
X-Files Retrospective Podcast
By Blaine Dowler

X-Files Retrospective PodcastAug 23, 2022

Goblins (Novel)
In this novel by Charles Grant, Mulder and Scully are joined by two other agents tracking down a seemingly invisible killer.

Millennium: 522666 (1x05)
Frank Black engages in a battle of wits with a bomber.

Millennium: The Judge (1x04)
Frank is called in to investigate when body parts are sent in the mail to seemingly random people.

Millennium: Dead Letters (1x03)
Frank travels to Portland, Oregon to track a serial killer, and works with an officer being considered for employment by the Millennium group.

Whirlwind (Novel)
Mulder and Scully investigate a series of murders, in which the victims appear to have been skinned alive.

Millennium: Gehenna (1x02)
Frank is called to San Francisco to investigate serial killings that lead him to a cult.

Millennium: Pilot (1x01)
Meet Frank Black, and man we've met before when this series had its final episode as a part of The X-Files in season 7.

Dusk (Short Story)
Mulder and Scully investigate missing teenage girls who were obsessed with an unhealthy "romance" in a series of vampire novels.

Loving the Alien (Short Story)
Scully needs to investigate alone to find a missing Agent Mulder.

Oversight (Short Story)
Skinner needs to convince the accounting department not to shut down the X-Files.

Topps Comics 2 and 3
Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of witnesses to a 40 year old UFO crash, and uncover an entirely different government conspiracy.

Not To Be Opened Until X-Mas (Topps Comics Issue #1)
Mulder and Scully must chase a document stolen from the Vatican.

Ground Zero: Novel
Kevin J. Anderson makes his first contribution to the world of The X-Files.

Back in El Paso My Life Will Be Worthless (Short Story)
Agent Jackson Cole is forced to work with Mulder and Scully against his will when one of his closed cases opens again.

Catatonia (Short Story)
Mulder and Scully investigate catatonic teenagers, in a case completely unrelated to the pilot episode of the series.

Non Gratum Anus Rodentum (Short Story)
Skinner needs to decide which side he's on, but he gets distracted by seeing a man he served with in Vietnam.

Beast of Little Hill (Short Story)
Mulder and Scully investigate two completely different "alien" bodies in a tourist trap town.

X-Files Origins: Devil's Advocate
This novel by Jonathan Mayberry gives us a look at a teenage Dana Scully, whose classmates keep dying under suspicious circumstances.

X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos
A look at Kami Garcia's novel about 17 year old Fox Mulder.

Stryzga
Lauren A. Forry takes us into the woods of Pennsylvania for this short story from The X-Files: Secret Agendas.

Kanashibari (Short Story)
Mulder and Scully investigate Japanese mythology while in California.

Dead Ringer (Short Story)
Mulder and Scully encounter a pair of fae.

The Voice of Experience (Short Story)
Covering a short story from The X-Files: The Truth is Out There by Rachel Caine.

What the X-Files Means to Us
Listener feedback, and an announcement.

Series Wrap Up
A look back at the entire series.

Season 11 Wrap Up
A look back at season 11.

My Struggle IV (11x10)
Mulder and Scully get a lead on the whereabouts of their son, and several important characters will be dead by the time it's all said and done.

Nothing Lasts Forever (11x09)
Mulder and Scully meet a former movie and television star who really, really doesn't like to grow old.

Familiar (11x08)
Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of several children in Connecticut.

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Always tip your server.

Kitten (11x06)
Skinner goes AWOL, and it's directly related to his time in Vietnam.

Ghouli (11x05)
A teenage boy makes his girlfriends try to kill each other, in a very personal case for Mulder and Scully.

The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat (11x4)
Mulder and Scully reunite with Reggie, their original partner who started the X-Files. You remember Reggie, right?

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Plus One (11x3)
Mulder and Scully deal with doppelgangers in an episode that is significantly better than Fight Club.

This (11x2)
Langly reaches out for help, but Langly's dead... isn't he?

My Struggle III (11x1)
We get the resolution to that massive cliffhanger from season ten. Sort of.

Season 10 Wrap Up
An overview of the televised season 10.

My Struggle II (10x6)
Mulder and Scully try to stop the end of the world as we know it, and they do not feel fine.

Babylon (10x5)
Mulder and Scully meet their FBI doppelgangers and get involved in a terrorism case.

Home Again (10x4)
Glen Morgan returns as writer, and also as director, when Mulder and Scully go to Philadelphia to investigate murders related to a homeless relocation project.

Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster (10x3)
Mulder and Scully are brought in to investigate a series of murders whose prime suspect is able to transform between human and reptile forms.

Founder's Mutation (10x2)
Mulder and Scully investigate a strange suicide in a medical research facility.

My Struggle (10x1)
Mulder and Scully return again in the event series, 23 years after the series originally hit the airwaves.

Bones: The X in the File (5x11)
Another procedural show spoofs The X-Files and guest stars some very familiar performers.

The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Mulder and Scully return to the silver screen to save the lives of kidnapped villains with the help of a psychic sex offender.

Season 9 Wrap Up
A look back at the entirety of season nine.

The Truth (9x19)
Mulder returns, and is put on trial for his life in the original series finale.

Sunshine Days (9x18)
Doggett and Reyes investigate a murder in... the Brady house?

Release (9x17)
John Doggett finally gets closure regarding the death of his son.