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The Best Episodes of Only Connect

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The Best Episodes of Only Connect

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...
  1. Background image for Archers Admirers vs Music Lovers
    9.0/10(8 votes)

    #1 - Archers Admirers vs Music Lovers

    S3:E1

    Quiz show presented by Victoria Coren in which knowledge will only take you so far, as patience and lateral thinking are also vital. A team of three civil servants with a shared love of Radio 4's The Archers pit their wits against a trio of music lovers who between them perform or enjoy everything from pub rock to choral sung mass. They compete to draw together the connections between things which, at first glance, seem utterly random, from AC battery to compass wrench to glass hammer to long stand.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Bloomsbury Group v Tea Totallers
    8.5/10(9 votes)

    #2 - Bloomsbury Group v Tea Totallers

    S20:E6

    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?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Orienteers v Romantics
    8.4/10(6 votes)

    #3 - Orienteers v Romantics

    S10:E7

    A team of orienteers take on three old-fashioned romantics. They'll compete to draw together the connections between things which at first glance seem utterly random. So join Victoria Coren Mitchell if you want to know what connects messiah, apocalypse, the heist and russian roulette.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Hopsters v Midlanders
    8.2/10(9 votes)

    #4 - Hopsters v Midlanders

    S20:E9

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Hopsters v Sprouters
    8.1/10(9 votes)

    #5 - Hopsters v Sprouters

    S20:E2

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Introverts v Crunchers
    8.1/10(7 votes)

    #6 - Introverts v Crunchers

    S20:E16

    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...

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Thrifters v Suncatchers
    8.0/10(8 votes)

    #7 - Thrifters v Suncatchers

    S19:E4

    Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three lovers of all things pre-loved compete against a team of warm-weather worshippers.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Semi-Final 1
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Semi-Final 1

    S19:E25

    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?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Uisge Beathas v Crunchers
    8.0/10(9 votes)

    #9 - Uisge Beathas v Crunchers

    S20:E8

    Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three whisky drinkers take on three number crunchers.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Harmonics v Bean Farmers
    8.0/10(7 votes)

    #10 - Harmonics v Bean Farmers

    S20:E10

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Uisge Beathas v Third Agers
    8.0/10(7 votes)

    #11 - Uisge Beathas v Third Agers

    S20:E12

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  13. Background image for Al Frescans v Sprouters
    8.0/10(7 votes)

    #12 - Al Frescans v Sprouters

    S20:E13

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Four Opinions v Cat Cows
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #13 - Four Opinions v Cat Cows

    S20:E14

    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?

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    Director:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Harmonics v Cat Cows
    8.0/10(7 votes)

    #14 - Harmonics v Cat Cows

    S20:E17

    Victoria 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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    Director:Unknown
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  16. Background image for Uisge Beathas v Crunchers
    8.0/10(6 votes)

    #15 - Uisge Beathas v Crunchers

    S20:E19

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  17. Background image for Semi Final - Four Opinions v Cat Cows
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #16 - Semi Final - Four Opinions v Cat Cows

    S20:E25

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  18. Background image for Hopsters v Al Frescans
    7.9/10(8 votes)

    #17 - Hopsters v Al Frescans

    S20:E18

    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?

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    Director:Unknown
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  19. Background image for Stewards v Parishioners
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #18 - Stewards v Parishioners

    S13:E1

    Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the series where knowledge will only take you so far. Patience and lateral thinking are also vital. Three Tolkien fans take on a church team in the first of the series. They compete to draw together the connections between things which at first glance, seem utterly random. So join Victoria Coren Mitchell if you want to know what connects pat: bone, rub: disease, Nut: spread and salmon: bacteria.

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    Director:Unknown
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  20. Background image for Thrifters v Stitchers
    7.8/10(6 votes)

    #19 - Thrifters v Stitchers

    S19:E22

    It's a quarter-final, and the teams have go grapple with such important questions as: what connects Meng Po soup, Lacuna Inc, the waters of Lethe and Superman’s kiss?

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    Director:Unknown
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  21. Background image for Harmonics v Cat Cows
    7.8/10(9 votes)

    #20 - Harmonics v Cat Cows

    S20:E4

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  22. Background image for Too Many Cookes v Bloomsbury Group
    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #21 - Too Many Cookes v Bloomsbury Group

    S20:E15

    Victoria 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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    Director:Unknown
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  23. Background image for Isotopes v Academicals
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    #22 - Isotopes v Academicals

    S19:E5

    Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three Matt Groening fans take on a trio of teachers in another opening heat.

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    Director:Unknown
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  24. Background image for Too Many Cookes v Pipe-Dreamers
    7.7/10(8 votes)

    #23 - Too Many Cookes v Pipe-Dreamers

    S20:E5

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Pipe-Dreamers v Tea Totallers
    7.7/10(7 votes)

    #24 - Pipe-Dreamers v Tea Totallers

    S20:E11

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
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  26. Background image for Press Gang v Science Editors
    7.6/10(6 votes)

    #25 - Press Gang v Science Editors

    S8:E6

    Press Gang v Science Editors: Quiz show in which connections must be made between things which appear utterly random at first glance. Two teams who lost their first heats return.

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    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Archers Admirers vs Music Lovers" is the best rated episode of "Only Connect". It scored 9/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/1/2010. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "Bloomsbury Group v Tea Totallers".