The Best "Monster of the Week" Episodes (The X-Files)
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- DirectorDavid NutterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonXander BerkeleyMulder and Scully are sent to investigate when a team of geophysicists stationed at a remote Alaskan outpost are killed by a parasitic alien life form.
- DirectorChris CarterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonJohn O'Hurleyin this surreal, comical take on Frankenstein, Mulder and Scully arrive in a small rural town to investigate claims of a monster obsessed with Cher that's sedating and impregnating the local women.
- DirectorDavid DuchovnyStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonJesse L. MartinSearching through an FBI reference book, Mulder finds a photograph of Arthur Dales with a baseball team and the alien bounty hunter. Mulder goes to Arthur Dales' house to ask him about the photograph. There he finds Arthur Dales' brother, also named Arthur. Mr. Dales proceeds to tell Mulder a story of a 1940s Negro baseball player in Roswell named Josh Exley who was closing in on breaking some professional baseball records. Mr. Dales tells how he was assigned to protect this player from the KKK and that Exley was actually an alien.
- DirectorCliff BoleStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiScully and Mulder each recount their version of events that led Mulder to drive a stake through the heart of a Texas teenager he claims was a vampire.
- DirectorMichael W. WatkinsStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonJudson MillsThe investigation of a neighborhood monster isn't too weird for the crew of Cops (1989) to follow around Mulder and Scully.
- DirectorChris CarterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonWilliam B. DavisMulder boards the wreck of a legendary missing WWII ship that suddenly appeared in the Bermuda Triangle. The ship turns out to be a time portal. Now Scully must use all of her wits to try and get the unwilling FBI to help her save him.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiA woman desperately attempts to change the outcome of the events of a day she is forced to relive again and again in which her boyfriend explodes a bomb during a failed bank robbery killing everyone inside, including Mulder and Scully.
- DirectorMichael W. WatkinsStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonGeoffrey LewisA rookie agent asks for Scully's help in proving that a quaint crime scene photographer is a serial killer. With some help from a bored Mulder, Scully discovers the man's actual dark secret. And an old prophecy regarding Scully comes true.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonTucker SmallwoodThe remains of a murdered deformed infant lead the agents to a family of murderous, inbred, animal-like brothers living on a secluded farm in a remote section of Pennsylvania.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiA seemingly unmotivated murderer, who can apparently talk his victims into killing themselves is on the loose and it is up to Mulder and Scully to study the clues left to them by the person and capture him.
- DirectorChris CarterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonLily TomlinOn Christmas Eve, Mulder and Scully find themselves trapped in a haunted house with two ghosts who are determined to prove just how lonely the holiday can be.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiAn incarcerated serial killer claims Mulder's sister was one of his many victims.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonSusannah HoffmannRumors of witchcraft and sorcery surrounding a bizarre murder at a supermarket in a small New England fishing town lead Scully, who's on vacation, to a little girl and a cursed doll that may be hiding a murderous presence.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonBryan CranstonA man tormented by a piercing sound that could make his head explode unless he heads west as fast as possible takes Mulder hostage to drive for him, while Scully rushes to find the cause of this affliction that also killed the man's wife.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonJeremy RobertsAs a hurricane bears down on the Florida coast, the agents search for a sea monster that Arthur Dales believes is responsible for the disappearance of a couple and their son.
- DirectorDaniel SackheimStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiMulder pursues a humanoid, parasitic organism that uses sewage systems as its home.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonKristin LehmanThe brutal murder of a renowned computer programmer leads Mulder and Scully to investigate an artificial intelligence program loose on the Internet that has begun evolving on its own.
- DirectorJames A. ContnerStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonTony ShalhoubScully's former student, Det. Kelly Ryan, asks the agents to help her catch a runaway government scientist responsible for several mysterious disappearances. Mulder realizes that the man is deathly afraid of his shadow for some reason.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonCharles Martin SmithAs Scully investigates the spread of a deadly contagion at a prison, Mulder tracks down two escaped convicts infected with the disease.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonPruitt Taylor VincePhotos of a hellish sight from the mind of a psychopath who abducts women makes Mulder think that the man has the ability of psychic photography.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonCharles Nelson ReillyScully recounts the investigation of an alleged UFO encounter for the famous quirky author Jose Chung's latest novel. The case gives a whole new meaning to the term Rashomon effect. Chung later returns in Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense' (1997).
- DirectorRod HardyStarsGillian AndersonRobert PatrickDavid Barry GrayDoggett is a little dismayed when Scully investigates a murder in a barely inhabited town in Utah without him. When Scully's car breaks down and she finds the town people aren't as sweet as they seem she struggles to find a way out of the demented town.
- DirectorThomas J. WrightStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonWillie GarsonA man is tossed off the top of a 29 story building by gangsters. Amazingly, he gets up and walks away unscathed. Mulder and Scully investigate when Mulder suspects this man may have paranormal abilities. The man in question may just be the luckiest man on Earth.
- DirectorPeter MarkleStarsGillian AndersonRobert PatrickJoe MortonA man lives the most recent 5 days of his life backwards and finds out that he is the main suspect in the murder of his wife.
- DirectorVince GilliganStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiTwo brothers have a less than helpful genie who grants their wishes with disastrous consequences. Mulder comes into possession of the same genie, and his wishes garner similar results.