Episode 1
Episode: 2016-07-13 | Airdate: Jul 13, 2016
John Humphrys invites four more contenders to answer questions in the black chair as another series of the general knowledge quiz begins.
Episode: 2016-07-13 | Airdate: Jul 13, 2016
John Humphrys invites four more contenders to answer questions in the black chair as another series of the general knowledge quiz begins.
Episode: 2016-07-20 | Airdate: Jul 20, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-07-27 | Airdate: Jul 27, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-08-05 | Airdate: Aug 5, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-08-12 | Airdate: Aug 12, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-08-19 | Airdate: Aug 19, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-08-26 | Airdate: Aug 26, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-09-02 | Airdate: Sep 2, 2016
John Humphrys grills four more contenders.
Episode: 2016-09-09 | Airdate: Sep 9, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-09-16 | Airdate: Sep 16, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-09-23 | Airdate: Sep 23, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-09-30 | Airdate: Sep 30, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-10-07 | Airdate: Oct 7, 2016
John Humphrys asks the questions in another heat of the classic series. Subjects tonight are Queen, Dame Laura Knight, Anita Roddick and Don Revie.
Episode: 2016-10-14 | Airdate: Oct 14, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-10-21 | Airdate: Oct 21, 2016
Episode: 2016-10-28 | Airdate: Oct 28, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-11-04 | Airdate: Nov 4, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-11-11 | Airdate: Nov 11, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-11-18 | Airdate: Nov 18, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-11-25 | Airdate: Nov 25, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-12-02 | Airdate: Dec 2, 2016
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.
Episode: 2016-12-09 | Airdate: Dec 9, 2016
John Humphrys presents another heat of the classic quiz. Subjects are Andy Warhol, the Roman Emperor Septimus Severus, Nicholas Hawksmoor and the X-Files.
Episode: 2016-12-16 | Airdate: Dec 16, 2016
John Humphrys presents another heat of the classic quiz. Subjects include Steve Jobs, Farscape, the history of Hungary and black metal music.
Episode: 2017-01-06 | Airdate: Jan 6, 2017
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.
Episode: 2017-01-13 | Airdate: Jan 13, 2017
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.
Episode: 2017-01-20 | Airdate: Jan 20, 2017
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.
Episode: 2017-02-03 | Airdate: Feb 3, 2017
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.
Episode: 2017-02-10 | Airdate: Feb 10, 2017
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.
Episode: 2017-02-17 | Airdate: Feb 17, 2017
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.
Episode: 2017-02-24 | Airdate: Feb 24, 2017
John Humphrys tests the last five semi-finalists on The Sweeney, Mary Seacole, James Cook, Tranmere Rovers and the travel writings of Bill Bryson.
Episode: 2017-03-03 | Airdate: Mar 3, 2017 (60 min)
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.