The London Underground map serves as a playing field for the conceptual game of Mornington Crescent ( which is named after a station on the Northern Line ) and the board game The London Game.

Others combine Nomic with an existing game ( such as Monopoly, chess, or in one humorously paradoxical attempt, Mornington Crescent ).

* 6th Series ( 1978 )-22 August-24 October episodes ( The first time ' Mornington Crescent ' is played.

* Special ( 2005 )-24 December Search of Mornington Crescent

* In Search of Mornington Crescent ( ISBN 1-846-07195-X )

An enamel sign at the Mornington Crescent tube station | Mornington Crescent station, the game's namesake

Mornington Crescent is an improvisational game, featured in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, which satirises complicated panel games.

The apparent aim is to be the first to announce " Mornington Crescent ", a station on the Northern Line.

Mornington Crescent first appeared in the opening episode of the sixth series of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, broadcast on 22 August 1978.

Although five episodes transmitted in 1974 – 1975 are still lost, Mornington Crescent seems to have made no appearance before 1978.

One claim is that it was invented by Geoffrey Perkins, who stated in an interview that Mornington Crescent was created as a non-game.

In general, Humphrey Lyttelton would describe special rules to apply to that session, such as " Trumpington's Variations " or " Tudor Court Rules ", so that almost every episode featuring Mornington Crescent introduced a variant.

Those who asked for the rules were told " NF Stovold ’ s Mornington Crescent: Rules and Origins " was out of print.

They were also advised that " your local bookshop might have a copy of The Little Book of Mornington Crescent by Tim, Graeme, Barry and Humph.

Finchley Central and Mornington Crescent became popular in the UK as a play-by-mail pastime, and in the 1980s were " played " by post in a number of play-by-mail magazines.

Mornington Crescent is now played widely online, in the spirit of the radio series.

When Mornington Crescent tube station was reopened in 1998 after six years of closure for lift repairs, London Transport invited the Clue team to perform an opening ceremony.

During the early 1980s, Radio 4 broadcast a special programme, Everyman's Guide to Mornington Crescent, a " two-part documentary " on the history of the game and its rules, presented by Raymond Baxter.

It was named In Search of Mornington Crescent, and narrated by Andrew Marr.

Two books of rules and history have been published, The Little Book of Mornington Crescent ( 2001 ; ISBN 0-7528-1864-3 ), by Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Humphrey Lyttelton, and Stovold's Mornington Crescent Almanac ( 2001 ; ISBN 0-7528-4815-1 ), by Graeme Garden.

The Shire of Mornington Peninsula is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia.

It is located to the south of the city of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula.

Willie Rushton's blue plaqueHe is honoured by a Comic Heritage blue plaque at Mornington Crescent tube station, a reference to the game Mornington Crescent on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.

South Australia is famed for the above mentioned Barossa Valley ; in Western Australia the Swan Valley, Margaret River and Manjimup regions, as well as Broome in the north ; Victoria is famed for the Murray River regions and the Mornington Peninsula.

Mornington Crescent is a London Underground station in Camden Town in north west London, named after the nearby street.

On the branch, Mornington Crescent is between and.

Although contemporary tube maps show Mornington Crescent to the west of the City branch tunnels, it is in fact to the east of them: the two branches cross over one another at Euston, so that between Euston and Camden Town, the City branch tunnels run to the west of the Charing Cross branch on which Mornington Crescent is situated.

However, a concerted campaign to reopen the station was launched, as the station is held in fond regard due to the popular BBC Radio 4 panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, which frequently features the game round Mornington Crescent, a game which takes its name from the station.

* Mornington Crescent is used by Robert Rankin in many of his novels as the home of the Ministry of Serendipity, a fictional agency whose main activity is to ensure the British Empire rules the globe, via dealings with alien activity and suchlike, the top secret nature of the ministry being the main reason why the station was only open on weekdays and closed for " repairs " for much of the 1990s.

* In The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross, the secret main entrance to the extremely secret Government establishment ( the " Laundry ") which the protagonist Bob Howard works for is situated in the gentlemen's toilets of Mornington Crescent tube station.

* Mornington Crescent ( street ), the 1820s terrace after which the tube station is named.

* The Carreras Cigarette Factory ( now Greater London House ), a striking Art Deco Egyptian Revival building dating from 1926 to 1928, stands at Mornington Crescent and is distinguished by a pair of-high bronze statues of the Egyptian cat god Bastet.

** Mornington Crescent ( game ), a spoof game named after the station, as played on the BBC Radio 4 show I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue

References have been made in various episodes of ISIHAC to international versions of the game, including " Mornington Croissant ", supposedly based on the Paris Metro, and " Mornington Peninsula ", the Australian variant.

At least one full game of Mornington Croissant was played on air.

* The Steep Approach to Garbadale, by Iain Banks, mentions Mornington Crescent as a game created by the fictional company Wopuld Ltd., described as being " based on the map of the London underground with a complicated double-level board ".

While beginners sometimes assume that the dealer ( sometimes called the " Chairman ", the " Mao " or the " Grand Master ") and other experienced players are simply making up possibly inconsistent rules ( as in the game Mornington Crescent ), the rules of Mao are consistent within each game and can be followed correctly.

* Mornington Crescent ( game ), from the BBC Radio 4 programme I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.

Dollis Hill was frequently mentioned in the humorous game Mornington Crescent, featured on the radio comedy show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.

Best known as the BBC head of comedy ( 1995 – 2001 ), he produced the first two radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and is one of the people credited with creating the bizarre panel game Mornington Crescent for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

Tasked by department head David Hatch, Perkins helped to revitalise the comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue ( launched five years earlier ), introducing the incomprehensible Mornington Crescent game which would become an enduring success.

* Mornington Crescent ( game )

* I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, a radio panel game with bizarre games, notably Mornington Crescent and One Song to the Tune of Another on BBC Radio 4 ( 1974 -).

* Mornington Crescent ( game ) — the game