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.
Friday, December 26
Our Town
Season 2 • Episode 24
Investigating unexplained burn marks in a field unearths strange secrets of a small town.
Friday, December 26
Anasazi
Season 2 • Episode 25
Computer hacker's findings put Scully's and Mulder's lives and sanity in question.
Friday, December 26
The Blessing Way
Season 3 • Episode 1
The FBI continues its search for the computer disk believed to contain information about aliens.
Saturday, December 27
Paperclip
Season 3 • Episode 2
A reunited Mulder and Scully continue their investigation without the FBI's help.
Saturday, December 27
D.P.O.
Season 3 • Episode 3
Mulder and Scully suspect a teenager caused a series of lightning-related deaths.
Saturday, December 27
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Season 3 • Episode 4
A psychic refuses to aid Mulder and Scully in their search for a serial killer.
Saturday, December 27
The List
Season 3 • Episode 5
Mulder and Scully investigate the possible return of an executed prisoner.
Saturday, December 27
2Shy
Season 3 • Episode 6
The agents follow the trail of a serial killer whose victims have several similarities.
Sunday, December 28
The Walk
Season 3 • Episode 7
Mulder and Scully are called to a military hospital to investigate a supposedly suicidal patient.
Sunday, December 28
Oubliette
Season 3 • Episode 8
When child is abducted, detectives seek another hostage's help.
Sunday, December 28
Nisei
Season 3 • Episode 9
Mulder discovers a video of an alien autopsy.
Monday, December 29
731
Season 3 • Episode 10
When Scully is forced to trust a mystery person, the situation becomes dangerous.
Monday, December 29
Revelations
Season 3 • Episode 11
Mulder and Scully try to protect a child who may be threatened by a religiously motivated murderer.
Monday, December 29
War of the Coprophages
Season 3 • Episode 12
Mulder comes to regard the cockroaches found at a murder scene as suspects.
Monday, December 29
Syzygy
Season 3 • Episode 13
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of bizarre deaths plaguing a small town.
Tuesday, December 30
Grotesque
Season 3 • Episode 14
A former mentor helps Mulder and Scully investigate a possessed serial killer.
Tuesday, December 30
Piper Maru
Season 3 • Episode 15
A diving crew is stricken with illness while attempting to recover WWII wreckage.
Tuesday, December 30
Apocrypha
Season 3 • Episode 16
Mulder and Scully continue to investigate the origins of a bizarre disease.
Tuesday, December 30
Pusher
Season 3 • Episode 17
A suspect who seems able to bend people to his will manipulates Mulder into a dangerous endgame.
Wednesday, December 31
Teso Dos Bichos
Season 3 • Episode 18
The agents investigate deaths that seem to be linked to political terrorism.
Wednesday, December 31
My Struggle
Season 10 • Episode 1
A web-TV show host approaches Mulder and Scully with a conspiracy he believes he's uncovered.
Wednesday, December 31
Founder's Mutation
Season 10 • Episode 2
An investigation leads to a laboratory where extreme genetic experimentation has been taking place.
Wednesday, December 31
Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster
Season 10 • Episode 3
Witnesses claim a strange creature was responsible for killing a person in the woods.
Wednesday, December 31
Home Again
Season 10 • Episode 4
When a city official is murdered, it seems that a human could not have committed the crime.
Wednesday, December 31
Babylon
Season 10 • Episode 5
After a gallery is bombed, Mulder and Scully must find a way to communicate with a comatose bomber.
Wednesday, December 31
My Struggle II
Season 10 • Episode 6
Scully searches for a cure when many people become gravely ill; a figure from the past emerges.
Wednesday, December 31
My Struggle III
Season 11 • Episode 1
Mulder and Scully learn they aren't the only ones desperately searching for their long-lost son.
Wednesday, December 31
This
Season 11 • Episode 2
An old friend reaches out to Mulder and Scully in a seemingly impossible way.
Wednesday, December 31
Plus One
Season 11 • Episode 3
Mulder and Scully investigate when murder victims are plagued by their own doppelgangers.
Wednesday, December 31
The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat
Season 11 • Episode 4
Mulder and Scully discover how the X-Files may have originated.
Wednesday, December 31
Ghouli
Season 11 • Episode 5
Mulder and Scully find that an investigation could possibly lead back to their long-lost son.
Wednesday, December 31
Kitten
Season 11 • Episode 6
When Skinner goes missing, Mulder and Scully try to track him down.
Wednesday, December 31
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Season 11 • Episode 7
Mulder and Scully find themselves targets in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
Wednesday, December 31
Familiar
Season 11 • Episode 8
Mulder and Scully investigate the brutal animal attack of a little boy in Connecticut.
Wednesday, December 31
Nothing Lasts Forever
Season 11 • Episode 9
Mulder and Scully uncover a mysterious cult consumed with macabre rituals.
Thursday, January 1
My Struggle IV
Season 11 • Episode 10
Mulder and Scully rush to find William; the Cigarette Smoking Man pushes forward with his plan.
Thursday, January 1
E.B.E.
Season 1 • Episode 17
The agents learn the government shot down a UFO in Iraq and is hiding evidence of its occupant.
Thursday, January 1
Blood
Season 2 • Episode 3
Virginia suburbanites turn violent, claiming they received messages from household appliances.
Thursday, January 1
Memento Mori
Season 4 • Episode 14
Mulder and Scully probe the circumstances surrounding Scully's previous abduction.
Thursday, January 1
Unusual Suspects
Season 5 • Episode 3
The origin of the Lone Gunmen is detailed in a flashback to 1989.
Thursday, January 1
Kill Switch
Season 5 • Episode 11
Mulder and Scully investigate a computer genius' murder; written by William Gibson and Tom Maddox.
Thursday, January 1
Triangle
Season 6 • Episode 3
Mulder gets into a bizarre conflict on a mysterious ship in the Bermuda Triangle.
Friday, January 2
Three of a Kind
Season 6 • Episode 20
The Lone Gunmen trick Scully into going to Las Vegas to help them.
Friday, January 2
Hell Money
Season 3 • Episode 19
A string of deaths brings Mulder and Scully to San Francisco's Chinatown.
Friday, January 2
Jose Chung's From Outer Space
Season 3 • Episode 20
Mulder and Scully investigate a couple who claim to have been abducted by aliens.
Friday, January 2
Avatar
Season 3 • Episode 21
Mulder and Scully unravel a conspiracy when they try to clear Skinner of murder charges.
Saturday, January 3
Quagmire
Season 3 • Episode 22
Mulder and Scully investigate deaths centered around a lake in a small town.
Saturday, January 3
Wetwired
Season 3 • Episode 23
A conspiracy behind a series of small-town murders tests Scully's trust in Mulder.
Saturday, January 3
Talitha Cumi
Season 3 • Episode 24
The agents uncover a dangerous secret from Mulder's past.
Saturday, January 3
Herrenvolk
Season 4 • Episode 1
Mulder and Scully's manhunt may lead them to the truth about alien existence.
Saturday, January 3
Teliko
Season 4 • Episode 3
The mysterious deaths of several black men leads Scully to suspect an unusual medical disorder.
Sunday, January 4
Unruhe
Season 4 • Episode 4
A terrifying photograph is Mulder and Scully's only clue to the bizarre abduction of a young woman.
Monday, January 5
The Field Where I Died
Season 4 • Episode 5
Agents Mulder and Scully investigate evil deeds at a cult compound.
Monday, January 5
Sanguinarium
Season 4 • Episode 6
Bizarre deaths in a hospital's plastic surgery unit make the agents suspect a supernatural force.
Monday, January 5
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, January 5
Tunguska
Season 4 • Episode 8
Mulder and Scully become involved with a smuggler carrying deadly cargo.
Tuesday, January 6
Terma
Season 4 • Episode 9
Mulder and Scully investigate a deadly smuggler's conspiracy.
Tuesday, January 6
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, January 6
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, January 6
Leonard Betts
Season 4 • Episode 12
Mulder and Scully investigate a man's death when the corpse vanishes.
Wednesday, January 7
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.
Wednesday, January 7
Memento Mori
Season 4 • Episode 14
Mulder and Scully probe the circumstances surrounding Scully's previous abduction.
Wednesday, January 7
Kaddish
Season 4 • Episode 15
The agents investigate apparent vengeance killings following a murder in the Jewish community.
Wednesday, January 7
Unrequited
Season 4 • Episode 16
Mulder and Scully race to catch the assassin of a high-ranking military official.
Thursday, January 8
Tempus Fugit
Season 4 • Episode 17
Mulder and Scully investigate a plane crash involving a well-known alien abductee.
Thursday, January 8
Max
Season 4 • Episode 18
The agents continue to search for the real cause of the plane crash.
Thursday, January 8
Synchrony
Season 4 • Episode 19
A suspect claims innocence because a seer had foretold the murder.
Thursday, January 8
Small Potatoes
Season 4 • Episode 20
Mulder and Scully visit a small town where bizarre pregnancies have occurred.
Friday, January 9
Zero Sum
Season 4 • Episode 21
Mulder investigates a bizarre death in which the main suspect appears to be his superior, Skinner.
Saturday, January 10
Elegy
Season 4 • Episode 22
In a murder case where each victim had a warning from the dead, clues point to a mental institution.
Saturday, January 10
Demons
Season 4 • Episode 23
Scully worries when Mulder suffers a memory loss and is the only suspect in a double homicide.
Sunday, January 11
Gethsemane
Season 4 • Episode 24
Mulder discovers proof of extraterrestrial life; Scully faces her own mortality.
Sunday, January 11
Redux
Season 5 • Episode 1
Skinner is suspected of being responsible for Scully's illness.
Sunday, January 11
Redux II
Season 5 • Episode 2
The future of the X-Files is endangered as Scully lingers near death.
Sunday, January 11
Unusual Suspects
Season 5 • Episode 3
The origin of the Lone Gunmen is detailed in a flashback to 1989.
Sunday, January 11
Detour
Season 5 • Episode 4
Mulder and Scully find themselves stranded in the woods with a deadly predator.
Monday, January 12
The Post-Modern Prometheus
Season 5 • Episode 5
A letter draws Scully and Mulder to a small town and a modern Frankenstein.
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