This page shows the original Nielsen ratings for The X Files during the show's run.
Most watched
- Most watched episode in Season One is The Erlenmeyer Flask, and least watched is Fallen Angel.
- Most watched episode in Season Two is Fresh Bones , and least watched is The Calusari.
- Most watched episode in Season Three is The Blessing Way, and least watched is Avatar.
- Most watched episode in Season Four is Leonard Betts, and least watched episode is Kaddish.
- Most watched episode in Season Five is Redux, and the least watched episode is All Souls.
- Most watched episode in Season Six is The Rain King , and the least watched episode is Three of a Kind.
- Most watched episode in Season Seven is The Sixth Extinction, and the least watched episode is Brand X.
- Most watched episode in Season Eight is Within, and the least watched episode is Salvage.
- Most watched episode in Season Nine is The Truth, and the least watched episode is Underneath.
- Most watched episode in Season Ten is My Struggle, and the least watched episode is Babylon.
- Most watched episode in Season Eleven is My Struggle III , and the least watched episode is Nothing Lasts Forever
- The most watched episode to date is Leonard Betts, and the least watched episode is Nothing Lasts Forever .
Season 1
Episode Number |
Episode Name |
U.S. viewers (millions) |
---|---|---|
1 | Pilot | 12.0 |
2 | Deep Throat | 11.0 |
3 | Squeeze | 11.1 |
4 | Conduit | 9.2 |
5 | The Jersey Devil | 10.4 |
6 | Shadows | 8.8 |
7 | Ghost in the Machine | 9.5 |
8 | Ice | 10.0 |
9 | Space | 10.7 |
10 | Fallen Angel | 8.8 |
11 | Eve | 10.4 |
12 | Fire | 11.1 |
13 | Beyond the Sea | 10.8 |
14 | Gender Bender | 11.1 |
15 | Lazarus | 12.1 |
16 | Young at Heart | 11.5 |
17 | E.B.E | 11.7 |
18 | Miracle Man | 11.6 |
19 | Shapes | 11.5 |
20 | Darkness Falls | 12.5 |
21 | Tooms | 13.4 |
22 | Born Again | 13.7 |
23 | Roland | 12.5 |
24 | The Erlenmeyer Flask | 14.0 |
Season 2
Episode Number |
Episode Name |
U.S. viewers (millions) |
---|---|---|
1 | Little Green Men | 16.1 |
2 | The Host | 15.9 |
3 | Blood | 14.8 |
4 | Sleepless | 13.4 |
5 | Duane Barry | 13.9 |
6 | Ascension | 15.5 |
7 | 3 | 15.0 |
8 | One Breath | 15.3 |
9 | Firewalker | 15.2 |
10 | Red Museum | 16.1 |
11 | Excelsis Dei | 14.2 |
12 | Aubrey | 16.2 |
13 | Irresistible | 14.7 |
14 | Die Hand Die Verletzt | 17.7 |
15 | Fresh Bones | 17.8 |
16 | Colony | 15.9 |
17 | End Game | 17.5 |
18 | Fearful Symmetry | 16.5 |
19 | Dod Kalm | 17.1 |
20 | Humbug | 15.7 |
21 | The Calusari | 12.9 |
22 | F. Emasculata | 14.0 |
23 | Soft Light | 12.9 |
24 | Our Town | 14.5 |
25 | Anasazi | 16.6 |
Season 3
Episode Number |
Episode Name |
U.S. viewers (millions) |
---|---|---|
1 | The Blessing Way | 19.94 |
2 | Paper Clip | 17.20 |
3 | D.P.O. | 15.57 |
4 | Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose | 15.38 |
5 | The List | 16.72 |
6 | 2Shy | 14.83 |
7 | The Walk | 15.91 |
8 | Oubliette | 15.90 |
9 | Nisei | 16.36 |
10 | 731 | 17.68 |
11 | Revelations | 15.25 |
12 | War of the Coprohaghes | 16.32 |
13 | Syzygy | 16.04 |
14 | Grotesque | 18.32 |
15 | Piper Maru | 16.44 |
16 | Apocrypha | 16.71 |
17 | Pusher | 16.20 |
18 | Teso Dos Bichos | 17.38 |
19 | Hell Money | 14.86 |
20 | Jose Chung's 'from outer space' | 16.08 |
21 | Avatar | 14.48 |
22 | Quagmire | 16.00 |
23 | WetWired | 14.62 |
24 | Talitha Cumi | 17.86 |
Season 4
Episode Number |
Episode Name |
U.S. viewers (millions) |
---|---|---|
1 | Herrenvolk | 21.11 |
2 | Home | 18.85 |
3 | Teliko | 18.01 |
4 | Unruhe | 19.10 |
5 | The Field Where I Died | 19.85 |
6 | Sanguinarium | 18.85 |
7 | Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man | 17.09 |
8 | Tunguska | 18.85 |
9 | Terma | 17.34 |
10 | Paper Hearts | 16.59 |
11 | El Mundo Gira | 22.37 |
12 | Leonard Betts | 29.15 |
13 | Never Again | 21.36 |
14 | Memento Mori | 19.10 |
15 | Kaddish" | 16.56 |
16 | Unrequited | 16.56 |
17 | Tempus Fugit | 18.85 |
18 | Max | 18.34 |
19 | Synchrony | 18.09 |
20 | Small Potatoes | 20.86 |
21 | Zero Sum | 18.60 |
22 | Elegy | 17.10 |
23 | Demons | 19.10 |
24 | Gethsemane | 19.85 |
Season 5
Episode Number |
Episode Name |
U.S. viewers (millions) |
---|---|---|
1 | Redux | 27.34 |
2 | Redux II | 24.84 |
3 | Unusual Suspects | 21.72 |
4 | Detour | 22.88 |
5 | The Post-Modern Prometheus | 18.68 |
6 | Christmas Carol | 20.91 |
7 | Emily | 20.94 |
8 | Kitsunegari | 19.75 |
9 | Schizogeny | 21.37 |
10 | Chinga | 21.33 |
11 | Kill Switch | 18.04 |
12 | Bad Blood | 19.24 |
13 | Patient X | 20.21 |
14 | The Red and the Black | 19.98 |
15 | Travelers | 15.06 |
16 | Mind's Eye | 16.53 |
17 | All Souls | 13.44 |
18 | The Pine Bluff Variant | 18.24 |
19 | Folie à Deux | 17.63 |
20 | The End | 18.76 |
Season 6
Episode Number |
Episode Name |
U.S. viewers (millions) |
---|---|---|
1 | The Beginning | 20.34 |
2 | Drive | 18.50 |
3 | Triangle | 18.20 |
4 | Dreamland | 17.48 |
5 | Dreamland II | 17.01 |
6 | How the Ghosts Stole Christmas | 17.31 |
7 | Terms of Endearment | 18.69 |
8 | The Rain King | 21.24 |
9 | S.R. 819 | 15.65 |
10 | Tithonus | 15.83 |
11 | Two Fathers | 18.81 |
12 | One Son | 16.57 |
13 | Agua Mala | 16.91 |
14 | Monday | 16.74 |
15 | Arcadia | 17.91 |
16 | Alpha | 17.67 |
17 | Trevor | 17.65 |
18 | Milagro | 15.20 |
19 | The Unnatural | 16.88 |
20 | Three of a Kind | 12.94 |
21 | Field Trip | 15.38 |
22 | Biogenesis | 15.86 |
Season 7
Episode Number |
Episode Name |
U.S. viewers (millions) |
---|---|---|
1 | The Sixth Extinction | 17.82 |
2 | The Sixth Extinction II | 16.15 |
3 | Hungry | 16.17 |
4 | Millennium | 15.09 |
5 | Rush | 12.71 |
6 | The Goldberg Variation | 14.49 |
7 | Orison | 15.63 |
8 | The Amazing Maleeni | 16.18 |
9 | Signs and Wonders | 13.86 |
10 | Sein und Zeit | 13.95 |
11 | Closure | 15.35 |
12 | X-Cops | 16.56 |
13 | First Person Shooter | 15.31 |
14 | Theef | 11.91 |
15 | En Ami | 11.99 |
16 | Chimera | 12.89 |
17 | all things | 12.18 |
18 | Brand X | 10.81 |
19 | Hollywood A.D. | 12.88 |
20 | Fight Club | 11.70 |
21 | Je Souhaite | 12.79 |
22 | Requiem | 15.26 |
Season 8
Episode Number |
Episode Name |
U.S. viewers (millions) |
---|---|---|
1 | Within | 15.87 |
2 | Without | 15.11 |
3 | Patience | 13.3 |
4 | Roadrunners | 13.6 |
5 | Invocation | 13.9 |
6 | Redrum | 13.22 |
7 | Via Negativa | 12.37 |
8 | Surekill | 13.3 |
9 | Salvage | 11.7 |
10 | Badlaa | 11.8 |
11 | The Gift | 14.6 |
12 | Medusa | 13.8 |
13 | "Per Manum | 16.00 |
14 | This Is Not Happening | 16.90 |
15 | Deadalive | 12.40 |
16 | Three Words | 12.00 |
17 | Empedocles | 12.46 |
18 | Vienen | 11.81 |
19 | Alone | 12.72 |
20 | Essence | 12.80 |
21 | Existence | 14.00 |
Season 9
Episode Number |
Episode Name |
U.S. viewers (millions) |
---|---|---|
1 | Nothing Important Happened Today | 10.60 |
2 | Nothing Important Happened Today II | 9.4 |
3 | Damonicus | 8.7 |
4 | 4-D | 8.9 |
5 | Lord of the Flies | 9.9 |
6 | Trust No 1 | 8.4 |
7 | John Doe | 8.7 |
8 | Hellbound | 7.8 |
9 | Provenance | 9.7 |
10 | Providence | 8.5 |
11 | Audrey Pauley | 8.0 |
12 | Underneath | 7.3 |
13 | Improbable | 9.1 |
14 | Scary Monsters | 8.2 |
15 | Jump the Shark | 8.6 |
16 | William | 9.3 |
17 | Release | 7.8 |
18 | Sunshine Days | 10.4 |
19 | The Truth | 13.25 |
20 | The Truth II | 13.25 |
Season 10
Episode Number |
Episode Name |
U.S. viewers (millions) |
---|---|---|
1 | My Struggle | 16.19 |
2 | Founder's Mutation | 9.67 |
3 | Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster | 8.37 |
4 | Home Again | 8.31 |
5 | Babylon | 7.07 |
6 | My Struggle II | 7.60 |
Season 11
Episode Number |
Episode Name |
U.S. viewers (millions) |
---|---|---|
1 | My Struggle III | 5.15 |
2 | This | 3.95 |
3 | Plus One | 3.95 |
4 | The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat | 3.87 |
5 | Ghouli | 3.64 |
6 | Kitten | 3.74 |
7 | Rm9sbG93ZXJz | 3.23 |
8 | Familiar | 3.46 |
9 | Nothing Lasts Forever | 3.01 |
10 | My Struggle IV | 3.43 |
Season Averages
The X Files | Rank | Season Average |
---|---|---|
Season 1 | #105 | 11.21 |
Season 2 | #63 | 14.50 |
Season 3 | #55 | 15.40 |
Season 4 | #12 | 19.20 |
Season 5 | #11 | 19.80 |
Season 6 | #12 | 17.20 |
Season 7 | #29 | 14.20 |
Season 8 | #31 | 13.83 |
Season 9 | #63 | 9.10 |
Season 10 | #7 | 13.60 |
Season 11 | #91 | 5.34 |