X-Files episodes

[theMan-Bat]

What is your favorite X-Files episode? There are a lot of them to choice from...
Although I included the two theatrical films and The Lone Gunmen spin-off episodes in the list for continuity, please pick episodes from the X-Files television series.

Season One (1993-1994):

Pilot
Deep Throat
Squeeze
Conduit
The Jersey Devil
Shadows
Ghost In The Machine
Ice
Space
Fallen Angel
Eve
Fire
Beyond The Sea
GenderBender
Lazarus
Young At Heart
EBE
Miracle Man
Shapes
Darkness Falls
Tooms
Born Again
Roland
The Erlenmeyer Flask

Season Two (1994-1995):

Little Green Men
The Host
Blood
Sleepless
Duane Barry
Ascension
3
One Breath
Firewalker
Red Museum
Excelsis Dei
Aubrey
Irresistable
Die Hand Der Verletz
Fresh Bones
Colony
End Game
Fearful Symmetry
Død Kalm
Humbug
The Calusari
F Emasculata
Soft Light
Our Town
The Anasazi

Season Three (1995-1996):

The Blessing Way
Paper Clip
DPO
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
The List
2 Shy
The Walk
The Oubliette
Nisei
731
Revelations
War of the Coprophages
Syzygy
Grotesque
Piper Maru
Apocrypha
Pusher
Teso dos Bichos
Hell Money
Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'
Avatar
Quagmire
Wetwired
Talitha Cumi

Season Four (1996-1997):

Herrenvolk
Unruhe
Home
Teliko
The Field Where I Died
Sanguinarium
Musings Of A Cigarette Smoking Man
Paper Hearts
Tunguska
Terma
El Mundo Gira
Kaddish
Never Again
Leonard Betts
Memento Mori
Unrequited
Tempus Fugit
Max
Synchrony
Small Potatoes
Zero Sum
Elegy
Demons
Gethsemane

Season Five (1997-1998):

Unusual Suspects
Redux
Redux II
Detour
Christmas Carol
Post-Modern Prometheus
Emily
Kitsunegari
Schizogeny
Chinga
Kill Switch
Bad Blood
Patient X
The Red And The Black
Travellers
Mind's Eye
All Souls
The Pine Bluff Variant
Folie À Deux
The End
The X-Files movie (1998)

Season Six ('98-'99):

The Beginning
Drive
Triangle
Dreamland
Dreamland II
Terms Of Endearment
Rain King
How The Ghosts Stole Christmas
Tithonus
SR 819
Two Fathers
One Son
Arcadia
Agua Mala
Monday
Alpha
Trevor
Milagro
Three Of A Kind
The Unnatural
Field Trip
Biogenesis

Season Seven ('99-'00):

Hungry
The Goldberg Variation
The Sixth Extinction
The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
Millennium
Rush
Orison
The Amazing Maleeni
Signs & Wonders
Sein Und Zeit
Closure
X-Cops
First Person Shooter
Theef
En Ami
Chimera
all things
Hollywood AD
Brand X
Fight Club
Je Souhaite
Requiem

Season Eight ('00-'01):

Within
Without
Redrum
Patience
Roadrunners
Invocation
Via Negativa
Per Manum
Surekill
Salvage
The Gift
Badlaa
Medusa
This Is Not Happening
DeadAlive
Vienen
Empedocles
Three Words
Alone
Essence
Existence

The Lone Gunmen spin-off episodes ('01-'02):

Pilot
Bond, Jimmy Bond
Eine Kleine Frohike
Like Water for Octane
Three Men and a Smoking Diaper
Madam, I'm Adam
Planet of the Frohikes: A Short History of My Demeaning Captivity
Maximum Byers
Diagnosis: Jimmy
Tango de los Pistoleros
Lying Game
Cap'n Toby Show
All About Yves

The X-Files Season Nine ('01-'02):

Nothing Important Happened Today
Nothing Important Happened Today II
Dæmonicus
Hellbound
4-D
Lord Of The Flies
John Doe
Trust No 1
Underneath
Provenance
Providence
Scary Monsters
Audrey Pauley
Improbable
Jump The Shark (this episode wraps up The Lone Gunmen spin-off episode All About Yves)
Release
William
Sunshine Days
The Truth
The X-Files: I Want to Believe ('08)

I can't pick just one. My favorites are Monday, Quagmire, Unusual Suspects, Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, Humbug, Small Potatoes, Dreamland (parts I and II), Squeeze, Tooms, The Postmodern Prometheus, Arcadia, Sunshine Days, First Person Shooter, X-Cops, Je Souhaite, War of the Coprophages, How the Ghosts Stole Christmas, Home and Chinga.

 

[souvlaki]

Home, easily. Creepiest episode of the X-Files ever.

 

[deathshead2]

I'm watching the x-files for the first time. I'm at season 7 right now with The Unnatural being my fave.

 

[black_dust]

Squeeze! i remeber thinking WOAH!!!! when i first saw that

 

[psychocheeseman]

i think it was called "the HOst" the one with the fluke in the guys stomach - which grew into a person sized sea monster...

The first three seasons had sooo many good episodes though.

 

[Bugz]

Pilot
The Erlenmeyer Flask
Duane Barry
Paper Clip

I forget the names, but I also liked the one where some guy's shadow is dark matter and one where some kid invents a time machine.

 

[adhokk7]

Pilot
The Erlenmeyer Flask
Duane Barry
Paper Clip

I forget the names, but I also liked the one where some guy's shadow is dark matter and one where some kid invents a time machine.

The shadow one is Soft Light and the time machine episode is Synchrony (although there wasn't really a time machine, per se).

 

[theMan-Bat]

I forget the names, but I also liked the one where some guy's shadow is dark matter

That episode is Soft Light.

and one where some kid invents a time machine.

That episode is Synchrony.

Oh, I didn't realize that adhokk7 already posted the episode titles just before me.

 

[Mdizzle]

There are so many good ones. While I enjoyed the continuing story arcs, I really loved the "monster of the week" eps. Some notable ones were:

-Squeeze
-The Host
-Hungry (I think? The one where the guy at the burger joint eats ppl's brains)
-Home (good old-fashioned freak show at its best, which reminds me...)

Other solid ones:
-Humbug
-Bones
-Our Town

Many more. The one ep that always sticks out in my mind tho is Grotesque--Kurtwood Smith is just excellent as Mulder's former mentor. The idea of entering the mouth of madness is a great concept they explored. This one is just creepy, and I love it.

To sum up, everything from seasons 1-7 or so were solid overall. After Mulder's departure, I found the ep content got sketchier.

 

[GhostPoet]

They really need to bring this series back...maybe new cast.

 

[Shifty]

The Mythology DVDs were on sale for $8 so I picked up Black Oil and Colonization. It was my favourite show in the 90s it was the one couldn't miss show. Fridays or Sundays. Seasons 1-5 were amazing and the show should've ended after season 7 but like any show Fox doesn't cancel they'll mine every dollar they can get from it.

The Vancouver/Canadian feel to it was greatly missed in the last four seasons.

They really need to bring this series back...maybe new cast.

Well there is Fringe but that is dealing with [BLACKOUT]alternate universes[/BLACKOUT] not aliens.

I'm sure at some point it will get rebooted as a TV series. Probably couldn't focus on an alien conspiracy but some sort of other conspiracy involving the government and the paranormal. While aliens are always intriguing maybe something else could be done.

 

[Heisenberg]

There's a few that stick out, but I'm sure I've forgotten many.

Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose (Peter Boyle, great writing/direction)
Squeeze/Toombs (Great character, creepy scenes)
Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (Was always a fan of CSM)
The Erlenmeyer Flask (Sealed the show as a favorite)

 

[Shifty]

Today is the day of the final alien invasion.
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[ravn0s]

is this show ever going to come out on bluray?

 

[O'Haire]

is this show ever going to come out on bluray?

Rumor is we will see them next year.

http://thedigitalbits.com/columns/the-rumor-mill/is-fox-bringing-x-files-to-blu-in-2013


Really hope it's true.

 

[jonathancrane]

My favorite episodes:
-Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
-Folie A Deux
-Bad Blood
-Detour
-Die Hand, Die Verzletz
-Nisei/731
-Ansazi/Paperclip