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Invocation
From The X-Files
A 60-minute sf episode from The X-Files, Season 8, Episode 5.
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Series Progress: Episode 324 of 34793% Completed
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In September 1990, seven-year-old Billy Underwood (Kyle and Ryan Pepi) disappears from a school playground. Exactly ten years later, as Billy's mother looks on in amazement, the boy returns to the same spot whence he vanished. All the more amazing is the fact that Billy is exactly the same age as he was a decade earlier, and is even wearing the same clothes. But is Billy really Billy? Investigating, agents Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Doggett (Robert Patrick) find that the answer to the mystery may lie with a reclusive, dark-haired youth named Ronald Purnell (Rodney Eastman), who was the last person to see the elusive Billy way back in 1990. "Invocation" first aired on December 3, 2000.
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How long is Invocation?
Invocation runs for 1h for this episode.
What language is it available in?
The primary language listed for this title is English.
What kind of episode is this?
It is tagged under SF, paranormal, mystery & suspense, cult classic.
How big is the series commitment?
This series currently shows 347 episodes across 11 seasons.
Series Binge Profile
Total Content Density: 280 hours 24 minutes (347 episodes)
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1 episode/day: 347 days
3 episodes/day: 116 days
5 episodes/day: 70 days
Episodes (347)
- E18 - Aflevering 18
- E18 - الØلقة 18
- E18 - The X-Files:Reopened
- E18 - Episode 18
- E18 - Επεισόδιο 18
- E18 - 第18話
- E18 - Episode 18
- E18 - Epizóda 18
- E19 - The Truth
- S01E01 - Pilot Episode
- S01E10 - Fallen Angel
- S01E11 - Eve
- S01E12 - Fire
- S01E13 - Beyond the Sea
- S01E14 - Genderbender
- S01E15 - Lazarus
- S01E16 - Young at Heart
- S01E17 - EBE
- S01E18 - Miracle Man
- S01E19 - Shapes
- S01E02 - Deep Throat
- S01E20 - Darkness Falls
- S01E21 - Tooms
- S01E22 - Born Again
- S01E23 - Roland
- S01E24 - The Erlenmeyer Flask
- S01E03 - Squeeze
- S01E04 - Conduit
- S01E05 - The Jersey Devil
- S01E06 - Shadows
- S01E07 - Ghost in the Machine
- S01E08 - Ice
- S01E09 - Space
- S10E01 - My Struggle
- S10E02 - Founder's Mutation
- S10E03 - Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-monster
- S10E04 - Home Again
- S10E05 - Babylon
- S10E06 - My Struggle II
- S11E01 - My Struggle III
- S11E10 - Episode 10
- S11E10 - Epizóda 10
- S11E10 - Episode 10
- S11E10 - Επεισόδιο 10
- S11E10 - 第10話
- S11E10 - My Struggle IV
- S11E10 - الØلقة 10
- S11E02 - This
- S11E03 - Plus One
- S11E04 - The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat
- S11E04 - The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat
- S11E04 - Epizóda 4
- S11E04 - 第4話
- S11E04 - الØلقة 4
- S11E04 - Επεισόδιο 4
- S11E04 - Episode 4
- S11E05 - Ghouli
- S11E05 - Επεισόδιο 5
- S11E05 - Episode 5
- S11E05 - الØلقة 5
- S11E05 - Ghouli
- S11E05 - Epizóda 5
- S11E05 - 第5話
- S11E06 - Kitten
- S11E07 - 第7話
- S11E07 - Epizóda 7
- S11E07 - Episode 7
- S11E07 - الØلقة 7
- S11E07 - Επεισόδιο 7
- S11E07 - Rm9sbG93ZXJz
- S11E08 - 第8話
- S11E08 - الØلقة 8
- S11E08 - Episode 8
- S11E08 - Episode 8
- S11E08 - Επεισόδιο 8
- S11E08 - Epizóda 8
- S11E08 - Familiar
- S11E09 - 第9話
- S11E09 - Epizóda 9
- S11E09 - Επεισόδιο 9
- S11E09 - الØلقة 9
- S11E09 - Episode 9
- S11E09 - Episode 9
- S11E09 - Nothing Lasts Forever
- S02E01 - Little Green Men
- S02E10 - Red Museum
- S02E11 - Excelsius Dei
- S02E12 - Aubrey
- S02E13 - Irresistible
- S02E14 - Die Hand, Die Verletzt
- S02E15 - Fresh Bones
- S02E16 - Colony
- S02E17 - End Game
- S02E18 - Fearful Symmetry
- S02E19 - Dod Kalm
- S02E02 - The Host
- S02E20 - Humbug
- S02E21 - The Calusari
- S02E22 - F. Emasculata
- S02E23 - Soft Light
- S02E24 - Our Town
- S02E25 - Anasazi
- S02E03 - Blood
- S02E04 - Sleepless
- S02E05 - Duane Barry
- S02E06 - Ascension
- S02E07 - 3
- S02E08 - One Breath
- S02E09 - Firewalker
- S03E01 - The Blessing Way
- S03E10 - 731
- S03E11 - Revelations
- S03E12 - War of the Coprophages
- S03E13 - Syzygy
- S03E14 - Grotesque
- S03E15 - Piper Maru
- S03E16 - Apocrypha
- S03E17 - Pusher
- S03E18 - Teso Dos Bichos
- S03E19 - Hell Money
- S03E02 - Paper Clip
- S03E20 - Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'
- S03E21 - Avatar
- S03E22 - Quagmire
- S03E23 - Wetwired
- S03E24 - Talitha Cumi
- S03E03 - DPO
- S03E04 - Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
- S03E05 - The List
- S03E06 - 2Shy
- S03E07 - The Walk
- S03E08 - Oubliette
- S03E09 - Nisei
- S04E01 - Herrenvolk
- S04E10 - Paper Hearts
- S04E11 - El Mundo Gira
- S04E12 - Leonard Betts
- S04E13 - Never Again
- S04E14 - Memento Mori
- S04E15 - Kaddish
- S04E16 - Unrequited
- S04E16 - Episode 16
- S04E16 - Επεισόδιο 16
- S04E16 - 第16話
- S04E16 - Aflevering 16
- S04E16 - Epizóda 16
- S04E16 - الØلقة 16
- S04E16 - Unrequited
- S04E17 - Επεισόδιο 17
- S04E17 - Epizóda 17
- S04E17 - Tempus Fugit
- S04E17 - 第17話
- S04E17 - الØلقة 17
- S04E17 - Episode 17
- S04E17 - Aflevering 17
- S04E17 - Tempus Fugit
- S04E18 - 第18話
- S04E18 - Max
- S04E18 - Episode 18
- S04E18 - Aflevering 18
- S04E18 - Max
- S04E18 - Epizóda 18
- S04E18 - الØلقة 18
- S04E18 - Επεισόδιο 18
- S04E19 - 第19話
- S04E19 - Synchrony
- S04E19 - Synchrony
- S04E19 - Aflevering 19
- S04E19 - Episode 19
- S04E19 - Επεισόδιο 19
- S04E19 - Epizóda 19
- S04E19 - الØلقة 19
- S04E02 - Epizóda 2
- S04E02 - الØلقة 2
- S04E02 - 第2話
- S04E02 - Home
- S04E02 - Home
- S04E02 - Aflevering 2
- S04E02 - Episode 2
- S04E02 - Επεισόδιο 2
- S04E20 - Aflevering 20
- S04E20 - Small Potatoes
- S04E20 - Episode 20
- S04E20 - Επεισόδιο 20
- S04E20 - الØلقة 20
- S04E20 - Epizóda 20
- S04E20 - 第20話
- S04E20 - Small Potatoes
- S04E21 - Episode 21
- S04E21 - Aflevering 21
- S04E21 - Zero Sum
- S04E21 - Zero Sum
- S04E21 - 第21話
- S04E21 - Επεισόδιο 21
- S04E21 - Epizóda 21
- S04E21 - الØلقة 21
- S04E22 - Elegy
- S04E22 - الØلقة 22
- S04E22 - Aflevering 22
- S04E22 - Episode 22
- S04E22 - Επεισόδιο 22
- S04E22 - 第22話
- S04E22 - Epizóda 22
- S04E22 - Elegy
- S04E23 - Demons
- S04E24 - Gethsemane
- S04E24 - 第24話
- S04E24 - Episode 24
- S04E24 - Aflevering 24
- S04E24 - Επεισόδιο 24
- S04E24 - Gethsemane
- S04E24 - الØلقة 24
- S04E24 - Epizóda 24
- S04E03 - Teliko
- S04E03 - Epizóda 3
- S04E04 - Unruhe
- S04E05 - The Field Where I Died
- S04E06 - Sanguinarium
- S04E07 - 第7話
- S04E07 - Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
- S04E07 - Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man
- S04E07 - الØلقة 7
- S04E07 - Aflevering 7
- S04E07 - Episode 7
- S04E07 - Epizóda 7
- S04E07 - Επεισόδιο 7
- S04E08 - Tunguska
- S04E09 - Terma
- S05E01 - Redux
- S05E01 - Aflevering 1
- S05E01 - 第1話
- S05E01 - Επεισόδιο 1
- S05E01 - Episode 1
- S05E01 - Redux
- S05E01 - Epizóda 1
- S05E01 - الØلقة 1
- S05E10 - Chinga
- S05E11 - Kill Switch
- S05E12 - Bad Blood
- S05E13 - Patient X
- S05E14 - The Red and the Black
- S05E15 - Travelers
- S05E16 - Mind's Eye
- S05E17 - All Souls
- S05E18 - The Pine-Bluff Variant
- S05E19 - Folie A Deux
- S05E02 - Episode 2
- S05E02 - Epizóda 2
- S05E02 - Επεισόδιο 2
- S05E02 - 第2話
- S05E02 - Redux II
- S05E02 - Redux II
- S05E02 - Aflevering 2
- S05E02 - الØلقة 2
- S05E20 - The End
- S05E03 - Unusual Suspects
- S05E03 - Unusual Suspects
- S05E03 - الØلقة 3
- S05E04 - Detour
- S05E05 - Post-Modern Prometheus
- S05E06 - Christmas Carol
- S05E07 - Emily
- S05E08 - Kitsunegari
- S05E09 - Schizogeny
- S06E01 - The Beginning
- S06E10 - Tithonus
- S06E11 - Two Fathers
- S06E12 - One Son
- S06E13 - Agua Mala
- S06E14 - Monday
- S06E15 - Arcadia
- S06E16 - Alpha
- S06E17 - Trevor
- S06E18 - Milagro
- S06E19 - The Unnatural
- S06E02 - Drive
- S06E20 - Three of a Kind
- S06E21 - Field Trip
- S06E22 - Biogenesis
- S06E03 - Triangle
- S06E04 - Dreamland
- S06E05 - Dreamland II
- S06E06 - How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
- S06E07 - Terms of Endearment
- S06E08 - The Rain King
- S06E09 - SR 819
- S07E01 - The Sixth Extinction
- S07E10 - Sein Und Zeit
- S07E11 - Closure
- S07E12 - X-Cops
- S07E13 - First Person Shooter
- S07E14 - Theef
- S07E15 - En Ami
- S07E16 - Chimera
- S07E17 - All Things
- S07E18 - Brand X
- S07E19 - Hollywood A.D.
- S07E02 - The Sixth Extinction: Amor Fati
- S07E20 - Fight Club
- S07E21 - Je Souhaite
- S07E22 - Requiem
- S07E03 - Hungry
- S07E04 - Millennium
- S07E05 - Rush
- S07E06 - The Goldberg Variation
- S07E07 - Orison
- S07E08 - Amazing Maleeni
- S07E09 - Signs and Wonders
- S08E01 - Within
- S08E10 - BADLAA
- S08E11 - The Gift
- S08E12 - Medusa
- S08E13 - Per Manum
- S08E14 - This Is Not Happening
- S08E15 - Deadalive
- S08E16 - Three Words
- S08E17 - Empedocles
- S08E19 - Alone
- S08E02 - Without
- S08E20 - Essence
- S08E21 - Existence
- S08E03 - Patience
- S08E04 - Roadrunners
- S08E05 - Invocation Viewing
- S08E06 - Redrum
- S08E07 - Via Negativa
- S08E08 - Surekill
- S08E09 - Salvage
- S09E01 - Nothing Important Happened Today
- S09E10 - Providence
- S09E11 - Audrey Pauley
- S09E12 - Underneath
- S09E13 - Improbable
- S09E14 - Scary Monsters
- S09E15 - Jump the Shark
- S09E16 - William
- S09E17 - Release
- S09E18 - Sunshine Days
- S09E19 - The Truth
- S09E02 - Nothing Important Happened Today
- S09E03 - Daemonicus
- S09E04 - 4-D
- S09E05 - Lord of the Flies
- S09E06 - Trust No 1
- S09E07 - John Doe
- S09E08 - Hellbound
- S09E09 - Provenance
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