only the good episodes. i need the list

also it's for showing my dad so none of the ones that are like the Christmas Ghost one

that sounds like work

>>213518487 (OP)
>only the good episodes
All of them.

>>213518487 (OP)
>>213518618

Best episode coming through.

They're only in the first three seasons until you get to the revival.

>These are not the best episodes, but the ones most important for catching up with the X-Files mythology.
>Ones with a * are not essential mythology episodes, but connect to the mythology.
>Ones with ** are the best episodes of the series, but not part of the mythology.
Season One

Pilot
Deep Throat
*Squeeze
*Conduit
**Ice
*Fallen Angel
*Eve
**Beyond The Sea
E.B.E.
*Tooms
The Erlenmeyer Flask


Season Two

Little Green Men
The Host
Sleepless
Duane Berry
Ascension
One Breath
**Irresistible
**Die Hand Die Verletzt
Colony
End Game
**Humbug
Anasazi


Season Three

The Blessing Way
Paper Clip
**D.P.O.
**Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
Nisei
731
**War of the Coprophages
**Syzygy
Piper Maru
Apocrypha
**Pusher
**Jose Chung's From Outer Space
Talitha Cumi


Season Four

Herrenvolk
Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
Tunguska
Terma
**Never Again
*Leonard Betts
Momento Mori
*Tempus Fugit
*Max
Zero Sum
Gethsemane


Season Five

Redux
Redux II
*Unusual Suspects
**Post-Modern Prometheus
Christmas Carol
Emily
**Chinga (Stephen King's episode)
Patient X
The Red and the Black
*Travelers (The origins of The X-Files)
The End

Movie: Fight The Future

>>213520325
Season Six

The Beginning
**Triangle
**Dreamland
**Dreamland II
S.R. 819
Two Fathers
One Son
**Arcadia
**Milagro (Not a favorite but a lot of people love it)
**The Unnatural
*Three of a Kind
Biogenesis


Season Seven

The Sixth Extinction
Amor Fati
**Hungry
**Orison
Sein und Zeit
Closure
**X-Cops
*En Ami
Requiem


Season Eight

Within
Without
Per Manum
This is Not Happening
Dead Alive
Three Words
Vienen
Essence
Existence


Season Nine

Nothing Important Happened Today
Nothing Important Happened Today II
Trust No 1
Provenance
Providence
*Jump The Shark
William
Release
The Truth
The Truth II


Movie 2: I Want To Believe


Season Ten

My Struggle
**Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster
My Struggle II


Season Eleven

My Struggle III
**The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat
*Ghouli
**Rm9sbG93ZXJz
My Struggle IV

>>213520325
no love for folie a deux or bad blood?

>>213520456
>folie a deux
Too salacious.

>>213520456
I personally recommend watching all of season 1-5 and then the movie.
After that only watch motw episodes.

>>213520325
>>213520340
This is a pretty good list for OP. But I'll a few others to consider, mainly its the one that feature the major side characters that otherwise might feel underdeveloped without these appearances.

Season One
>Young at Heart: Cigarette Smoking Man and Deep Throat appearance.
>Ghost in the Machine: Deep Throat appearance.
Season 2
>Blood: Lone Gunmen appearance.
>Soft Light: Mr X appearance
>F. Emsaculata: Cigarette Smoking Man appearance.
Season 3
>Wet Wired: Mr X, Cigarette Smoking Man, and The Lone Gunmen appearance
>Avatar: Cigarette Smoking Man appearance.
Season 4
>Unruhe: This foreshadows a plot regarding Scully.

>>213520325
>>213520340
The mythology episodes are inevitably the worst ones. Watch it as a comfy procedural.

>>213520617
>it was aliens
>it was government
>it was alien infiltrated government
>it was government pretending to be aliens to prepare for aliens
>it was aliens
>no it was just government

>>213520617
Just because it ultimately leads to nothing doesn't mean the episodes leading up to it aren't actually good

>>213518487 (OP)
Only redditor fags need that kind of handolding. Just man up and watch the whole thing at least once, I doubt your dad has better things to do anyway he's probably retired.