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Season Two
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Season Three
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Season Four
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Season Five
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Season Six
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Season Seven
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Season Eight
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Season Nine
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The Future
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Episode # and/or Title |
Adaptations |
Continuity Notes |
Dates |
Code |
| Date found on work order. Epilogue occurs a month later. X is killed. 1st appearance of Marita Covarrubias. | 5/10/96 – 5/11/96 | X | ||
| Magazine: The X-Files #2: The Silent Sword (Summer 1996) |
Reprint: X-Files -2:The Silent Sword Trade pb: The Haunting (UK) |
Internal dates provided. | 5/20/1996 | K/F |
| 4x01 Herrenvolk (pt 2) | Epilogue only. Main story occurs one month earlier. | Epilogue: 6/11/96 | X | |
| 4x03 Home | No internal dates provided. Dates are my own. | 6/12/96 – 6/13/96 | M | |
| 4x04 Teliko | Internal dates provided. | 6/16/96 – 6/17/96 | F/M | |
| 4x05 The Field Where I Died | No internal dates provided. Dates are my own | 6/19/96 – 6/20/96 | R | |
| 4x06 Sanguinarium | No internal dates provided. Dates are my own. | 6/24/96 – 6/26/96 | S | |
| Comic: X-Files #30: Surrounded (part 1) |
Trade pb: Skin Deep (UK) |
Internal dates provided. | 6/30/96 | V |
| Comic: X-Files #31: Surrounded (part 2) |
Trade pb: Skin Deep (UK) |
Internal dates provided. | 6/30/96 | V |
| Comic: X-Files #33: Soma |
Trade pb: Skin Deep (UK) |
Internal dates provided. | 7/16/96 – 7/18/96 | S |
| Comics Digest: X-Files #3: Scape Goats | Internal dates provided. | 8/5/96 – 8/8/96 | L | |
| Comic: X-Files #18: Night Lights (part 1) |
Trade pb: Night Lights (UK) The X-Files Volume 2 |
Internal dates provided. | 8/13/96 | U |
| Comic: X-Files #19: Night Lights (part 2) |
Trade pb: Night Lights (UK) The X-Files Volume 2 |
Internal dates provided. | 8/13/96 – 8/14/96 | U/? |
| Comic: X-Files #20: Family Portrait, part 1: Gallery |
Trade pb: Night Lights (UK) The X-Files Volume 2 |
No internal dates provided. Dates my own. | 8/21/96 – 8/22/96 | S |
| Comic: X-Files #21: Family Portrait, part 2: The Camera Eye |
Trade pb: Night Lights (UK) The X-Files Volume 2 |
No internal dates provided. Dates my own. | 8/22/96 | S |
| Comic: X-Files #23: Donor |
Trade pb: Internal Affairs (UK) The X-Files Volume 3 |
Internal dates provided. | 8/23/96 – 8/27/96 | W |
| Comic: X-Files #32: Crop Duster |
Trade pb: Skin Deep (UK) |
Internal dates provided. | 9/2/96 – 9/3/96 | N/E |
| 4x02 Unruhe |
Book: X-Files #11 ('97): The Howlers |
There are three contradictory dates in this episode. Scully's journal dates the epilogue at 10/11. The original missing persons report (two days prior to the investigation) is dated 9/7. Finally, the police report of the killer is 4/9 (unlikely). The above two dates, however, may be both correct as the 10/11 date may be an addendum. |
9/9/96 – 9/10/96
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K/P |
| Comic: X-Files Annual #2: E.L.F.s |
Trade pb: Internal Affairs (UK) |
Internal dates provided. | 10/8/96 – 10/11/96 | ? |
| 4x02 Unruhe |
Book: X-Files #11 ('97):The Howlers
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Epilogue only. Reconciliation of the two contradictory dates (ignoring the later police report of April) allows that Scully made an addendum to her report a month later. |
Epilogue: 10/11/96 |
K/P |
| Comic: X-Files #39: Scum of the Earth | Internal dates provided (cannot be '97 as it conflicts with 5x02). | 10/21/96 – 10/23/96 | ||
| Comic: X-Files #25: Be Prepared, part 1 |
Trade pb: Remote Control (UK) The X-Files Volume 3 |
Internal dates provided. | 10/28/96 | L |
| Comic: X-Files #26: Be Prepared, part 2 |
Trade pb: Remote Control (UK) The X-Files Volume 3 |
Internal dates provided. | 10/28/96 | L |
| 4x16 Unrequited | Internal dates provided. | 11/12/96 | G | |
| 4x07 Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man | Internal dates provided (listed as the publication date for CSM's story). | 11/13/96 | X/G | |
| 4x08 Paper Hearts | No internal dates provided. Starts on Sunday. Dates my own. |
11/17/96
– 11/23/96
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N/K | |
| Comic: X-Files #24: Silver Lining |
Trade pb: Internal Affairs (UK) The X-Files Volume 3 |
Internal dates provided. | 11/19/96 | E |
| The opening date (11/25) of the first Senate Hearing is in error as is the onscreen indication that ten days elapse before then. Mulder's watch correctly dates 11/25 on the 2nd day of the episode, and the ten days which elapse date from the last Senate Hearing, not the first. | 11/23/96 – 11/26/96 | X | ||
| 4x10 Terma (pt. 2) | As above. While difficult to date, based on a passage of 10 days (erroneously notated after the first Senate Hearing instead of the last), we arrive at the correct period. |
11/27/96
– 12/1/96
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X | |
| 4x11 El Mundo Gira | No internal dates provided. Estimated dates my own. | 12/5/96 – 12/7/96 | L/V | |
| 4x12 Kaddish | No internal dates provided. Estimated dates my own. | 12/9/96 – 12/10/96 | C/W | |
| 4x14 Leonard Betts | Book: X-Files #14 ('97): Regeneration | No internal dates provided. Dates my own. 1st indication of Scully's cancer. | 12/12/96 – 12/15/96 | M |
| 4x13 Never Again | Date found on Pudovkin's report. Mulder takes vacation (possibly a week). | 1/15/97 – 1/27/97 | D/K | |
| 4x15 Memento Mori | No internal dates provided. Dates my own. Scully diagnosed with cancer. | 2/3/97 – 2/6/97 | D/X | |
| Novel: Antibodies | No internal dates provided. Book gives days. Must be between 4x15 and 4x24. Published in 9/97. | 2/10/97 – 2/15/97 | V | |
| 4x17 Tempus Fugit (pt. 1) | Episode starts on Scully's birthday. Reappearance of Max (1x09). | 2/23/97 – 2/26/97 | X | |
| 4x18 Max (pt. 2) | Agent Pendrell dies. | 2/26/97 – 3/3/97 | X | |
| 4x20 Small Potatoes | No internal dates provided. Takes place Thurs-Fri. | 3/13/97 – 3/14/97 | H | |
| 4x21 Zero Sum | Log in sheet shows date. Scully in hospital. | 3/27/97 –3/29/97 | G | |
| 4x22 Elegy | Takes place Sat-Sun. A TV magazine indicates possible week. |
4/4/97 – 4/5/97 |
S | |
| 4x19 Synchrony | Police report indicates date. (Must be another time anomaly as it occurs after the air date - see here). Blood analysis shows date of 2/25 which contradicts 4x17. |
4/10/97 – 4/11/97
(or 2/5/97 – 2/8/97 in an alternate dimension) |
F | |
| 4x23 Demons | Screen text indicates 4/12, however Scully says it's a Sunday, which places it on the 13th (Mulder's experience begins the day before). | 4/12/97 – 4/14/97 | E | |
| Comic: X-Files #34: Skybuster |
Trade pb: Skin Deep (UK) |
Internal dates provided. | 4/28/97 – 4/29/97 | E/G |
| Comic: X-Files #41: Severed | Internal dates provided. Final X-Files comic from Topps (Oddly, this title was cancelled abruptly). | 5/13/97 – 5/14/97 | W | |
| Graphic Novel: X-Files: Afterflight | No internal dates provided (Mon-Mon). | 8/4/97 – 8/11/97 | U | |
| Comic: X-Files #40: Devil's Advocate | Internal dates provided. | 8/19/97 – 8/21/97 | G | |
| 4x24 Gethsemane | No internal dates provided. (See episode 5x01). | 10/14/97 – 10/21/97 | 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
- P: Psychic manifestations (telepathy, telekinesis, etc.,)
- R: Reincarnation, transmigration and other pagan beliefs
- S: Spirits, spiritism, devil worship, demons and dark forces
- U: UFO's (unrelated to the mythology)
- V: Viruses, bacteria and other nasty microbial matter
- W: Werewolves, vampires and the undead
- X: The Alien/Conspiracy main plot thread of the mythology
- ?: Unknown
Plot Synopses
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