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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
Novel: Skin   Must be mid-July. Exact dates my own.  Two weeks of a mundane case occur prior to start of the book.  Takes place shortly over one year from  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 my own based on 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

 

 

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