Scully, Looks like an X-Phile: Top Fifteen X-Files Episodes (5-1)
Top Fifteen X-Files Episodes
Part Three
5. "Agua Mala" (Air date: February 21, 1999 ) - X-Files "founder" Arthur Dales (Darren McGavin) calls the agents down to a trailer park in Florida where a family has disappeared. With an impending hurricane closing in, the agents become trapped in with residents and find out that something is in the water.
Trivia: Darren McGavin starred in a TV show called, "Kolchak: The Night Stalker," which Chris Carter cited as an influence on "The X-Files."
4. "Pilot" (Air date: September 10, 1993 ) - In the episode that started it all, Special Agent Dana Scully is sent to report on the findings of one Agent Fox 'Spooky' Mulder, a leading FBI psychologist who has taken on a "pet project" of going through the agencies "unknown cause" files, hence, the "X-Files." They immediately fly up to Oregon to investigate the deaths of high school students, which Mulder believes is related to alien abuction.
Trivia: Scully had a boyfriend named Ethan Minette. His scenes were cut before broadcast.
3. "The Host" (Air date: September 23, 1994 ) - Assistant Director Skinner gives a "grunt work" assignment to Mulder as "punishment": go down to Newark and investigate a body washed up in the New Jersey sewer. Mulder and Scully investigate, finding the "Flukeman."
Trivia: The "Flukeman" was played by Darin Morgan, who would later on become a writer on the show.
2. "Darkness Falls" (Air date: April 15, 1994 ) - A group of loggers disappearing in Washington State National Forest reminds Mulder of a similar case 50 years prior, and both agents go to investigate. They soon find themselves trapped in a cabin trying to ward off ancient flesh-eating insects that only come out at night.
Trivia: This episode was honored at the Environmental Media Awards.
1. "Home" (Air date: October 11, 1996 ) - A baby is found in shallow ground and the agents travel to Home, Pennsylvania to investigate and meet a sheriff named Andy Taylor (Tucker Smallwood), his deputy Barney Paster (Sebastian Spence), and a family that has been inbreeding for generations.
Trivia: This is the only episode of the "X-Files" to be banned from airplay. It would take another 5 years for FOX Network to show it again.
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2 Comments
Post a CommentMemento Mori is a brilliant episode and absolutely the best of the series in my book!!!Great plot, fantastic script, very insightful voice overs and a stunning performance by Gillian Anderson. Beyond The Sea comes second and Never Again, Anasazi, Irresistible, One Breath, Squeeze, The Erlenmeyer Flask, Clyde Bruckman's Finale Repose follow closely. I don't know how anyone can go through a best episode list and miss some of these extraordinary episodes.
How can Memento Mori not being on the list? - It's The X-Files' finest achievement! - and instead there are episodes like Hollywood AD and Hell money that are two of the most horrible episodes the series ever produced. There are a lot off inexcusable omissions here: Squeeze, E.B.E., Duane Barry, Ascension, One Breath, Irresistible, Anasazi, The blessing Way, Paper Clip, Wetwired, Unruhe, Leonard Betts, Memento Mori, Small Potatoes, Gethsemane, Redux I & II, The Unusual Suspects, Jump the Shark, Improbable are only a few outstanding episodes and there are a lot more that are million times better than the episodes on the list. The only episodes on the list that I agree are Darkness Falls, Beyond the Sea, Home and Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose.