Only Connect
Only Connect is a game show on BBC4. Deliciously devious and maddeningly abstract. Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the brain-teasing quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The popular program has been available since 2023. A total of 33 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in March 2024.
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Special edition. Series 5 champs the Analysts take on Series 6 winners the Scribes in a bid to be named Champion of Champions.
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Special edition of the quiz in which links must be made between seemingly random things as the Gamblers square up to the Epicureans.
Quiz in which connections are made between seemingly random elements. The winners of series one meet the champs of series two.
January 2024
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the series final of the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s an exciting episode. Everyone will remember where they were when they watched the drama unfold.
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s the third place play-off - how close can it be?
A coveted place in the third place play-off is at stake: one team will have to settle for being in the final.
It's the first semi-final of the series, with the teams facing such questions as: what connects gender reveal parties, Dune (1984 film), Creep and pop-up ads?
A look at just how far some people will go to commemorate their participation in the show. And what comes fourth in the following sequence: The Snow ____, Under the ____ Sun and The ____ In Winter?
December 2023
Previous contestants return – professional politicians, including a real, live Conservative MP (correct at time of recording), face a team of activists.
Another special edition of the quiz, hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell, where knowledge only gets you so far. Two ‘sporting’ teams from previous series have returned to fight it out.
Another special edition of the quiz hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell, where knowledge only gets you so far. Two fashionable teams from yesteryear return to strut their stuff.
A special festive edition of the quiz hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell. Two family teams return for a yuletide battle of wits.
It’s a quarter-final, and the questions are getting trickier. For example: various, gaseous, caesium... what might come next in the sequence?
It's a quarter-final, and the teams have to grapple with such important questions as: what connects Meng Po soup, Lacuna Inc, the waters of Lethe and Superman’s kiss?
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s another fiercely fought contest, but one of the teams will have to head home.
November 2023
All that stands between the teams and a place in the quarter finals is… well, questions, obviously. Questions such as this: aua (J), eua (F), a (M). What’s next?
It's another rematch – the Video Nasties won last time these teams met. What will the Solomons Family have to do to beat them?
It’s a rematch tonight – the teams have met before, but once again, fate has intervened to bring them face to face to face. Posidriv, Torx, Phillips... what comes next in the sequence?
Only one team can progress to the next round, after wrestling with clues such as: Patch (dog), Jason (cat), Fred/Freda (tortoise). What comes next in the sequence?
October 2023
The Mercians became the second-highest scorers in the programme’s history in their last appearance, finishing with 36 points. But how will they fare against the Video Nasties?