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Season Four

Season Five

Season Six

Season Seven

Season Eight

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Episode # and/or Title

 

Adaptations

Continuity Notes

Dates

Code

5x02 Redux   Tapped phone records indicate date. This episode and the next confirm a four-year period from the start of Scully's work on the X-Files. 10/21/97 – 10/22/97 X
 5x03 Redux II   (See above) 10/23/97 – 10/27/97 X
5x04 Detour   No internal dates provided. Estimated dates my own. 10/29/97 – 10/31/97 M/L
Comic: X-Files #35: N.D.E. (pt. 1)   Excluding flashback.  Internal dates provided. 11/3/97 – 11/4/97 ?
Comic: X-Files #36: N.D.E. (pt. 2)   Internal dates provided. 11/6/97 ?
Comic: X-Files #37: The Face of Extinction   Internal date provided.  Title mistakenly left off issue (obtained from #36). 11/19/97 L
5x05 Christmas Carol   Internal dates provided. 12/21/97 – 12/25/97 D
5x07 Emily   Occurs days after the episode above. 12/31/97 – 1/4/98 D/X
5x06 The Post-Modern Prometheus   No internal dates provided. Estimated dates my own. 1/9/98 – 1/11/98 F/L
5x08 Kitsunegari   No internal dates provided. Estimated dates my own. 1/13/98 K
5x09 Schizogeny   No internal dates provided. Estimated dates my own. 1/15/98 – 1/16/98 ?
5x10 Chinga (aka. Bunghoney)   No internal dates provided. Estimated dates my own.  Sat-Mon. 1/24/98 – 1/26/98 S
5x11 Kill Switch   Begins on a Saturday. No internal dates provided. Estimated date my own. 2/7/98 AI
5x12 Bad Blood   Internal dates provided. 2/10/98 2/12/98 H/W
5x13 Patient X   No internal dates provided except year.  Jeffrey Spender appears. CSM returns. 2/18/98 2/22/98 X
5x14 The Red and the Black   Year provided on letter (which may also indicate possible date). 2/23/98 2/27/98 X
5x16 Mind's Eye   Internal dates provided (mug shot). 3/7/98 3/10/98 P
Comic: X-Files #38: Cam Ranh Bay   Internal dates provided. 3/24/98 3/25/98 G/E
5x17 All Souls   Internal dates provided. 4/12/98 4/18/98 C/S
5x18 The Pine Bluff Variant   Must be some time after April 7th (as seen on mug shot) and shortly before 5x19.  Dates are my own. 4/29/98 5/2/98 G
5x19 Folie a Deux   Internal dates provided (by Mulder). 5/10/98 5/14/98 M/W
Comic: The X-Files #0 (Sept 08; Wildstorm)

Trade pb: The X-Files (Wildstorm)

Written by the show's regular writer Frank Spotnitz. The internal date puts the story at 2008, though this contrasts Spotnitz' statement that the series takes place between seasons 2 and 5. This also can't be true as Scully and Mulder are no longer FBI agents in 2008. Month and day listed are my own. (Assuming the 1991 date is actually 1981):

5/17/98 – 5/19/98

K
Comic: The X-Files #1-2 (Jan-Feb 09; Wildstorm) Trade pb: The X-Files (Wildstorm) Written by the show's regular writer Frank Spotnitz. No internal date indicators, though Mulder and Scully are w/the FBI, the Lone Gunmen are alive and well, and Senator Matheson and Mulder are still friends. Month/day/year are my own. 5/23/98 – 5/25/98 G/A
Comic: The X-Files #5: Dante's Muse: Part 1: Nasty Ones (May 09; Wildstorm) Trade pb: The X-Files (Wildstorm) No internal dates provided. Mulder and Scully do not appear to be living together. Month, day and year are my own invention. 5/29/98 L
Comic: The X-Files #6: Dante's Muse: Part 2: Netherworld (June 09; Wildstorm) Trade pb: The X-Files (Wildstorm) No internal dates provided. Year and month are my own invention. 5/30/98 M
Novel: Skin   Must be mid-July. Exact dates are my own. Two weeks of a mundane case occur prior to start of the book. Takes place little over one year after  episode 4x13.  Recovery time required. (6/22/98 7/6/98)

7/6/98 – 7/10/98

F/E
7x18 Hollywood A.D. (flashback only)   Flashback portion only: Start date confirmed by date on toe-tag.  Ending date is speculative. 7/14/98 7/18/98  
5x20 The End   No internal dates provided. Estimated dates my own.  Diana Fowley introduced.  7/27/98 – 7/31/98

 

X
Movie: Fight the Future Novel: X-Files: Fight the Future No internal dates provided except the epilogue which shows a dated letter re: reopening of the X-Files. Estimated dates are my own based on a 10 day period. 8/24/98 9/2/98

Epilogue: 9/7/98

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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