Only Connect

Family | Lifestyle

Station:
BBC Two (GB)

Status:
Running

Start:
2008-09-15

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Quiz show in which connections must be made between apparently unconnected things, where patience and lateral thinking are as vital as knowledge.

Only Connect Next Episode Air Date

Next Episode is 'Ad Astra v Makeweights' (Season 22 Episode 18) and airs on 09 Nov 2026 14:00 (CDT).

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S22E15 - Colonial Geese v Knitwits

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – the vital extra ingredients are logic and lateral thinking.

There's plenty of early buzzing going on in what proves to be a high-scoring contest. The teams don't need the fourth clue to work out what connects the following: Indo-Aryan languages (possibly), Mongolia and ear. And what was that fourth clue?

Air Date: 19 Oct 2026 14:00 (CDT)

S22E16 - Meat and Two Veg v Creepy Crawleys

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – the vital extra ingredients are logic and lateral thinking.

Neither team is leaving the tournament this time, but the questions are as challenging as ever. What connects the following: impossible question, unexpectedly blue, safe woods and uninformed loop?

Air Date: 26 Oct 2026 15:00 (CDT)

S22E17 - Frenemies v Merseyside Eyes

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – the vital extra ingredients are logic and lateral thinking.

It's a knockout round, and only one of the two returning teams can go through after trying to establish what connects such apparently random clues as Bradypus tridactylus, ‘Sunflower Seeds' artist, Anguilla and Grok.

Air Date: 02 Nov 2026 14:00 (CDT)

S22E18 - Ad Astra v Makeweights

Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – the vital extra ingredients are logic and lateral thinking.

Two teams return. It's always nice to see them, but there's no room for sentiment, because the winners progress to the next round while the losers exit the tournament. Here's a question: what connects fear, beauty, video and curiosity?

Air Date: 09 Nov 2026 14:00 (CDT)