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The following is a table and graphs of The X-Files episode ratings for the nine seasons according to Nielsen Media Research. The episodes are listed in order of broadcast in the U.S. market.

A single ratings point represents one percent U.S. households with a television currently turned on tuned to a particular show. This means a rating of '8.0' mean eight percent of U.S. households watching television saw that particular episode.

The graphs that follow visually illustrate the progression of the ratings for the whole series and for each season. Included in the graphs for each season is a red line representing the moving average trendline. Basically, if the blue line is higher than the red line, the episode's rating was higher than expected.
Order Episode Rating
1 1X79 Pilot 7.9
2 1X01 Deep Throat 7.3
3 1X02 Squeeze 7.2
4 1X03 Conduit 6.3
5 1X04 The Jersey Devil 6.6
6 1X05 Shadows 5.9
7 1X06 Ghost in the Machine 5.9
8 1X07 Ice 6.6
9 1X08 Space 6.5
10 1X09 Fallen Angel 5.4
11 1X10 Eve 6.8
12 1X11 Fire 6.8
13 1X12 Beyond the Sea 6.6
14 1X13 GenderBender 7.2
15 1X14 Lazarus 7.6
16 1X15 Young at Heart 7.2
17 1X16 E.B.E. 6.2
18 1X17 Miracle Man 7.5
19 1X18 Shapes 7.6
20 1X19 Darkness Falls 8.0
21 1X20 Tooms 8.6
22 1X21 Born Again 8.2
23 1X22 Roland 7.9
24 1X23 The Erlenmeyer Flask 8.8
25 2X01 Little Green Men 10.3
26 2X02 The Host 9.8
27 2X03 Blood 9.1
28 2X04 Sleepless 8.6
29 2X05 Duane Barry 8.9
30 2X06 Ascension 9.6
31 2X07 3 9.4
32 2X08 One Breath 9.5
33 2X09 Firewalker 9.0
34 2X10 Red Museum 10.4
35 2X11 Excelsis Dei 8.9
36 2X12 Aubrey 10.2
37 2X13 Irresistible 9.2
38 2X14 Die Hand Die Verletzt 10.7
39 2X15 Fresh Bones 11.3
40 2X16 Colony 10.3
41 2X17 End Game 11.2
42 2X18 Fearful Symmetry 10.1
43 2X19 Død Kalm 10.7
44 2X20 Humbug 10.3
45 2X21 The Calusari 8.3
46 2X22 F. Emasculata 8.9
47 2X23 Soft Light 8.5
48 2X24 Our Town 9.4
49 2X25 Anasazi 10.1
50 3X01 The Blessing Way 12.3
51 3X02 Paper Clip 11.1
52 3X03 D.P.O. 10.9
53 3X04 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose 10.2
54 3X05 The List 10.8
55 3X06 2Shy 10.2
56 3X07 The Walk 10.4
57 3X08 Oubliette 10.2
58 3X09 Nisei 9.8
59 3X10 731 12.1
60 3X11 Revelations 10.0
61 3X12 War of the Coprophages 10.1
62 3X13 Syzygy 10.8
63 3X14 Grotesque 11.6
64 3X15 Piper Maru 10.6
65 3X16 Apocrypha 10.8
66 3X17 Pusher 10.8
67 3X18 Teso Dos Bichos 10.7
68 3X19 Hell Money 9.9
69 3X20 Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' 10.5
70 3X21 Avatar 9.3
71 3X22 Quagmire 10.2
72 3X23 Wetwired 9.7
73 3X24 Talitha Cumi 11.2
74 4X01 Herrenvolk 13.2
75 4X03 Home 11.9
76 4X04 Teliko 11.3
77 4X02 Unruhe 11.7
78 4X05 The Field Where I Died 12.3
79 4X06 Sanguinarium 11.1
80 4X07 Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man 10.7
81 4X09 Tunguska 12.2
82 4X10 Terma 10.6
83 4X08 Paper Hearts 10.7
84 4X11 El Mundo Gira 13.3
85 4X14 Leonard Betts 17.2
86 4X13 Never Again 13.0
87 4X15 Memento Mori 11.5
88 4X12 Kaddish 10.3
89 4X16 Unrequited 10.9
90 4X17 Tempus Fugit 11.9
91 4X18 Max 11.6
92 4X19 Synchrony 11.3
93 4X20 Small Potatoes 13.0
94 4X21 Zero Sum 11.7
95 4X22 Elegy 10.6
96 4X23 Demons 11.8
97 4X24 Gethsemane 12.7
98 5X02 Redux 16.1
99 5X03 Redux II 15.6
100 5X01 Unusual Suspects 13.0
101 5X04 Detour 13.2
102 5X06 The Post-Modern Prometheus 11.5
103 5X05 Christmas Carol 12.8
104 5X07 Emily 12.4
105 5X08 Kitsunegari 11.6
106 5X09 Schizogeny 12.9
107 5X10 Chinga 12.7
108 5X11 Kill Switch 11.1
109 5X12 Bad Blood 12.0
110 5X13 Patient X 12.6
111 5X14 The Red and the Black 12.0
112 5X15 Travelers 9.9
113 5X16 Mind's Eye 10.4
114 5X17 All Souls 8.5
115 5X18 Pine Bluff Variant 11.4
116 5X19 Folie a Deux 11.0
117 5X20 The End 11.9
118 6ABX01 The Beginning 11.9
119 6ABX02 Drive 11.0
120 6ABX03 Triangle 10.8
121 6ABX04 Dreamland 10.1
122 6ABX05 Dreamland II 10.0
123 6ABX08 How the Ghosts Stole Christmas 10.6
124 6ABX06 Terms of Endearment 10.5
125 6ABX07 The Rain King 12.5
126 6ABX10 S.R. 819 9.1
127 6ABX09 Tithonus 9.2
128 6ABX11 Two Fathers 11.5
129 6ABX12 One Son 10.1
130 6ABX14 Agua Mala 10.1
131 6ABX15 Monday 10.2
132 6ABX13 Arcadia 10.5
133 6ABX16 Alpha 10.1
134 6ABX17 Trevor 10.4
135 6ABX18 Milagro 9.0
136 6ABX20 The Unnatural 10.1
137 6ABX21 Field Trip 9.5
138 6ABX19 Three of a Kind 8.2
139 6ABX22 Biogenesis 9.4
140 7ABX03 The Sixth Extinction 10.6
141 7ABX04 The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati 10.6
142 7ABX01 Hungry 9.6
143 7ABX05 Millennium 9.1
144 7ABX06 Rush 7.9
145 7ABX02 The Goldberg Variation 8.8
146 7ABX07 Orison 9.4
147 7ABX08 The Amazing Maleeni 9.4
148 7ABX09 Signs and Wonders 8.5
149 7ABX10 Sein und Zeit 8.4
150 7ABX11 Closure 9.1
151 7ABX12 X-Cops 9.7
152 7ABX13 First Person Shooter 9.3
153 7ABX14 Theef 7.4
154 7ABX15 En Ami 7.5
155 7ABX16 Chimera 7.5
156 7ABX17 all things 7.5
157 7ABX18 Hollywood A.D. 7.7
158 7ABX19 Brand X 6.8
159 7ABX20 Fight Club 6.9
160 7ABX21 Je Souhaite 8.2
161 7ABX22 Requiem 8.9
162 8ABX01 Within 9.5
163 8ABX02 Without 9.0
164 8ABX04 Patience 8.2
165 8ABX05 Roadrunners 8.3
166 8ABX06 Invocation 8.2
167 8ABX03 Redrum 8.1
168 8ABX07 Via Negativa 7.3
169 8ABX09 Surekill 8.0
170 8ABX10 Salvage 7.1
171 8ABX12 Badlaa 7.3
172 8ABX11 The Gift 8.8
173 8ABX13 Medusa 8.2
174 8ABX08 Per Manum 9.4
175 8ABX14 This Is Not Happening 10.6
176 8ABX15 DeadAlive 7.3
177 8ABX18 Three Words 7.6
178 8ABX17 Empedocles 7.3
179 8ABX16 Vienen 7.4
180 8ABX19 Alone 7.5
181 8ABX20 Essence 7.7
182 8ABX21 Existence 8.4
183 9ABX01 Nothing Important Happened Today 6.5
184 9ABX02 Nothing Important Happened Today II 5.9
185 9ABX03 Daemonicus 5.5
186 9ABX05 4-D 5.1
187 9ABX06 Lord of the Flies 6.2
188 9ABX08 Trust No 1 5.1
189 9ABX07 John Doe 5.0
190 9ABX04 Hellbound 5.1
191 9ABX10 Provenance 5.5
192 9ABX11 Providence 5.2
193 9ABX13 Audrey Pauley 4.8
194 9ABX09 Underneath 4.4
195 9ABX14 Improbable 5.2
196 9ABX12 Scary Monsters 5.1
197 9ABX15 Jump the Shark 5.1
198 9ABX17 William 5.8
199 9ABX16 Release 5.1
200 9ABX18 Sunshine Days 6.2
201 9ABX19/20 The Truth 7.5

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