Mastermind - Season 8 / Year 2017

Mastermind - Season 8 / Year 2017

Season 8 / Year 2017

Network
Episodes30
DatesJul 13, 2016 - Mar 3, 2017
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Episodes

Episode 1
Year 2017Episode 130 min

Episode 1

John Humphrys invites four more contenders to answer questions in the black chair as another series of the general knowledge quiz begins.

Jul 13, 2016
Episode 2
Year 2017Episode 230 min

Episode 2

John Humphrys presents the second heat of this series. Subjects tonight are the rock band Yes, Ernest Rutherford, the films of Werner Herzog and MC Escher.

Jul 20, 2016
Episode 3
Year 2017Episode 330 min

Episode 3

John Humphrys presents another episode of the classic quiz. Subjects include beekeeping, the Royal Navy in the Second World War, Mark E Smith and the Fall, and John le Carre's Quest for Karla trilogy.

Jul 27, 2016
Episode 4
Year 2017Episode 430 min

Episode 4

John Humphrys presents another heat of the classic quiz. The specialist subjects are Benny Hill, the Mitford sisters, Marcus Tullius Cicero and the Jacobite rebellion.

Aug 5, 2016
Episode 5
Year 2017Episode 530 min

Episode 5

John Humphrys presents another episode of Britain's toughest quiz. Subjects include Wilfred Owen, Sir Michael Caine, Mad Men and the rock band Faith No More.

Aug 12, 2016
Episode 6
Year 2017Episode 630 min

Episode 6

John Humphrys presents another heat of the classic quiz. The subjects are R.E.M., Harry S Truman, the World Cup and the drama series Borgen.

Aug 19, 2016
Episode 7
Year 2017Episode 730 min

Episode 7

In this heat, John Humphrys grills four more contenders on James Bond films, Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street novels, 20th-century US presidents and the musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Aug 26, 2016
Episode 8
Year 2017Episode 830 min

Episode 8

John Humphrys grills four more contenders.

Sep 2, 2016
Episode 9
Year 2017Episode 930 min

Episode 9

John Humphrys presents another heat of the classic quiz. The subjects are the films of Peter Sellers, astronomy, the life and music of Arthur Lee and Love and John Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga.

Sep 9, 2016
Episode 10
Year 2017Episode 1030 min

Episode 10

Four more contenders brave the black chair in Britain's toughest quiz. The subjects are Nick Drake, Emil Zatopek, Band of Brothers and Hernan Cortes and the conquest of Mexico.

Sep 16, 2016
Episode 11
Year 2017Episode 1130 min

Episode 11

Four more contenders brave the black chair in Britain's toughest quiz. Tonight's subjects are Formula One Grand Prix circuits, Oliver Cromwell, the Charles Paris mysteries by Simon Brett and Fillipo Brunelleschi.

Sep 23, 2016
Episode 12
Year 2017Episode 1230 min

Episode 12

John Humphrys presents another episode of the classic quiz. Tonight's specialist subjects are the city of Bath, The Faces, Sophie Scholl and the White Rose and Ayrton Senna.

Sep 30, 2016
Episode 13
Year 2017Episode 1330 min

Episode 13

John Humphrys asks the questions in another heat of the classic series. Subjects tonight are Queen, Dame Laura Knight, Anita Roddick and Don Revie.

Oct 7, 2016
Episode 14
Year 2017Episode 1430 min

Episode 14

John Humphrys asks the questions in another heat of the classic quiz. Subjects tonight are Kurt Cobain, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Alfred Wainwright's Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells.

Oct 14, 2016
Episode 15
Year 2017Episode 1530 min

Episode 15

On this occasion, Mastermind visits Northern Ireland for the first time. The New University of Ulster in Coleraine are the hosts to this third semi-final group of contenders seeking to win through to the Final. They are: Tony Broadbent (political writer): English Poetry Martin Bradley (mature student): Life and Work of Billie Holiday John Egan (transport supervisor): Life of Leon Trotsky Philip Jenkins (research assistant): Vikings in Scotland and Ireland 800-1150
Oct 21, 2016
Episode 16
Year 2017Episode 1630 min

Episode 16

John Humphrys presents another heat of the classic quiz. The subjects are David Niven, the Soviet space programme, Italian Renaissance paintings and the human body.

Oct 28, 2016
Episode 17
Year 2017Episode 1730 min

Episode 17

John Humphrys presents another heat of the classic quiz. The subjects are Hans Christian Andersen, the Russian Civil War, Ipswich Town FC and Rita Heyworth.

Nov 4, 2016
Episode 18
Year 2017Episode 1830 min

Episode 18

John Humphrys presents another heat of the classic quiz. The subjects are islands of Scotland, Laurie Lee, Ginger McCain and Red Rum, and the films of David Fincher.

Nov 11, 2016
Episode 19
Year 2017Episode 1930 min

Episode 19

Four more contenders brave the black chair with John Humphrys asking the questions in the classic quiz. The subjects are EastEnders, Puccini, Bill Shankly and the Battle of Trafalgar.

Nov 18, 2016
Episode 20
Year 2017Episode 2030 min

Episode 20

John Humphrys asks the questions as four more contenders take to the famous black chair. Subjects are David Bowie, Edvard Munch, postwar British motorcycles and the German occupation of Jersey in the Second World War.

Nov 25, 2016
Episode 21
Year 2017Episode 2130 min

Episode 21

John Humphrys presents another heat of the classic quiz. Subjects are Eric Clapton, Emperor Hadrian, Tintin and the life and broadway stories of Damon Runyon.

Dec 2, 2016
Episode 22
Year 2017Episode 2230 min

Episode 22

John Humphrys presents another heat of the classic quiz. Subjects are Andy Warhol, the Roman Emperor Septimus Severus, Nicholas Hawksmoor and the X-Files.

Dec 9, 2016
Episode 23
Year 2017Episode 2330 min

Episode 23

John Humphrys presents another heat of the classic quiz. Subjects include Steve Jobs, Farscape, the history of Hungary and black metal music.

Dec 16, 2016
Episode 24
Year 2017Episode 2430 min

Episode 24

The last place in the semi-finals is up for grabs as John Humphrys puts four more contenders in the spotlight. Subjects tonight are Naval Battles of the First World War, Charles Laughton, the de Havilland Mosquito and Garth Ennis's Punisher Max series.

Jan 6, 2017
Episode 25
Year 2017Episode 2530 min

Episode 25

John Humphrys presents the first semi-final. The subjects are Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, Steve Ovett, the daughters of King George III, Al Capone and the novels of Robert Harris.

Jan 13, 2017
Episode 26
Year 2017Episode 2630 min

Episode 26

The semi-finals continue as John Humphrys puts five more contenders in the spotlight. Subjects tonight are Asterix, the periodic table, the novels of Nick Hornby, Richard Feynman and Stan Laurel.

Jan 20, 2017
Episode 27
Year 2017Episode 2730 min

Episode 27

The semi-finals continue as John Humphrys puts five more contenders in the spotlight. Subjects include Radiohead, Alison Uttley, Field Marshal Montgomery, the films of Powell & Pressburger and Herbert Howells.

Feb 3, 2017
Episode 28
Year 2017Episode 2830 min

Episode 28

Five more semi-finalists try to claim a place in the grand final. The subjects are Alan Bennett, Cream, the novels of Dan Brown, Herbert von Karajan and Queen Mary.

Feb 10, 2017
Episode 29
Year 2017Episode 2930 min

Episode 29

John Humphrys tests five more semi-finalists. The subjects are Creation Records, Johannes Kepler, the Hunger Games novels, Sir Isaac Newton and the films of William Goldman.

Feb 17, 2017
Episode 30
Year 2017Episode 3030 min

Episode 30

John Humphrys tests the last five semi-finalists on The Sweeney, Mary Seacole, James Cook, Tranmere Rovers and the travel writings of Bill Bryson.

Feb 24, 2017
Episode 31
Year 2017Episode 3160 min

Episode 31

John Humphrys puts six contenders in the spotlight one more time in the series finale. Subjects in the grand final are the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the history of Leningrad, the life and films of Billy Wilder, Seinfeld, Inigo Jones and the short films of Laurel and Hardy.

Mar 3, 2017

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