Throughout its 218 episode run, sci-fi horror series, The X-Files, offered up a superb selection of stories. Each week the show delivered a constant stream of fantastic episodes, all guaranteed to entertain.

But if you’re an X-Files fan, then you know the vast majority of episodes were split into two distinct categories: ‘mythology‘ episodes and ‘monster of the week’ episodes. The first category focused on a long-running story arc, related to a government/alien conspiracy, while the latter tended to be stand-alone stories, centred around a monster or a supernatural entity.

There were a few exceptions to this rule, with some episodes blurring the lines a touch, such as the season one episode ‘Conduit’ which focused on aliens but wasn’t part of the overall mythology. However, for the most part, X-Files fans were usually treated to either a ‘mythology’ episode or a ‘monster of the week’ episode, and the distinction was pretty clear.

Over the years, some fans like to revisit The X-Files with a full re-watch of the series. But what if you just want to watch the ‘monster of the week’ episodes?

Well, if you do just want to watch the ‘monster of the week’ episodes of The X-Files, then you’ll need a handy list to follow which focuses squarely on these episodes, and these episodes ONLY. And this list also needs to include one of the X-Files movies, which is also a ‘monster of the week’ style instalment.

Oh, and you can find this list below!

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A list of X-Files ‘monster of the week’ episodes (only)

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Below is a list of ‘monster of the week’ episodes of The X-Files. These episodes are (more or less) the stand-alone instalments of the show, which do not go to great lengths to further the overall story arc or mythology of the series.

Season One

  • Squeeze
  • Conduit
  • The Jersey Devil
  • Shadows
  • Ghost in the Machine
  • Ice
  • Space
  • Eve
  • Fire
  • Beyond the Sea
  • Gender Bender
  • Lazarus
  • Young at Heart
  • Miracle Man
  • Shapes
  • Darkness Falls
  • Tooms
  • Born Again
  • Roland

Season Two

  • The Host
  • Blood
  • Sleepless
  • 3
  • Firewalker
  • Excelsis Dei
  • Aubrey
  • Irresistible
  • Die Hand Die Verletzt
  • Fresh Bones
  • Fearful Symmetry
  • Død Kalm
  • Humbug
  • The Calusari
  • F. Emasculata
  • Soft Light
  • Our Town

Season Three

  • D.P.O.
  • Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose
  • The List
  • 2Shy
  • The Walk
  • Oubliette
  • Revelations
  • War of the Coprophages
  • Syzygy
  • Grotesque
  • Pusher
  • Teso Dos Bichos
  • Hell Money
  • Jose Chung’s From Outer Space
  • Avatar
  • Quagmire
  • Wetwired

Season Four

  • Home
  • Teliko
  • Unruhe
  • The Field Where I Died
  • Sanguinarium
  • Paper Hearts
  • El Mundo Gira
  • Leonard Betts
  • Never Again
  • Kaddish
  • Unrequited
  • Synchrony
  • Small Potatoes
  • Elegy

Season Five

  • Unusual Suspects
  • Detour
  • The Post-Modern Prometheus
  • Kitsunegari
  • Schizogeny
  • Chinga
  • Kill Switch
  • Bad Blood
  • Travelers
  • Mind’s Eye
  • All Souls
  • The Pine Bluff Variant
  • Folie à Deux

Season Six

  • Drive
  • Triangle
  • Dreamland
  • Dreamland II
  • How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
  • Terms of Endearment
  • The Rain King
  • Tithonus
  • Agua Mala
  • Monday
  • Arcadia
  • Alpha
  • Trevor
  • Milagro
  • The Unnatural
  • Three of a Kind
  • Field Trip
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Season Seven

  • Hungry
  • Millennium
  • Rush
  • The Goldberg Variation
  • Orison
  • The Amazing Maleeni
  • Signs and Wonders
  • X-Cops
  • First Person Shooter
  • Theef
  • Chimera
  • All Things
  • Brand X
  • Hollywood A.D.
  • Fight Club
  • Je Souhaite

Season Eight

  • Patience
  • Roadrunners
  • Invocation
  • Redrum
  • Via Negativa
  • Surekill
  • Salvage
  • Badlaa
  • Medusa
  • Empedocles
  • Alone

Season Nine

  • Dæmonicus
  • 4-D
  • Lord of the Flies
  • John Doe
  • Hellbound
  • Audrey Pauley
  • Underneath
  • Improbable
  • Scary Monsters
  • Jump the Shark
  • Release
  • Sunshine Days

Movie

  • The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

Season Ten

  • Founder’s Mutation
  • Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster
  • Home Again
  • Babylon

Season Eleven

  • This
  • Plus One
  • The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat
  • Kitten
  • Rm9sbG93ZXJz
  • Familiar
  • Nothing Lasts Forever

If you follow the list above, you can focus on the monster episodes, largely bypassing the story mythology in the process.

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