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Question: What is the total number of Season(s), when Original Airdate is january 24, 1999, and when Year is less than 1999?
Columns: ['Year', 'Show', 'Season', 'Episode', 'Episode number', 'Original airdate']
Types: ['real', 'text', 'real', 'text', 'real', 'text']
Sample row: [1995.0, 'The X-Files', 2.0, '" Soft Light "', 23.0, 'May 5, 1995']
SQL:

assistant: SELECT COUNT("Season") FROM "Table" WHERE "Original airdate" = 'january 24, 1999' AND "Year" < 1999.0;