8.5/101,342 votesLoading...#1 - Days of Future Past (1)
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/13/1993
A mutant from more than half a century into the future, named Bishop, arrives in the present, attempting to change history for the better, by stopping an X-Man from committing an assassination. But between being chased by a future breed of Sentinel, and the details of his mission being fuzzy, he's got his work cut out for him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/101,303 votesLoading...#2 - Days of Future Past (2)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/20/1993
Aware of an impending assassination which will create a catastrophic future, the X-Men must deal with threats both outside and within their team.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/101,025 votesLoading...#3 - Time Fugitives (2)
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/18/1993
To stablize his own timeline, Cable comes to the present to prevent Bishop from saving mutant-kind from Apocalypse's plague.
Director: Larry Houston
Writer: Elliot S. Maggin
8.2/101,221 votesLoading...#4 - The Final Decision
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/27/1993
Prominent anti-mutant and presidential hopeful Senator Kelly is caught in a tug-of-war between Magneto's goal of mutant superiority, the X-Men's dream of peaceful co-existance between mutants and humans, and the mutant-hunting Sentinel robots' goals of global domination.
Director: N/A
Writer: Mark Edward Edens
8.2/10899 votesLoading...#5 - The Phoenix Saga: Child of Light (5)
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 9/9/1994
Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken's rise to power via the M'Kraan Crystal is causing a universal implosion. The X-Men, Imperial Guard, and Starjammers find themselves overpowered and unable to stop it. Jean Grey must unleash her destiny as the host of the Phoenix, even at a most personal cost.
Director: Larry Houston
Writer: Mark Edward Edens
8.2/10827 votesLoading...#6 - The Dark Phoenix: The Dark Phoenix (3)
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 11/19/1994
As the Dark Phoenix grows increasingly hostile, even destroying an entire star system, the X-Men struggle to figure out a way to stop her without harming their teammate Jean Grey.
Director: Larry Houston
Writer: Larry Parr
8.2/10825 votesLoading...#7 - The Dark Phoenix: The Fate of the Phoenix (4)
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 11/26/1994
The X-Men face the Shi'ar Imperial Guard in a trial by combat to spare the life of Jean Grey, though even they begin to question the safety of the universe as long as the Dark Phoenix remains alive inside her.
Director: Larry Houston
Writer: Brooks Wachtel
8.2/10769 votesLoading...#8 - One Man's Worth (2)
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1995
Bishop, Shard, and the alternate-present versions of Wolverine & Storm, will have one more chance to save Xavier from being killed before he founded the X-Men... if they can survive the alternate-future ruled entirely unopposed by Mastermold.
Director: Larry Houston, Fred Miller
Writer: Gary Greenfield
8.2/10772 votesLoading...#9 - Beyond Good and Evil (4)
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1995
Two of Apocalypse's former evil allies, the captive Wolverine, the loose cannon Cable, and the exiled Bishop, come together to free the kidnapped psychics and save reality from being rewritten.
Director: Larry Houston, Fred Miller
Writer: Dean Stefan
8.2/10756 votesLoading...#10 - Graduation Day
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 9/20/1997
At a Mutant/Human Relations Summit, Henry Peter Gyrich attacks.
Director: Larry Houston, Fred Miller
Writer: N/A
8.1/101,030 votesLoading...#11 - Time Fugitives (1)
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/11/1993
Bishop returns from the future to again attempt to fix his world, this time trying to stop a plague from infecting mutants. But his noble actions lead to a far greater tragedy.
Director: Larry Houston
Writer: Michael Edens
8.0/101,080 votesLoading...#12 - Till Death Do Us Part (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/30/1993
As Morph's seeking of revenge on the X-Men begins to run into some snags, Cyclops & Jean Grey get their Honeymoon cut short by the machinations of Mister Sinister and the Nasty Boys.
Director: Larry Houston
Writer: Michael Edens
8.0/10824 votesLoading...#13 - Nightcrawler
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 5/13/1995
Gambit, Rogue, and Wolverine take a ski trip in Germany. While Gambit and Rogue seem to be enjoying themselves, Wolverine is restless, and longs for some action. When he hears reports of a demon hiding in a local monastery, his investigation reveals not a demon, but a mutant, Nightcrawler, whose devilish appearance is in stark contrast to his peaceful and deeply philosophical nature.
Director: Larry Houston
Writer: Len Uhley
8.0/10743 votesLoading...#14 - Weapon X, Lies, and Video Tape
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 6/11/1995
A cryptic postcard unleashes a flood of maddening and painful memories in Wolverine that threaten to drive him insane. To keep his mind from being torn apart, Wolverine and Beast travel to the one location that may hold the answers to his hidden past: the ruins of the top-secret Weapon X lab where Wolverine's bones were laced with adamantium. There he encounters other former 'test subjects'—Sabretooth, Maverick and Silver Fox—who are suffering similar mental breakdowns.
Director: Larry Houston
Writer: Steven Melching, David McDermott
8.0/10767 votesLoading...#15 - One Man's Worth (1)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1995
Bishop & Shard recruit Wolverine & Storm for a time travel mission to save Professor Xavier's life. Except they're from the parallel timeline where he died before founding the X-Men, a world where humans and mutants are in a constant war with one another. Not only do they pair lack a connection to him, but correcting history may put an end to their marriage.
Director: Larry Houston, Fred Miller
Writer: Richard Mueller
8.0/10749 votesLoading...#16 - Beyond Good and Evil (1)
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1995
Apocalypse steals Cable's computer in the year 3999, allowing him to time travel to the past, where he schemes to bring an end to his struggle against inferior mutants once and for all. This leads to Bishop becoming trapped amid the timestream, and brings
Director: Larry Houston, Fred Miller
Writer: Steve Cuden
8.0/10732 votesLoading...#17 - Beyond Good and Evil (2)
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1995
When Oracle, the psychic member of the Imperial Guard is kidnapped by Apocalypse, Professor Xavier deduces his scheme involves capturing mutants with telepathic abilities. The X-Men are split up to track them down before the villains can, which puts Wolverine & Shard in the middle of a scuffle between Archangel and a ninja named Psylocke.
Director: Larry Houston, Fred Miller
Writer: Jan Strnad
8.0/10723 votesLoading...#18 - Beyond Good and Evil (3)
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1995
After swiping the government's own time machine, Cable ends up recruiting the X-Men on his mission to destroy Apocalypse's source of immortality at its creation.
Director: Larry Houston, Fred Miller
Writer: Michael Edens
7.9/101,256 votesLoading...#19 - Come the Apocalypse
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/6/1993
An ancient and immensely powerful mutant, known as Apocalypse, creates four Horsemen to help usher in a new world where survival of the fittest reigns.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Edens
7.9/101,003 votesLoading...#20 - A Rogue's Tale
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/8/1994
Haunted by visions of a strange woman, Rogue must come to grips with the dark secrets of her past prior to joining the X-Men.
Director: Larry Houston
Writer: Robert N. Skir, Marty Isenberg
7.9/10975 votesLoading...#21 - Beauty & the Beast
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/15/1994
Beast falls in love with his patient, a blind woman named Carly, and though the feelings are mutual, her mutant-hating father and anti-mutant sentiment drive a split between the pair. Meanwhile, Wolverine seeks to take down the Friends of Humanity from the inside out.
Director: Larry Houston
Writer: Stephanie Mathison
7.9/10927 votesLoading...#22 - Reunion (2)
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/19/1994
The X-Men find themselves powerless in the Savage Land, and become fodder for Mr. Sinister's experiments. It's up to Wolverine and Ka-Zar to initiate a rescue.
Director: Larry Houston
Writer: Michael Edens
7.9/10864 votesLoading...#23 - The Phoenix Saga: Cry of the Banshee (3)
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 9/7/1994
Professor Xavier's claims of the capture of his alien soulmate Lilandra by Juggernaut and Black Tom Cassidy are met with skepticism.
Director: Larry Houston
Writer: Michael Edens
7.9/10811 votesLoading...#24 - The Dark Phoenix: The Inner Circle (2)
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/12/1994
The Circle Club makes the Phoenix-controlled Jean Grey their new Queen, but finds two factors opposing it: her mental bond with Cyclops, and the presumed-dead Wolverine stalking after them.
Director: Larry Houston
Writer: Steven Levy
7.8/101,117 votesLoading...#25 - Till Death Do Us Part (1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/23/1993
The X-Men are divided and conquered, by none other than a friend they had thought dead.
Director: Larry Houston
Writer: Mark Edward Edens
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"Days of Future Past (1)" is the best rated episode of "X-Men". It scored 8.5/10 based on 1342 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/13/1993. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Days of Future Past (2)".