* Patrick O ' Brian's fictional British sea captain Jack Aubrey is described as owning a " fiddle far above his station, an Amati no less ," in The Surgeon's Mate.

In 1986, Gauntlett negotiated the return of fictional British secret agent James Bond to Aston Martin.

Coronation Street is a British television soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford.

Martin Hewitt, created by British author Arthur Morrison in 1894, is perhaps the first example of the modern style of fictional private detective.

Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century.

Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and is the home world of the Doctor and the Time Lords.

In this historical romance novel, Carter's telegram to the fictional British Egyptologist the Duke of Sunderland reports discovering " steps to a new tomb " and creates a climatic conflict.

* A Very British Coup, a similar drama of fictional contemporary British politics from a left-wing perspective

Clover, the drummer at a holiday camp during the early days of British rock ' n ' roll in a fictional band called Stray Cats.

The sonic screwdriver is a fictional tool in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spinoffs.

The Sontarans are a fictional extraterrestrial race of humanoids from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and also seen in spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Simon Templar is a British fictional character known as The Saint featured in a long-running series of books by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963.

Udo of Aachen ( 1200 – 1270 ) is a fictional monk, a creation of British technical writer Ray Girvan, who introduced him in an April Fool's hoax article in 1999.

His fictional spy network was so efficient and verbose that his German handlers were overwhelmed and made no further attempts to recruit any additional spies in the UK, according to the Official History of British Intelligence in WW2.

By the early 1940s, the British film industry began to combine documentary techniques with fictional stories in films like Noël Coward's In Which We Serve ( 1942 ), Millions Like Us ( 1943 ) and The Way Ahead ( 1944 ).

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.

In other fictional television works, a January 1971 episode " By the Pricking of My Thumbs ..." of the British science fiction TV series Doomwatch featured a 16-year-old XYY boy expelled from school because of his genetic condition, a November 1993 episode " Born Bad " of the American police procedural TV series Law & Order portrayed a 14-year-old XYY sociopathic murderer, and the May 2007 season finale episode " Born To Kill " of the American police procedural TV series CSI: Miami depicted a 34-year-old XYY serial killer.

* The K Factor, a fictional TV show from British television show Harry Hill's TV Burp spoofing the X Factor

were fictional stories about American agents in German-occupied France, and there were a number of films based on the stories of real-life British S. O. E.

The game is set in the Second World War and follows the escapades of a fictional British Commandos section.

* Miss Brahms, a fictional character from the British comedy show, Are You Being Served?

* Toby, a fictional cat on the ABC prime time drama Desperate Housewives, is a British Shorthair.

* The " Draug " are villains that walk ashore onto fictional " Solomon Island ", New England in " The Secret World ".

As the central figure for his works, Ian Fleming created the fictional character of James Bond, an intelligence officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6.

* " Office of Secret Intelligence ", a fictional United States government secret agency in the animated series The Venture Bros.

* In the Wolfenstein series of video games, the main character is a member of a fictional organisation called the OSA ( Office of Secret Actions ), which is inspired by the OSS.

In the campaign, Allied agents from the fictional " Office of Secret Actions " ( OSA ) are sent to investigate rumors surrounding one of Heinrich Himmler's personal projects, the SS Paranormal Division ( also see Ahnenerbe ).

Sympathetic fictional portraits of Elizabeth Woodville can be found in Jan Westcott's The White Rose and in A Secret Alchemy by Emma Darwin ( novelist ).

* In many novels by John le Carré, the British Secret Intelligence Service is referred to as " The Circus ", due to its ( fictional ) location in Cambridge Circus, London

He is the head of Q Branch ( or later Q Division ), the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service.

Eckert and other " post-Farmerian " writers ( denoting authors working with or in a similar vein as Eckert, who are admirers of Farmer's Wold Newton biographies and fiction ) have – through crossovers documented in Eckert's massive online Crossover Chronology ( published in book form by Black Coat Press in two volumes in 2010 as Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World ), and through parascholarly articles such as those appearing on the various WNU-themed websites online ; Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe ( edited by Win Scott Eckert, MonkeyBrain Books, 2005, a 2007 Locus Award finalist ) and in various issues of the pro-zine dedicated to and authorized by Farmer, Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer ( published by Michael Croteau, webmaster of the Official Philip José Farmer Home Page ) – brought numerous further fictional characters into the WNU.

* MAD Magazine # 448 provided a review of the fictional " Infinite Secret Crisis on All Earthly Worlds ", which sought to solve the continuity problems by killing absolutely everyone, in alphabetical order.

* CBBC's fictional show The Secret Show takes place in 2082.

Hunting Valley was the inspiration for the fictional town of Hunting Hills in the book The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives by Sarah Strohmeyer.

The Secret Book is a Macedonian feature film combining the detective, thriller and conspiracy fiction genres, based on a fictional story of the quest for the original Slavic language " Secret Book ", written by the Bogomils in Bulgaria and carried to Western Europe during the Middle Ages.

* Adrian Mole, a fictional diarist created by Sue Townsend, from her novels including The growing pains of Adrian Mole and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ ( Adrian moves from Leicester to Ashby-de-la-Zouch during his lifetime: his girlfriend Pandora Braithwaite later becomes MP for the town ) Sue Townsend also opened the Ashby School new English block in 2008

The Secret Seven or " Secret Seven Society " are a fictional group of child detectives created by Enid Blyton.

LeChuck's Revenge is set in the fictional Tri-Island Area of the Caribbean, several months after The Secret of Monkey Island.

Cthylla ( the Secret Daughter of Cthulhu ) is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.

M is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond series ; the character is the Head of Secret Intelligence Service — also known as MI6.

Walter Mitty is a fictional character in James Thurber's short story " The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ", first published in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and in book form in My World and Welcome to It in 1942.

When Guybrush first appeared in The Secret of Monkey Island he was an awkward teenager whose sole ambition in life was to be a pirate ( the Monkey Island games take place in the Caribbean during a fictional time period ; 17th century-style pirates exist alongside anachronistic objects such as vending machines that dispense grog in glass bottles ).

* James Bond ( fictional agent on Her Majesty's Secret Service )

In his novel The Craft: Freemasons, Secret Agents, and William Morgan ( 2010 ), the author Thomas Talbot presents a fictional version of the William Morgan kidnapping.