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… This has always been a show where the monsters of the week and the mythology rarely, if ever, intertwine. 'Leonard Betts' is mostly well-remembered by fans for that final moment, when the show pulls together a whole bunch of strands it's been developing for a while and lets us know that Mulder and Scully are never going to be out of the woods, that the woods are constantly closing in around them. It's also a rare 'monster-of-the-week' episode that pulls in the bigger mythology of the show. 'This is the show saying, in its best shot at a huge audience, 'This is what we do, folks.

''Leonard Betts' is an eminently accessible episode of The X-Files, but it's also completely recognizable as an episode of The X-Files,' the AV Club reported.

And it sounds like FOX made the correct choice in selecting 'Leonard Betts.' They ended up switching the order of the season 4 episodes and choosing the cancer-man episode to air after the Super Bowl. RELATED: 'The X-Files': Which Episode Did Gillian Anderson Win an Emmy For? (Yes, every one-line description of an X-Files episode sounds bonkers). They wanted to air 'Never Again,' the X-Files episode about the man with the tattoo who can talk. Why was the episode 'Leonard Betts' so successful for the series?Īccording to The X-Files Files podcast, hosted by actor/writer/comedian Kumail Nanjiani, the show was originally going to air a different episode after The Super Bowl.

The show's ratings, while never this high again, would reach another level in the months to come, creating one of the few cases where a network used the Super Bowl to turn a big hit into a mega-hit. Why? Because The X-Files viewership continued to increase. 'But most of them must have liked something they saw.' With such a bold, strange subject matter, 'it's easy to wonder just what so many of those viewers thought of the episode as they watched it,' the AV Club reported. The title character Betts is an immortal man, evolved past the rest of the human race, who survives off of others' cancer. 'Leonard Betts' is a classic 'monster-of-the-week' episode, introducing a paranormal character whose mystery Agents Scully and Mulder solve, but who doesn't return in another season. However, per the AV Club, it also helped immensely that 'Leonard Betts' aired directly 'after the Super Bowl … exposing the show to its widest possible audience.' The X-Files was no doubt hitting its stride in terms of popularity at the time.

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'Leonard Betts,' The X-Files Season 4 Episode 12, achieved the highest-ever audience for the TV show. 26, 1997 | FOX Image Collection via Getty Images

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But which episode, out of all of the seasons of The X-Files, had the highest viewership? 'The X-Files' episode from season 4 that had the most viewers of the whole series Agent Dana Scully (played by Gillian Anderson) on The X-Files episode 'Leonard Betts' which originally aired on Sunday, Jan. The X-Files, the sci-fi TV show starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, was one of FOX Network's most popular series of the 90s.