In Pop Culture
- Setting of The Goodies.
- Setting of the 1990s children's TV show Spatz.
- Setting of Minder.
- Album by Ten Years After is entitled Cricklewood Green
- Mentioned in the spoken introduction to the Irish folk song 'McAlpine's Fusiliers' as performed by The Dubliners, Noel Murphy and others.
- Setting of the opening scene and much of Zadie Smith's novel White Teeth and features in the funeral scene in On Beauty
- The home of Gary Sparrow in the 1990s BBC sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart is located in Cricklewood.
- The location of the fictional Cricklewood studios in Peter Capaldi's hit spoof documentary Cricklewood Greats.
- The location of the real Stoll Film Studios.
- The target of the famous Eric Morecambe line, "life's not Hollywood, it's Cricklewood".
- A number of the late Alan Coren's books were dedicated to Cricklewood, including The Cricklewood Tapestry, Toujours Cricklewood? and The Cricklewood Dome.
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