Only Connect: Series 20
Season 20 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 Only Connect Season 19.
- 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 20 Progress Shield
Al Frescans v Midlanders
Aug 12, 2024 · 29 min
In this opening heat, three fresh air fanatics take on a trio of Midlanders.
Hopsters v Sprouters
Aug 19, 2024 · 29 min
One of the teams likes beer, while the other has a bit of a thing for big vegetables.
Harmonics v Cat Cows
Sep 2, 2024 · 29 min
A love of classical music brought one team together, and a yearning for yoga unites the other.
Too Many Cookes v Pipe-Dreamers
Sep 9, 2024 · 29 min
A team of pipe-dreamers take on the Cooke family in another first-round match.
Bloomsbury Group v Tea Totallers
Sep 16, 2024 · 29 min
Forster, Keynes and Woolf: all unavailable, sadly, but how will their stand-ins fare against a team of three tea devotees?
Third Agers v Introverts
Sep 23, 2024 · 29 min
Three self-professed introverts take on three representatives of the University of the Third Age.
Uisge Beathas v Crunchers
Sep 30, 2024 · 29 min
Three whisky drinkers take on three number crunchers.
Hopsters v Midlanders
Oct 7, 2024 · 29 min
Three Midlanders take on a team of ale aficionados.
Harmonics v Bean Farmers
Oct 14, 2024 · 29 min
Undeterred by having been beaten in the missing vowels round last time, the Harmonics are back to take on three devotees of a German card game.
Pipe-Dreamers v Tea Totallers
Oct 21, 2024 · 29 min
Three surrealism fans take on a team of tea enthusiasts.
Uisge Beathas v Third Agers
Oct 28, 2024 · 29 min
A team of whisky lovers returns to face a team from the U3A.
Al Frescans v Sprouters
Nov 4, 2024 · 29 min
The Al Frescans and the Sprouters return to slug it out for a place in the next round.
Introverts v Crunchers
Nov 25, 2024 · 29 min
Nobody goes home tonight: for the teams, it’s a question of how they get to the next round.
Harmonics v Cat Cows
Dec 2, 2024 · 29 min
The knockout stage has arrived, and it’s a rematch.
Hopsters v Al Frescans
Dec 9, 2024 · 29 min
It's the knockout stage, so one of the teams will be going home.
Uisge Beathas v Crunchers
Dec 16, 2024 · 29 min
When these teams met before, the Crunchers barely won, so there’s a score to be settled.
Too Many Cookes v Tea Totallers
Jan 6, 2025 · 29 min
Only one team can progress to the next round, and the clues are getting trickier.
Cat Cows v Sprouters
Jan 13, 2025 · 29 min
Yoga lovers and veg men vie for victory and a place in the next round.
Al Frescans v Four Opinions
Jan 20, 2025 · 29 min
The Four Opinions won their previous game on a tie-break, but what does fate have in store for them this time?
Bloomsbury Group v Crunchers
Jan 27, 2025 · 29 min
Two teams face off in an attempt to get through to the semi-finals.
Introverts v Tea Totallers
Feb 3, 2025 · 29 min
There’s a place in the semi-finals at stake, and as is only to be expected, the questions are getting more fiendish.
Semi Final - Four Opinions v Cat Cows
Feb 10, 2025 · 29 min
It’s semi-final time, and a coveted place in the third-place play-off is at stake.
Third Place Play-Off
Feb 24, 2025 · 29 min
It’s the third place play-off, and the questions have grown suitably gnarly.