A baseball team from the fictional town of Mudville ( implied to be the home team ) is losing by two runs with two outs in their last inning.

* Canton, a fictional town in " Jaynestown ", an episode of Firefly

Its main character, Lucy Snowe, travels abroad to teach in a boarding school in the fictional town of Villette, where she encounters a culture and religion different to her own, and where she falls in love with a man (' Paul Emanuel ') whom she cannot marry.

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

Saloon owner Kent ( Brian Donlevy ), the unscrupulous boss of the fictional Western town of Bottleneck, has the town's Sheriff, Keogh, killed when the Sheriff asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game.

Often these books follow a formula where the first chapter involves Brown solving a case at the dinner table for his father, the local police chief in the fictional town of Idaville.

In Dancer in the Dark, jump shots and dramatically-different color palettes and camera techniques were used for the " real world " and musical portions of the film, and in Dogville everything was filmed on a sound stage with no set where the walls of the buildings in the fictional town were marked as lines on the floor.

The name, " Pretty Good Privacy ", is humorously ironic and was inspired by the name of a grocery store, " Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery ", featured in radio host Garrison Keillor's fictional town, Lake Wobegon.

Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.

* Riverside, a fictional town in the video game Left 4 Dead

The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television and many aspects of the human condition.

The show's name came from its setting, a small, fictional Washington town.

Stephen King got the name Castle Rock from the fictional mountain fort of the same name in Lord of the Flies, using the name to refer to a fictional town that has appeared in a number of King's novels.

King's fictional town of Castle Rock inspired the name of Rob Reiner's production company, Castle Rock Entertainment, which produced the 1990 film.

* The Japanese horror novel Another is set in the fictional town of Yomiyama, Japan during 1998.

Willow plays an integral role within the inner circle of friends — called the Scooby Gang — who support Buffy Summers, a teenager gifted with superhuman powers to defeat vampires, demons, and other evil in the fictional town of Sunnydale.

Both Beautiful Girls and October Road take place in the fictional Massachusetts town of Knights Ridge, and have similar characters, jobs, plot lines.

* Messina, a fictional small town in John Grisham's Bleachers ( novel )

On 15 December 2011 the Spelthorne Borough Council voted 25-4, with 6 abstentions ( including all of those from Staines ward itself ), to change the name of the town to Staines-upon-Thames with the aim of promoting its riverside location so boosting the local economy and, reportedly, to attempt to discourage association with the fictional character Ali G.

The town is the home of the fictional character Ali G, and indie rock band Hard-Fi.

Many of Friel's plays are set in the fictional Donegal town of Ballybeg.

* Castle Rock ( Stephen King ), the fictional Maine town in use in many Stephen King novels, stories, and novellas

* Castle Rock Entertainment, a film production company founded by Rob Reiner and named after Stephen King's fictional town

In the series, she lives in the fictional town of River Heights with her father, attorney Carson Drew, and their housekeeper, Hannah Gruen.

Tactics have included the following: fake police reports, newspaper articles, bibliographical references, documentary footage, or using the legal names of performers or writers in a fictional context.

( In the television series she was a journalist with the fictional Chronicle newspaper.

The fictional island nation was described in an elaborate seven-page supplement and has been revisited by the newspaper several times.

Mrs. Miniver is a fictional character created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns for The Times, later adapted into a movie of the same name.

Homer is one of the most influential fictional characters on television, having been described by the British newspaper The Sunday Times as " the greatest comic creation of time ".

* The local newspaper is named The Metropolis Planet, inspired by The Daily Planet, the fictional paper in Superman's Metropolis.

Danza played a former Hoboken detective, and Loughlin played a crime reporter for the fictional newspaper The Hoboken Gazette.

The Daily Bugle ( at one time The DB ) is a fictional New York City newspaper that is a regular fixture in the Marvel Universe, most prominently in Spider-Man comic titles and their derivative media.

The fictional newspaper is meant to be a pastiche of both the New York Daily News and the New York Post, two popular real-life New York City tabloids.

The student newspaper, the Harvard Law Record, has been published continuously since the 1940s, making it one of the oldest law school newspapers in the country, and has included the exploits of fictional law student Fenno for decades.

* Daily Bugle, a fictional New York City newspaper

Written as fictional social commentary and intended as a space-filler to allow Marquis to meet the challenge of writing a daily newspaper column six days a week, archy and mehitabel is Marquis ' most famous work.

In 1916, Marquis introduced Archy, a fictional cockroach, into his daily newspaper column at The New York Evening Sun.

While not strictly a software protection, some game companies offered " value-added " goodies with the package, like funny manuals, posters, comics, storybooks or fictional documentation concerning the game ( e. g. the Grail Diary for Indiana Jones or a police cadet notebook with Police Quest or the Hero's manual of Quest for Glory or a copy of the National Inquisitor newspaper in Zak McKracken ) in order to entice gamers to buy the package.

From September 1996 until May 2000, fictional editions of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper were prominently featured in the CBS television series Early Edition.

During the end credits, fictional newspaper and magazine articles describe the worldwide impact of the Stallyns ' music towards the Utopian future.

Dos Passos used experimental techniques in these novels, incorporating newspaper clippings, autobiography, biography and fictional realism to paint a vast landscape of American culture during the first decades of the 20th century.

While having originally considered posing as a body floating past the lifeboat – which he later considered for his cameo in Frenzy – after his success with weight loss, Hitchcock decided to pose for " before " and " after " photos for an advertisement for a fictional weight-loss drug, " Reduco ", shown in a newspaper which was in the boat.

The Queen also appears for fictional newspaper The Bung, as " an old lady who met Diana once or twice in a big house ".

In 1908, after Captain Mahoney ( of the New York City Police Department ) crashed one of Goldman ’ s lectures in Chicago, newspaper headlines read that every popular anarchist had been present for the spectacle, “ with the single exception of Lucy Parsons, with whom Emma Goldman is not on the best of terms .” Goldman reciprocated Parsons ’ s absence by endorsing Frank Harris ' book The Bomb, which was a largely fictional account of the Haymarket Affair and its martyrs road to death.

* Lobby Lud, a fictional character invented in August 1927 by the British newspaper Westminster Gazette

The Guardian newspaper noted that it was " the same gong given his fictional cold war colleague James Bond.

* The Sun, a fictional newspaper in One Life to Live

A newspaper reporter for the fictional London Orator.