Episode guide
Mastermind: 2024/25
31 episodes · premiered Aug 12, 2024
Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take the famous black chair.
- Episode 1: Episode 1 Aug 12, 2024 · 28m In the first of 24 heats, Clive Myrie puts four contenders to the test on their specialist subjects, which include Dad's Army, Liverpool FC under Jurgen Klopp, and Shania Twain.
- Episode 2: Episode 2 Aug 19, 2024 · 28m Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take to the famous black chair. The specialist subjects are orchids of the British Isles, Schitt's Creek, Tom Lehrer and Operation…
- Episode 3: Episode 3 Aug 26, 2024 · 28m Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take to the famous black chair. The specialist subjects include the novels of Zadie Smith and the history of Shetland hand-knitting.
- Episode 4: Episode 4 Sep 16, 2024 · 28m Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. Specialist subjects include the films of Martin Scorsese and Mary Tudor.
- Episode 5: Episode 5 Sep 23, 2024 · 28m Four more contenders brave the famous black chair in another heat of the classic quiz. Specialist subjects include Horatio Nelson, Michael Kiwanuka and the films of Sofia Coppola.
- Episode 6: Episode 6 Sep 30, 2024 The search for the nation's Mastermind continues as Clive Myrie tests four more contenders on their specialist subjects and general knowledge. The specialist subjects are The Ghost Stories…
- Episode 7: Episode 7 Oct 7, 2024 · 28m Clive Myrie hosts another heat of the classic quiz where contenders take the black chair. The specialist subjects include the Star Wars sequel trilogy, the band Elbow and Edward VI.
- Episode 8: Episode 8 Oct 14, 2024 · 28m Clive Myrie asks the questions as four more contenders brave the black chair. Subjects include Alan Partridge, Madhuri Dixit and English wine in the 21st century.
- Episode 9: Episode 9 Oct 21, 2024 · 28m Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. Specialist subjects include the Roman emperor Claudius, the Watergate Scandal and futurism.
- Episode 10: Episode 10 Oct 28, 2024 · 29m Clive Myrie tests four more contenders on their specialist subjects and general knowledge in another heat of the classic quiz. The specialist subjects are the poetry of John Keats, the…
- Episode 11: Episode 11 Nov 4, 2024 · 28m Clive Myrie asks the questions in another heat, where the contenders answer questions on subjects including Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing, and Red Rum.
- Episode 12: Episode 12 Nov 11, 2024 · 28m Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take to the black chair. The specialist subjects include New Order, the James Bond books of Ian Fleming and Amy Johnson.
- Episode 13: Episode 13 Nov 18, 2024 · 28m Four more contenders take to the black chair under the spotlight and the ticking clock to answer questions on their specialist subjects and general knowledge. Clive Myrie asks the…
- Episode 14: Episode 14 Nov 25, 2024 · 28m Clive Myrie hosts as four more contenders answer questions on specialist subjects, which this time are Winston Churchill's wartime premiership, Mariah Carey, seals and Wassily Kandinsky.
- Episode 15: Episode 15 Dec 2, 2024 · 28m Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. Specialist subjects include the solo career of Robbie Williams, and the fauna of Madagascar.
- Episode 16: Episode 16 Dec 9, 2024 · 28m Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take to the black chair. The specialist subjects include Sir Mark Cavendish, The Day Today and Sylvia Townsend Warner.
- Episode 17: Episode 17 Dec 16, 2024 · 28m Clive Myrie presents another heat of the classic quiz with four contenders answering questions on A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin, whales and Emily Brontë.
- Episode 18: Episode 18 Feb 3, 2025 · 28m Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. Subjects include the life of Harold Pinter and the Savoy operas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
- Episode 19: Episode 19 Feb 10, 2025 · 28m Clive Myrie hosts another heat of the classic quiz as four more contenders take on the black chair. The specialist subjects include Emmeline Pankhurst and David Tennant's years on Doctor…
- Episode 20: Episode 20 Feb 17, 2025 · 28m Clive Myrie hosts as four more contenders answer questions on their specialist subjects, including George Washington, Taylor Swift and the BBC radio series I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
- Episode 21: Episode 21 Feb 24, 2025 · 28m Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. The specialist subjects include the Isles of Scilly, Wham! and Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
- Episode 22: Episode 22 Mar 3, 2025 · 28m Clive Myrie hosts the classic quiz where contenders take on the famous black chair. The specialist subjects include the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Mad Men and the 1944 Battle of Arnhem.
- Episode 23: Episode 23 Mar 10, 2025 · 29m Clive Myrie hosts as four more contenders answer questions on their specialist subjects, including Henry II, Wales rugby union Test matches from 2000 to the present, and Friday Night Dinner.
- Episode 24: Episode 24 Mar 17, 2025 · 28m Clive Myrie hosts, and contenders answer questions on Audrey Hepburn, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the DCI Ryan novels by LJ Ross, and John Barry.
- Episode 25: Episode 25 Mar 24, 2025 · 29m Clive Myrie asks the questions in the first semi-final. The specialist subjects include The Clash, the films of Marilyn Monroe and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
- Episode 26: Episode 26 Mar 31, 2025 · 28m Clive Myrie asks the questions in another semi-final. The specialist subjects are Blackadder, Joseph Chamberlain, Gregory Peck and The Legend of Zelda video games.
- Episode 27: Episode 27 Apr 7, 2025 · 29m Clive Myrie asks the questions in another semi-final. Specialist subjects include The Films of Mel Brooks, Homer's Odyssey and LL Cool J.
- Episode 28: Episode 28 Apr 14, 2025 · 28m Clive Myrie asks the questions in another semi-final. The specialist subjects include wild cats of the world, the Battle of Gettysburg, and West Ham United from 1992 to the present.
- Episode 29: Episode 29 Apr 21, 2025 · 28m Clive Myrie asks the questions in another semi-final. Specialist subjects are Caravaggio, Premier League Darts, Inside No. 9 and Grace Hopper.
- Episode 30: Episode 30 May 12, 2025 · 28m Clive Myrie asks the questions in the last semi-final. The specialist subjects include the war memoirs of Spike Milligan and the career of Novak Djokovic.
- Episode 31: The Final May 19, 2025 · 59m Clive Myrie asks the questions in the grand final. The specialist subjects include the stage plays of Sir Tom Stoppard, the music of Led Zeppelin, penguins, and the Empire State Building.