An older version of Peri Brown living in Los Angeles in 2009 once falsely posed as a secret agent to her younger self, claiming to work for an agency known as "the X-Files." When she tried the ruse on the Fifth Doctor, with whom her younger self was travelling, the Doctor replied that while he had enjoyed the programme, it was never as good after David Duchovny left. (AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox)
Among a long list of actions the Xlanthi considered to be a violation of the law and punishable by a brutal death was "fancying Scully out of The X-Files." (PROSE: Beige Planet Mars)
Donna Noble claimed that she and the Tenth Doctor were "working for the X-Files" when questioned by Commodore William Jarman in 1940. Jarman later contacted the British government, who informed him that the group did not exist. (AUDIO: The Nemonite Invasion)
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A Doctor Who themed take on the famous "I Want to Believe" poster from The X-Files.[1]
Similarly, a piece of Redacted fanart reposted by the Doctor Who Twitter account featured a reference to the same poster, though retaining the UFO from the original.[2]
During the 2001 DVD commentary for Spearhead from Space, Nicholas Courtney was amused by the fact that visible on a shelf behind the Brigadier's desk was a file labelled "X" — in other words, "the X file."
The X-Files was primarily filmed in Vancouver, Canada, the same city that the 1996 Doctor Who movie was filmed. Both productions were active at the same time, with cast and crew of the TV movie having recounted in interviews occasional encounters and shared spaces with the TV show's activity.
Gary Russell has cited The X-Files as a major source of inspiration for the novel The Scales of Injustice. The novel's Pale Man echoes the programme's Cigarette Smoking Man. Even the Pale Man's subordinate, the Blond Man, is based on the Crew Cut Man, Cigarette Smoking Man's subordinate.[3]
