The Fugitive (TV series) shows him. Gerard, on the other hand, was portrayed externally as a man like Javert, but internally as more of a thinking man who could balance justice and duty. According to some of those who worked on the show, these parallels were not coincidental. Stanford Whitmore, who wrote the pilot episode "Fear in a Desert City", says that he deliberately gave Kimble's nemesis a similar-sounding name to see if anyone would recognize the similarity between "Gerard" and "Javert". One who recognized the similarity was Morse; he pointed out the connection to Quinn Martin, who admitted that "The Fugitive" was a
The X-Files sources and analogues Mulder draws elements from the 1960s TV series "The Avengers". Alongside many real-life documented cases dealing with the concepts of alien abduction, alien invasion and UFOs, "The X-Files" franchise also borrows these same themes from other TV shows that have also covered the subject. Such shows go back to the 1950s, 60s and 70s when such topics were popular and massively discussed in the American media. Television series of those times such as "The Quatermass Experiment" from the 1950s, "The Invaders" from the 1960s, "" from the 1970s, "V: The Final Battle" from the 1980s all served as inspirations. Prior