The X Files Ratings

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==
EpisodeNumber	EpisodeName 	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==
EpisodeNumber	EpisodeName 	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==
EpisodeNumber	EpisodeName 	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==
EpisodeNumber	EpisodeName 	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==
EpisodeNumber	EpisodeName 	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==
EpisodeNumber	EpisodeName 	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==
EpisodeNumber	EpisodeName 	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==
EpisodeNumber	EpisodeName 	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==
EpisodeNumber	EpisodeName 	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==
EpisodeNumber	EpisodeName 	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==
EpisodeNumber	EpisodeName 	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
 	#105	11.21
 	#63 	14.50
 	#55 	15.40
 	#12 	19.20
 	#11 	19.80
 	#12 	17.20
 	#29 	14.20
 	#31 	13.83
 	#63 	9.10
 	#7 	13.60
 	#91 	5.34
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