X-Files: Favorite Episodes
One of my current obsessions is watching syndicated episodes of the X-Files. (Gotta love the SciFi channel and TiVo.) I have recently been lucky enough to catch a few old favorites. Man, this takes me back to the 90's... ahhhhh the good ol' days. I remember turning off all the lights after putting kids to bed while baby-sitting, and scaring myself silly watching the wonderful brand new X-Files back in the series' hayday.
Some favorites follow. Please comment to share your own - I'm sure I've missed some!
Season 1, Episode 6: Ghost in the Machine
29 October 1993
The chairman of Eurisko, a computer corporation, is found electrocuted in an executive bathroom. An old partner of Mulder's asks him to help, and they soon track down the computer genius responsible for the main operating system. They must shut it down, but it has other plans...
Season 1, Episode 19: Darkness Falls
15 April 1994
The little green bug episode!!!
30 loggers in Olympic National Forest of Washington State disappear within a week of their arrival. Due to the disappearance of another logging group in the 1930's, Mulder takes the case and invites Scully along to investigate. What they find certainly shines some light on the subject, in a particularly creepy way.
Season 2, Episode 2: The Host
23 September 1994
A body is found in the sewers of New Jersey, and Agent Mulder is strangely assigned to the case. Soon, the killer seems more like an X-File-worthy creature than a homicidal man. Could his placement in this case be coincidence, or does somebody want the X-Files to continue?
When a package with infected contents releases the virus on its inmate recipient, a dozen prisoners contract it and Mulder and Scully are mysteriously called in to help. What they find demands that the truth be told to the public, but that's the one thing they cannot do.
Season 2, Episode 23: Soft Light
5 May 1995
An especially cool one... with Tony Shaloub playing the main character!
Three deaths have occurred around Richmond, Virginia. The only traces which each of the victims seem to have left behind are black scorch marks of unknown origin. Mulder and Scully are called in by an old student of hers, and the search for the truth begins in its shadows.
Season 2, Episode 24: Our Town
12 May 1995
Perhaps the most memorable and well-known X-Files episode of all time - the Chaco Chicken episode!!
Reports of foxfire on a field in Dudley, Arkansas lead Mulder and Scully to a bizarre situation regarding the townsfolk. Employees of the Chaco Chicken Corporation are displaying bizarre behavior, and the death rate is slowly increasing.
Season 3, Episode 8: Oubliette
17 November 1995
At the same time that a 15-year-old girl was kidnapped from her home, a previous kidnap victim, now a waitress, collapsed also. Mulder tries to prove that both victims are linked, though neither local law nor Scully will believe him, as the waitress herself is a suspect.
Season 3, Episode 12: War of the Coprophages
5 January 1996
Personal note on the title: a coprophage is a uh... dung-eater.
When an exterminator in Millers Grove, Massachusetts drops dead and 2 more townspeople follow, every citizen screams "roaches!" Indeed Agent Mulder, the town's best hope for survival, is hot on the trail of the creepy crawling insects, and it's all a matter of not bugging out!
Season 3, Episode 13: Syzygy
26 January 1996
A string of several curious deaths brings the rural Caryl County to the streets, preposterously shouting "Satanists!" As Mulder persistently investigates the case alongside a highly doubtful Scully, he learns that the culprit may be, not exactly evil, but cosmic.
Season 5, Episode 10: Chinga
8 February 1998
Perhaps commentary on one of my favorite rhetorical questions: "What if the hokey pokey really IS what it's all about?"
Scully takes a much needed vacation in New England. When she arrives at a grocery store, Scully encounters several people who have clawed their own eyes. Scully assists the local police department in discovering the cause of this unusual occurrence. Scully's investigations lead her to a single mother with a disturbed little girl and her even more disturbing doll.
Season 6, Episode 10: Tithonus
24 January 1999
Agent Scully gets paired up with a new partner to investigate a singular case. Alfred Fellig, a freelance crime photographer, has a knack for arriving at crime scenes shortly after the murder and long before the police arrive. Local authorities suspect Fellig may be killing the victims himself before photographing them.
Season 6, Episode 13: Agua Mala
21 February 1999
At Arthur Dales request, the agents go to Florida during a hurricane to investigate the disappearance of Mr. Dales' neighbors, two marine biologists and their son. During the storm, Mulder and Scully get stranded in some condominiums where a sea monster is on the loose.
Season 6, Episode 14: Monday
28 February 1999
A bank robbery gone wrong turns into disaster for Mulder and Scully. Mulder gets shot by the bank robber, and he and Scully, along with everyone else in the bank are blown up by a bomb strapped to the bank robber's chest. However, this same day continues to repeat in an endless cycle always ending in the same result.
Season 6, Episode 19: The Unnatural
25 April 1999
Mulder uncovers a story involving a Negro baseball player in the 1940s who played for a minor league team in Roswell. When in a photograph he sees the Alien Bounty Hunter it is assumed that Josh Exley, the baseball player in question, might just be alien himself.
Season 6, Episode 21: Field Trip
9 May 1999
It's the underground mushroom episode!!
A young married couple's skeletons are found together on a field in the mountains after only being reported missing for three days. The area where their skeletons were found is known for UFO activity, so Mulder and Scully go there to investigate it. Mulder finds the couple alive and all signs point to an alien abduction. But everything is not as it seems.
Season 7, Episode 3: Hungry
21 November 1999
In this x-file, a young man who works at a fast-food store, has problems controlling his monstrous appetite for human brains. To make this episode more interesting, we see the story unfold through the life of the monster, which surprisingly makes you feel sorry for him. Looking for help, he attends an eating-disorder clinic which doesn't help much and just makes things even more frustrating. As Mulder and Scully get closer to exposing the truth, you can't wait to find out what will happen and you even hope the case remains unsolved for the benefit of our misunderstood, brain-eating monster.
Season 7, Episode 5: Rush
5 December 1999
According to Wikipedia, this episode entails "When a school student becomes the prime suspect in the bizarre murder of a police officer, Mulder and Scully are sent to investigate. They discover that the boy and a couple of friends have been playing with the ability to accelerate their movements to a frequency the human eye can't perceive."
Season 7, Episode 11: Closure
13 February 2000
It's the one where Mulder finally finds out what happens to his sister!
The music is HAUNTING... still gives me chills to listen to it. It only took me six years to figure out the origin of the music...
(the following synpsis, etc. is from Wikipedia.org)
As Mulder is forced to accept that his mother's death was by her own hand, he is led by a man whose son disappeared years earlier to another truth - that his sister may be among the souls taken by 'walk-ins', saving the souls of children doomed to live unhappy lives. Together, they embark on a journey that will reveal to Mulder the truth about his sister's disappearance.
This is the first of two episodes in this series to use non-diegetic music not composed by Mark Snow. The song is My Weakness by Moby, and features several times throughout the episode, including both the first and final sequences. By coincidence (or perhaps intentionally), both 'My Weakness' and 'The Sky Is Broken' appear consecutively on Moby's album Play, although in reversed order to that in which they appear in the series.
*episode details found on IMDB (great resource by the way), at the following address:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106179/episodes
Some favorites follow. Please comment to share your own - I'm sure I've missed some!
Season 1, Episode 6: Ghost in the Machine
29 October 1993
The chairman of Eurisko, a computer corporation, is found electrocuted in an executive bathroom. An old partner of Mulder's asks him to help, and they soon track down the computer genius responsible for the main operating system. They must shut it down, but it has other plans...
Season 1, Episode 19: Darkness Falls
15 April 1994
The little green bug episode!!!
30 loggers in Olympic National Forest of Washington State disappear within a week of their arrival. Due to the disappearance of another logging group in the 1930's, Mulder takes the case and invites Scully along to investigate. What they find certainly shines some light on the subject, in a particularly creepy way.
Season 2, Episode 2: The Host
23 September 1994
A body is found in the sewers of New Jersey, and Agent Mulder is strangely assigned to the case. Soon, the killer seems more like an X-File-worthy creature than a homicidal man. Could his placement in this case be coincidence, or does somebody want the X-Files to continue?
Wow, 4 great ones in a row... the early ones were the best...
Season 2, Episode 21: The Calusari
14 April 1995
A two-year-old boy in a Virginia park is mysteriously killed, and a further look shows a ghostly figure luring him. Mulder and Scully investigate despite an existing official inquiry, and learn that the boy's brother is in great danger as well - for evil follows evil.
Season 2, Episode 22: F. Emasculata
28 April 1995When a package with infected contents releases the virus on its inmate recipient, a dozen prisoners contract it and Mulder and Scully are mysteriously called in to help. What they find demands that the truth be told to the public, but that's the one thing they cannot do.
Season 2, Episode 23: Soft Light
5 May 1995
An especially cool one... with Tony Shaloub playing the main character!
Three deaths have occurred around Richmond, Virginia. The only traces which each of the victims seem to have left behind are black scorch marks of unknown origin. Mulder and Scully are called in by an old student of hers, and the search for the truth begins in its shadows.
Season 2, Episode 24: Our Town
12 May 1995
Perhaps the most memorable and well-known X-Files episode of all time - the Chaco Chicken episode!!
Reports of foxfire on a field in Dudley, Arkansas lead Mulder and Scully to a bizarre situation regarding the townsfolk. Employees of the Chaco Chicken Corporation are displaying bizarre behavior, and the death rate is slowly increasing.
Season 3, Episode 8: Oubliette
17 November 1995
At the same time that a 15-year-old girl was kidnapped from her home, a previous kidnap victim, now a waitress, collapsed also. Mulder tries to prove that both victims are linked, though neither local law nor Scully will believe him, as the waitress herself is a suspect.
Season 3, Episode 12: War of the Coprophages
5 January 1996
Personal note on the title: a coprophage is a uh... dung-eater.
When an exterminator in Millers Grove, Massachusetts drops dead and 2 more townspeople follow, every citizen screams "roaches!" Indeed Agent Mulder, the town's best hope for survival, is hot on the trail of the creepy crawling insects, and it's all a matter of not bugging out!
Season 3, Episode 13: Syzygy
26 January 1996
A string of several curious deaths brings the rural Caryl County to the streets, preposterously shouting "Satanists!" As Mulder persistently investigates the case alongside a highly doubtful Scully, he learns that the culprit may be, not exactly evil, but cosmic.
Season 5, Episode 10: Chinga
8 February 1998
Perhaps commentary on one of my favorite rhetorical questions: "What if the hokey pokey really IS what it's all about?"
Scully takes a much needed vacation in New England. When she arrives at a grocery store, Scully encounters several people who have clawed their own eyes. Scully assists the local police department in discovering the cause of this unusual occurrence. Scully's investigations lead her to a single mother with a disturbed little girl and her even more disturbing doll.
Season 6, Episode 10: Tithonus
24 January 1999
Agent Scully gets paired up with a new partner to investigate a singular case. Alfred Fellig, a freelance crime photographer, has a knack for arriving at crime scenes shortly after the murder and long before the police arrive. Local authorities suspect Fellig may be killing the victims himself before photographing them.
Season 6, Episode 13: Agua Mala
21 February 1999
At Arthur Dales request, the agents go to Florida during a hurricane to investigate the disappearance of Mr. Dales' neighbors, two marine biologists and their son. During the storm, Mulder and Scully get stranded in some condominiums where a sea monster is on the loose.
Season 6, Episode 14: Monday
28 February 1999
A bank robbery gone wrong turns into disaster for Mulder and Scully. Mulder gets shot by the bank robber, and he and Scully, along with everyone else in the bank are blown up by a bomb strapped to the bank robber's chest. However, this same day continues to repeat in an endless cycle always ending in the same result.
Season 6, Episode 19: The Unnatural
25 April 1999
Mulder uncovers a story involving a Negro baseball player in the 1940s who played for a minor league team in Roswell. When in a photograph he sees the Alien Bounty Hunter it is assumed that Josh Exley, the baseball player in question, might just be alien himself.
Season 6, Episode 21: Field Trip
9 May 1999
It's the underground mushroom episode!!
A young married couple's skeletons are found together on a field in the mountains after only being reported missing for three days. The area where their skeletons were found is known for UFO activity, so Mulder and Scully go there to investigate it. Mulder finds the couple alive and all signs point to an alien abduction. But everything is not as it seems.
Season 7, Episode 3: Hungry
21 November 1999
In this x-file, a young man who works at a fast-food store, has problems controlling his monstrous appetite for human brains. To make this episode more interesting, we see the story unfold through the life of the monster, which surprisingly makes you feel sorry for him. Looking for help, he attends an eating-disorder clinic which doesn't help much and just makes things even more frustrating. As Mulder and Scully get closer to exposing the truth, you can't wait to find out what will happen and you even hope the case remains unsolved for the benefit of our misunderstood, brain-eating monster.
Season 7, Episode 5: Rush
5 December 1999
According to Wikipedia, this episode entails "When a school student becomes the prime suspect in the bizarre murder of a police officer, Mulder and Scully are sent to investigate. They discover that the boy and a couple of friends have been playing with the ability to accelerate their movements to a frequency the human eye can't perceive."
Season 7, Episode 11: Closure
13 February 2000
It's the one where Mulder finally finds out what happens to his sister!
The music is HAUNTING... still gives me chills to listen to it. It only took me six years to figure out the origin of the music...
(the following synpsis, etc. is from Wikipedia.org)
As Mulder is forced to accept that his mother's death was by her own hand, he is led by a man whose son disappeared years earlier to another truth - that his sister may be among the souls taken by 'walk-ins', saving the souls of children doomed to live unhappy lives. Together, they embark on a journey that will reveal to Mulder the truth about his sister's disappearance.
This is the first of two episodes in this series to use non-diegetic music not composed by Mark Snow. The song is My Weakness by Moby, and features several times throughout the episode, including both the first and final sequences. By coincidence (or perhaps intentionally), both 'My Weakness' and 'The Sky Is Broken' appear consecutively on Moby's album Play, although in reversed order to that in which they appear in the series.
*episode details found on IMDB (great resource by the way), at the following address:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106179/episodes
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