5.9/104,222 votesLoading...#1 - Teso Dos Bichos
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/8/1996
The unearthing of an ancient Ecuadorian Amaru urn and its removal to America despite protests leads to a series of deaths linked to a shaman spirit released by the urn.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: John Shiban
5.9/103,395 votesLoading...#2 - Fight Club
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 5/7/2000
Mulder and Scully cross paths with two women who are identical and have followed each other across 17 states in the last three years, causing chaos and mayhem wherever they are.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Chris Carter
6.0/106 votesLoading...#3 - The Truth (2)
Season 9 Episode 20 - Aired 5/19/2002
When an unexpected person comes to Mulder's rescue, Mulder refuses to slip north over the border to safety. Instead, he heads southwest to the Anasazi ruins of New Mexico seeking a mysterious wise man who the Indians call "The Keeper of the Truth".
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Chris Carter
6.1/103,946 votesLoading...#4 - First Person Shooter
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 2/27/2000
The Lone Gunmen call Mulder and Scully to a virtual reality development lab where they learn that one of the program testers was killed inside the computer generated game environment by the digital image of a woman. Needing to get his yah-yah's, Mulder enters the game to fight the woman, but Scully must step in to save him.
Director: Chris Carter
Writer: Tom Maddox, William Gibson
6.2/106,682 votesLoading...#5 - Space
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1993
Mulder and Scully are contacted by a communications specialist from NASA who shows them evidence of sabotage in the space programme.
Director: William A. Graham
Writer: Chris Carter
6.3/105,418 votesLoading...#6 - 3
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1994
Mulder, back on the X-Files but alone for the first time, investigates a series of vampire-like murders in Los Angeles and finds himself falling for the one woman that may be the prime suspect.
Director: David Nutter
Writer: Glen Morgan, James Wong, Chris Ruppenthal
6.4/104,725 votesLoading...#7 - Fearful Symmetry
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/24/1995
In a small town in Idaho, a man is killed by what seems to be an invisible elephant. Mulder's investigation into the local zoo, its owners and a local animal rights group uncovers evidence of insidious alien experiments.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Steve De Jarnatt
6.4/103,385 votesLoading...#8 - Alpha
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 3/28/1999
A mysterious dog thought to be the last of a rare Asian breed is responsible for several murders which Mulder and Scully are investigating. Now the agents have to find a way to stop the dog before it kills again.
Director: Peter Markle
Writer: Jeffrey Bell
6.4/105,737 votesLoading...#9 - Babylon
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 2/15/2016
Scully and Mulder investigate when an art gallery displaying offensive artwork is bombed, and need to discover a way to communicate with the comatose perpetrator to try and prevent a future attack.
Director: Chris Carter
Writer: Chris Carter
6.4/104,247 votesLoading...#10 - My Struggle III
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/2018
Mulder and Scully learn that they aren't the only ones desperately searching for their long-lost son, William. The very fate of the world may depend on it.
Director: Chris Carter
Writer: Chris Carter
6.6/104,101 votesLoading...#11 - Teliko
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1996
After several African-American men are killed and the color is drained from their skin, Mulder learns about the Teliko, an African folktale about a creature who must suck the pigmentation from a persons body in order to survive.
Director: Jim Charleston
Writer: Howard Gordon
6.6/104,763 votesLoading...#12 - The Field Where I Died
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1996
After an FBI raid on a doomsday cult called the "Temple of the Seven Stars", Mulder meets Melissa, a cultist who claims to have known him in a previous life during the American Civil War. Scully believes the woman is a delusional schizophrenic, but Mulder allows himself to be drawn into her fantasies.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: James Wong, Glen Morgan
6.6/103,173 votesLoading...#13 - Signs and Wonders
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 1/23/2000
Snakes are killing the unrighteous, but Mulder and Scully doubt that this is a case of divine intervention.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Jeffrey Bell
6.6/102,642 votesLoading...#14 - Nothing Lasts Forever
Season 11 Episode 9 - Aired 3/14/2018
While investigating human organ theft, Mulder and Scully uncover a mysterious cult consumed with macabre rituals.
Director: James Wong
Writer: Karen Nielsen
6.7/106,788 votesLoading...#15 - Ghost in the Machine
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1993
It's Halloween, and Mulder and Scully are investigating the strange death of a corporate executive in a sophisticated high-tech building.
Director: Jerrold Freedman
Writer: Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa
6.7/104,026 votesLoading...#16 - El Mundo Gira
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/12/1997
After a strange yellow rain kills a migrant girl, her family believes that a mythical creature el chupacabra was the cause and that it has manifested itself inside her fiancé's brother, who has since disappeared.
Director: Tucker Gates
Writer: John Shiban
6.7/102,764 votesLoading...#17 - Salvage
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 1/14/2001
A man whose blood is rapidly changing into metal alloy enacts revenge on those who caused his condition.
Director: Rod Hardy
Writer: Jeffrey Bell
6.8/102,749 votesLoading...#18 - Surekill
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 1/7/2001
When a real estate agent is shot inside a prison cell by someone who apparently fired from the roof, Scully and Doggett track him to two exterminators, one of whom has x-ray vision.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Greg Walker
6.8/103,027 votesLoading...#19 - Badlaa
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 1/21/2001
An Indian mystic whose son died in a chemical plant accident smuggles himself into the United States and takes his revenge on two families in suburban Washington, D.C.
Director: Tony Wharmby
Writer: John Shiban
6.9/107,320 votesLoading...#20 - The Jersey Devil
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1993
Mulder and Scully track a legendary creature that has roamed the New Jersey countryside for over forty years.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Chris Carter
6.9/104,972 votesLoading...#21 - Excelsis Dei
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1994
Mulder and Scully uncover strange occurrences in an elderly care home when one of the nurses is attacked by an unseen force she claims to be one of the 90 year old residents.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: Paul Brown
6.9/104,036 votesLoading...#22 - Kaddish
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/1997
After a Jewish man is murdered in a Jewish community, his killers are murdered, too. Mulder and Scully have to determine whether someone is exacting vengeance or larger forces are at work.
Director: Michael Lange, Kim Manners
Writer: Chris Carter, Howard Gordon
6.9/103,677 votesLoading...#23 - Schizogeny
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 1/11/1998
A therapist working with children from abusive families is found to be implanting them with the memories of her own abuse suffered at the hands of her late father, when one of her patients tries to kill his stepfather.
Director: Ralph Hemecker
Writer: Jessica Scott, Mike Wollaeger
6.9/102,734 votesLoading...#24 - Lord of the Flies
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 12/16/2001
When a stunt on a local cable reality show goes horribly wrong resulting in a man's death, Doggett and Reyes investigate. But when flies pour out of the victims eye sockets, they find themselves relying on Scully's expertise and ask her to join the investigation.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Thomas Schnauz
6.9/102,471 votesLoading...#25 - Underneath
Season 9 Episode 12 - Aired 3/31/2002
Scully, Doggett and Reyes investigate an old case that Doggett worked on as a cop in Brooklyn, dubbed "The Screwdriver Killer". They try to determine whether the man who was convicted and has just been released from prison was actually the man responsible for the murders.
Director: John Shiban
Writer: John Shiban
The Worst Episodes of The X-Files
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The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence...
Genres:CrimeDramaMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:FOX
Worst Episodes Summary
"Teso Dos Bichos" is the worst rated episode of "The X-Files". It scored 5.9/10 based on 4222 votes. Directed by Kim Manners and written by John Shiban, it aired on 3/8/1996. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Fight Club".