Click on the episode for artwork from 201 Days of the X-Files

Season One

Season Two

Season Three

Season Four

Season Five

Season Six

Season Seven

Season Eight

Season Nine

Season Ten

Episode/Production # #/Title

 

Adaptations

Continuity Notes

Dates

Code

Season 3: Episode 1

3x01 The Blessing Way (part 2)

With the Cigarette-Smoking Man pursuing the secret files that prove the existence of alien visitation and experimentation—and Mulder still missing —Scully finds her own life and career in jeopardy.  The Consortium (the Shadow Conspiracy) emerges.  Scully discovers that a computer chip has been implanted in her neck and has it removed.  First appearance of the Well-Manicured Man.  Melissa Scully is shot (possibly by Krycek).

Well-manicured man and Consortium debut.

4/16/95 – 4/22/95

X

Season 3: Episode 2

3x02 Paper Clip (part 3)

Mulder and Scully seek evidence of alien experimentation by Nazi war criminals while Skinner tries to bargain with the Cigarette-Smoking Man for their lives.  Melissa Scully dies.  The First Elder appears (Brando-guy).

 

4/22/95 – 4/25/95

 X

Short Story: "Statues"

From the book: The X-Files: Trust No One (IDW) (Coming soon) 5/11/95 – 5/19/95  

Comics Digest: X-Files #1: Big Foot, Warm Heart (Topps)

Trade pb: Dead to the World (UK)

Trade pb: The X-Files Volume 2 (Checker)

No internal dates provided.  Dates my own based on provided days.

5/22/95 – 5/26/95

L/K

Comic: X-Files #13: One Player Only

Comic: X-Files Special Edition #5 (Topps)

Trade pb: The Haunting (Titan)

Trade pb: The X-Files Volume 1 (Checker)

Hardcover: The X-Files Classics: Volume 2 (IDW)

Dates shown on computer screen.

6/1/95 – 6/6/95

A/K

Comic: X-Files Annual #1: Hallow Eve

Comic: X-Files Special Edition #5 (Topps)

Trade pb: The X-Files Collection Vol. 2 (Topps)

Trade pb: The Haunting (Titan)

No internal dates provided.  Dates my own

6/7/95 – 6/12/95

 

E/O

 

Comic: X-Files #14: Falling

Trade pb: The Haunting (Titan)

Trade pb: The X-Files Volume 1 (Checker)

Hardcover: The X-Files Classics: Volume 2 (IDW)

No internal dates provided.  Dates entirely my own.  Must be summer or spring.

6/14/95 – 6/15/95

U/K

Comic: X-Files #15: Home of the Brave: pt. 1: The New World

Reprint: The Haunting (UK)

Trade pb: The X-Files Volume 1 (Checker)

Hardcover: The X-Files Classics: Volume 2 (IDW)

No internal dates provided.  Dates entirely my own (based on Friday of the month).

6/16/95

U/K

Comic: X-Files #16: Home of the Brave: pt. 2: A Question of Ownership

Reprint: The Haunting (UK)

Trade pb: The X-Files Volume 1 (Checker)

Hardcover: The X-Files Classics: Volume 2 (IDW)

No internal dates provided.  Dates entirely my own (based on Fri-Sat).

6/16/95 – 6/19/95

U/K

Season 3: Episode 5

3x05 The List

A death row inmate makes good on his promise to return from the dead and kill five people who wronged him.

No internal dates provided.  Must be summer '95.   Dates my own.

6/21/95 – 6/24/95

R/K

Season 2: Episode 24

2x24 Our Town

Mulder and Scully investigate a murder in a small Southern town and its strange secrets surrounding a chicken processing plant.

 

Book: X-Files #4 ('97): Our Town

Takes place over 10 weeks after victim disappeared in 4/12/95 (as per the Missing Persons Report).  Confirmed by date of fax sent to Mulder from FBI offices (UA).  This makes this one of the few episodes to take place in the season after it aired.

6/27/95 – 6/28/95

C

Season 3: Episode 7

3x07 The Walk

A suicide attempt and subsequent murders at a military hospital bring Mulder and Scully into contact with a quadruple amputee veteran who may have the power of astral projection.

Post-date on mail.

7/6/95 – 7/7/95

P/K

Comic: X-Files #7: Trepanning Opera

Comic: X-Files Special Edition #3 (Topps)

Trade pb: The X-Files Collection 2 (Topps)

Trade pb: Project Aquarius (Titan)

Hardcover: The X-Files Classics: Volume 1 (IDW)

Internal dates provided.

 

7/13/95 – 7/17/95

K

Comic: TV Guide July 15-21, 1995: Circle Game

 

Internal dates provided.

7/17/95 – 7/19/95

L

Novel: Whirlwind (Harper, 1995)

Serial killers come in all shapes and sizes, but this one is particularly puzzling.There's no pattern to the mutilated bodies that have been showing up in Albuquerque: both sexes, all races, ages, ethnic groups. There is no evidence of rape or ritual. Only one thing connects the victims. They were the victims of a natural disaster. One of the most unnatural natural disasters imaginable, leading to a most painful, most certain and most hideous death....

 

Book Reprint: The X-Files: Goblin, Whirlwind (Quality Paperback Book Club)

Book Reprint: The X-Files Archives: Volume 1: Whirlwind and Ruins (IDW, 2015)

Month confirmed. Must take place after the reopening of the X-Files.

Late July

 

Comics Digest: X-Files #2: Dead to the World (Topps)

Trade pb: Dead to the World (Titan)

No internal dates provided.  Dates entirely my own.

8/1/95 – 8/10/95

K

Comic: X-Files #8: Silent Cities of the Mind pt. 1

Comic: X-Files Special Edition #3 (Topps)

Trade pb: The X-Files Collection 2 (Topps)

Trade pb: Project Aquarius (Titan)

Hardcover: The X-Files Classics: Volume 1 (IDW)

Internal dates provided.

8/15/95 – 8/18/95

X

Comic: X-Files #9: Silent Cities of the Mind pt. 2

Comic: X-Files Special Edition #3 (Topps)

Trade pb: The X-Files Collection 2 (Topps)

Trade pb: Project Aquarius (Titan)

Hardcover: The X-Files Classics: Volume 1 (IDW)

Internal dates provided.

8/18/95 – 8/20/95

X

Season 3: Episode 19

3x19 Hell Money

The deaths of several Chinese immigrants missing internal organs leads Mulder and Scully to a mysterious game with potentially fatal consequences.

 

Book: X-Files #9: Hungry Ghosts (Harper, 1997)

The Festival of the Hungry Ghosts (Yue Lan) ran from July 27th to August 25th of that year (must be 1995).  Festival has just ended.

8/25/95 – 8/28/95

K

Season 3: Episode 6

3x06 2Shy

Mulder and Scully track a serial killer who preys on lonely, overweight women via the Internet.

Scully dates her autopsy on 8/29. The lab report from the FBI gives a 10/27 date which must be ignored as it conflicts with other events.

8/29/95 – 8/30/95

M/K

Season 3: Episode 3

3x03 D.P.O.

Mulder and Scully investigate a series of deaths related to a teenage boy who can control lightning.  (Giovanni Ribisi and Jack Black guest star).

 

Book: X-Files #8: Voltage (Harper, 1997)

Dates from video-game screen.  Book indicates 4 days pass.

9/13/95 – 9/16/95

K/P

Season 3: Episode 4

3x04 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

Mulder and Scully enlist the help of a man who can see when people will die while searching for a serial killer who preys upon fortune-tellers.  (Peter Boyle guest stars)

Dates provided (9/19/95 – 9/21/95), however, lottery ticket indicates Monday 10/9/95 (as the script itself confirms), and the winning numbers are announced on TV. Scully acquires Queequeg.

10/8/95 – 10/10/95

H/P

Season 3: Episode 9

3x09 Nisei (pt. 1)

Video of an alien autopsy puts Mulder and Scully on the trail of a conspiracy involving Japanese scientists that may shed light on Scully's abduction.  Scully meets other women who were victims of alien abduction and who are all dying of cancer.  First appearance of Agent Pendrell and the Red Haired Man.

Date on fax report (UA) (11/21) should be ignored (see 3x10 below). 1st appearance of Agent Danny Pendrell.

10/12/95 – 10/14/95

X

Season 3: Episode 10

3x10 731 (pt. 2)

Mulder is caught on board a speeding train with what might be alien cargo and a government killer while Scully seeks her own solution to the conspiracy. 

Scully notes that President made public apology for radiation testing two weeks earlier (on 10/3/95) which provides dates.

10/14/95 – 10/17/95

X

Season 3: Episode 1

3x15 Piper Maru (pt. 1)

A French salvage ship finds mysterious wreckage from World War II that unleashes a strange force causing radiation sickness and leading Mulder into a web of intrigue.

Letter indicating date of January 16th (UA) should be ignored (see 3x16 below).

10/18/95 – 10/19/95

X

Season 3: Episode 16

3x16 Apocrypha (pt. 2)

Mulder pursues Krycek and the mystery of the sunken World War II wreckage, while the shooting of Skinner brings Scully new clues to her sister's murder.

Both Skinner and CSM indicate that five months have elapsed since the investigation into Melissa's killer and Krycek's disappearance (which occurred in late April/early May). 

10/19/95 – 10/23/95

X

Comic: X-Files #10: Feelings of Unreality pt. 1: Wheels within Wheels

Comic: X-Files Special Edition #4 (Topps)

Trade pb: The X-Files Collection 2 (Topps)

Trade pb: Project Aquarius (Titan)

Hardcover: The X-Files Classics: Volume 2 (IDW)

Internal dates provided.

10/24/95 – 10/30/95

X

Comic: X-Files #11: Feelings of Unreality pt. 2: Ancient of Days

Comic: X-Files Special Edition #4 (Topps)

Trade pb: The X-Files Collection 2 (Topps)

Trade pb: Project Aquarius (Titan)

Hardcover: The X-Files Classics: Volume 2 (IDW)

Internal dates provided.

10/31/95 – 11/21/95

X

Comic: X-Files #12: Feelings of Unreality pt. 3: Nightmare of History

Comic: X-Files Special Edition #4 (Topps)

Trade pb: The X-Files Collection 2 (Topps)

Trade pb: Project Aquarius (Titan)

Hardcover: The X-Files Classics: Volume 2 (IDW)

Internal dates provided.

11/21/95 – 11/27/95

 

X

Season 3: Episode 11

3x11 Revelations

Mulder and Scully seek to protect a young boy who displays wounds of religious significance from a killer, causing Scully to question her own faith while being cast in the role of the boy's protector.

Date of 11/10 appears on fingerprint report, but this should be ignored as the medication log indicates 11/28. 

11/27/95 – 12/1/95

C

Season 3: Episode 8

3x8 Oubliette

The abduction of a young girl prompts Mulder to seek the help of a woman kidnapped by the same man years earlier and who has the ability to feel what the victim feels.

 

Book: X-Files #5 ('97): Empathy

Dates my own.  Wanted poster reveals November (UA).  

12/2/95 – 12/5/95

 

K/P

Comic: X-Files #12: Feelings of Unreality pt. 3: Nightmare of History (Epilogue)

Comic: X-Files Special Edition #4 (Topps)

Trade Pb: The X-Files Collection 2 (Topps)

Trade pb: Project Aquarius (Titan)

Hardcover: The X-Files Classics: Volume 2 (IDW)

Internal dates provided.

Epilogue: 12/6/95

X

Season 3: Episode 12

3x12 War of the Coprophages

A number of deaths seemingly linked to cockroaches cause widespread panic in a small town.

 

Book: X-Files #10: Die, Bug, Die! (Harper, 1995)

No internal dates provided.  Dates my own (Mulder's computer indicates Thurs-Fri).

12/7/95 – 12/8/95

B

Season 3: Episode 20

3x20 Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"

A novelist interviews Scully about a rumored UFO abduction of two teenagers that seems open to a number of different interpretations.  (Charles Nelson Reilly, Jesse "The Body" Ventura and Alex Trebek guest star).

No internal dates given.  Must be mid-to-late '95 to allow for book publication in mid-March '96.  Dates entirely my own.

12/11/95 – 12/13/95

 

H/X

Magazine: X-Files Magazine #1: The Pit (Topps, Winter 1996)

Comic: X-Files -2: The Pit (Topps)

Trade pb: Project Aquarius (Titan)

Date provided (11/15/95)  contradicts the dates of issues #10-12. Moved up one month.

12/15/95

?

Novel: Ruins (Harper/Prism, 1996)

A well-connected American archaeologist, Cassandra Rubicon, disappears while exploring the lost Mayan city of Xitaclan, and Mulder and Scully are flown to the Yuctan jungles to investigate.  Based on a mysterious jade artifact recovered from the crumbling ruins, as well as ominous legends whispered by superstitious natives, Mulder decides there may be more to this case than simply a missing team of scientists—namely ancient curses, blood sacrifices, and deadly reptilian monsters lost in the jungles since before history.

Unbeknownst to the two FBI agents, the lost city of Xitaclan is the scene of an impending three-way brush war between Central American drug lords, international smugglers who deal in looted Mayan artifacts, and a covert U.S. military commando team that has been sent to investigate and destroy a strange electronic signal received from beneath the ruins—a signal aimed upward, at the stars!

 

Book Reprint: The X-Files Archives: Volume 1: Whirlwind and Ruins (IDW)

Days provided.  Must be after Episode 3x4 and before 3x22.

12/19/95 – 12/31/95

L/U

Season 3: Episode 13

3x13 Syzygy

Two high school girls born on the same day are involved in a series of deaths thanks to an odd alignment of the planets that cause strange behavior in all the townspeople, including Mulder and Scully.

 

Book: X-Files #3 ('97): Bad Sign

Internal dates provided.  Scully's comment about working with Mulder "2 years" should be chalked up to the weirdness in Comity.

1/11/96 – 1/12/96

P/H

Season 3: Episode 14

3x14 Grotesque

A serial killer maintains an evil spirit was responsible for his actions, as Mulder's own sanity comes into question when the murders persist.

 

Book: X-Files #12 ('97): Grotesque

No internal dates given.  Dates my own based on surrounding stories.

1/15/96 – 1/18/96

Epilogue: 2/1/96

K/L

Season 3: Episode 17

3x17 Pusher

Mulder and Scully investigate a man possessing the power to bend people to his will and who engages Mulder in a scary battle of wits.  1st appearance of Robert 'Pusher' Modell.

 

Book: X-Files #7 ('97): Control

 Newspaper gives possible date of February '96. 

2/12/96 – 2/14/96

K/P

Comic: X-Files #22: The Kanashibari (Topps)

Trade pb: Internal Affairs (Titan)

Trade pb: The X-Files Volume 2 (Topps)

Hardcover: The X-Files Classics: Volume 3 (IDW)

Internal dates provided

2/17/96 – 2/19/96

L

Season 3: Episode 18

3x18 Teso Dos Bichos

The unearthing of an ancient Ecuadorian artifact results in a series of deaths potentially linked to a shaman spirit.

No internal dates given other than year (UA). Dates my own based on surrounding stories.

2/20/96 – 2/22/96

C

Season 3: Episode 21

3x21 Avatar

In the midst of a marital breakup Skinner becomes a murder suspect, while a clue to the case may lie in the form of a strange woman who appears to him in a dream.

Internal dates provided.

3/8/96 – 3/10/96

N/X

Season 3: Episode 22

3x22 Quagmire

Mulder and Scully investigate a series of deaths that may be linked to a lake monster known by the locals as Big Blue.

No internal dates provided.  Dates my own. Starts Saturday.  Scully loses Queequeg.

3/17/96 – 3/19/96

L

Comic: X-Files #17: Thin Air (Topps)

Trade pb: Night Lights (Titan)

Trade pb: The X-Files Volume 1 (Checker)

Hardcover: The X-Files Classics: Volume 2 (IDW)

Internal dates provided.

3/19/96 – 3/21/96

L/G

3x99 Home Video Game: The X-Files Game

While investigating a smuggling operation, Mulder and Scully go missing, and FBI agent Craig Wilmore is assigned to locate them and help solve the case.  But more may be involved when Wilmore is given a strange weapon by a shadowy agent and discovers the presence of a mysterious black oil.

 

Book: Prima's Official Strategy Guide: The X-Files Game

Internal dates provided.

3/28/96 – 4/8/96

X

Comic: X-Files #27: Remote Control (pt 1) (Topps)

Trade pb: Remote Control (Titan)

Hardcover: The X-Files Classics: Volume 3 (IDW)

Internal dates provided.

4/14/96 – 4/16/96

X/P

Comic: X-Files #28: Remote Control (pt 2) (Topps)

Trade pb: Remote Control (Titan)

Hardcover: The X-Files Classics: Volume 3 (IDW)

Internal dates provided.  Closing date (4/24) is in error (as the following issue bears out)

4/22/96 – 4/23/96

X/P

Comic: X-Files #29: Remote Control (part 3): Conclusion (Topps)

Trade pb: Remote Control (Titan)

Hardcover: The X-Files Classics: Volume 3 (IDW)

Internal dates provided.

4/23/96 – 4/24/96

Epilogue: 4/29/96

X/P

Season 3: Episode 23

3x23 Wetwired

Mulder and Scully discover a conspiracy involving mind control through television signals that's responsible for a series of murders in a small town and begins causing Scully herself to behave strangely.

Internal dates provided.

4/29/96 – 5/2/96

Epilogue: 5/10/96

A/X

Season 3: Episode 24

3x24 Talitha Cumi (pt. 1)

Mulder and Scully search for a mysterious man with the power to heal whose existence risks exposing a conspiracy involving the presence of aliens on Earth, while various forces seek a strange weapon that comes into Mulder's possession.

See 4x01: Herrenvolk

5/7/96 – 5/10/96

X

 

Episode Theme Codes

 

A: Artificial Intelligence, technology and machines gone bad

B: Bugs, creepy-crawlers and parasitic pests

C: Cults, tribal practices and bizarre religious rites

D: Drama

E: Evil experiments and other scientific blunders

F: Fantasy, Philosophic theory, and Time paradoxes

G: Government conspiracies (unrelated to the mythology)

H: Humor

K: Killers (serial & spree), psychopaths; the human monster

L: Local legends: Bigfoot, lake monsters, ghosts & goblins

M: Monsters, mutants and malformed menaces

N: Nightmares, Dreams and Visions

O: Occultism, devil worship, demons and dark forces.

P: Psychic manifestations (telepathy, telekinesis, etc.,)

R: Reincarnation, transmigration and other pagan beliefs

S: Spirits, ghosts and apparitions

U: UFO's (unrelated to the mythology)

V: Viruses, bacteria and other nasty microbial matter

W: Werewolves, vampires and zombies

X: The Alien/Conspiracy main plot thread of the mythology

?: Unknown

 

Return