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* ''Film/PetersFriends'': All the friends studied at Cambridge together in 1983.
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* In ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'', Helen Magnus was the first woman to attend Oxford, where she met [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper John Druitt]], UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla, [[TheInvisibleMan Nigel Griffin]], and [[Literature/SherlockHolmes James Watson]] (and was canonically lusted after by three out of those last four). "The Five" form a critical aspect of ''Sanctuary'''s backstory.
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* In ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'', Helen Magnus was the first woman to attend Oxford, where she met [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper John Druitt]], UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla, [[TheInvisibleMan [[Literature/TheInvisibleMan Nigel Griffin]], and [[Literature/SherlockHolmes James Watson]] (and was canonically lusted after by three out of those last four). "The Five" form a critical aspect of ''Sanctuary'''s backstory.
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* ''Literature/ImNotDoneWithYouYet'' is set partially during Jane and Thalia's exchange year at Oxford.
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* ''Film/28DaysLater'': The ZombieApocalypse starts after environmental activists free infected chimps at Cambridge.
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* ''Film/TheTheoryOfEverything'': As a Stephen Hawking biopic, large chunks of it take place in Cambridge (and it was also filmed there).
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* ''Series/ASpyAmongFriends'': As an adaptation of the real-life Cambridge Spies case, the men involved are shown meeting at Cambridge.
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* ''Film/TheManWhoKnewInfinity'' sees Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan travel to Trinity collage just before World War One after he began corresponding with G.H Hardy and the majority the film is set in and around the collage and was filmed on location in Cambridge.
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* ''Film/EskimoDay'' is a TV film about teenagers who have their interviews at Queens' College, Cambridge. ''Film/ColdEnoughForSnow'' is the sequel.
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* ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'': Oppenheimer teaches at Cambridge (among other places).
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* ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'': Oppenheimer teaches at Cambridge (among other places).
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* ''Series/HarryAndPaul'' has several characters who went to Cambridge, and sketches filmed while the comedians were at Cambridge themselves.
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* The ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' episode where Scumbag College gets onto ''Series/UniversityChallenge'' sees the Scumbags come up against a (fictitious) Footlights College, Oxbridge, populated by chinless Henries and simpering Henriettas. The boys realise straight away how everything is rigged in favour of the Oxbridge team and behave accordingly. [[note]] Creator/BenElton, who attended the less prestigious Manchester University, wrote this as a TakeThat against a Creator/{{BBC}} seen as overpopulated with Oxbridge graduates and preferentially advancing talent from the old uni[[/note]]
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* The ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' episode where Scumbag College gets onto ''Series/UniversityChallenge'' sees the Scumbags come up against a (fictitious) Footlights College, Oxbridge, populated by chinless Henries and simpering Henriettas. The boys realise straight away how everything is rigged in favour of the Oxbridge team and behave accordingly. [[note]] Creator/BenElton, who attended the less prestigious Manchester University, wrote this as a TakeThat against a Creator/{{BBC}} seen as overpopulated with Oxbridge graduates and preferentially advancing talent from the old uni[[/note]]
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