Although Fringe wasn’t the biggest hit in sci-fi history when the series began 17 years ago, the show did manage to revolutionize the genre in the years that followed. There have been plenty of high-concept sci-fi shows over the years, but few of them managed to match the success of The X-Files . Debuting in 1993, the original series ran until 2002.

The original show spawned two movie spinoffs and a reboot in 2016, but perhaps its biggest legacy was the legion of X-Files imitators that followed its success. Supernatural , Evil , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and Grimm would never have been green lit without the success of The X-Files , since the series proved that horror procedurals could be major network TV hits.

While all these shows benefited from the boom of intere

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