High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Little Green Men" is the first episode of the second season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on September 16, 1994. It was written by Glen Morgan and James Wong, and directed by David Nutter. The episode is one of those which helped to explore the series` overarching mythology. "Little Green Men" earned a Nielsen household rating of 10.3, being watched by 9.8 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics.