I think there�s an undeniable influence of a show like The Avengers. There are four of us, four writer producers who�ve worked on the X Files now for five or six years. This one core group of us were huge fans of The Avengers growing up.

Emma Peel is a key figure in your imagination when you�re a boy, and the idea of what a beautiful women is stays with you as you grow up. She was smart, funny, and she was sexy. She was an equal to Steed in every way.

I doubt very much that Steed and Emma Peel played consciously in Chris Carter�s creation of Mulder and Scully.

I think as the years went on and as he sought for a way to explain them, the influence of a show like that and those characters probably became something that he was consciously aware of.

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