High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Jersey Devil" is the fifth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on October 8, 1993. It was written by series creator Chris Carter, directed by Joe Napolitano, and featured guest appearances by Gregory Sierra, Wayne Tippit and Claire Stansfield. Although the episode is the series` second "Monster-of-the-Week" story—after the earlier "Squeeze"—it was the first to have been written by Carter.