The X-Files (1993)
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Upcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Monday, March 16
Piper Maru
Season 3 • Episode 15
A diving crew is stricken with illness while attempting to recover WWII wreckage.
Monday, March 16
Apocrypha
Season 3 • Episode 16
Mulder and Scully continue to investigate the origins of a bizarre disease.
Monday, March 16
Pusher
Season 3 • Episode 17
A suspect who seems able to bend people to his will manipulates Mulder into a dangerous endgame.
Tuesday, March 17
Teso Dos Bichos
Season 3 • Episode 18
The agents investigate deaths that seem to be linked to political terrorism.
Tuesday, March 17
Hell Money
Season 3 • Episode 19
A string of deaths brings Mulder and Scully to San Francisco's Chinatown.
Tuesday, March 17
Jose Chung's From Outer Space
Season 3 • Episode 20
Mulder and Scully investigate a couple who claim to have been abducted by aliens.
Tuesday, March 17
Avatar
Season 3 • Episode 21
Mulder and Scully unravel a conspiracy when they try to clear Skinner of murder charges.
Wednesday, March 18
Quagmire
Season 3 • Episode 22
Mulder and Scully investigate deaths centered around a lake in a small town.
Wednesday, March 18
Wetwired
Season 3 • Episode 23
A conspiracy behind a series of small-town murders tests Scully's trust in Mulder.
Wednesday, March 18
Talitha Cumi
Season 3 • Episode 24
The agents uncover a dangerous secret from Mulder's past.
Wednesday, March 18
Herrenvolk
Season 4 • Episode 1
Mulder and Scully's manhunt may lead them to the truth about alien existence.
Thursday, March 19
Teliko
Season 4 • Episode 3
The mysterious deaths of several black men leads Scully to suspect an unusual medical disorder.
Thursday, March 19
Unruhe
Season 4 • Episode 4
A terrifying photograph is Mulder and Scully's only clue to the bizarre abduction of a young woman.
Thursday, March 19
The Field Where I Died
Season 4 • Episode 5
Agents Mulder and Scully investigate evil deeds at a cult compound.
Thursday, March 19
Sanguinarium
Season 4 • Episode 6
Bizarre deaths in a hospital's plastic surgery unit make the agents suspect a supernatural force.
Friday, March 20
Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
Season 4 • Episode 7
The agents uncover what may be the true identity of the cigarette-smoking man (William B. Davis).
Monday, March 23
Tunguska
Season 4 • Episode 8
Mulder and Scully become involved with a smuggler carrying deadly cargo.
Monday, March 23
Terma
Season 4 • Episode 9
Mulder and Scully investigate a deadly smuggler's conspiracy.
Monday, March 23
Paper Hearts
Season 4 • Episode 10
An old case haunts Mulder when a serial killer he put away exerts a strange influence over him.
Tuesday, March 24
El Mundo Gira
Season 4 • Episode 11
Agents Mulder and Scully seek out a mythical beast after a deadly rain in a migrant workers' camp.
Tuesday, March 24
Leonard Betts
Season 4 • Episode 12
Mulder and Scully investigate a man's death when the corpse vanishes.
Tuesday, March 24
Never Again
Season 4 • Episode 13
Scully finds her life in danger when she pursues a lead alone, involving a man with a deadly tattoo.
Tuesday, March 24
Memento Mori
Season 4 • Episode 14
Mulder and Scully probe the circumstances surrounding Scully's previous abduction.
Wednesday, March 25
Kaddish
Season 4 • Episode 15
The agents investigate apparent vengeance killings following a murder in the Jewish community.
Wednesday, March 25
Unrequited
Season 4 • Episode 16
Mulder and Scully race to catch the assassin of a high-ranking military official.
Wednesday, March 25
Tempus Fugit
Season 4 • Episode 17
Mulder and Scully investigate a plane crash involving a well-known alien abductee.
Wednesday, March 25
Max
Season 4 • Episode 18
The agents continue to search for the real cause of the plane crash.
Thursday, March 26
Synchrony
Season 4 • Episode 19
A suspect claims innocence because a seer had foretold the murder.
Thursday, March 26
Small Potatoes
Season 4 • Episode 20
Mulder and Scully visit a small town where bizarre pregnancies have occurred.
Thursday, March 26
Zero Sum
Season 4 • Episode 21
Mulder investigates a bizarre death in which the main suspect appears to be his superior, Skinner.
Thursday, March 26
Elegy
Season 4 • Episode 22
In a murder case where each victim had a warning from the dead, clues point to a mental institution.
Friday, March 27
Demons
Season 4 • Episode 23
Scully worries when Mulder suffers a memory loss and is the only suspect in a double homicide.
Monday, March 30
Gethsemane
Season 4 • Episode 24
Mulder discovers proof of extraterrestrial life; Scully faces her own mortality.
Monday, March 30
Redux
Season 5 • Episode 1
Skinner is suspected of being responsible for Scully's illness.
Monday, March 30
Redux II
Season 5 • Episode 2
The future of the X-Files is endangered as Scully lingers near death.
Tuesday, March 31
Unusual Suspects
Season 5 • Episode 3
The origin of the Lone Gunmen is detailed in a flashback to 1989.
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