The fame and status of the cricket series has led to many other events taking the name for England against Australia challenge. The best-known and longest-running of these actions is the rugby league contest between Great Britain and Australia. The competition first started in 1908, the name being optional by the touring Australians. Another example is in the British television show Gladiators, where two series were based around the Australia–England competition.
The urn is also featured in the science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything, the third "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" book by Douglas Adams. The urn is stolen by alien robots, as it is part of the key needed to unlock the "Wikkit Gate" and release the imprisoned world of "Krikkit".
In the cinema, the Ashes featured in the film The Final Test, launched in 1953, based on a television play by Terence Rattigan. It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series; the film contains cameo emergence from famous contemporary Ashes cricketers as well as Jim Laker and Denis Compton.
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