In Popular Culture
- The station was used as a location for the 1999 anthology film Tube Tales. It was also portrayed in the 2000 film Honest, although the station actually used was Aldwych.
- Belle & Sebastian released a song entitled "Mornington Crescent" on their 2006 album, The Life Pursuit. Frontman Stuart Murdoch claimed he had fallen in love with the romance of this former closed station when passing it once.
- My Life Story's 1995 album Mornington Crescent takes its name from the station, featuring photos in its sleeve notes.
- 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.
- The promotional video for "Be There" by UNKLE was filmed in this station.
- China Miéville mentions this station and its long state of disuse during the 1990s in his novel King Rat, also using it as scene of a brutal murder by dismemberment via a passing train.
- 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.
- In Christopher Fowler's "Bryant & May" mysteries, the offices of the Peculiar Crimes Unit are above Mornington Crescent tube station.
- In Allt flyter, Sara meets her mother (who's moved there from Sweden for a sportscasting job) outside the station during a Christmas trip to London.
- Mornington Crescent is a spoof game, featured in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, which satirises complicated strategy games.
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