Mastermind S33E17 · Episode 17

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Brain-boxes in the black chair are quizzed on the life and work of Hunter S Thompson, Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds, the life and career of Kenneth Williams and the history of the Academy Awards.

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1. 1 1. Episode 12006-03-30 · 30mThe forbidding black chair awaits its next nervous occupants as the demanding quiz returns for its 30th season. Tonight's quartet of contenders will be answering questions on a ty
2. 2 2. Episode 22006-04-06 · 30mThe forbidding black chair awaits its next nervous occupants. The quartet of contenders tonight will be grilled for two minutes on the history of American jazz, 17th-century Englis
3. 3 3. Episode 32006-04-13 · 30mThe black chair awaits another quartet of contestants. Specialist subjects are Verdi's operas, Inspector Morse, Anne Boleyn and the locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley. John Humphrys
4. 4 4. Episode 42006-04-20 · 30mSpecialist subjects tonight are the Marlow family books by Antonia Forest, India v Pakistan Test cricket, British dreadnoughts, and Star Wars films episodes IV-VI. John Humphrys is
5. 5 5. Episode 52006-05-04 · 30mSpecialist subjects are mountaineering in the UK; US military aircraft of the Second World War; Ian Rankin's Rebus novels; and the life and career of Michael Schumacher. With John
6. 6 6. Episode 62006-05-11Specialist subjects are the history and geography of enclaves and exclaves; the life and works of Caravaggio; British TV sitcoms 1970-1990; and the films of David Cronenberg. With
7. 7 7. Episode 72006-05-18 · 30mSpecialist subjects are the life and films of Cary Grant, reformation in England 1500-1600, British track and field athletics, and the life and works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Hosted
8. 8 8. Episode 82006-05-25 · 30mAnother eclectic mix of specialist subjects includes the history of metal mining in Britain, Kettle's Yard and its artists, the life and films of Lindsay Anderson and the Chronicle
9. 9 9. Episode 92006-06-01 · 30mAnother eclectic mix of specialist subjects features the films of Stanley Kubrick, Anglo-Scottish warfare, the life and music of David Bowie and cricket's Bodyline Ashes tour of 19
10. 10 10. Episode 102006-06-08 · 30mThe specialist subjects tonight are the history of the crossword, civic heraldry of the Russian Empire, the life and work of the Venerable Bede, and the history of London Zoo. John
11. 11 11. Episode 112006-06-15 · 30mSir Ernest Shackleton's expedition aboard the Endurance, the life and works of W. Eugene Smith, the California sound 1965-1975 and the history of forensic science are tackled. With
12. 12 12. Episode 122006-06-22 · 30mThe American Revolution 1775-1783 and the lives and careers of Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, Bette Davis, and Douglas Adams are tackled. With John Humphrys.
13. 13 13. Episode 132006-06-29 · 30mSpecialist subjects tonight comprise 20th-century Liechtenstein, the life and work of singer/songwriter Bruce Springsteen, the Titanic, and the life of pioneering nurse Mary Seacol
14. 14 14. Episode 142006-07-06 · 30mSpecialist subjects tonight comprise NBA (National Basketball Association) finals from 1985 to 2005, Napoleonic Wars 1796-1815, and the life and work of both author Nevil Shute and
15. 15 15. Episode 152006-07-13 · 30mSpecialist subjects tonight comprise the life and work of acclaimed Argentinian writer and critic Jorge Luis Borges, the history and culture of Arabic dance, Charlton Athletic Foot
16. 16 16. Episode 162006-07-17 · 30mTonight's eclectic range of specialist subjects comprises the philosophy of existentialism, the Little Women novels by Louisa May Alcott, the life and work of Gwen John and mod roc
17. 17 17. Episode 172006-07-24 · 30mBrain-boxes in the black chair are quizzed on the life and work of Hunter S Thompson, Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds, the life and career of Kenneth Williams and the history of the
18. 18 18. Episode 182006-07-31 · 30mSpecialist subjects tonight comprise venomous snakes, the life of British naval officer and colonial governor Robert FitzRoy, Henry Reed's Hilda Tablet plays and World Cup football
19. 19 19. Episode 192006-08-07 · 30mPrehistoric art up to 8,000 BC, the novels of Charles Dickens, the life and music of Edith Piaf, and the life and films of James Dean, are tonight's specialist head-scratchers. Joh
20. 20 20. Episode 202006-08-14 · 30mThe political and physical geography of Europe, the rock band Ash, 15th-century Florentine ruler Lorenzo de Medici, and the life and career of darts player John Lowe, are tonight's
21. 21 21. Episode 212006-08-21 · 30mThe history of the modern marathon, Dawn French's show The Vicar of Dibley, the life and times of Anne Frank, and Middle Egyptian literature are the black chair bafflers. John Hump
22. 22 22. Episode 222006-08-28 · 30mCroatian geography, George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman novels, the life and films of Powell and Pressburger and the life and career of Winston Churchill are tonight's specialist su
23. 23 23. Episode 232006-09-04 · 30mTackling the history of the Hammer films 1945-1983, the Little House novels by Laura Ingalls, the British motorcycle industry from 1945 to 1985 and the Rolling Stones. With John Hu
24. 24 24. Episode 242006-09-11 · 30mContestants opt for the band REM, the Roger Brook novels of Dennis Wheatley, the Summer Olympics from 1896 to the present day, and the life and career of Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Wit
25. 25 25. Episode 252006-09-18 · 30mFascist propagandist William Joyce, the Sandman graphic novels of Neil Gaiman, the Nobel Prize and the novels of Jilly Cooper are tonight's specialist subjects. John Humphrys asks
26. 26 26. Episode 262006-09-25 · 30mJohn Humphrys asks questions on M.C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin thrillers, the life and gospel of St Mark, the history of cryptography and code breaking and the life and music of Ian D
27. 27 27. Episode 272006-10-16 · 30mAgatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels, German anarchist Gustav Landauer, rock band Led Zeppelin and the writings of HP Lovecraft make up tonight's eclectic range of specialisms.
28. 28 28. Episode 282006-10-23 · 30mSpecialist subjects include Hercule Poirot novels of Agatha Christie, Gustav Landauer, Led Zeppelin and the fiction of HP Lovecraft. With John Humphrys.
29. 29 29. Episode 292006-10-30 · 30mThe Bernard Samson novels of Len Deighton, the life and music of Stevie Wonder, the life and reign of Elizabeth I, and the Reginald Perrin novels and TV shows of David Nobbs compri
30. 30 30. Episode 302006-11-06 · 30mThe final batch of semi-finalists answer questions on the Regency novels of Georgette Heyer, the work of physician Edward Jenner, the career of former US president Andrew Jackson,
31. 31 31. Grand Final2006-11-13 · 1h 0mThe remaining six contenders, whittled down from 96, answer questions on the life of painter Thomas Girtin, Margaret Mitchell and Gone with the Wind, King Edward VII, the life and