The BEST episodes of Only Connect season 18
Every episode of Only Connect season 18, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Only Connect season 18!
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the series where knowledge will only take you so far. Patience and lateral thinking are also vital.
#1 - The Final
Season 18 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/13/2023
It’s the grand final, and Victoria and the teams are joined in the studio by two sparkling guests. Are the questions trickier than normal? Nauru, Canada and Bolivia... what comes next?
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#2 - Strigiformes v Morporkians
Season 18 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/20/2023
It’s the first of the semi-finals, and the pressure is on. What connects On Top of Spaghetti, Pinocchio’s time inside Monstro, Adelaide’s Lament and the cocaine scene in the film Annie Hall?
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#3 - Statisticals v Morporkians
Season 18 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/29/2022
Victoria Coren Mitchell returns with the quiz based on patience and lateral thinking, with data-lovers the Statisticals taking on Terry Pratchett fans the Morporkians in the first match. The two teams of three try to draw together the connections between things that at first glance seem utterly random, with one set of clues asking what links Micro-eon, Guinea-tail, Greedy-let, and Peppa-ment
#4 - Jillies v Road Runners
Season 18 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/5/2022
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts another first-round match as Jilly Cooper fans the Jillies take on running enthusiats the Road Runners. The teams must use patience, lateral thinking and sheer inspiration to make connections between four things that may appear at first not to be linked
#5 - Statisticals v Morporkians
Season 18 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/2/2023
This is a rematch: the fiendish series structure means these teams met in a previous round. As ever, the trick is finding connections – for example, between Hotel Marbez, Mount Everest, Horseshoe Falls and Chester Football Club.
#6 - Peacocks v Mothers Ruined
Season 18 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/12/2022
Three followers of fashion take on a team comprising a mother, a daughter, the daughter’s cousin and the mother’s niece. No, the format hasn’t changed: that’s still only a team of three.
#7 - Mothers Ruined v Cryptics
Season 18 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/28/2022
What connects the following: Black and White, X and Y, Sun and Moon, and Sword and Shield?
#8 - Jillies v Morporkians
Season 18 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/21/2022
Three Pratchett people take on a team of Jilly Cooper aficionados.
#9 - Statisticals v Road Runners
Season 18 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/25/2022
As the series reaches the knock-out stage, can the teams find the link between West and Exotic, Diane and Elvis, Moll and Graeme, and Liston and Lloyd?
#10 - Mothers Ruined v Morporkians
Season 18 - Episode 22 - Aired 1/30/2023
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – logic and lateral thinking are the vital extra ingredients.
#11 - Scrummagers v Harlequins
Season 18 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/6/2023
The semi-finals are looming. All the teams need to do to book their place is answer questions such as: 7 March 2021, 3 July 2021, 22 January 2022. What comes next in the sequence?
#12 - Scrummagers v Crustaceans
Season 18 - Episode 26 - Aired 2/27/2023
It’s the second semi-final, but the series structure means the teams have met before. The final beckons, but first there’s the small matter of finding the connections between things like this: spread out, heap, lock of hair and heap of rainstorm.
#13 - Third Place Play-Off
Season 18 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/6/2023
The final can wait, because this episode is the third place play-off! Featuring such questions as what comes next in this sequence: Mc/Ball, Nu/Bell, Gg/Bone…
#14 - Peacocks v Strigiformes
Season 18 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/1/2022
Two bird-named teams take part in an avian stand-off to establish a pecking order.
#15 - Scrummagers v Croot Family
Season 18 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/9/2023
Two family teams battle it out to stay in the competition, tackling questions such as: Underchamber, Equine sea monster, Pod of the temples and Little brain – what is the connection?
#16 - Jugadores v Cunning Planners
Season 18 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/16/2023
There’s a place in the next round on offer, and all the teams have to do is answer questions like this: Obel Tower / The Tower, Meridian Quay / Glasgow Tower / The Shard. What’s the connection?
#17 - Scrummagers v Crustaceans
Season 18 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/10/2022
One team are rugby supporters, and their opponents are admirers of crustaceans.
#18 - Croot Family v Irregulars
Season 18 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/17/2022
A family team take on three Sherlock Holmes aficionados.
#19 - Cunning Planners v Harlequins
Season 18 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/5/2022
Three sitcom fans take on a team with a passion for the performing arts.
#20 - Cryptics v Strigiformes
Season 18 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/19/2022
Three puzzle fans compete against a team of mature students - yes, there is such a thing.
#21 - Cunning Planners v Seagulls
Season 18 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/26/2022
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three teachers from Brighton take on three Blackadder addicts in another opening heat.
#22 - Jugadores v Harlequins
Season 18 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/3/2022
One of the teams has a former MP, but her political knowledge can only take them so far.
#23 - Croot Family v Crustaceans
Season 18 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/12/2022
It could be covered with duct tape, rubbed with raw meat, have dandelion milk dripped on it, or be frozen. But why would anyone want to? Victoria is on hand to explain.
#24 - Strigiformes v Cryptics
Season 18 - Episode 17 - Aired 12/19/2022
Two returning teams fight for a place in the next round. To get there, all they have to do is answer a series of questions, including working out what comes next in this sequence: The Bosphorous, The Menai Stait and The Golden Gate...
#25 - Jillies v Strigiformes
Season 18 - Episode 21 - Aired 1/23/2023
A semi-final place awaits one of the two returning teams, but to get there, they have to answer a series of diabolical questions, such as working out what comes next in this sequence: Diaballik, Chess and Sudoku...