Bill Wright
Director
Mastermind (1972)
2025/26
Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take the famous black chair.
Released Sept. 11, 1972
Episode 30 min
None+
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Production Companies: Hat Trick Productions, Hindsight Productions
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S52E1 - Episode 1
In the first of 24 heats, Clive Myrie puts four contenders to the test. Specialist subjects include the Women’s Institute, Carl Lewis and the films of The Muppets.
July 14, 2025, midnight
S52E2 - Episode 2
Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take the famous black chair. The specialist subjects are the men’s Euros from 2000 to 2024, Truman Capote, Gilmore Girls and LS Lowry.
July 21, 2025, midnight
S52E3 - Episode 3
Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. Specialist subjects include Jodie Whittaker's tenure on Doctor Who and Edward III.
July 28, 2025, midnight
S52E4 - Episode 4
Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take to the famous black chair. Specialist subjects include The Hunger Games and Edvard Munch.
Aug. 11, 2025, midnight
S52E5 - Episode 5
Clive Myrie asks the questions in another heat of the classic quiz. Specialist subjects include the history of sheep and the music of Katy Perry.
Aug. 18, 2025, midnight
S52E6 - Episode 6
Clive Myrie hosts another heat of the classic quiz where contenders take the black chair. The subjects include, Barack Obama, the Dambusters Raid and Real Madrid from 2000 to the present.
Aug. 25, 2025, midnight
S52E7 - Episode 7
Four more contenders brave the famous black chair in another heat of the classic quiz. Specialist subjects include Katherine Parr and Pierce Brosnan's tenure as James Bond.
Sept. 1, 2025, midnight
S52E8 - Episode 8
The search for the nation's Mastermind continues as Clive Myrie tests four more contenders on their specialist subjects and general knowledge.
The specialist subjects are the comedian Bob Mortimer, dolphins and porpoises, the singer Eva Cassidy and the England cricket team under Michael Atherton.
Sept. 8, 2025, midnight
S52E9 - Episode 9
Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. Specialist subjects include People Just Do Nothing and the Roman emperor Nero.
Sept. 15, 2025, midnight
S52E10 - Episode 10
Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. Specialist subjects include the musical Evita and the works of Sally Rooney.
Sept. 22, 2025, midnight
S52E11 - Episode 11
Clive Myrie asks the questions in another heat where the contenders answer questions on subjects including The Simpsons and the plays of Samuel Beckett.
Sept. 29, 2025, midnight
S52E12 - Episode 12
Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz. The subjects include the Jurassic Coast, the band Queen and Mickey Mouse cartoons from 1928-1935.
Oct. 6, 2025, midnight
S52E13 - Episode 13
Clive Myrie asks the questions in another heat where the contenders answer questions on the films of Billy Wilder, Neil Diamond and the Apollo space program.
Oct. 14, 2025, midnight
S52E14 - Episode 14
Clive Myrie hosts as four more contenders answer questions on specialist subjects, including Richard Nixon, the band Nirvana and the television sitcom Derry Girls.
Oct. 20, 2025, midnight
S52E15 - Episode 15
Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. Specialist subjects include the musical Les Miserables, Florence Nightingale and The O.C.
Oct. 27, 2025, midnight
S52E16 - Episode 16
Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take to the black chair. The specialist subjects include Roxy Music, Marc Chagall and the original Tomb Raider games.
Nov. 3, 2025, midnight
S52E17 - Episode 17
Clive Myrie presents another heat of the classic quiz, with four contenders answering questions on such subjects as the Great Reform Act of 1832, the castles of South Wales and Maroon 5.
Nov. 10, 2025, midnight
S52E18 - Episode 18
Clive Myrie hosts, with contenders answering questions on specialist subjects including Aneurin Bevan, the musicals of Stephen Sondheim and Upstairs, Downstairs.
Nov. 17, 2025, midnight
S52E19 - Episode 19
Clive Myrie hosts another heat of the classic quiz as four more contenders take on the black chair. Subjects include the French Revolution and the poetry of John Betjeman.
Nov. 24, 2025, midnight
S52E20 - Episode 20
Clive Myrie hosts as four more contenders answer questions on their specialist subjects, which include the planets of the solar system and the films of Kirsten Dunst.
Dec. 1, 2025, midnight
S52E21 - Episode 21
Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. Specialist subjects include Muhammad Ali and Homer’s Iliad.
Dec. 8, 2025, midnight
S52E22 - Episode 22
Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. The specialist subjects include British butterflies, Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton books and Twin Peaks.
Dec. 15, 2025, midnight
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BBC One
30 min/ep
34170 min
Sept. 11, 1972
Dec. 15, 2025, midnight
Returning Series
NR
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