Syfy's 65-Episode 'The X-Files Meets Dan Brown' Series Belonged To A Much Bigger Shared Universe

Image courtesy of MovieStillsDb Published Oct 19, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT Cathal Gunning has been writing about movies, television, culture, and politics online and in print since 2017. He worked as a Senior Editor in Adbusters Media Foundation from 2018-2019 and wrote for WhatCulture in early 2020. He has been a Senior Features Writer for ScreenRant since 2020. Sign in to your ScreenRant account While SyFy’s underrated 65-episode procedural managed to mix The X-Files and Dan Brown, the show also belonged to a secret shared fictional universe many readers may not even know about. Although Hulu’s upcoming reboot of The X-Files proves that the iconic ‘90s procedural remains relevant in the 2020s, that re-imagining is far from the only series inspired by FOX’s seminal paranormal cop show. The 2020 hit sitcom Resident Alien owed an obvious creative debt to The X-Files, taking the paranoid conspiracy plotting of the original show and turning it on its head in a lighthearted fish-out-of-water sitcom. In that SyFy series, Alan Tudyk’s protagonist was an alien, and his attempts to hide his true nature from the local citizens of his new Colorado hometown provided the humor and drama of the series. Similarly, SyFy’s 2009 hit Warehouse 13 took the basic setup of The X-Files, added in an element of Indiana Jones and Dan Brown, and used this premise to set up a lighter, sillier sci-fi procedural that still had stakes. Borrowing from the earlier hit Relic Hunter, Warehouse 13 was set in the titular dumping ground for cursed, mysterious, potentially dangerous artifacts. Obviously inspired by the warehouse glimpsed in Raiders of the Lost Ark’s ending, Warehouse 13 asked viewers what work was like for the agents assigned to this setting. As Warehouse 13 begins, its protagonists, Secret Service agents Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer, are frustrated by their reassignment to the eponymous location. Since the unassuming building can be found in a barren South Dakota desert, the pair understandably assume that they have been handed the dullest assignment of their lives, tasked with babysitting a seemingly ordinary building. However, the duo soon learn that the seemingly unremarkable items included in the warehouse have the power to destroy the known universe. Much like Apple TV’s darker and more grounded spy series Slow Horses, Warehouse 13 follows the daily lives of these characters as they take on the thankless, unexpectedly bureaucratic busy work of saving the world. Across its 65 episodes and five seasons, Warehouse 13 revealed many of the artifacts housed in the setting, and most turned out to be lethal enough for Bering and Lattimer to risk their lives to contain their threats. Interestingly enough, Warehouse 13 wasn’t the only show set in SyFy’s sci-fi series universe. There was also creator Zak Penn’s superhero series Alphas, which followed a group of secret super-powered heroes secretly policing other super-powered villains, and 2006’s Eureka, a sci-fi comedy that focused on the strange happenings in the highly secretive titular town. Eureka lasted five seasons and 77 episodes from 2006 until 2012, while Alphas lasted only two seasons between 2011 and 2012. Penn later went on to co-create The Big Bang Theory spinoff Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, while Eureka’s co-creator Jaime Paglia later became a writer on The Flash. Lasting until 2014, Warehouse 13 was the last of the three shows in SyFy’s shared universe to end. Since then, co-creator Jane Espenson has gone on to work on Apple TV’s highly critically acclaimed Isaac Asimov adaptation Foundation. Although Warehouse 13, Eureka, and Alphas all shared a fictional universe in common, their crossovers were few and far between. Warehouse 13 season 2, episode 5, “13.1,” saw a character from Eureka appear at the eponymous warehouse, while Eureka season 4, episode 5, “Crossing Over,” saw Warehouse 13’s Claudia travel to the titular town in return. Alphas featured a guest appearance from Lindsay Wagner’s Vanessa, who started out in Warehouse 13, but none of the characters from Penn’s superhero show appeared in Warehouse 13. As such, it wouldn’t be surprising if Warehouse 13 never even knew about this secret canon connection. Release Date 2009 - 2014-00-00 Network SyFy Directors Chris Fisher, Constantine Makris, Tawnia McKiernan, Stephen Surjik, Howard Deutch, Jace Alexander, Michael McMurray, Michael W. Watkins, Millicent Shelton, Vincent Misiano, Andrew Seklir, Eric Laneuville, Jay Chandrasekhar, Jennifer Lynch, Jeremiah S. Chechik, Ken Girotti, Matt Birman, Matt Earl Beesley, Matthew Hastings, Robert Duncan McNeill, Stephen Cragg, Larry Teng Writers Jack Kenny, Drew Z. Greenberg, Bob Goodman, Benjamin Raab, Deric A. Hughes, Holly Harold, Nell Scovell, Andrew Kreisberg, David Simkins, Diego Gutierrez, John-Paul Nickel, D. Brent Mote, Jane Espenson, Matthew Federman, Marque Franklin-Williams, Stephen Scaia, Tamara Becher Creator(s) Jane Espenson, D. Brent Mote