In Fiction
The Common is home to The Wombles, the children's TV characters.
It is also featured in the novel The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams, the climax of which occurs in the windmill.
The TARDIS briefly stops there at the end of the Doctor Who serial The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, whereupon Dodo Chaplet enters the TARDIS, believing it to be a police box, and becomes a companion for the next five serials. Iris Wildthyme - a character from the BBC Doctor Who book series - travels in a TARDIS which is disguised as the Number 22 bus to Putney Common.
The Common is one setting of HG Wells' The War of the Worlds.
In the television sitcom Bottom, Richie and Eddie go camping in Wimbledon Common in the episode "'S Out".
Although not fiction, Wimbledon Common features in J. R. Ackerley's memoir of his life with his Alsatian, My Dog Tulip.
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