Mastermind Season 17 · Episode 22

The Final Five

7th June 1989 Season 17 Episode 22

For 17 years Boswell Taylor has supervised, co-ordinated and edited all the specialist questions for Mastermind yet he denies that he's the fount of all knowledge that some might believe. There are five people who'd like to know what he's set them for the final. They are only one step away from taking home the Caithness bowl, the coveted Mastermind Trophy. How are they preparing for their final? And how does Boswell find the questions?

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Season 17 · Episode 23

The Final

The Final with Magnus Magnusson from the University of Warwick Who will be Mastermind Champion 1989? That question is answered tonight in what promises to be a fiercely fought final. Mastermind has travelled the length and breadth of the country, testing the nerve and knowledge of 64 contenders. Only the final five remain: Tom Bean (farmer) Life and Works of Edward Lear; Myra Knight (housewife) City of Glasgow from earliest times; Mary Elizabeth Raw (veterinary surgeon) Life and Reign of Charles I; GUI Doubleday (civil servant) Life and Works of John Bunyan; Dick Jones (policy research officer) History of the Conservative Party (1832-1940)

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Clive Myrie

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