I have been a fan of The X-Files since it was first aired on BBC when I was but a mere child. I also own all the seasons on DVD, but it has been a long time since I have watched them. If I’m honest with myself, while I would like to see every single episode in the collection again, I don’t think I ever will. Lack of time and willpower is to blame for this, with saddens me a little, as it really was an excellent television series.

Therefore, I have decided that across the next year, I will aim to watch the Top 50 episodes of the series, as voted for by fans on the Internet Movie Database. An episode will be picked at random from the list below for my enjoyment.

X-Philes (a term for X-Files fans/geeks) will see that no mythology episodes have been included in this list. I have purposely removed these, as any fan of the series knows the story, and personally I don’t enjoy them as standalone episodes.

You can expect my thoughts on each episode to be included on this blog.

The list:

1. Bad Blood – 5.13
2. Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose – 3.4
3. Small Potatoes – 4.20
4. Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man – 4.7
5. Home – 4.2
6. Humbug – 2.20
7. Paper Hearts – 4.10
8. Monday – 6.14
9. War of the Coprophages – 3.12
10. Ice – 1.7
11. Squeeze – 1.2
12. Folie a Deux – 5.19
13. Field Trip – 6.21
14. Pusher – 3.17
15. Beyond the Sea 1.12
16. The Unnatural – 6.19
17. The Post-Modern Prometheus – 5.5
18. Unusual Suspects – 5.3
19. Je Souhaite – 7.21
20. Darkness Falls – 1.19
21. Triangle – 6.3
22. Redrum – 8.6
23. Arcadia – 6.15
24. Tithonus – 6.10
25. Wetwired – 3.23
26. Drive – 6.2
27. Leonard Betts – 4.12
28. The Amazing Maleeni – 7.8
29. Unruhe – 4.4
30. X-Cops – 7.12
31. The Goldberg Variation – 7.6
32. Roadrunners – 8.4
33. Tooms – 1.20
34. The Pine Bluff Variant – 6.18
35. Release – 9.17
36. Quagmire – 3.22
37. Eve – 1.10
38. The Host – 2.2
39. Detour – 5.4
40. F. Emasculata – 2.22
41. Irresistible – 2.13
42. Die Hand die verletzt – 2.14
43. How the Ghosts Stole Christmas – 6.6
44. Three of a Kid – 6.20
45. Millennium – 7.4
46. Our Town – 2.24
47. Sleepless – 2.4
48. 4-D – 9.4
49. Terms of Endearment – 6.7
50. Alone 8.19

In case you were wondering, the numbers next to each episode refer to the season, followed by episode number.