Only Connect (2008)
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.
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Episode 1 - Al Frescans v Midlanders
Release Date: 2024-08-12Victoria 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.
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Episode 2 - Hopsters v Sprouters
Release Date: 2024-08-19Victoria 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.
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Episode 3 - Four Opinions v Bean Farmers
Release Date: 2024-08-26Victoria 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?
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Episode 4 - Harmonics v Cat Cows
Release Date: 2024-09-02Victoria 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.
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Episode 5 - Too Many Cookes v Pipe-Dreamers
Release Date: 2024-09-09Victoria 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.
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Episode 6 - Bloomsbury Group v Tea Totallers
Release Date: 2024-09-16Victoria 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?
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Episode 7 - Third Agers v Introverts
Release Date: 2024-09-23Victoria 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.
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Episode 8 - Uisge Beathas v Crunchers
Release Date: 2024-09-30Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three whisky drinkers take on three number crunchers.
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Episode 9 - Hopsters v Midlanders
Release Date: 2024-10-07Victoria 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.
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Episode 10 - Harmonics v Bean Farmers
Release Date: 2024-10-14Undeterred 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.
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Episode 11 - Pipe-Dreamers v Tea Totallers
Release Date: 2024-10-21Victoria 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.
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Episode 12 - Uisge Beathas v Third Agers
Release Date: 2024-10-28Victoria 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.
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Episode 13 - Al Frescans v Sprouters
Release Date: 2024-11-04Victoria 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.
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Episode 14 - Four Opinions v Cat Cows
Release Date: 2024-11-11Victoria 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?
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Episode 15 - Too Many Cookes v Bloomsbury Group
Release Date: 2024-11-18Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. What connects: evil, line manager, pleasantly cold and vomit?
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Episode 16 - Introverts v Crunchers
Release Date: 2024-11-25Victoria 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...
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Episode 17 - Harmonics v Cat Cows
Release Date: 2024-12-02Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The knockout stage has arrived, and it’s a rematch!
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Episode 18 - Hopsters v Al Frescans
Release Date: 2024-12-09It'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?