High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Nothing Important Happened Today" is the collective name for the 182nd and 183rd episodes of the science fiction television series The X-Files. Part 1 first aired on November 11 and Part 2 aired on November 18, 2001 on Fox in the United States and Canada. Both episodes subsequently aired in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The story was written by executive producers Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, and directed by Kim Manners (Part 1) and Tony Wharmby (Part 2). The episodes` story continues on from the previous episode, "Existence".