10 Banned Episodes Of Famous TV Shows
9. Home (1996) - The X-Files
Today, when the likes of Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead have made graphic sex, violence and swearing commonplace on the small screen, it's easy to forget now just how much of an impact The X-Files made on arrival in the early 1990s.
The conspiracy-fuelled sci-fi series really pushed the envelope for TV horror at the time, sometimes running into difficulties with broadcasters around the world. Even so, network Fox stood by the show as things got ever darker and weirder.
However, season 4 episode Home was widely regarded to be the point where The X-Files finally went that bit too far.
A grim backwoods horror tale in the vein of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes, the 1996 episode sees Mulder and Scully sent in to investigate when the corpse of a newborn baby is discovered by children. The FBI agents ultimately discover this is just the latest abandoned child of a feral family which has been inbreeding for decades.
Although Home was originally broadcast with a viewer discretion warning and a TV-MA rating (a first for The X-Files), its content was considered so extreme and unpleasant that Fox chose to withdraw it from future re-runs.