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The ‘X-Files’ Episode That Was So Controversial It Only Aired Once

By Reid Goldberg

Updated 10 hours ago

This Monster-of-the-Week fright fest pushed the envelope in all kinds of places.

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"Home," an episode from the fourth season of The X-Files, shocked viewers with its graphic content including incest and infanticide.
The episode was barred from airing on television for three years and became the first in the series to receive a TV-MA rating.
Writers Glen Morgan and James Wong drew inspiration from a documentary and a Charlie Chaplin biography, creating a storyline that reflects a disturbingly realistic portrait of human behavior.