The BEST episodes of Only Connect season 21
Every episode of Only Connect season 21, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Only Connect season 21!
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the series where knowledge will only take you so far. Patience and lateral thinking are also vital.
#1 - Final
Season 21 - Episode 28 - Aired 1/26/2026
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. After 28 weeks of brain-to-brain combat, it's the final at last.
#2 - Pitchers v Worker Bees
Season 21 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/27/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. No elimination this time: the winners go through, but the losing team gets to play again later in the series.
#3 - Jive Bunnies v Keyboard Worriers
Season 21 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/6/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. One of the returning teams faced a tie-break in their previous match.
#4 - Pitchers v Benchwarmers
Season 21 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/25/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. One of the teams comes straight in with an answer after seeing just two clues.
#5 - 5ks v Showstoppers
Season 21 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/10/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Holy faith, of the monks, sacrament, red stick – what’s the connection?
#6 - Doctors Matthews v Keyboard Worriers
Season 21 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/8/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It's a close match as a family team of doctors takes on three keen pianists.
#7 - Benchwarmers v Worker Bees
Season 21 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/1/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Another quarter-final place is on offer, and it looks to be another tight game.
#8 - Metrophiles v Grapevines
Season 21 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/4/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell presides over the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Metro systems fascinate one team, while wine does it for the others.
#9 - Metrophiles v Showstoppers
Season 21 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/20/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Both teams won their opening heats, which means nobody goes home.
#10 - Pear Trees v Whitley Baes
Season 21 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/17/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s a very close game, with the teams having been here before and knowing what to expect.
#11 - 5Ks v Oh No They Didn't
Season 21 - Episode 21 - Aired 12/8/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. The semi-finals loom, and the questions are getting trickier.
#12 - Pitchers v Sorcerers
Season 21 - Episode 23 - Aired 12/22/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Once again, there’s a place in the semi-finals on offer, with two teams facing ever more testing questions.
#13 - Pitchers v Worker Bees
Season 21 - Episode 26 - Aired 1/12/2026
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. These teams have met before, and revenge is in the air in this semi-final.
#14 - Oh No They Didn't v Pear Trees
Season 21 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/28/2025
Fans of Pantomime and Partridge put their passions on hold to puzzle out the connection between clues such as east Azerbaijan, south Holland, Inner Mongolia and New Mexico.
#15 - Jive Bunnies v Sorcerers
Season 21 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/1/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Three keen ballroom dancers face a team of devoted Dungeons & Dragons players.
#16 - Doctors Matthews v Sorcerers
Season 21 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/3/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. One team correctly guesses the fourth in the sequence after just two clues.
#17 - Pear Trees v Caraxians
Season 21 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/15/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Two teams who lost their first-round match return – only one of them can go through to the next round.
#18 - Whitley Baes v Oh No They Didn't
Season 21 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/14/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Neither team has lost a match so far – but that’s about to change.
#19 - Keyboard Worriers v Sorcerers
Season 21 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/24/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. A place in the quarter-finals is at stake – one of the teams will have to leave the competition.
#20 - Doctors Matthews v Worker Bees
Season 21 - Episode 24 - Aired 12/29/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s nip and tuck and touch and go as another place in the semi-finals is decided.
#21 - Metrophiles v 5Ks
Season 21 - Episode 25 - Aired 1/5/2026
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. It’s the first of the semi-finals – the questions are tough, but so are the teams.
#22 - Scanners v Worker Bees
Season 21 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/18/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. One team is medical, while the other is Mancunian.
#23 - Whitley Baes v Caraxians
Season 21 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/21/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. A husband-wife-friend combo take on three fans of the films of Leos Carax.
#24 - 5ks v Showstoppers
Season 21 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/11/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. One team regularly run five kilometres, while the other team prefer a short stroll to singalong nights in Cardiff pubs.
#25 - Scanners v Benchwarmers
Season 21 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/29/2025
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far. Postmodern, Boris Johnson and frozen yoghurt - one team spotted the connection after three clues.