People Are Sharing The Scariest TV Episodes Of All Time, And I’m Hiding Under The Covers Just Reading About Them
“I think it was temporarily ‘banned,’ as it was only shown once due to the graphic nature of the story.”
In this episode, the discovery of the body of a baby with birth defects leads Mulder and Scully to investigate a family who are suspected of incest.
After it aired, the negative feedback was so strong that Fox pulled the episode and didn’t broadcast it again for three years. They paired it with an ad that said, “Only on Halloween would we dare air an episode so controversial it’s been banned from television for three years. Consider yourself warned.” It was the only episode of the series to be given a TV-MA rating.
