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push((api) => api.addSlot({"key":"card","index":"1","searchTerm":null,"fullSearchTerm":null})); Mastermind 1972 Entertainment Game show Summary: Mastermind is a quiz show noted for its challenging questions and intimidating setting. Devised by Bill Wright, four contestants sit in a black leather chair and face two rounds, one on a specialised subject of the contestant's choice, the other a general knowledge round.
Magnus Magnusson hosted the original BBC series between 1972 and 1997. John Humphrys began hosting the series in 2003. Spin-off shows have included Junior Mastermind and Celebrity Mastermind.
Specialist subjects have included the life and works of Gilbert and Sullivan, the Dallas TV series, the World Chess Championships, the life of Martin Luther King and flags of the world. Fred Housego, a former London taxi driver, became a TV and radio personality after winning in 1980. His specialist subject was the Tower of London.
RT says:: Is it just me, or is everything just a bit more right with the world when BBC2’s triumvirate of quiz hosts are reinstated in the swivel chairs, their cards (or screens, for that matter) in hand, ready and poised to pose the questions? All three return for reassuringly familiar new series, beginning at 7.30pm with Clive Myrie, who warmly tees up a fresh run of Mastermind where we can expect “thrills and spills, quickfire questions and family fun. Unless, of course,” he adds,.