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.
Sunday, October 19
The Erlenmeyer Flask
Season 1 • Episode 24
A government experiment tests unknown substances on humans, with disastrous results.
Monday, October 20
Little Green Men
Season 2 • Episode 1
Mulder visits a communications center in Puerto Rico, looking for evidence of a close encounter.
Monday, October 20
The Host
Season 2 • Episode 2
Mulder discovers a genetically mutated creature that stalks its victims in the sewer system.
Monday, October 20
Blood
Season 2 • Episode 3
Virginia suburbanites turn violent, claiming they received messages from household appliances.
Monday, October 20
Sleepless
Season 2 • Episode 4
Mulder investigates a claim that Marines were surgically deprived of sleep.
Tuesday, October 21
Duane Barry
Season 2 • Episode 5
Mulder deals with a hostage-taker who claims to be the victim of alien experimentation.
Tuesday, October 21
Ascension
Season 2 • Episode 6
In a desperate attempt to rescue Scully, Mulder pursues the fugitive Duane Barry into the hills.
Tuesday, October 21
3
Season 2 • Episode 7
Mulder is attracted to a suspect while investigating vampire-like murders.
Tuesday, October 21
One Breath
Season 2 • Episode 8
Mulder tries desperately to give Scully a reason to live after she is found in a coma.
Wednesday, October 22
Firewalker
Season 2 • Episode 9
Scientists studying an erupting volcano meet mysterious deaths.
Wednesday, October 22
Red Museum
Season 2 • Episode 10
The detectives probe a link between a cult and disappearances of several Wisconsin children.
Wednesday, October 22
Excelsius Dei
Season 2 • Episode 11
Mulder and Scully investigate reports of nursing-home occupants encountering supernatural forces.
Wednesday, October 22
Aubrey
Season 2 • Episode 12
A police detective discovers the body of an agent killed more than 40 years ago.
Thursday, October 23
Irresistible
Season 2 • Episode 13
The pursuit of a serial killer who takes trophies from his victims awakens Scully's personal demons.
Thursday, October 23
Die Hand Die Verletzt
Season 2 • Episode 14
A New Hampshire teen is found murdered and displayed according to occult practices.
Thursday, October 23
Fresh Bones
Season 2 • Episode 15
Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of soldiers thought to be suicides.
Thursday, October 23
Colony
Season 2 • Episode 16
Mulder and Scully track an alien who is killing doctors but leaving no bodies.
Friday, October 24
End Game
Season 2 • Episode 17
Mulder must capture the murderous alien bounty hunter who has kidnapped Scully.
Saturday, October 25
Fearful Symmetry
Season 2 • Episode 18
Animals are abducted from a zoo located near a known UFO hot spot.
Sunday, October 26
Dod Kalm
Season 2 • Episode 19
A Navy destroyer that was missing for two days turns up with a drastically aged crew.
Sunday, October 26
Humbug
Season 2 • Episode 20
Mulder and Scully visit a town where retired circus and sideshow performers live.
Monday, October 27
The Calusari
Season 2 • Episode 21
Mulder and Scully seek the truth about a boy deemed evil by his grandmother.
Monday, October 27
F. Emasculata
Season 2 • Episode 22
A mysterious sickness kills a dozen men and puts a prison under quarantine.
Monday, October 27
Soft Light
Season 2 • Episode 23
Mulder and Scully discover a scientist at a chemical testing plant is missing.
Monday, October 27
Our Town
Season 2 • Episode 24
Investigating unexplained burn marks in a field unearths strange secrets of a small town.
Tuesday, October 28
Anasazi
Season 2 • Episode 25
Computer hacker's findings put Scully's and Mulder's lives and sanity in question.
Tuesday, October 28
The Blessing Way
Season 3 • Episode 1
The FBI continues its search for the computer disk believed to contain information about aliens.
Tuesday, October 28
Paperclip
Season 3 • Episode 2
A reunited Mulder and Scully continue their investigation without the FBI's help.
Tuesday, October 28
D.P.O.
Season 3 • Episode 3
Mulder and Scully suspect a teenager caused a series of lightning-related deaths.
Wednesday, October 29
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Season 3 • Episode 4
A psychic refuses to aid Mulder and Scully in their search for a serial killer.
Wednesday, October 29
The List
Season 3 • Episode 5
Mulder and Scully investigate the possible return of an executed prisoner.
Wednesday, October 29
2Shy
Season 3 • Episode 6
The agents follow the trail of a serial killer whose victims have several similarities.
Wednesday, October 29
The Walk
Season 3 • Episode 7
Mulder and Scully are called to a military hospital to investigate a supposedly suicidal patient.
Thursday, October 30
Oubliette
Season 3 • Episode 8
When child is abducted, detectives seek another hostage's help.
Thursday, October 30
Nisei
Season 3 • Episode 9
Mulder discovers a video of an alien autopsy.
Thursday, October 30
731
Season 3 • Episode 10
When Scully is forced to trust a mystery person, the situation becomes dangerous.
Thursday, October 30
Revelations
Season 3 • Episode 11
Mulder and Scully try to protect a child who may be threatened by a religiously motivated murderer.
Friday, October 31
War of the Coprophages
Season 3 • Episode 12
Mulder comes to regard the cockroaches found at a murder scene as suspects.
Sunday, November 2
Syzygy
Season 3 • Episode 13
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of bizarre deaths plaguing a small town.
Monday, November 3
Grotesque
Season 3 • Episode 14
A former mentor helps Mulder and Scully investigate a possessed serial killer.
Monday, November 3
Piper Maru
Season 3 • Episode 15
A diving crew is stricken with illness while attempting to recover WWII wreckage.
Monday, November 3
Apocrypha
Season 3 • Episode 16
Mulder and Scully continue to investigate the origins of a bizarre disease.
Monday, November 3
Pusher
Season 3 • Episode 17
A suspect who seems able to bend people to his will manipulates Mulder into a dangerous endgame.
Tuesday, November 4
Teso Dos Bichos
Season 3 • Episode 18
The agents investigate deaths that seem to be linked to political terrorism.
Tuesday, November 4
Hell Money
Season 3 • Episode 19
A string of deaths brings Mulder and Scully to San Francisco's Chinatown.
Tuesday, November 4
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, November 4
Avatar
Season 3 • Episode 21
Mulder and Scully unravel a conspiracy when they try to clear Skinner of murder charges.
Wednesday, November 5
Quagmire
Season 3 • Episode 22
Mulder and Scully investigate deaths centered around a lake in a small town.
Wednesday, November 5
Wetwired
Season 3 • Episode 23
A conspiracy behind a series of small-town murders tests Scully's trust in Mulder.
Wednesday, November 5
Talitha Cumi
Season 3 • Episode 24
The agents uncover a dangerous secret from Mulder's past.
Wednesday, November 5
Herrenvolk
Season 4 • Episode 1
Mulder and Scully's manhunt may lead them to the truth about alien existence.
Thursday, November 6
Teliko
Season 4 • Episode 3
The mysterious deaths of several black men leads Scully to suspect an unusual medical disorder.
Thursday, November 6
Unruhe
Season 4 • Episode 4
A terrifying photograph is Mulder and Scully's only clue to the bizarre abduction of a young woman.
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