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 2025. A total of 43 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in January 2026.
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Anything and everything relating to the ‘special relationship’ is on the cards, as two British quizzers and their US captain take on a British captain and his two US teammates.
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Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s the ‘single special’, celebrating singles, solos and everything that comes in groups of one.
December 2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far The winners of the third-place play-offs from two different series face each other.
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The law is under the spotlight in this episode.
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s nip and tuck and touch and go as another place in the semi-finals is decided.
Two teams from previous series, both taking their names from giants of literature, face fiendish, bookish questions.
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.
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s Christmas, and two families from series gone by have come together to play an exasperating game.
Charge your glasses, it’s the Only Connect Pub Quiz! 4: Revolver, 3: Swept Away, 2: Snatch… what comes next?
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Once again, there’s a place in the semi-finals on offer, with two teams facing ever more testing questions.
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Another place in the semi-finals is decided, and the questions are as demanding as ever.
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The semi-finals loom, and the questions are getting trickier.
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Another quarter-final place is on offer, and it looks to be another tight game.
November 2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. A place in the quarter-finals is at stake – one of the teams will have to leave the competition.
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s a very close game, with the teams having been here before and knowing what to expect.
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Holy faith, of the monks, sacrament, red stick – what’s the connection?
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. One team correctly guesses the fourth in the sequence after just two clues.
October 2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. No elimination this time: the winners go through, but the losing team gets to play again later in the series.
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Both teams won their opening heats, which means nobody goes home.
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Neither team has lost a match so far – but that’s about to change.