X-Files Retrospective Podcast

Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders, in which the victims appear to have been skinned alive.

Frank is called to San Francisco to investigate serial killings that lead him to a cult.

Meet Frank Black, and man we've met before when this series had its final episode as a part of The X-Files in season 7.

Mulder and Scully investigate missing teenage girls who were obsessed with an unhealthy "romance" in a series of vampire novels.

Scully needs to investigate alone to find a missing Agent Mulder.

Skinner needs to convince the accounting department not to shut down the X-Files.

Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of witnesses to a 40 year old UFO crash, and uncover an entirely different government conspiracy.

Mulder and Scully must chase a document stolen from the Vatican.

Kevin J. Anderson makes his first contribution to the world of The X-Files.

Agent Jackson Cole is forced to work with Mulder and Scully against his will when one of his closed cases opens again.

Mulder and Scully investigate catatonic teenagers, in a case completely unrelated to the pilot episode of the series.

Skinner needs to decide which side he's on, but he gets distracted by seeing a man he served with in Vietnam.

Mulder and Scully investigate two completely different "alien" bodies in a tourist trap town.

This novel by Jonathan Mayberry gives us a look at a teenage Dana Scully, whose classmates keep dying under suspicious circumstances.

A look at Kami Garcia's novel about 17 year old Fox Mulder.

Lauren A. Forry takes us into the woods of Pennsylvania for this short story from The X-Files: Secret Agendas.

Mulder and Scully investigate Japanese mythology while in California.

Mulder and Scully encounter a pair of fae.

Covering a short story from The X-Files: The Truth is Out There by Rachel Caine.

Listener feedback, and an announcement.

A look back at the entire series.

A look back at season 11.

Mulder and Scully get a lead on the whereabouts of their son, and several important characters will be dead by the time it's all said and done.

Mulder and Scully meet a former movie and television star who really, really doesn't like to grow old.

Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of several children in Connecticut.

Always tip your server.

Skinner goes AWOL, and it's directly related to his time in Vietnam.

A teenage boy makes his girlfriends try to kill each other, in a very personal case for Mulder and Scully.

Mulder and Scully reunite with Reggie, their original partner who started the X-Files. You remember Reggie, right?

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Mulder and Scully deal with doppelgangers in an episode that is significantly better than Fight Club.

Langly reaches out for help, but Langly's dead... isn't he?

We get the resolution to that massive cliffhanger from season ten. Sort of.

An overview of the televised season 10.

Mulder and Scully try to stop the end of the world as we know it, and they do not feel fine.

Mulder and Scully meet their FBI doppelgangers and get involved in a terrorism case.

Glen Morgan returns as writer, and also as director, when Mulder and Scully go to Philadelphia to investigate murders related to a homeless relocation project.

Mulder and Scully are brought in to investigate a series of murders whose prime suspect is able to transform between human and reptile forms.

Mulder and Scully investigate a strange suicide in a medical research facility.

Mulder and Scully return again in the event series, 23 years after the series originally hit the airwaves.

Another procedural show spoofs The X-Files and guest stars some very familiar performers.

Mulder and Scully return to the silver screen to save the lives of kidnapped villains with the help of a psychic sex offender.

A look back at the entirety of season nine.

Mulder returns, and is put on trial for his life in the original series finale.

Doggett and Reyes investigate a murder in... the Brady house?

John Doggett finally gets closure regarding the death of his son.

A horribly disfigured man may or may not be Mulder, but he seems to have an unhealthy interest in William.

The dangling plotlines from The Lone Gunmen are wrapped up in The X-Files.

Leyla Harrison returns to help a boy deal with the monsters under his bed.

Burt Reynolds joins The X-Files playing a character that is not officially identified as God.

One of Doggett's old cases is reopened.

Reyes has a near death experience that lasts for hours.

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UFO cultists kidnap baby William and insist that Mulder must die to save the world.

Reyes feels compelled to involve Scully and Doggett in a case involving flayed victims.

John Doggett wakes up with amnesia in Mexico.

There is a chance to bring Mulder home, but at what risk?

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Comedy is back with another insect-oriented episode.

Doggett has been shot, and Reyes is the prime suspect, despite having been 14 miles away.

Doggett and Reyes are called in to what seems to be a satanic ritual killing.

Season nine launches with more information on the super soldier program.

Reviewing the 2000-2001 TV season of The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen.

The series finale of The Lone Gunmen turns out to be a cliffhanger.

Scully's baby is due, but not everyone wants to see it born.

Langly meets one of his heroes, and it doesn't go well.

Doggett gets a new partner as Scully goes on maternity leave.

Is Walter Skinner a murderer?

Mulder and Doggett are trapped on an oil rig with the alien virus.

The Lone Gunmen can help stop DOD secrets from getting smuggled out of the country, if they let Yves kill Langly...

Agent Reyes returns.

Jimmy suspects his doctor is a killer.

Byers and Jimmy go undercover as prison inmates.

Mulder is back, but he and Doggett don't get along.

The boys are called upon to rescue... a highly intelligent chimp?

Mulder is back, just in time to be buried, because nobody ever autopsies and enbalms an FBI agent who disappears for months and then turns up recently deceased.

Stephen Tobolowsky comes from a parallel reality... or does he?

The boys kidnap a baby. What could possibly go wrong?

The boys pursue a mythic water powered car.

Frohike goes undercover.

We finally meet our fifth and final cast member.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains a plot to destroy the World Trade Center by crashing a plane into it, under the pretence of a terrorist attack.

Mulder is back, barely.

Introducing Duffy Haskell.

This was a huge set.

A possible reference to The Twilight Zone.

Beware the butt genie.

OHSA should know about this place.

The military would love a sniper like this.

Skinner and Doggett team up.

Starring Joe Morton

Shades of Flight of the Navigator.

That's a heck of a slug.

Introducing a monster inspired by Batman comics.

Season eight launches with the return of Mulder. Kind of.

A look back at season seven.

Season seven draws to a close.

The X-Files does a story about a genie.

Guest starring Kathy Griffin

David Duchovny gets to write and direct again.

Turns out that smoking kills.

Gillian Anderson gets to write and direct.

Another look at suburbia

William B. Davis gets to write one.

You don't have to be a good speller to be a criminal.

William Gibson writes again.

The show spoofs the popular reality show Cops.

We learn the solution to the mystery of Samantha Mulder's disappearance.

A Fundamentalist church may not be wrong.

Stage magicians get their shot.

Nick Lea stars in a spoof of The X-Files from another series.

Donnie Pfaster returns.

Guest starring Wile E. Coyote.

The show does its own take on super speed characters.

Chris Carter's other show ends in the middle of The X-Files.

Guest starring Judith Hoag.

Season seven launches across the world.

The Babylon 5 spinoff Crusade does its version of The X-Files.

A look back at season six.

This is the end of season six.

Beware the trees....

Another episode focused on The Lone Gunmen.

David Duchovny writes and directs an episode about a baseball playing alien.

Beware the psychic surgeon.

This redefines the idea of a custody battle.

Guest starring Andrew Robinson

The X-Files does Groundhog Day

Beware of the water.

A parody of suburbia.

Jeffrey Spender has a really bad day.

Guest starring Geoffrey Lewis.

The return of a familiar face.

Guest starring Victoria Jackson

Guest starring Bruce Campbell.

Guest starring Ed Asner and Lily Tomlin

Guest starring Michael McKean

An homage to The Wizard of Oz.

Guest starring Brian Cranston.

A new season, post-film.

The first movie.

A look back at season five.

Season five ends rather significantly.

A telemarketing parody

A personal favourite of mine.

Home Improvement does a spoof of The X-Files.

A Scully-centric episode.

This guest star is not as famous as her mother.

The origin of the X-Files.

Veronica Cartwright guest stars in this two parter.

Another take on vampires.

Co-written by William Gibson.

Written by Stephen King

Guest starring Millennium's Sarah Jane Redmond.

A sequel episode to a monster of the week, Pusher.

Scully... a mother?

An homage to classic Universal horror films.

Got to love corporate training exercises.

A flashback to Mulder meeting the Lone Gunmen.

Season five starts with a shocker.

Looking back on season four.

Season four ends here.

Mulder... murderer?

3rd Rock From the Sun incorporates a lot of references to The X-Files this week.

A new recurring character is introduced.

Exposing the dangers of an uncontrolled pandemic.

Another comedic episode, but with Darin Morgan on the other side of the camera.

Time travel stories are fun, but microbiology tells us they don't work like this. If you travel to the future, you die. If you travel to the past, everybody dies.

Max returns for this two parter.

Vietnam veterens and super soldiers.

A Golem appears.

Scully faces her cancer.

Jodie Foster guest stars.

This one had the post-Super Bowl spot.

The Simpsons lampoons The X-Files this time.

Immigration and the chupacabra.

Were they paper or cloth?

The two parter ends.

A two parter with Russia and Krycek.

One possible backstory for the Cigarette Smoking Man is revealed.

Choose your health care provider carefully.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine references The X-Files.

Gee... what a riveting teaser...

This defies a few conventions.

Be careful who you upset.

One of the most disturbing episodes in the history of the series.

Season four begins!

Looking back at season three.

The end of season three.

More dangerous screen time, combined with bad water.

Lots of Moby Dick references here.

Guest starring Amanda Tapping.

Charles Nelson Reilly guest stars alongside Alex Trebek.

Guest starring Lucy Liu.

Not one of the better episodes.

Meet Robert Patrick Modell.

The latest two parter wraps up.

Another two part story kicks off.

Kurtwood Smith shows up this week, and the cinematography is gorgeous.

Wrapping up the peek ahead at season ten.

Another peek ahead.

Again, an immediate response before we return to it later.

A peek ahead at season 10. We'll return to it in the original broadcast order when the time comes.

Guest starring Ryan Reynolds and more.

The first all-CGI television series spoofs The X-Files.

A hilarious riff on "The War of the Worlds".

Another episode tied to Christian writings.

The two parter concludes.

Another two parter begins.

Sometimes the blind can see...

What do you mean he can't walk just because he doesn't have legs?

Another serial killer.

Be kind to people, even your prisoners.

The first truly hilarious episode.

More notable "before they were stars" style of guest stars here.

The end of the first three parter.

The series returns for season 3.

Looking back at season two.

This was a watershed episode for audience retention.

Watch out for bird flu.

Tony Shaloub guest stars, long before Monk.

This is what happens when you ignore pandemic warnings.

Another creepy child.

The first concentrated attempt at humour, with some great guest stars.

A ship at sea...

A commentary on zoos.

Ending a major two parter.

Another two parter begins.

Refugee internment camps on US soil? Inconceivable!

This one stars someone I've actually met.

Here's a serial killer story.

Quite the 'shrooms...

This was almost a very unexpected crossover.

I've always had a soft spot for this one.

Scully returns.

The first vampire episode.

Part two, and an even bigger cliffhanger ending.

Part one of two, with one heck of a cliffhanger.

Meet Alex Krycek.

The real dangers of screen time.

We'll see this actor again, but we'll mostly know him for his writing.

Season two kicks off with a very different status quo.

Reviewing the complete season 1.

Season one ends in a way that really shows what the show can do.

We'll see this guest star again, but good luck recognizing him!

The one where the Kingpin learns Mulder's secret identity.

Eugene Victor Tooms returns.

Look out for small, glowing insects.

Here's another classic monster.

Here's an actor that Chris Carter will hire again.

This is a much bigger landmark than anyone realized at the time.

That's one way to stay young...

Scully's history starts to matter.

Nick Lea is here! Alex Krycek is not.

Want a famous guest cast? Here, have a famous guest cast!

Featuring a geek icon before he became a geek icon.

Our first hint at super-soldiers.

Meet Donnie Pfaster.

We'll meet Max again some day.

Does this deserve its reputation as the worst of the series?

This is where the series really starts to find its footing.

The only Halloween episode of the series.

Our first ghost story.

The cinematography really kicks in.

The first of many creepy little children.

Meet Eugene Victor Tooms.

Mulder's informant is introduced.

The first episode of a podcast looking back at one of the most influential shows in television history.