Siân G. Lloyd
Director
Only Connect (2008)
Season 20
The fiendishly difficult quiz show in which two teams of three contestants have to find the connection between seemingly unrelated clues, where patience and lateral thinking are as vital as knowledge.
Released Sept. 15, 2008
Episode 29 min
None+
Genres: Game Show
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Production Companies: Presentable, RDF Television, Parasol Media, BBC
Network: BBC Four
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
7.0
S20E1 - Al Frescans v Midlanders
Victoria Coren Mitchell returns with the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. In this opening heat, three fresh air fanatics take on a trio of Midlanders.
Aug. 12, 2024, midnight
S20E2 - Hopsters v Sprouters
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. One of the teams likes beer, while the other has a bit of a thing for big vegetables.
Aug. 19, 2024, midnight
S20E3 - Four Opinions v Bean Farmers
Victoria Coren Mitchell presents the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The words peaceful, easy and normal – what do they have in common, and what would come fourth in that sequence?
Aug. 26, 2024, midnight
S20E4 - Harmonics v Cat Cows
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. A love of classical music brought one team together, and a yearning for yoga unites the other.
Sept. 2, 2024, midnight
S20E5 - Too Many Cookes v Pipe-Dreamers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. A team of pipe-dreamers take on the Cooke family in another first-round match.
Sept. 9, 2024, midnight
S20E6 - Bloomsbury Group v Tea Totallers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Forster, Keynes and Woolf: all unavailable, sadly, but how will their stand-ins fare against a team of three tea devotees?
Sept. 16, 2024, midnight
S20E7 - Third Agers v Introverts
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three self-professed introverts take on three representatives of the University of the Third Age.
Sept. 23, 2024, midnight
S20E8 - Uisge Beathas v Crunchers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three whisky drinkers take on three number crunchers.
Sept. 30, 2024, midnight
S20E9 - Hopsters v Midlanders
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three Midlanders take on a team of ale aficionados in trying to connect a series of clues.
Oct. 7, 2024, midnight
S20E10 - Harmonics v Bean Farmers
Undeterred by having been beaten in the missing vowels round last time, the Harmonics are back to take on three devotees of a German card game.
Oct. 14, 2024, midnight
S20E11 - Pipe-Dreamers v Tea Totallers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three surrealism fans take on a team of tea enthusiasts, trying to establish connections between apparently random clues.
Oct. 21, 2024, midnight
S20E12 - Uisge Beathas v Third Agers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. A team of whisky lovers returns to face a team from the U3A.
Oct. 28, 2024, midnight
S20E13 - Al Frescans v Sprouters
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The Al Frescans and the Sprouters return to slug it out for a place in the next round.
Nov. 4, 2024, midnight
S20E14 - Four Opinions v Cat Cows
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – logic and lateral thinking are the vital extra ingredients.
Two teams of talented quizzers wrestle with such questions as -1: OAT, -2: BAT, -3: BOT. What comes next in the sequence?
Nov. 11, 2024, midnight
6.0
S20E15 - Too Many Cookes v Bloomsbury Group
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. What connects: evil, line manager, pleasantly cold and vomit?
Nov. 18, 2024, midnight
9.0
S20E16 - Introverts v Crunchers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Nobody goes home tonight: for the teams, it’s a question of how they get to the next round...
Nov. 25, 2024, midnight
S20E17 - Harmonics v Cat Cows
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The knockout stage has arrived, and it’s a rematch!
Dec. 2, 2024, midnight
4.0
S20E18 - Hopsters v Al Frescans
It's the knockout stage, so one of the teams will be going home - but not before grappling with clues such as 1000 is ALL, 100 is CV, 10 is J. What’s next in the sequence?
Dec. 9, 2024, midnight
S20E19 - Uisge Beathas v Crunchers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. When these teams met before, the Crunchers barely won, so there’s a score to be settled.
Dec. 16, 2024, midnight
S20E20 - Too Many Cookes v Tea Totallers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. More high scores, but only one team can progress to the next round, and the clues are getting trickier.
Jan. 6, 2025, midnight
S20E21 - Cat Cows v Sprouters
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – logic and lateral thinking are the vital extra ingredients.
Yoga lovers and veg men vie for victory and a place in the next round. They face such questions as: what connects verb, abbreviated, monosyllabic and hyphenated?
Jan. 13, 2025, midnight
S20E22 - Al Frescans v Four Opinions
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The Four Opinions won their previous game on a tie-break, but what does fate have in store for them this time?
Jan. 20, 2025, midnight
S20E23 - Bloomsbury Group v Crunchers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – logic and lateral thinking are the vital extra ingredients.
Two teams face off in an attempt to get through to the semi-finals. What connects the following: excels, robust, Liberec and Arabic?
Jan. 27, 2025, midnight
S20E24 - Introverts v Tea Totallers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. There’s a place in the semi-finals at stake, and as is only to be expected, the questions are getting more fiendish.
Feb. 3, 2025, midnight
S20E25 - Semi Final - Four Opinions v Cat Cows
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s semi-final time, and a coveted place in the third-place play-off is at stake.
Feb. 10, 2025, midnight
8.0
S20E26 - Semi-Final - Tea Totallers v Crunchers
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The second semi-final goes to the wire in the missing vowels round, but first up are some tricky sequence questions.
Feb. 17, 2025, midnight
7.0
S20E27 - Third Place Play-Off
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s the third place play-off, and the questions have grown suitably gnarly.
Feb. 24, 2025, midnight
7.0
S20E28 - The Final
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – logic and lateral thinking are the vital extra ingredients.
The winners of the series are crowned – and it’s as close a contest as can be expected.
March 3, 2025, midnight
Network: BBC Four
Episode Runtime: 29 min.
Season Runtime: 13775 min.
Released: Sept. 15, 2008
Last Air Date: Dec. 15, 2025, midnight
Next Air Date: Dec. 22, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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