THE PHOENIX SAGA
  - SACRIFICE 
  - DARK SHROUD 
  - CRY OF THE BANSHEE 
  - STARJAMMERS 
  - CHILD OF LIGHT 

OBSESSION  
COLD COMFORT
SAVAGE LAND, STRANGE HEART - 1 of 2
SAVAGE LAND, STRANGE HEART - 2 of 2

THE DARK PHOENIX SAGA
-  DAZZLED 
-  INNER CIRCLE 
-  DARK PHOENIX  
-  THE FATE OF PHOENIX 

ORPHAN'S END
JUGGERNAUT RETURNS
NIGHTCRAWER
WEAPON X, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE

Supporting Cast: Wolverine, Gambit, Jubilee, Morlocks

Super Villains & 1^st Appearance: Yuriko as Lady Deathstrike, the Reavers

Wolverine former love, a Japanese woman named Yuriko, believes Wolverine caused her father's death. She has turned herself into a living weapon, the cyborg Lady Deathstrike, and has come to America to seek revenge. Deathstrike lures Wolverine and the X-Men into the Morlock tunnels where she hopes that a stunning, alien discovery may be the secret to her destroying the man she once loved so deeply.

X-TRA NOTE:

Comic Book Reference:

Supporting Cast: X-Men

Super Villains: Lady Deathstrike, the Reavers, Spirit Drinker

Yuriko's alien discovery -- a Shi'ar vessel -- turns out to be a prison cell containing a voracious, gaseous prisoner, the M'Kraan Spirit Drinker. It immediately attacks Wolverine, Deathstrike and her cohorts, the Reavers, throwing them together to struggle against it. When the Spirit Drinker absorbs Jubilee's spirit, how will Wolverine be able to overcome the alien creature, or will he join Jubilee, locked inside forever?

X-TRA NOTE:
This is the prelude to the Phoenix Saga.

SACRIFICE - PART 1 of 5 (09.05.94)

Supporting Cast: Jean Grey, Beast, Cyclops, Wolverine, Gambit

1st Cameo: Lilandra, Phoenix Entity

Super Villain & 1^st Appearance: Eric the Red

1st Cameo: D'Ken

PROFESSOR X: "THE SPACE SHUTTLE STARCORE IS SCHEDULED FOR LAUNCH TOMORROW. YOU MUST FIND A WAY TO GET ABOARD THAT SHUTTLE AND GO TO THE EAGLE ONE STATION, OR DR. CORBEAU AND HIS CREW ARE DOOMED!"

CYCLOPS: "WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSE TO DO ON EAGLE ONE?"

PROFESSOR X: "I... I WISH I COULD TELL YOU. ALL I CAN TELL IS THAT AN EVENT OF INMENSE IMPORTANCE IS ABOUT TO OCCUR IN SPACE. YOU MUST BE READY."

ERIC THE RED: "THE VORTEX YOU'VE COME TO STUDY IS WHAT YOU PRIMITIVE SCIENCE WOULD DESIGNATE AS A WORMHOLE. WE SHI'AR ARE CAPABLE OF OPENING SUCH GALACTIC PASSAGES.
MY PURPOSE HERE IS TO INTERCEPT AN ENEMY OF MY EMPEROR, THE REBEL LILANDRA, WHO WILL SOON TRAVEL THROUGH THE WORMHOLE. I HAVE MOUNTED AN ENERGY WEAPON CAPABLE OF DISABELING HER REBEL STAR CRUISER ESPECIALLY WHEN FIRED FROM AN UNASSIMING, PRIMITIVE SPACE STATION.
YOU CANNOT STOP ME FROM COMPLETING MY MISSION."

X-TRA NOTE:
These five episodes aired for the first time in a weekday.

CBR: Uncanny X-Men #101

DARK SHROUD - PART 2 of 5 (09.06.94)

Supporting Cast: X-Men, Moira McTaggert

1st Appearance: Banshee, Lilandra

1st Cameo: Jean Grey as Phoenix

Super Villains: Eric the Red, Juggernaut

1^st Appearance: Dark Xavier

BEAST: "I SPOKE PRIVATELY WITH DR. CORBEAU. HE CONFIRMED ME THAT NASA CANNOT EXPLAIN THE EXISTANCE OF THE ALIEN SPACECRAFT OR THE STRANGE READINGS WE REGISTERED OR, FOR THAT MATTER, HOW WE SURVIVED.
ALL IS BEING DENIED TO PREVENT PUBLIC PANIC."

XAVIER: "MY MIND... MUST KEEP CONTROL!" "MY MIND... MUST KEEP CONTROL!" "MY MIND... MUST KEEP CONTROL!"

DARK XAVIER: "FOOLS! I AM HERE TO DESTROY YOU. I CREATED THE X-MEN, AND WHAT I CREATED I CAN DESTROY!"

CBR: Uncanny X-Men #102

CRY OF THE BANSHEE - PART 3 of 5 (09.07.94)

Supporting Cast: X-Men, Moira MacTagert

1st Appearance: Banshee, Phoenix

Super Villains: Juggernaut

1st Appearance: Black Tom, Gladiator

1st Cameo: D'Ken

A great personal risk, Lilandra comes to Professor X's aid in Ireland. Lilandra again pleads with Professor X for assistance in the M'Kraan matter. As Jean struggles against the Phoenix energies, the other X-Men worry that the Professor has lost his mind--especially now that he insists his mysterious 'friend' Lilandra, who no one else has ever seen, has been inexplicably kidnapped.

X-TRA NOTE: Phoenix uses her powerful force for the 1st time.

CBR: Uncanny X-Men #

STARJAMMERS - PART 4 of 5 (09.08.94)

Supporting Cast: Jean Grey as Phoenix, Cyclops, Wolverine, Gambit, Rogue

1st Appearance: Corsair and the Starjammers (Raza, Hepzibah, and Ch'od)

Cameos: Dr. Strange, Captain Britain, White Queen

Super Villains: Eric the Red

1st Appearance: D'Ken

In this episode:
Jean loses her identity to the Phoenix spirit as the battle for the M'Kraan crystal approaches. The amazingly powerful Jean/Phoenix transports all the X-Men to Lilandra's ship where the empress has hidden the crystal. But D'Ken is waiting and so is another band of would-be crystal thieves... Corsair and the Starjammers. The battle to save the crystal and the universe as we know it gets more hopeless by the minute.

* Special Thanks to Elizabeth McCardle for providing the cameo list.

CBR: Uncanny X-Men #107

CHILD OF LIGHT - PART 5 of 5 (09.09.94)

Supporting Cast: X-Men, Lilandra, Shi'ar Imperial Guards

Cameo:* War Machine, Wind Child, Shaman, Spider-Man

Super Villains: D'Ken

D'Ken achieves his terrifying goal--the crystal is his, allowing him to create his own universe inside the all-powerful gem. Under D'Ken's influence, the crystal begins to suck life form from the solar system into itself like a black hole. D'Ken is fast becoming the power of the living galaxy. What has become of Phoenix? 

* Special Thanks to Elizabeth McCardle for providing the cameo list.

X-TRA NOTE: In this episode, Phoenix sacrifices herself for the sake of humanity.

Supporting Cast: X-Men, Archangel

Super Villains: Apocalypse

Archangel has become obsessed with destroying Apocalypse, who he blames for ruining his life. A sympathetic Rogue joins his reckless, Ahab-like quest, against the warnings of the other X-Men, who have their own, more indirect plan to stop Apocalypse. In the end, the X-Men have Apocalypse in their grasp, only to have their plan ruined by Archangel's unthinking vengefulness.

Supporting Cast: Cyclops, Professor X, Jubilee, Wolverine, Beast

1^st Appearance: Bobby Drake as Ice-Man, X-Factor

Former X-Men Bobby 'Iceman' Drake is caught breaking into a top secret government installation. The X-Men free him and take him to Xavier, who grieves over this former favorite pupil who walked out on the X-Men and has apparently gone bad. But Bobby has a reason for breaking into the installation, a reason he will only confide to the one X-Man he still trust, Hank 'Beast' McCoy.

Supporting Cast: Storm, Rogue, Wolverine, Jubilee, Kazar

Super Villain: Sauron, Zaladane, Garokk

Under the instruction of high priestess Zaladane, Sauron, a strange half man half pterodactyl, kidnaps Storm to the Savage Land in order to feed from her pure boundless mutant energy. Separated from the X-Men, Storm is encouraged by Sauron to free her inner tempest of energy. When the X-Men arrive they must fight off dinosaurs, Sauron, a mysterious power named Garokk and Storm!

Supporting Cast: Storm, Wolverine, Beast, Jubilee, Kazar

Super Villains: Sauron, Zaladane, Garokk

While Storm revels in her own elemental powers, Garokk, the stone spirit, secretly rejuvenates himself through her uninhibited energy display. Can the X-Men and the native Fall people control Storm and overpower Garokk before he fuses with the island's volcano and surging planetary force below it?

Supporting Cast: Cyclops

Super Villain & 1^st Appearance: Purple Man

After the lost of Jean Grey, Cyclops quits the X-Team. He goes back to his orphanage where he finds an old friend. Later, Cyclops realized that something's wrong at the orphanage, and must find out for himself what that is, and as he does so, he must prove to himself if he's still an X-Man.

X-TRA NOTE:
This episode is from season 5, but it should belong here!

FLASHBACK ON:
Cyclops' childhood

CBR:

DAZZLED - PART 1 of 4

Supporting Cast: Jean Grey, Cyclops, X-Men

1st Appearance: Dazzler

Super Villains & 1st Appearance: Jean Grey as Dark Phoenix, Inner Circle (Emma Frost-White Queen, Sebastian Shawn, Mastermind)

The Phoenix continues to inhabit Jean's body, brazenly taking over at will. As a chanteuse named Dazzler flirts with Scott, Jean/Phoenix finds herself psychically seduced by Jason Wyngarde, with help from Emma Frost and the other mutants in the Inner Circle Club. Wyngarde weaves a new history for the confused Jean/Phoenix, creating a passionate romance between himself and her. When the X-Men come to rescue Jean, they find her fighting alongside Wyngarde--her fiancé.

X-TRA NOTE:

CBR: Uncanny X-Men #129

INNER CIRCLE - PART 2 of 4

Supporting Cast: X-Men, Dazzler

Super Villains: Inner Circle, Dark Phoenix

As Professor X and Emma Frost battle for psychic control of Jean, the Inner Circle members quarrel over how to dispose of their prisoners the X-Men. Is Jean and Scott's psychic connection gone forever? Or is she strong enough to overcome Phoenix's influence and Wyngarde's trickery to remember who she is...or at least was?

X-TRA NOTE: Emma Frost (White Queen) battles over Jean's mind!

CBR:

DARK PHOENIX - PART 3 of 4

Supporting Cast: X-Men, Dazzler

Super Villains: Inner Circle, Dark Phoenix

When the X-Men confront Phoenix to give up Jean's body, Phoenix vows to destroy the team. To re-energize, she flies up through the D'Bari Star System, passing a very surprised Shi'ar Star Cruiser crew. As they watch in horror, she feeds upon and destroys an entire star system. To defend space life as they know it, the Shi'ar empress Lilandra decrees Phoenix/Jean Grey must die.

X-TRA NOTE: Emma Frost (White Queen) battles over Jean's mind!

CBR:

THE FATE OF PHOENIX - PART 4 of 4

Supporting Cast: X-Men, Lilandra, Imperial Guards

Super Villains: Dark Phoenix

In this episode:
The X-Men battle Lilandra's Imperial Guards for 'custody' of Phoenix/Jean Grey. Although Xavier and Lilandra wish they could settle amicably, they are set on opposite courses. When Phoenix falls in battle, Xavier startles everyone by commanding the X-Men to stop Phoenix now, while she is vulnerable. But how can Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm or any of the team strike Phoenix while she inhabits the body of their dearest friend and teammate Jean Grey? And what will happen if they don't?

X-TRA NOTE: Jean uses one of the X-Men's old uniforms!

CBR: Uncanny X-Men #137

Supporting Cast: Cyclops, Corsair, Storm

Super Villain: Shi'ar officers

Cyclops discovers that Corsair, a space pirate with a checkered past, may be his father. Corsair is on the run from Shi'ar authorities, who demand that Cyclops turn him over to them. Corsair swears his innocence. Will Cyclops turn in the man who may have abandoned him as a child?

JUGGERNAUT RETURNS

Supporting Cast: X-Men

Super Villain: Juggernaut

Juggernaut's life is at risk when someone else uncovers the Ruby of Cyttorak and claims the powers of Juggernaut for himself! Will Professor Xavier let his brother perish, how will he restore to power one of his most intractable foes?

NIGHTCRAWER

Supporting Cast: Gambit, Rogue, Wolverine

1st Appearance: Nightcrawler

Gambit, Rogue, and Wolverine take a ski trip in Germany for some much needed rest. While Gambit and Rogue seems 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. While the X-Men convince the townsfolk not to fear what they don't understand, Wolverine, too, learns something about the nature of faith.

WEAPON X, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE

Supporting Cast: Wolverine, Beast

1^st Appearance: Maverick, Silver Fox

Super Villain: Sabretooth

1^st Appearance: Shiva

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, followed by 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. Old passions and rivalries are reignited as the four former government agents break into the lab, leading to an explosive climax and the realization that some secrets are best left buried...