Mastermind: 1983
Season 11 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Mastermind Season 10.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 11 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Jan 9, 1983
Tonight Mastermind enters its second decade and during the coming weeks 48 new contestants will be competing to win television's most prestigious quiz title. They come from every
Episode 2
Jan 16, 1983
The Royal Agricultural College in the Cotswolds market town of Cirencester is the venue for the second heat of Mastermind 1983. Anne Adams (part-time teacher): Bayeux Tapestry Ni
Episode 3
Jan 23, 1983
Four contestants from Scotland and Northern Ireland face Magnus in a place he knows well-the school in which he was educated - .the Edinburgh Academy. Patrick Doherty (schoolmaste
Episode 4
Jan 30, 1983
'Education is the mother of wisdom and virtue' is the translation of the classical Greek motto of the Edinburgh Academy, where tonight four more contestants pit their wits against
Episode 5
Feb 6, 1983
Three women contestants challenge one man in the fifth heat of Mastermind 1983 at Loughborough University of Technology. Peter Major (schoolteacher): Life and works of Richard Wag
Episode 6
Feb 13, 1983
Loughborough University of Technology is tonight's host. Robert Douglas (retired sub-post-master): British History, 1714-1815 Madeline Evans (library assistant): Life of Edward I
Episode 7
Feb 20, 1983
with Magnus Magnusson from the Froebel Institute College, Roehampton, south west London. Barbara Barrett (sales assistant): The ' Rougon-Macquart' novels of Emile Zola Kenneth He
Episode 8
Feb 27, 1983
Froebel Institute College bears the name of the German educator and philosopher Freiderich Froebel, the father of the kindergarten movement. Tonight another four contenders for the
Episode 9
Mar 6, 1983
Tonight from one of Britain's newest universities, Loughborough University of Technology. Hilary Aslett (schoolteacher): History of New South Wales 1788-1850 Paul Brighton (resea
Episode 10
Mar 13, 1983
Two men and two women confront each other at Loughborough University of Technology in this tenth heat of Mastermind 1983. Pauline Buffham (housewife): Life of George III Gwen Kin
Episode 11
Mar 27, 1983
Christchurch College, Canterbury, is the setting as four more contenders do battle for a semi-final plam in Mastermind 1983. CVertne de Vito (schoolteacher): Works of Christopher
Episode 12
Apr 3, 1983
Last of the 12 heats. Magnus Magusson introduces competitors whose subjects are: the life of Baden-Powell, the life of Richard III, the history of Albania, and the life and music o
Episode 13
Apr 10, 1983
First semi-final, with the lone female contender going for the novels of Jane Austen, the others opting for the Cairngorm Mountains, Lord Liverpool, and the English Civil War
Episode 14
Apr 17, 1983
Another finalist in Mastermind 1983 is chosen tonight as four more winners from the first round pit their wits against each other at Winchester College. Christopher Hughes (London
Episode 15
Apr 24, 1983
Four winners from the first round programmes meet at Sheffield Polytechnic and compete for a place in the Final of Mastermind 1983. John Edmond (computer systems project manager):
Episode 16
May 1, 1983
Sheffield Polytechnic is host as the four ' highest scoring losers' in the first round compete for the last place in next week's final of Mastermind 1983. Paul Campion (department
The Final
May 8, 1983
Forty-eight contenders started in January and tonight four are in at the 'finish' of the 1983 series. Middle Temple Hall in London is the setting for the final as two men and two w