At which London Underground station is there a blue plaque dedicated to Willie Rushton, a long-standing member of the panel game 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue'?
"persist to this day. """" has a single-player level named ""Mind The Gap"" where most of the level takes place between the dockyards and Westminster while the player and a team of SAS attempt to take down terrorists attempting to escape using the London Underground via a hijacked train. The game also features the multiplayer map ""Underground"", in which players are combating in a fictitious Underground station. 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""."
"01:06 (except for peak hours and after 23.00 all trains operate as a shuttle between Finchley Central and Mill Hill East). London Bus routes 13, 125, 143, 326, 382 and 460, night route N20, and school routes 626 and 683 serve the station. The station features in the Finchley Central mind game, which in turn became the basis for the game Mornington Crescent in the BBC Radio 4 series ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". The New Vaudeville Band's song ""Finchley Central"" reached No. 11 in the UK singles charts in 1967. Finchley Central was the station used in the"
"for the long-running BBC Radio 4 comedy series ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" which later featured Willie Rushton as a regular panellist. Tony Curtis is driving an Alvis Speed 20 (1932–36) named the ""Triple S, Six-Sylinder Special"", and Gert Fröbe is in a Mercedes SSK (1928–32). Terry-Thomas's car first is a Ware-Armitage, while his official entry is in a ""Nifty Nine, Mark II"". The other British team is in a Lea-Francis, outfitted with an array of ingenious contraptions including the Dawlish Klaxon, the Dawlish Periscope, the Dawlish Snow Stoppers, the Dawlish Snow Melter, bits to turn it into the"
"Gallery. Rushton died of a heart attack at Cromwell Hospital, Kensington, in 1996, aged 59. Remarkably, he had predicted this ten years earlier, presumably in jest, on ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". In the first episode of Series 13, which aired on July 26, 1986, Chairman Humphrey Lyttleton asked the panelists to ""gaze into their crystal balls"" and make predictions for 1996. Rushton said, “I'm sorry you introduced this round, because I just spotted a memorial service for myself in Westminster Abbey.” Among his last words was the advice, ""Tell Bazza he's too old to do pantomime"", meant for"
"I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is a BBC radio comedy panel game. Introduced as ""the antidote to panel games"", it consists of two teams of two comedians ""given silly things to do"" by a chairman. The show launched in April 1972 as a parody of radio and TV panel games, and has been broadcast since on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, with repeats aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra and, in the 1980s and 1990s, on BBC Radio 2. The 50th series was broadcast in November and December 2007. After"
"regular cast of the show (Humphrey Lyttelton, Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden) and a memorial plaque to the late Willie Rushton, one of the longest-serving panelists, was installed at the station in 2002. During the station's rebuilding, the original distinctive light blue tiling pattern was restored to the station (though taking into account modern requirements). The ticket hall was reconstructed and the original emergency stairs closed. A second lift shaft was converted (losing the unnecessary extra two lifts) into a staircase on one side and a series of station facilities on the other. Since its 1998 reopening, the"
"recovery period will be"" but Lyttelton was ""otherwise fine and in very good spirits"". On Tuesday, 22 April 2008, Lyttelton and the ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" team were booked to appear in the stage version of the programme at the Pavilion Theatre (Bournemouth). Because of his illness, his place was taken by Rob Brydon, but a pre-recorded message from Lyttelton was played to the audience (""I'm sorry I can't be with you today as I am in hospital — I wish I'd thought of this sooner!""). The panellists on that night were Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer"
"One Song to the Tune of Another ""One Song to the Tune of Another"" was the first game played on the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" and is still almost always played every other episode. It consists of panellists singing the lyrics of one song to the tune of another song, accompanied on the piano. The four original panellists were adept at this game, and each took an individual turn. Since the death of Willie Rushton guest panellists have appeared, and the two team members occasionally sing together, presumably to compensate for the"
"and age progressing and still wanting to perform, Cryer refocused his career to include more performance, touring with Willie Rushton in ""Two Old Farts in the Night"" and, after Rushton's death, ""That Reminds Me"". After a brief early stint as chairman, Cryer has been one of the panellists on the BBC radio comedy programme ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", which began in 1972. He also writes and stars in ""You'll Have Had Your Tea"" with Graeme Garden. He has written an autobiography, ""You Won't Believe This But..."", as well as a book of miscellaneous anecdotes ""Pigs Can Fly.""; in"
"was in hospital to repair an aortic aneurysm. Lyttelton died in hospital after surgery. In February 2009, it was announced that Brydon would be one of three people to replace Lyttelton as chairman of the 51st series of ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" (the others being Stephen Fry and Jack Dee). Brydon also appeared as guest panellist in the first two episodes of series 52, chaired by Jack Dee. He returned as a guest panellist in the last two episodes of series 54 in January 2011. Additionally, he took over in 2009 from Angus Deayton as host of ""Would"
"Hardy took his place, with Miles Jupp as the guest panellist. Dates The eighth and most recent tour took place in 2017, again with Dee in the chair. Garden was again absent so Hardy took his place once more, with Tony Hawks as the guest panellist. Dates Episodes of ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" were included in the package of programmes held in 20 underground radio stations of the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS), designed to provide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days after a nuclear attack. I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue I'm Sorry I Haven't"
"he was an established guest on quiz shows and celebrity panel games: ""Celebrity Squares"", ""Blankety Blank"", ""Countdown"" and ""Through the Keyhole"". When asked why he appeared on these ""ludicrous programmes"", his answer was simple: ""Because I meet everybody there"". For 22 years until his death, he was a panellist in the long-running BBC Radio 4 panel comedy game show ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", which he joined as a regular team member in the third series in 1974. In its later years, the show's wealth of silliness, smut and punning was drawing audiences of up to a thousand people"
"by D. H. Lawrence, a play in Nottingham dialect, neither published nor performed in Lawrence's lifetime was revived at the Lyric Theatre in 2012. The Lowry was the venue for the grand final of the BBC quiz show ""Mastermind"" in 2003. The Lyric Theatre has also housed the first and only televised recording of the radio show ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", which Humphrey Lyttelton chaired just 19 days before his death in April 2008. An edited version aired on BBC Four, and the full edition is available on DVD. Notes The Lowry The Lowry is a theatre and"
"Oval Cricket Ground. Willie Rushton William George Rushton (18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the satirical magazine ""Private Eye"". Rushton was born 18 August 1937 in 3 Wilbraham Place, Chelsea, London, the only son of John and Veronica Rushton. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, where he was not academically successful but met his future ""Private Eye"" colleagues Richard Ingrams, Paul Foot and Christopher Booker. He also contributed to the satirical magazine ""The Wallopian"", (a play on the school magazine name ""The Salopian"") mocking school spirit, traditions and"
"the pilot programme having been broadcast on 30 December 1963 under the title ""Cambridge Circus"". The ninth, final series was transmitted in November and December 1973, with fewer episodes (eight instead of the earlier thirteen per series). An hour-long 25th anniversary show was broadcast in 1989. It is comically introduced as ""full frontal radio"". ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", a spinoff panel game show, was first produced in 1972. The title of the show comes from a sentence commonly used by BBC newsreaders following an on-air flub: ""I'm sorry, I'll read that again."" Having the phrase used to recover"
"Programme and to ""The IT Crowd"" for Best Situation Comedy dedicated their awards to Perkins. Geoffrey Perkins Geoffrey Howard Perkins (22 February 1953 – 29 August 2008) was a British comedy producer, writer and performer. 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"". In December 2008 he posthumously received an Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award. Perkins attended the Harrow County Grammar School, alongside"
"Humphrey Lyttelton Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton (23 May 1921 – 25 April 2008), also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the aristocratic Lyttelton family. Having taught himself the trumpet at school, Lyttelton became a popular figure of the trad jazz revival, leading his own eight-piece band, which recorded a hit single, ""Bad Penny Blues"", in 1956. As a broadcaster, he presented BBC Radio 2's ""The Best of Jazz"" for forty years, and hosted the comedy panel game ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" on Radio 4, becoming the UK's oldest panel game host. Lyttelton was"
"Humphrey Lyttelton Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton (23 May 1921 – 25 April 2008), also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the aristocratic Lyttelton family. Having taught himself the trumpet at school, Lyttelton became a popular figure of the trad jazz revival, leading his own eight-piece band, which recorded a hit single, ""Bad Penny Blues"", in 1956. As a broadcaster, he presented BBC Radio 2's ""The Best of Jazz"" for forty years, and hosted the comedy panel game ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" on Radio 4, becoming the UK's oldest panel game host. Lyttelton was"
"Willie Rushton, one of the show's longest-serving panelists, was installed at the station in 2002. At Christmas 1984, 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. At the end of part one (concentrating on the history), it was announced that part two (about the rules) had been postponed due to ""scheduling difficulties"". Another documentary was broadcast on Christmas Eve 2005. It was named ""In Search of Mornington Crescent"", and narrated by Andrew Marr. This has since also been released on a"
"into one of the previously chosen categories, or is unable to come up with a name at all. Watson, Key and Horne once played the game live on stage one Sunday afternoon at London's Canal Cafe Theatre in 2006. The game was played on the Radio 4 show ""It's Your Round"" in March 2011 when Key was one of the panellists and his competitors were Bridget Christie, Micky Flanagan and Nick Hancock. We Need Answers We Need Answers was a British television panel game presented by comedians Mark Watson, Tim Key and Alex Horne. The show featured a pair of"
"Graeme Garden David Graeme Garden OBE (born 18 February 1943) is a Scottish comedian, actor, author, artist and television presenter, best known as a member of The Goodies and for being a cast member on ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he grew up in Preston, England. Garden was educated at Repton School, and studied medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he joined the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club (of which he became President in 1964), and performed with the 1964 Footlights revue, ""Stuff What Dreams Are Made Of"" at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Garden qualified"
"in excavations east of the station as part of the land clearance work for the Crossrail project. London Bus routes 7, 18, 23, 28, 31, 36, 70 and 328, and night routes N28 and N31 serve the station. In addition, bus route 23 provide a 24-hour bus service. The station was featured in the video of the Boris Gardiner song ""I Want to Wake Up with You"". Westbourne Park tube station Westbourne Park is a London Underground station in the Notting Hill area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is on the Circle and Hammersmith and City"
"Russell Square tube station Russell Square is a London Underground station opposite Russell Square on Bernard Street, Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden. The station is on the Piccadilly line, between Holborn and King's Cross St Pancras and is in Travelcard Zone 1. Russell Square Station is not far from the British Museum, the University of London's main campus, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Russell Square Gardens and the Brunswick Centre. The station was opened by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway on 15 December 1906. The station was designed by Leslie Green. On 20 July 2011, English Heritage"
"Colin Sell Colin Sell (born 1 December 1948) is a British pianist who has appeared on the radio panel games ""Whose Line Is It Anyway?"" and ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". He has become famous mostly for his long service on the latter show, where the opening credits are ""At the piano is Colin Sell, and your chairman is Humphrey Lyttelton/Jack Dee"", in the manner of the show none of the panelists are credited in the opening credits, but are introduced by the chairman, usually in a sarcastic manner (""the foremost available comedians. I'm sorry. The four ""most available"""
"Underground station. Beck's home at 60 Courthouse Road, Finchley was marked with a plaque by the Finchley Society in 2003. Since 2001 Transport for London has also started to credit Beck for the original idea on the modern Tube maps. In March 2006 viewers of BBC2's ""The Culture Show"" and visitors to London's Design Museum voted Harry Beck's Tube map as their second-favourite British design of the 20th century in the Great British Design Quest. The winner was Concorde. In January 2009 the Royal Mail issued a set of postage stamps celebrating British design classics, among them was the contemporary"
"Hamish and Dougal Hamish and Dougal are two characters from the long-running BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", played by Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden, who later went on to have their own Radio 4 series, You'll Have Had Your Tea: The Doings of Hamish and Dougal. The series is occasionally broadcast on the BBC's repeat channel, Radio Four Extra. The fictional characters Hamish and Dougal originated in one of the rounds of ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" called Sound Charades. In this round the title of a book or film has"
"Band"". In 2013 he appeared with Barry Cryer in Richmond, Yorkshire, as part of the Swaledale Festival, performing jazz and blues and songs of his own composition. Colin has a son, Rob Sell, who is a saxophonist and flautist with various London area bands. Colin Sell Colin Sell (born 1 December 1948) is a British pianist who has appeared on the radio panel games ""Whose Line Is It Anyway?"" and ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". He has become famous mostly for his long service on the latter show, where the opening credits are ""At the piano is Colin Sell,"
"you go"" customers to touch in and out. London Buses routes 4, 19, 29, 106, 153, 210, 236, 253, 254, 259, W3 and W7, and night routes N19, N29, N253 and N279 serve the station and bus station. The railway station is featured in the music video for Jim Diamond's number one hit ""I Should Have Known Better"". In JoWood Productions' transport game ""Traffic Giant"", the opening video shows a station platform (similar to a typical London Underground station) bearing the station name Finsbury Park. Finsbury Park is also a character created by the comedian Harry Hill and the station's"
"gate-line in October 2016. Coventry and Earlsfield are the only other stations to lose their ticket barriers. The station has a ticket office, an electronic ticket machine, a cafe and toilets. The typical Monday to Saturday off-peak service from the station is: The typical Sunday service from the station is: In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Final Problem, a short story in ""The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"", Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson hide from Professor Moriarty at a station in Canterbury. The station is unspecified but is likely to have been Canterbury East as Holmes and Watson were making their"
"Kent, Jim Tomlinson, Charlie Watts, Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball, Tina May, Louise Parker, Annie Whitehead, Sue Richardson, Ben Waters, and Axel Zwingelberger. The show also featured comedy from Jack Dee, Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Rob Brydon, Jeremy Hardy, Sandi Toksvig, Tony Hawks, Andy Hamilton, and Colin Sell from the BBC panel show ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue."" A recording of the show was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on Boxing Day 2010. The Humph Award (originally The Humphrey Lyttelton Royal Academy of Music Jazz Award) was set up with the Royal Academy of Music and is awarded"
"June 18, 2007, the Historical Association dropped its plans to include Tubman in the Freedom Crossing Monument, saying it would focus the monument on Lewiston's Underground Station Master, Josiah Tryon. Since no known photographic image exists of Josiah Tryon, local Tryon re-enactor Timothy Henderson was used as the model. Henderson has been portraying Tryon since 1994. The monument contains hidden messages and codes on each character. For example, the GPS coordinates of Josiah Tryon's gravesite are inscribed on his bronze sculpture. The monument is the first large scale Underground Railroad monument in Western New York on the Canada–US border, and"
"revived in 2016 on VIER. ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", another BBC radio comedy panel show which occupies the same Monday-night slot in the Radio 4 schedule, occasionally parodies its rival show with a round entitled ""Just a Minim"". In this spoof version the contestants must sing songs — always chosen for their highly repetitive lyrics — without repetition, hesitation, or deviation (from the tune.) The chairman, currently Jack Dee who has himself been a guest on ""Just a Minute"", imitates Nicholas Parsons' style. Just a Minute Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy and television"
"Geoffrey Perkins Geoffrey Howard Perkins (22 February 1953 – 29 August 2008) was a British comedy producer, writer and performer. 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"". In December 2008 he posthumously received an Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award. Perkins attended the Harrow County Grammar School, alongside Nigel Sheinwald, Michael Portillo and Clive Anderson, with whom he ran the debating society. Taking"