"and 460, and night route N98 serve the station. Furthermore, routes 6, 52, 266 and 297 are 24-hour services. 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"". Traditionally, the playing of Dollis Hill starts a ""Dollis Hill Loop"", meaning that every subsequent move made by any player must be to Dollis Hill. Various ingenious ways to break the loop have been invented by Mornington Crescent players in the past. Dollis Hill tube station Dollis Hill is a London Underground station at Dollis Hill near to"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"his long-time friend Barry Cryer. Rushton 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"". BBC7 showcased his contribution to ""I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue"" – in the week of the 10th anniversary of his death – by rebroadcasting five episodes of the show, one on each weekday night (11–15 December 2006). The broadcasts chosen included the last shows he recorded for the programme. According to the autobiography of Nicholas Parsons, Rushton's ashes were buried by the boundary line at 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"
"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,"
"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"
"been born in Cumbria."" Garden stated that in the series they were sending up the stereotypes of Scots rather than Scots themselves. 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"
"It also may have influenced other spoof-based British radio programmes such as ""Radio Active"", ""On the Hour"", ""The Sunday Format"", ""The News Huddlines"", and later ""Bleak Expectations"". Several cast members have since appeared in the radio comedy panel game ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", a spinoff from ""ISIRTA"" that has outlived it by decades. Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden continue as regulars on the show. Episodes of ""ISIRTA"" have frequently been heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra (available on digital television, DAB digital radio and the web). Listeners in Australia occasionally find ""ISIRTA"" in the 5.30am vintage comedy timeslot"
"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"
"in Edinburgh, where a visitor who has dropped in at ""tea"" (a colloquial term for an evening meal) is informed that the host does not intend to feed them. The stereotype of Scottish people being careful with their money is regularly played on in the series. Episodes were 15 minutes long and were extensions of the one-minute sketches. The series featured two other actors: regular ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" panelist Jeremy Hardy, and Alison Steadman. Steadman played Mrs Naughtie the housekeeper, while Hardy played the local laird. The announcer was BBC newsreader Brian Perkins. The music for the"
"open-top bus tour operates during the summer. Cheddar cheese is made in the lower part of the gorge. UK 1960s Garage Rock band The Troggs used Cheddar Caves as the backdrop for the band photo on their debut album ""From Nowhere – The Troggs"", which included the US ""Billboard"" no.1 hit single (no.2 UK), ""Wild Thing"". Cheddar Gorge was the setting for Peter Nichols' 1968 comedy ""The Gorge"", in the BBC's Wednesday Play series. Cheddar Gorge is a panel game played on the BBC Radio 4 series ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". The gorge was used as a location"
"N133, N136 and N155 serve the station. The station was mocked up by the 14-21/04/76 BBC1 series ""Survivors: The Lights of London parts 1 & 2"". However, the filmed site was actually at Camden Town deep-level shelter. Oval tube station Oval is a London Underground station in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is on the Northern line between Stockwell and Kennington stations and is in Travelcard Zone 2. It opened on 18 December 1890 as part of the City & South London Railway and is named after The Oval cricket ground, which it serves. The station is located at"
"group The Chaser, including Craig Reucassel, Andrew Hansen and Julian Morrow, have produced a TV series based on the British series. General Specific The Unbelievable Truth (radio show) The Unbelievable Truth is a BBC radio comedy panel game made by Random Entertainment, devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith. It is very similar to the occasional ""I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue"" game ""Lies, All Lies"", which was first played in 1985. The game is chaired by David Mitchell and is described in the programme's introduction as ""the panel game built on truth and lies."" The object of the game"
"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"
"referred to as an ""English game"" in an article on ""non-games"" as follows: Two players alternate naming the stations of the London Underground. The first to say ""Finchley Central"" wins. It is clear that the ""best"" time to say ""Finchley Central"" is exactly before your opponent does. Failing that, it is good that he should be considering it. You could, of course, say ""Finchley Central"" on your second turn. In that case, your opponent puffs on his cigarette and says, ""Well..."" Shame on you. The objective of Mornington Crescent is to give the appearance of a game of skill and"
"The London Game The London Game is a British board game based on the London Underground in London, England. The game was first released in 1972 by the game company Condor. The game was re-released in 1997 to celebrate 25 years of the game's existence with a new all-colour board, with new cards. The aim of the game is to start at one of five major stations (Paddington, Liverpool Street, King's Cross St Pancras, Victoria and Waterloo) before working your way around six other random stations in the central area, then returning to the terminal that you started from. However,"
"Arsenal tube station Arsenal is a London Underground station located in Highbury, London. It is on the Piccadilly line, between Holloway Road and Finsbury Park stations, in Travelcard Zone 2. Originally known as Gillespie Road, it was renamed in 1932 after Arsenal Football Club, who at the time played at the nearby Highbury Stadium. It is the only tube station named directly after a football club in the United Kingdom. Although Highbury Stadium closed in 2006, the station retains its name and is still used by spectators attending matches at Arsenal's nearby Emirates Stadium. The station is located on a"
"""Monopoly"" board. The other three stations in the game are Marylebone, Fenchurch Street and Liverpool Street, and all four were LNER termini at the time the game was being designed for the British market in the mid-1930s. Notes Citations Sources London King's Cross railway station King's Cross railway station, also known as London King's Cross, is a passenger railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden, on the edge of Central London. It is in the London station group, one of the busiest stations in the United Kingdom and the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line to North"
"Sound Charades Sound Charades is a variant of charades played on BBC Radio 4's ""antidote to panel games"", ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". As with some other ""ISIHAC"" games, such as ""Celebrity What's My Line?"", the game has been created by taking an existing one and removing the central concept. As the late chairman Humphrey Lyttelton put it: ""In the original, the players were not allowed to speak, resulting in much hilarity. Our version differs subtly in two ways."" The format of the game is largely similar to the original. One team is given the name of a book,"
"1965 film of ""The IPCRESS File"" and the 1978 film of ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" (standing in for ). The station continues to be so used according to Film London. Marylebone is one of four London termini on the British version of the ""Monopoly"" board game, along with King's Cross, Fenchurch Street and Liverpool Street. At the time the board was designed in the mid-1930s all the stations were being operated by the LNER. Citations Sources Marylebone station Marylebone station ( ) is a Central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the Marylebone area of the City of"
"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"""
"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"
"The Unbelievable Truth (radio show) The Unbelievable Truth is a BBC radio comedy panel game made by Random Entertainment, devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith. It is very similar to the occasional ""I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue"" game ""Lies, All Lies"", which was first played in 1985. The game is chaired by David Mitchell and is described in the programme's introduction as ""the panel game built on truth and lies."" The object of the game is to lie on a subject, whilst also trying to include the truth without being detected. The series was first broadcast as a"
"Finchley Central (game) Finchley Central is a mind game in which two players take turns naming stations in the London Underground. The ""first"" person to name Finchley Central is the winner. Of course, the first player could say ""Finchley Central"" straight away, but as maths professor Jonathan Partington notes, An opening move of ""Finchley Central"" is too much of a cheat, and you might wish to start with, say, Liverpool Street, when, assuming that your opponent isn't rude enough to reply with Finchley Central, leaves you with a mate on your second move (though you probably would prefer to stall"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"decades-long runs in the UK: ""Twenty Questions"" lasted until 1976, while ""Just a Minute"" has remained on the air with the same host since 1967. Other long-running games on radio include ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" since 1972, ""The News Quiz"" since 1977, ""My Word!"" from 1956 to 1988, and ""My Music"" from 1967 to 1994. The British version of ""What's My Line?"" may have been the first television panel show in the UK, with an original run from 1951 to 1963 and several remakes in later years. The word game ""Call My Bluff"" aired from 1965 to 2005,"
"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"
"August, just over a week before the bid submission date of 9 September 2013, Go-Ahead/Colas Rail pulled out of the running. The franchise was awarded to Keolis/Amey with a handover date of 7 December 2014. The DLR appears in the video to Sean Paul and Clean Bandit's single ""Rockabye"". Woolwich Arsenal plays an underground station in Athens in Jason Bourne. Docklands Light Railway The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is an automated light metro system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of East London, England. It reaches north to Stratford, south to Lewisham across the River Thames, west"