On the zero-to-fanboy scale, when it comes to The X Files I'm about a 6.

I watched the show only spoardically when it was on the air but caught bursts of it from time to time in syndication. For a while my local Fox affiliate was airing it five nights a week in season order, which made for some great late-night TV viewing during the summer.

The best episodes in my mind are the ones that deal specifically with the overarching storyline -- with the aliens and the government conspiracy and the Cigarette Smoking Man. My problem was that I would always seem to catch the wrong end of the strategic two-part episodes or not be watching the night they revealed some important new piece of the story line. Towards the end, after Mulder and Scully left and the show had truly jumped the shark I lost interest. Which is too bad, because a part of me would kind of like to know what the heck that show was really about.

The show's out on DVD now, but there's like 9 seasons of it and most of the episodes don't deal with this storyline anyway.

However, I noticed that they've released a set of DVD's that have just the uber-story episodes on them. It's about 60 episodes in all across the whole run of the show, and tracks the entire story arc from beginning to end. I picked up the first set (covering seasons 1 and 2) over the weekend, and I'm really enjoying it thus far. Having these episodes all in one place makes the cliffhangers SO much easier to keep track of.