Mornington Crescent - The Movie

Mornington Crescent - GAME ONE
Film / edit / concept / created (c) Anna Black 2006

Film based on the strategy game Mornington Crescent popularised by the BBC Radio 4 show "I'm sorry I haven't a clue"

Anna had a very nasty cold at the time...

Also before anyone emails me - prior to play we agreed that Mainline stations were wild, and overstepping was allowed on the traverse inversion.

Any questions please email Anna...

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• mornington
• crescent
• anna
• black
• barry
• cryer
• grahame
• garden
• tim
• brooke
• taylor
• willie
• rushton
• bbc
• radio
• london
• haven't
• clue

[darthflyeroflines]

I really don't get mornington crescent. It's something to do with railway stations, and I think that getting mornington crescent station wins it, but...

[annascaz]

It is a simple game in which anyone can learn the basic premise. Please have a go, it's the most fun you can ever have with a map.

[morricone1900]

You ladies are a lot hotter than Humph or Barry Cryer. ;)

Did you catch the recent episode with that female computerized voice joining in the MC game, eventually fliriting with Stephen Fry? It was an instant classic. :]

I'm from the US so I never have a "clue" what's going on in Mornington Crescent, but I appreciate it anyway for its inherent anarchic randomness. Of all the great British institutions, "Clue" is the greatest, in my opinion.

[annascaz]

Many thanks. Glad we did it for you. Don't think we could out do Samanatha though. I hear tell she is on tour at the moment in "Battlestar Galactica - The Play"... Being from the US you must have played "Mosholo Parkway" using the New York subway system?

[barcop101]

Pentonville Road would have been a killer response to Aldgate East. Would have forced an early Dolis Hill no doubt but at that stage it could have so easily misdirected the opponent down a rat run via Paddington! A 'Garden' strategy I know but it worked so well against TBT just last year at the start of the season

[annascaz]

A Dollis Hill Loop holds no prisoners, as Humph would say without trumpet.

[PlantagenetKW]

Sorry but I thought Anna was robbed.

Elise clearly had the merest grasp of modern game play but got lucky in the last gasp.

I can't seem to get my kids to understand the game.

Either they blurt out Mornington Crescent after a couple of moves or they burst into tears because they don't have any idea where to go.

I've even let them play with a map of the London Underground open in front of them and they still get confused.

[bparga]

I might be wrong, in that case I'd ask someone to correct me. In the early stages of this game, couldn't the Black Hat player (as defined in the 1989 european convention, I mean) have taken the straight aisle from Notting Hill Gate and directly to Aldgate East? I mean, that would have prevented her opponent from moving to Soho Square from Grosvernor Road (with no leakage, which was remarkable!) and thus saved her quite a headache further on.

The answer must be a simple one, I just can't see it.

[leela145]

indeed, unless you're using the the King James standard rule book which clearly states (in 1956) that shunting is allowed except on the north and southern diagonals.

[leela145]

Kentish Town.

[Skandelerious03]

Shepherd's Bush

[MaryWoolnoth]

Bond Street

[MaryWoolnoth]

I loved that prior inversion. Almost worthy of Rushton himself.

[BWFSabian]

Camberwick Green

[BWFSabian]

It's not real. It's a running joke.. Now, Lower Paddington Crescent....

[fyingpurplecows]

Tufnell Park

[crazymelon]

Let's start a game now! I'll go first.

Ewell East.

[Guardphoenix81]

Of course it's a simple move if you play without using the Contraflow at Bond Street.