Top 20 Best X-Files Episodes

This show was way more than just a banger theme song! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the greatest episodes of the timeless sci-fi series, “The X-Files.” Our countdown includes episodes “Triangle”, “Paper Hearts”, “Humbug” and more! Which “X-Files” episode kept you up at night? Let us know in the comments below.

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[WatchMojo]

Which “X-Files” episode kept you up at night? Let us know in the comments below.

[andrewbatts]

My grandma and i never missed an episode. I can remember the premier. I was adding butter to a big bowl of popcorn as the opening theme was playing. Grandma shouted for me to hurry up, i was gonna miss the opening scene😂. It is a bittersweet memory, she passed away in 2007😢. I miss her

[politicamenteincorreto]

The fact that Vince Gilligan wrote some of the best episodes of X-Files and also created the series Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul only proves how great his potential is

[mikememine]

Great video Watch Mojo... glad to see the one with Peter Boyle was number 1. Such a great episode, and The X Files is one of the best shows ever... Thanks every one!

[trinaq]

"Folie a Deux" is the most iconic episode, in my opinion. I was gripped to find out the ending, never really knowing how it would end.

[trinaq]

Definitely one of my favourite 90's TV shows of all time. Duchovny and Anderson had the best dynamic, you could never envision anyone else as Mulder or Scully.

[JRSchwarzenhammer]

I'm glad you included "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'" on the list!

[StedeBonnetsCravat]

Rhys Darby as the "Were-Monster" has got to be the funniest character ever on the show.

[johntiggleman]

"Home" really freaked me out. A fellow worker was quite upset by that episode; near the end, a Johnny Mathis standard was playing. She said she never wanted to hear that song again, as it would remind her of that episode.

[Cloudetower]

I like the episode where Mulder drives the entire episode to try and save a woman with an exploding headache.And the guy who has insane luck all the time.

[BlenderStudy]

Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! The X-Files episodes were filmed where I used to live back in the 90s along with other TV shows like Millennium. They used to post fake TV show names where they parked RVs for actors/actresses and the film crew, to prevent the locals from visiting the site. 🤣 I remember watching the pilot episode of the X-Files while not knowing that was a paranormal based TV show.. 🤣

[seanellio]

I started watching "The X Files" by accident. I was a fan of "Adventures of Briscoe County" and set the VCR to record it while the lovely missus and I went to dinner.
We got home and I realized I recorded X Files by mistake. It was the episode with all the cloned girls, and their fathers being exsanguinated.("Eve") I watched every episode after that, and caught the first bunch on reruns when they came on.

[Predakingever]

The best episode is when Mulder and Scully travel to Springfield to investigate an alien sighting reported by Homer Simpson.

[denisefreitas]

Great picks! I love "Ice", the Pilot and "Tooms".

[GenXfrom]

Bad Blood is also hilarious! Mulder singing Shaft 🤣🤣🤣

[trippyboi]

“Triangle” gets my vote. I love the single camera tracking approach. I love that both leads hold court through their respective scenes. I love that there’s no breaks in the action from both the ship and the office.

AND I LOVE SCULLYS HAIR THE MOST ON THIS DAMN EPISODE⚫️ Gillian was working the hell out of the camera man.

[ThePurplebabaloa]

One of the episodes that “kept me up” at night has to be “Folie a deux”…that “from the corner of your eye” monster…shivers. On a lighter note, I love the episode “War of the Coprophages”…Duchovny in them jeans….

[Raven-dccw]

Oh the memories of watching The X-Files on a Friday night with a bowl of popcorn 🍿😊

[loringjohnson]

I suppose the plot was derivitive, but I loved the episode "Monday" where
Mulder and Scully are trapped in a time warp and repeat the same bank robbery
over and over. I also loved "Field Trip" where they get trapped inside a killer
mushroom.

[Zed-fqlj]

One of the best lists ever on Mojo!!!!😄😄😍😍! Your list was great! My personal favourites are from season 7 - "The Goldberg Variation", "Je Souhaite" (those were just pure fun!!), "Hungry" was also original, , "Terms of Endearment" a brilliant story, 'Dreamland' double episode was great also, and three episodes from season 2 "Die Hand Die Verletzt", "Soft Light" as well as"Our Town" all are brilliant, and all the episodes involving Lone Gunmen of course 🤩🤩🤩