing in the United States on November 5, 2000, concluded on May 20, 2001, and consisted of twenty-one episodes. Season eight takes place after Fox Mulder's alien abduction in the seventh season. The story arc for the search of Mulder continues until the second half of the season, while a new arc about Dana Scully's pregnancy is formed. This arc would continue, and end, with the next season. The season explores various themes such as life, death, and belief.
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The new opening sequence for season eight, featuring Robert Patrick, as well as images alluding to Scully's pregnancy (lower left) and Mulder's disappearance (lower right).
Robert Patrick played John Doggett on the show.
The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter. The original television series aired from September 1993 to May 2002 on Fox. During its original run, the program spanned nine seasons, with 202 episodes. A short tenth season consisting of six episodes ran from January to February 2016. 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. 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.
Chris Carter created The X-Files and wrote the series pilot, along with several other episodes.
Duchovny portrays Fox Mulder as a main character for season 1–7, 10 and 11 of the series, as well as an intermittent lead in the eighth and ninth.
Anderson portrays Dana Scully for the entire eleven seasons of the series. She was the first female writer and director of an episode in 2000.
"The End", the season five finale (1998), was the last episode to be filmed in Vancouver until the revival in 2016.
