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Aired: Jan 12, 1986Francisco de Goya, 'Peaky Blinders', Team GB at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and...
2.
Aired: Jan 19, 1986The history of the Orkney Islands, the films of Laurel and Hardy, the cookery...
3.
Aired: Jan 26, 1986The suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, 'The Thick of It', The New Romantics, ...
4.
Aired: Feb 9, 1986Detectorists, the 'Alice' books of Lewis Carroll, British politics in the 196...
5.
Aired: Feb 16, 1986Marie Curie, the BBC Sitcom 'Ghosts', the queen consort of Edward IV Elizabet...
6.
Aired: Feb 23, 1986Offa's Dyke Path, the life and works of John Cage, the wines of Portugal, and...
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Aired: Mar 2, 1986Neil Armstrong, Shakespeare's comedies, the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, and R...
8.
Aired: Mar 9, 1986The Peter Wimsey stories of Dorothy L. Sayers, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'The Wi...
9.
Aired: Mar 16, 1986Christopher Hitchens, Ayrton Senna, 'Killing Eve', and field marshal Montgome...
10.
Aired: Mar 23, 1986The life of Anne Lister, 'Dear Evan Hansen', Elizabeth I, and the feature fil...
11.
Aired: Apr 6, 1986Michael Palin's travel documentaries, Lady Gaga, the American poet Emily Dick...
12.
Aired: Apr 13, 1986The films of Judy Garland, 'The Cure', 'Hi-de-Hi!', and the French wars of re...
13.
Aired: Apr 27, 1986The London Hospital Medical College in Whitechapel is host to four contenders...
14.
Aired: May 4, 1986Four more contenders do friendly battle for the title of Mastermind 1986 at t...
15.
Aired: May 11, 1986The Great Hall of the University of Nottingham is the setting as four contend...
16.
Aired: May 18, 1986Tonight sees the last of the first-round programmes, with four more contender...
17.
Aired: May 25, 1986Tonight Mastermind reaches the semi-final stage when the first four of this y...
18.
Aired: Jun 1, 1986The second place in this year's final is at stake, as a further four first-ro...
19.
Aired: Jun 8, 1986The University of Bradford is host tonight, as four more first-round winners ...
20.
Aired: Jun 15, 1986The last four outright winners in the first round of this year's competition ...
21.
Aired: Jun 22, 1986The last semi-final is reserved for the four highest-scoring losers in the wh...
22. The Final Five
Aired: Jun 27, 1986Magnus Magnusson introduces a closer look at the five contenders who have mad...
23. The Final
Aired: Jun 29, 1986After nearly six months of intense competition during which a new Mastermind ...