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The Best Episodes of Only Connect Season 20

Every episode of Only Connect Season 20 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Only Connect 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...

Season 20 Ratings Summary

"Al Frescans v Midlanders" is the best rated episode of "Only Connect" season 20. It scored 7.5/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/12/2024. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Hopsters v Sprouters".

  • Al Frescans v Midlanders
    7.5/1010 votes

    #1 - Al Frescans v Midlanders

    Season 20 Episode 1 - Aired 8/12/2024

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hopsters v Sprouters
    8.1/108 votes

    #2 - Hopsters v Sprouters

    Season 20 Episode 2 - Aired 8/19/2024

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Four Opinions v Bean Farmers
    7.2/109 votes

    #3 - Four Opinions v Bean Farmers

    Season 20 Episode 3 - Aired 8/26/2024

    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?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Harmonics v Cat Cows
    7.7/108 votes

    #4 - Harmonics v Cat Cows

    Season 20 Episode 4 - Aired 9/2/2024

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Too Many Cookes v Pipe-Dreamers
    7.7/107 votes

    #5 - Too Many Cookes v Pipe-Dreamers

    Season 20 Episode 5 - Aired 9/9/2024

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bloomsbury Group v Tea Totallers
    9.0/107 votes

    #6 - Bloomsbury Group v Tea Totallers

    Season 20 Episode 6 - Aired 9/16/2024

    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?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Third Agers v Introverts
    6.4/106 votes

    #7 - Third Agers v Introverts

    Season 20 Episode 7 - Aired 9/23/2024

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Uisge Beathas v Crunchers
    8.3/107 votes

    #8 - Uisge Beathas v Crunchers

    Season 20 Episode 8 - Aired 9/30/2024

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hopsters v Midlanders
    8.3/108 votes

    #9 - Hopsters v Midlanders

    Season 20 Episode 9 - Aired 10/7/2024

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Harmonics v Bean Farmers
    8.0/106 votes

    #10 - Harmonics v Bean Farmers

    Season 20 Episode 10 - Aired 10/14/2024

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Pipe-Dreamers v Tea Totallers
    7.8/106 votes

    #11 - Pipe-Dreamers v Tea Totallers

    Season 20 Episode 11 - Aired 10/21/2024

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Uisge Beathas v Third Agers
    8.0/106 votes

    #12 - Uisge Beathas v Third Agers

    Season 20 Episode 12 - Aired 10/28/2024

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Al Frescans v Sprouters
    8.0/106 votes

    #13 - Al Frescans v Sprouters

    Season 20 Episode 13 - Aired 11/4/2024

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Four Opinions v Cat Cows
    NaN/100 votes

    #14 - Four Opinions v Cat Cows

    Season 20 Episode 14 - Aired 11/11/2024

    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?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Too Many Cookes v Bloomsbury Group
    8.0/106 votes

    #15 - Too Many Cookes v Bloomsbury Group

    Season 20 Episode 15 - Aired 11/18/2024

    Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. What connects: evil, line manager, pleasantly cold and vomit?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Introverts v Crunchers
    8.2/106 votes

    #16 - Introverts v Crunchers

    Season 20 Episode 16 - Aired 11/25/2024

    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...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Harmonics v Cat Cows
    8.0/106 votes

    #17 - Harmonics v Cat Cows

    Season 20 Episode 17 - Aired 12/2/2024

    Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The knockout stage has arrived, and it’s a rematch!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hopsters v Al Frescans
    7.9/107 votes

    #18 - Hopsters v Al Frescans

    Season 20 Episode 18 - Aired 12/9/2024

    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?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Uisge Beathas v Crunchers
    8.0/105 votes

    #19 - Uisge Beathas v Crunchers

    Season 20 Episode 19 - Aired 12/16/2024

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Too Many Cookes v Tea Totallers
    NaN/100 votes

    #20 - Too Many Cookes v Tea Totallers

    Season 20 Episode 20 - Aired 1/6/2025

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Cat Cows v Sprouters
    NaN/100 votes

    #21 - Cat Cows v Sprouters

    Season 20 Episode 21 - Aired 1/13/2025

    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?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A