Editing Eddy Merckx (section)

=== Films and series ===
* A 1973 Danish short film was made, [[Eddy Merckx in the Vicinity of a Cup of Coffee]], starring Merckx and [[Walter Godefroot]]
* In the 1973 comedy film [[The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob]], Merckx was cited by Louis de Funès as the author of Che Guevara's famous quote: "The revolution is like a bicycle: when it doesn't move forward, it falls''."''
* The 1974 documentary film ''La Course en Tête'' by [[Joël Santoni]] looks at the racing and private life of Merckx
* The 1976 Danish documentary film [[A Sunday in Hell]] focuses on the contenders Merckx, [[Roger De Vlaeminck]], [[Freddy Maertens]], and [[Francesco Moser]] in the [[1976 Paris–Roubaix|Paris–Roubaix]] race of that year
* Merckx has a cameo in the 1985 sports drama film [[American Flyers]], starring Kevin Costner
* Merckx is the rival – more or less fantasized – of [[Benoît Poelvoorde]] in the 2001 film [[Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert]] by Philippe Harel
* In 2005, he appears in episode 39b of the second season of [[Space Goofs]], where his character provides the Earth's core with energy, pedalling a stationary bike
* Merckx has a cameo in the 2012 French-Belgian comedy film [[Torpedo (2012 film)|Torpedo]] by Matthieu Donck
* The Flemish movie, set in the seventies [[Allez, Eddy]] was released in 2012
* Eddy Merckx is the subject of an autobiographical fiction written by Christophe Van Staen, entitled Eddy Merckx, Nobel Prize? (Lamiroy, 2019)