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, April 28
Pilot
Season 1 • Episode 1
Mulder and Scully travel to the Northwest to investigate a series of deaths.
Sunday, April 28
Deep Throat
Season 1 • Episode 2
Army test pilots in Idaho vanish after completing their missions.
Sunday, April 28
Squeeze
Season 1 • Episode 3
Scully and Mulder's investigation is similar to an unsolved case from 1903.
Sunday, April 28
Conduit
Season 1 • Episode 4
A girl who vanished during a family camping trip may have been abducted by aliens.
Monday, April 29
The Jersey Devil
Season 1 • Episode 5
The perpetrator of a gruesome murder appears to have an appetite for human flesh.
Monday, April 29
Shadows
Season 1 • Episode 6
Mulder and Scully investigate reports of an unseen force believed to be protecting a young woman.
Monday, April 29
Ghost in the Machine
Season 1 • Episode 7
A computer controlling an office building goes berserk, killing those inside.
Monday, April 29
Ice
Season 1 • Episode 8
The agents probe the unexplained deaths of Arctic researchers.
Tuesday, April 30
Space
Season 1 • Episode 9
Scully and Mulder investigate sabotage efforts in the space shuttle program.
Tuesday, April 30
Fallen Angel
Season 1 • Episode 10
Mulder thinks the government is trying to cover up a UFO landing.
Tuesday, April 30
Eve
Season 1 • Episode 11
Identical murders occur simultaneously on opposite coasts.
Tuesday, April 30
Fire
Season 1 • Episode 12
Duo guard member of British Parliament after fires kill top officials.
Wednesday, May 1
Beyond the Sea
Season 1 • Episode 13
Mulder and Scully accept help from a psychic to track down a serial killer.
Wednesday, May 1
Genderbender
Season 1 • Episode 14
The agents pursue a murderer who appears to be able to switch genders.
Wednesday, May 1
Lazarus
Season 1 • Episode 15
An agent shot while shooting a bank robber takes on the criminal's traits after the thief dies.
Wednesday, May 1
Young at Heart
Season 1 • Episode 16
A murderer that Mulder helped convict and who supposedly died in prison returns for revenge.
Thursday, May 2
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, May 2
Miracle Man
Season 1 • Episode 18
The agents investigate a faith healer who seems to use his powers for both good and evil.
Thursday, May 2
Shapes
Season 1 • Episode 19
An unknown beast causes mysterious deaths on an Indian reservation; guest Donnelly Rhodes.
Thursday, May 2
Darkness Falls
Season 1 • Episode 20
Mulder and Scully investigate the disappearances of loggers in Washington state.
Friday, May 3
Tooms
Season 1 • Episode 21
Mulder is upset when an accused killer is freed because of insufficient evidence.
Friday, May 3
Born Again
Season 1 • Episode 22
Mulder and Scully investigate an 8-year-old suspect when two cops are killed.
Friday, May 3
Roland
Season 1 • Episode 23
The murders of two rocket scientists link to a mentally impaired janitor.
Friday, May 3
The Erlenmeyer Flask
Season 1 • Episode 24
A government experiment tests unknown substances on humans, with disastrous results.
Saturday, May 4
Little Green Men
Season 2 • Episode 1
Mulder visits a communications center in Puerto Rico, looking for evidence of a close encounter.
Saturday, May 4
The Host
Season 2 • Episode 2
Mulder discovers a genetically mutated creature that stalks its victims in the sewer system.
Saturday, May 4
Blood
Season 2 • Episode 3
Virginia suburbanites turn violent, claiming they received messages from household appliances.
Saturday, May 4
Sleepless
Season 2 • Episode 4
Mulder investigates a claim that Marines were surgically deprived of sleep.
Saturday, May 4
Duane Barry
Season 2 • Episode 5
Mulder deals with a hostage-taker who claims to be the victim of alien experimentation.
Sunday, May 5
Ascension
Season 2 • Episode 6
In a desperate attempt to rescue Scully, Mulder pursues the fugitive Duane Barry into the hills.
Sunday, May 5
3
Season 2 • Episode 7
Mulder is attracted to a suspect while investigating vampire-like murders.
Sunday, May 5
One Breath
Season 2 • Episode 8
Mulder tries desperately to give Scully a reason to live after she is found in a coma.
Sunday, May 5
Firewalker
Season 2 • Episode 9
Scientists studying an erupting volcano meet mysterious deaths.
Sunday, May 5
Red Museum
Season 2 • Episode 10
The detectives probe a link between a cult and disappearances of several Wisconsin children.
Monday, May 6
Excelsius Dei
Season 2 • Episode 11
Mulder and Scully investigate reports of nursing-home occupants encountering supernatural forces.
Monday, May 6
Aubrey
Season 2 • Episode 12
A police detective discovers the body of an agent killed more than 40 years ago.
Monday, May 6
Irresistible
Season 2 • Episode 13
The pursuit of a serial killer who takes trophies from his victims awakens Scully's personal demons.
Monday, May 6
Die Hand Die Verletzt
Season 2 • Episode 14
A New Hampshire teen is found murdered and displayed according to occult practices.
Tuesday, May 7
Fresh Bones
Season 2 • Episode 15
Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of soldiers thought to be suicides.
Tuesday, May 7
Colony
Season 2 • Episode 16
Mulder and Scully track an alien who is killing doctors but leaving no bodies.
Tuesday, May 7
End Game
Season 2 • Episode 17
Mulder must capture the murderous alien bounty hunter who has kidnapped Scully.
Tuesday, May 7
Fearful Symmetry
Season 2 • Episode 18
Animals are abducted from a zoo located near a known UFO hot spot.
Wednesday, May 8
Dod Kalm
Season 2 • Episode 19
A Navy destroyer that was missing for two days turns up with a drastically aged crew.
Wednesday, May 8
Humbug
Season 2 • Episode 20
Mulder and Scully visit a town where retired circus and sideshow performers live.
Wednesday, May 8
The Calusari
Season 2 • Episode 21
Mulder and Scully seek the truth about a boy deemed evil by his grandmother.
Wednesday, May 8
F. Emasculata
Season 2 • Episode 22
A mysterious sickness kills a dozen men and puts a prison under quarantine.
Thursday, May 9
Soft Light
Season 2 • Episode 23
Mulder and Scully discover a scientist at a chemical testing plant is missing.
Thursday, May 9
Our Town
Season 2 • Episode 24
Investigating unexplained burn marks in a field unearths strange secrets of a small town.
Thursday, May 9
Anasazi
Season 2 • Episode 25
Computer hacker's findings put Scully's and Mulder's lives and sanity in question.
Thursday, May 9
The Blessing Way
Season 3 • Episode 1
The FBI continues its search for the computer disk believed to contain information about aliens.
Friday, May 10
Paperclip
Season 3 • Episode 2
A reunited Mulder and Scully continue their investigation without the FBI's help.
Friday, May 10
D.P.O.
Season 3 • Episode 3
Mulder and Scully suspect a teenager caused a series of lightning-related deaths.
Friday, May 10
Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Season 3 • Episode 4
A psychic refuses to aid Mulder and Scully in their search for a serial killer.
Friday, May 10
The List
Season 3 • Episode 5
Mulder and Scully investigate the possible return of an executed prisoner.
Saturday, May 11
2Shy
Season 3 • Episode 6
The agents follow the trail of a serial killer whose victims have several similarities.
Saturday, May 11
The Walk
Season 3 • Episode 7
Mulder and Scully are called to a military hospital to investigate a supposedly suicidal patient.
Saturday, May 11
Oubliette
Season 3 • Episode 8
When child is abducted, detectives seek another hostage's help.
Saturday, May 11
Nisei
Season 3 • Episode 9
Mulder discovers a video of an alien autopsy.
Saturday, May 11
731
Season 3 • Episode 10
When Scully is forced to trust a mystery person, the situation becomes dangerous.
Sunday, May 12
Revelations
Season 3 • Episode 11
Mulder and Scully try to protect a child who may be threatened by a religiously motivated murderer.
Sunday, May 12
The Calusari
Season 2 • Episode 21
Mulder and Scully seek the truth about a boy deemed evil by his grandmother.
Sunday, May 12
The Post-Modern Prometheus
Season 5 • Episode 5
A letter draws Scully and Mulder to a small town and a modern Frankenstein.
Sunday, May 12
Terms of Endearment
Season 6 • Episode 7
When a woman is accused of murdering her infant, Mulder and Scully suspect sinister forces.
Monday, May 13
The Calusari
Season 2 • Episode 21
Mulder and Scully seek the truth about a boy deemed evil by his grandmother.
Monday, May 13
War of the Coprophages
Season 3 • Episode 12
Mulder comes to regard the cockroaches found at a murder scene as suspects.
Monday, May 13
Syzygy
Season 3 • Episode 13
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of bizarre deaths plaguing a small town.
Monday, May 13
Grotesque
Season 3 • Episode 14
A former mentor helps Mulder and Scully investigate a possessed serial killer.
Tuesday, May 14
Piper Maru
Season 3 • Episode 15
A diving crew is stricken with illness while attempting to recover WWII wreckage.
Tuesday, May 14
Apocrypha
Season 3 • Episode 16
Mulder and Scully continue to investigate the origins of a bizarre disease.
Tuesday, May 14
Pusher
Season 3 • Episode 17
A suspect who seems able to bend people to his will manipulates Mulder into a dangerous endgame.
Tuesday, May 14
Teso Dos Bichos
Season 3 • Episode 18
The agents investigate deaths that seem to be linked to political terrorism.
Wednesday, May 15
Hell Money
Season 3 • Episode 19
A string of deaths brings Mulder and Scully to San Francisco's Chinatown.
Wednesday, May 15
Jose Chung's From Outer Space
Season 3 • Episode 20
Mulder and Scully investigate a couple who claim to have been abducted by aliens.
Wednesday, May 15
Avatar
Season 3 • Episode 21
Mulder and Scully unravel a conspiracy when they try to clear Skinner of murder charges.
Wednesday, May 15
Quagmire
Season 3 • Episode 22
Mulder and Scully investigate deaths centered around a lake in a small town.
Thursday, May 16
Wetwired
Season 3 • Episode 23
A conspiracy behind a series of small-town murders tests Scully's trust in Mulder.
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