The phrase "a fictional episode" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific segment or part of a story that is not based on real events, often found in literature, television, or film.
Example: "In the latest book, the author included a fictional episode that explores the protagonist's childhood."
Alternatives: "a made-up segment" or "an imaginary scene".
The opera, a fictional episode in the life of the Dada collage artist Kurt Schwitters, will play in Montclair through Sunday and is not scheduled to have any other performances in the United States.
The 1950s sitcom The Honeymooners is also referenced when a fictional episode of the sitcom is shown in which Ralph Kramden, the show's main character, hits his wife, something he would only threaten to do on the show.
The season's first fictional episode (seen last week) began on Sept. 10 and without bludgeoning the viewer offered just enough ominous notes.
These episodes showed South Park's reaction to a controversy regarding censorship of Muhammad depictions on two (fictional) episodes of Family Guy.
A bystander intervention presentation for arriving freshmen at Wesleyan University last Thursday — "We Speak We Stand" — featured students acting out fictional episodes of campus sexual violence, harassment and problematic drinking, with examples of how to intervene.
After leaving Hollywood, Reagan became known for occasionally telling stories about his past including stories about his happiness at "coming back from the war"—that were actually based on fictional episodes in movies.
What the fictional episodes did not tell you about were the less than humorous permanent effects on the body: hearing loss and brain damage.
The term Slow TV has multiple meanings, and has been applied to full-length chronicles of actual, incrementally unfolding events, like a ship's voyage, and to the practice of spacing out viewings of a fictional serial's episodes rather than watching them in a marathon session.
In one episode, a fictional President commands a member of his Secret Service to torture a suspected traitor: his national-security adviser.
Former Vice President Dick Chaney was reportedly concerned about a terrorist hacking his pacemaker -- as occurred to a fictional VP in an episode of the TV show Homeland.
In another climactic episode, a fictional DJ struggling with substance abuse issues who I later learn is based on a well-known techno veteran slumped in a chair, slurred on the phone to his daughter, and eventually passed out.
