Season Four
Some of the Season 4 episodes were aired during Season 3 to compensate for episodes in that season being pushed back.
| Script # | Title | Writer(s) | Original Airdate | Villain(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | "Nightcrawler" | Len Uhley | May 13, 1995 (1995-05-13) | Mystique, Brother Reinhardt |
| Gambit, Rogue, and Wolverine take a ski trip in Germany. While Gambit and Rogue seem to be enjoying themselves, Wolverine is restless, and longs for some action. When he hears reports of a demon hiding in a local monastery, his investigation reveals not a demon, but a mutant, Nightcrawler, whose devilish appearance is in stark contrast to his peaceful and deeply philosophical nature. Later the townsfolk attack and burn the monastery. The X-Men convince the townsfolk not to fear what they do not understand, Wolverine, too, learns something about the nature of faith. | ||||
| 54 | "One Man's Worth (Part 1)" | Richard Mueller | September 9, 1995 (1995-09-09) | Master Mold, Bantam, Trevor Fitzroy, Nimrod |
| Trevor Fitzroy and Bantam travel back in time to 1959 and kill Professor X as Master Mold ordered them. This creates an alternate present time-line, where a human-mutant war has destroyed everything. Bishop and Shard arrive in 'alternate present,' where humans battle violently against 'The Leader' Magneto, and his followers who include husband and wife Wolverine and Storm. Bishop and Shard recruit Wolverine and Storm to help stop Fitzroy, but they fail. | ||||
| 55 | "One Man's Worth (Part 2)" | Gary Greenfield | September 16, 1995 (1995-09-16) | Master Mold, Bantam, Trevor Fitzroy, Nimrod |
| Failing to stop the assassination of Xavier, Bishop, Shard, Storm and Wolverine travel forward to the future, a future changed so much that Forge's time travel machine has never been tested, and Forge has no idea who these four time travelers are. After they convince Forge, they go back a few minutes before Xavier died and save him. Everything reverts to normal. | ||||
| 56 | "Proteus (Part 1)" | Bruce Reid Schaefer | September 30, 1995 (1995-09-30) | Proteus |
| Moira MacTaggert is trying to help her son Kevin (Proteus), but when he escapes from Muir Island she calls on the X-Men for help. Proteus who has never been off the island is wreaking havoc while trying to find his father. | ||||
| 57 | "Proteus (Part 2)" | Luanne Crocker | October 7, 1995 (1995-10-07) | Proteus |
| When Proteus discovers that his deadbeat dad is a prominent politician, he storms the Union Hall right in the middle of his dad's campaign speech on 'family values.' Proteus tells his father that he is his son, his father denies it and runs off in horror, crying for help. Angered at his father's reaction, Proteus creates havoc, but Professor X later calms him down, and he stops the rampage. Then he goes back to Muir Island with Moira MacTaggert. | ||||
| 58 | "Family Ties" | Marley Clark | May 4, 1996 (1996-05-04) | Magneto, High Evolutionary |
| Shortly after Magneto breaks into the X-Mansion, High Evolutionary and his New Men capture him, Quicksilver, Beast, Wolverine and Scarlet Witch, to do experiments on them. He also reveals that Magneto is Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch's father. The other X-Men later defeat High Evolutionary and His New Men, and save the captured mutants. During this episode, High Evolutionary transformed Wolverine into a werewolf. | ||||
| 59 | "Bloodlines" | Len Uhley | October 26, 1996 (1996-10-26) | Graydon Creed, Mystique, Sabretooth |
| Nightcrawler gets a mysterious message. He is informed that his birth mother (whom he never knew) is in trouble. He turns to the X-Men for assistance. Jubilee is baffled that Nightcrawler wants to help the mother who abandoned him. Nightcrawler admits there has been pain, but his faith in God has helped him overcome her rejection. The plot thickens when one of the team members recognizes Nightcrawler's mother's voice. | ||||
| 60 | "The Lotus and the Steel" | Ted Pedersen & Francis Moss | February 3, 1996 (1996-02-03) | Silver Samurai |
| Wolverine, losing control, quits the X-Men and returns to the rural Japan of his younger days, in an effort to find himself. He works peacefully with a former spiritual teacher, the monk Oku, to build a temple. But the neighboring village is about to be attacked by bandits, led by the merciless Silver Samurai, unless payment is made. Some of the villagers want to resist, and ask Wolverine for help. Wolverine is torn. This is just the sort of thing he had wanted to leave behind. Wolverine bests the Samurai in single combat by taking advantage of Samurai's habit of teleporting in behind him: Wolverine anticipates the move and disables the teleportation device, humiliating Samurai. | ||||
| 61 | "Weapon X, Lies, and Videotape" | David McDermott & Steven Melching | June 11, 1995 (1995-06-11) | Sabretooth |
| A cryptic postcard unleashes a flood of maddening and painful memories in Wolverine that threaten to drive him insane. To keep his mind from being torn apart, Wolverine and Beast travel to the one location that may hold the answers to his hidden past: the ruins of the top-secret Weapon X lab where Wolverine's bones were laced with adamantium. There he encounters other former 'test subjects'—Sabretooth, Maverick and Silver Fox—who are suffering similar mental breakdowns. Later they find out that many of their memories were implanted, and their true memories are destroyed with the lab. | ||||
| 62 | "Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas" | Eric Lewald & Larry Parr | December 23, 1995 (1995-12-23) | N/A |
| As all of the X-Men prepare for a festive Christmas, foster child Jubilee is thrilled. She, Storm, and grouchy humbug Wolverine go last-minute shopping in Manhattan, only to be caught in a life-or-death crisis involving Leech, the littlest Morlock. Leech needs blood transfusion, so Wolverine's blood is given and then Leech gets better. Additionally Storm agrees to give back to Callisto her title as the Morlock's official leader. | ||||
| 63 | "Beyond Good and Evil (Part 1): The End of Time" | Steve Cuden | November 4, 1995 (1995-11-04) | Apocalypse, Mister Sinister |
| In 3999 Apocalypse tricks Cable and steals Cable's time device and goes back in time, but he accidentally falls in the axis of Time. Apocalypse hires Mister Sinister to kidnap psychics all across the universe. Meanwhile, Jean and Scott try to get married again. | ||||
| 64 | "Beyond Good and Evil (Part 2): Promise of Apocalypse" | Jan Strnad | November 11, 1995 (1995-11-11) | Apocalypse, Mister Sinister, Magneto, Mystique |
| Apocalypse kidnaps Psylocke, Jean Grey and Professor X. Meanwhile Bishop also gets trapped in the axis of time. Also, Cable and his son break into a government base to steal a time-device. | ||||
| 65 | "Beyond Good and Evil (Part 3): The Lazarus Chamber" | Michael Edens | November 18, 1995 (1995-11-18) | Apocalypse, Mister Sinister, Magneto, Mystique |
| Cable also uses another time-machine and comes to the present to get the X-Men's help in destroying Apocalypse's Lazarus Chamber. They go back in time to ancient Cairo and destroy the chamber. Apocalypse plans to use the psychics to destroy all time, and recreate a universe, where he will rule unchallenged. | ||||
| 66 | "Beyond Good and Evil (Part 4): End and Beginning" | Dean Stefan | November 25, 1995 (1995-11-25) | Apocalypse, Mister Sinister, Magneto, Mystique |
| As the true and terrifying nature of Apocalypse's final plan emerges, several in his band team up with the X-Men to stop him. With Bishop's help the psychics are freed. At the end the psychics move Apocalypse to the Astral Plane, so he could age without the help of his chamber. |
Read more about this topic: List Of X-Men (TV Series) Episodes
Famous quotes containing the word season:
“If woman is inconstant,
good, I am faithful to
ebb and flow, I fall
in season and now
is a time of ripening.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“The instincts of merry England lingered on here with exceptional vitality, and the symbolic customs which tradition has attached to each season of the year were yet a reality on Egdon. Indeed, the impulses of all such outlandish hamlets are pagan still: in these spots homage to nature, self-adoration, frantic gaieties, fragments of Teutonic rites to divinities whose names are forgotten, seem in some way or other to have survived mediaeval doctrine.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)