Johnny Fedora achieved popularity as a fictional agent of early Cold War espionage, but James Bond is the most commercially successful of the many spy characters created by intelligence insiders during that struggle.

* ISA ( Days of our Lives ), International Security Alliance, fictional spy agency on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives

In June 1970, The XYY Man was published — the first of seven Kenneth Royce spy novels whose fictional tall, intelligent, nonviolent XYY hero was a reformed expert cat burglar recruited by British intelligence for dangerous assignments — and later adapted into a thirteen-episode British summer television series broadcast in 1976 and 1977.

The spy film genre, which is mainly the subgenre of thriller and action, deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way ( such as the adaptations of John Le Carré ) or as a basis for fantasy ( such as James Bond ).

* Daniel Silva borrowed from the exploits of Ali Hassan Salameh and his relatives to create the background for his fictional spy novel Prince of Fire, 2005.

** Nick Carter-Killmaster, a spy series of novels named for the fictional detective

A fictional family based on the Mitford sisters features prominently in author Jo Walton's novel Ha ' penny ; Viola Lark, one of the point-of-view characters, is one of the sisters, another is married to Himmler, and a third is a Communist spy.

Years after the success of his Cold War spy novels, novelist and Lincoln graduate John le Carré, himself a one-time spy, revealed that fictional spymaster George Smiley was partly modelled on former Lincoln rector Vivian H. H. Green.

Spynet is a CBC Television children's show, which features Sam, played by Kim Schraner, as a spy operative for a fictional Canadian spy agency, the National Espionage Task-Force ( NET ).

* Checkpoint Charlie was the scene of numerous fictional spy swaps in such works as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

* Gabriel Logan, fictional spy from the Syphon Filter video game franchise

* A Question of Attribution ( dramatization of Blunt's term as Keeper of the Queen's Pictures ), An Englishman Abroad ( dramatization of Burgess in Russia ), and The Old Country ( about a fictional Philby-esque spy in exile ), all by Alan Bennett.

Another common subgenre of thriller is the spy genre which deals with fictional espionage.

On February 17, 2002, the prop shoe phone used by agent Maxwell Smart was included in a display entitled " Spies: Secrets from the CIA, KGB, and Hollywood ," a collection of real and fictional spy gear that exhibited at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

Members of the unit, Ralph Izzard and Patrick Dalzel-Job are acknowledged as inspirations for Ian Fleming ( who also worked for the NID ) in the creation of his fictional spy, James Bond.

Count Carl Hamilton ( code names Coq Rouge and Trident ) is a fictional spy created by Jan Guillou and appearing in a number of Guillou's spy novels, as well as film and TV adaptations.

Emma Peel was a fictional spy played by Diana Rigg in the British 1960s adventure television series The Avengers.

Shaker mixing is common due to influences of popular culture, notably the fictional spy James Bond, who sometimes asked for his vodka martini to be " shaken, not stirred ".

His name was appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his fictional spy, James Bond.

( British efforts to get Turkey as an ally against Germany are a central element of Eric Ambler's classic spy thriller Journey Into Fear, published in 1940, in which a fictional head of the MAH, Colonel Haki, plays an important role.

* In 2008's Get Smart, the fictional spy organization CONTROL is located underneath the National Museum of Natural History

His character was a writer on The Philco Comedy Hour, a show that aired on a fictional NBS network.

Pujol and his handler Tomás ( Tommy ) Harris spent the rest of the war expanding the fictional network, communicating at first by letter, later by radio.

Eventually the Germans were funding a network of twenty-seven fictional agents.

The show was presented as a programme by a fictional TV network in Rutland, the smallest county in England.

* The Wired, a fictional computer network in the anime series Serial Experiments Lain

" Jack " O ' Neill, USAF is a fictional character in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe, three science fiction shows about military teams exploring the universe via a network of alien transportation devices.

Network is a 1976 American satirical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists about a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings.

* August 6-BBC withdraws a planned airing of The War Game on BBC1's Wednesday Play anthology series ; the network, officially, deems the film's depiction of a fictional nuclear attack on the United Kingdom and its aftermath as " too horrifying " to air on television, though it was widely believed that government pressure led to the banning.

* SimBroadcasting Network ( SBN ), a fictional television network channel featured in The Sims 2 PC game.

* UBC, a fictional network in the film The Barefoot Executive

* Network 23, a fictional television network on the TV series Max Headroom

* Electro-Plasma System, a network for energy distribution on starships in the fictional Star Trek universe.

Hunters communicate via a forum network called " Hunter-net " which is located at the fictional website www. hunter-net. org.

In the first-season X-Files episode Ghost in the Machine, Eurisko is the name of a fictional software company responsible for the episode's " monster of the week ," facilities management software known as " Central Operating System ," or " COS ." COS ( described in the episode as an " adaptive network ") is shown to be capable of learning when its designer arrives at Eurisko headquarters and is surprised to find that COS has given itself the ability to speak.

* A fictional television network in the South Park universe

Lane Smith portrays Emmett Seaborn, a seasoned reporter for a fictional television network who covers the U. S. space program from its earliest days, providing continuity for most of the episodes.

* The National Broadcasting System, a fictional television network in the TV series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Shaktimaan (), was a fictional Indian television superhero created by Dinker Jani and Mukesh Khanna, and telecast on Doordarshan, India's national television network.

Daniel Jackson, Ph. D., is a fictional character in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, which is about a military team exploring the galaxy via a network of alien transportation devices.

The series revolves around the behind the scenes antics of the fictional, eponymous cable network, The Chimp Channel ( abbreviated TCC ), and the shows it produces.

* GNB, The fictional television network where the main characters work on the American TV Show Less Than Perfect

The episode also offers a fictional backstory for the episode ; that it was written for the third season of the series but rejected by the network for the usage of abortion as a plotline.

* Skynet ( Terminator ), a fictional computer network, the primary antagonist in the Terminator series of films

In addition to biographical shows, the network has been airing fictional, non-biographical programming previously seen on A & E, including Murder, She Wrote and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, though this practice ended in 2007.