Mastermind - 2008/2009
John Humphrys questions more contestants in the famous black chair
Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 1
Host John Humphrys invites four contenders to answer questions in the black chair. Topics are: The writer Simon Raven; Newcastle United FC; Edward IV and Laurence Olivier.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 10
John Humphrys quizzes four more contenders with questions on The History of the Victoria Cross, Bobby Fischer, The Le Mans 24 Hour Race and The Life of Thomas Cochrane.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 11
John Humphrys quizzes four more contenders with questions on The Coventry Blitz, The Scottish Enlightenment, The Amelia Peabody Novels and The Merthyr Rising of 1831.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 12
John Humphrys quizzes four more contenders with questions on Ian Botham, The Munros of Scotland, Tchaikovsky and the James Bond Novels.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 13
John Humphrys quizzes four more contenders with questions on Ghengis Khan, Gothic architecture, the Rama novels and rare breeds of British farm animals.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 14
John Humphrys quizzes four more contenders with questions on WC Fields, Jonathan Creek, Tacitus and the life and career of Keith Moon.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 15
John Humphrys quizzes four more contenders. Subjects are The Ashes Series of 1902, AE Housman, British punk and the Trans-Siberian Railway.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 16
John Humphrys quizzes four more contenders. Topics are: the Peninsular War; Morrissey; the history of Chichester Cathedral and the Great Fire of London.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 17
John Humphrys quizzes four more contenders. Topics are Marillion, Klaus Fuchs, The First Kashmir War and the Life and Poetry of Alexander Pushkin.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 18
The hunt for the nation's Mastermind continues. Topics are The History of Chester Zoo, The Father Brown Stories, Edward Carson and Tony Hancock.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 19
John Humphrys quizzes four more contenders with questions on John Wesley, Seinfeld, Kazimir Malevich and the Wars of the Roses.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 2
John Humphrys puts the questions to four more contenders. Subjects are Billy the Kid, The Great Western Railway, the short stories of Saki and the films of John Carpenter.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 20
John Humphrys quizzes four more contenders. The subjects are: The Women of the Special Operations Executive; The Canterbury Tales; Henri Cartier-Bresson and Metallica.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 21
John Humphrys quizzes four more contenders with questions on Sidney Poitier, British Trotskyism, Number One Hit Singles and The Life and Career of Edie Sedgwick.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 22
John Humphrys puts the questions to four more contenders. Topics are Jackie Stewart, The Novels of Wendy Holden, Honore de Balzac and Kraftwerk.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 23
John Humphrys puts the questions to four more contenders. The subjects are the novels of George Orwell, Gram Parsons, Italian politics and Shostakovich.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 24
John Humphrys puts the questions to four more contenders. The subjects are the battles of Coronel and the Falklands, British birds, Barbara Hepworth and Anglo-Saxon kings 871-1016.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 25
John Humphrys questions four more contenders in the black chair. The subjects are Scott's last expedition, Blake's 7, the school stories of PG Wodehouse, and the Popish Plot.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 26
John Humphrys hosts as four contenders battle it out for a place in the final. The subjects are Fritz Lang, Billie Jean King, Private Eye magazine and the life of Robert Maxwell.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 27
John Humphrys hosts as four contenders battle for a place in the final. The subjects are the Bonaparte dynasty, Herbert Asquith, Slade, and the life and writings of Gilbert White.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 28
John Humphrys hosts as four contenders battle for a place in the final. Subjects are Mozart, the ghost stories of MR James, planets of the solar system and Norwich City FC.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 29
Four contenders battle for a place in the final. Subjects are Doctor Who in the 1970s, John F Kennedy, Billy Bragg, and the Montalbano novels of Andrea Camilleri.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 3
John Humphrys puts the questions to four more contenders. Tonight's subjects are: The Life of Noor-Inayet Khan; Ferdinand Magellan; Edith Wharton and the Mod Movement in Britain.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 30
Four contenders battle for a place in the final. Subjects are Gerard Manley Hopkins, the life of Paddy Mayne, Northampton Town FC and the life and work of Alfred Russel Wallace.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 4
John Humphrys puts the questions to four more contenders. Topics are Late Stuart Age, Steely Dan, The Spenser Novels of Robert Parker and the Life and Career of Joe Frazier.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 5
John Humphrys puts the questions to four more contenders. Topics are The Challenger Novels of Arthur Conan-Doyle; Hector Berlioz; The Thatcher Governments and Bertolt Brecht.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 6
John Humphrys quizzes four more contenders. Tonight's subjects are: Grigoriy Rasputin; West Coast Underground Comics; The Gospels of the New Testament and West Indies Test Cricket.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 7
John Humphrys quizzes four more contenders with questions on Stax Records, The Romney Marsh Novels of Monica Edwards, The Bismarck and The Welsh Castles of Edward I.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 8
John Humphrys quizzes four more contenders with questions on James Clerk Maxwell, The Mitford Girls, The Spanish Civil War and the baseball legend Ty Cobb.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Episode 9
John Humphrys quizzes four more contenders with questions on The Harry Palmer Novels, Tom Paxton, The Athenian Empire 479-404BC and the Life and Works of Richard Feynman.
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Mastermind - 2008/2009 - Grand Final
Six contenders battle it out to become the nation's Mastermind in this series' Grand Final. The subjects include the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the Ryder Cup.
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