About this season
Celebrity Mastermind is a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television. The show is a spin-off of the long-running quiz show Mastermind, with the exception that all the contestants are celebrities. As with the main show, John Humphrys is the host and question-master. Magnus Magnusson was quizmaster on the 2003/04 episodes featuring Jonathan Meades as winner.
Episodes (5)
1. Episode 1
Aired 28 December 2005 • 30 min
Do famous people fare any better than ordinary mortals under interrogation by John Humphrys? Sir Tim Rice, Natalie Cassidy, Jeremy Edwards and Jeremy Beadle find out, answering questions on the solar system, Friends, Johnny Depp and London capital murders (1900-1940)
2. Episode 2
Aired 29 December 2005 • 30 min
The respective specialist subjects of Monty Don, Diane Abbott, Phil Cornwell and Nicholas Owen are the Beatles, Jamaican politics, the Apollo space missions and railways of south-east England.
3. Episode 3
Aired 30 December 2005 • 30 min
Andrew Castle is served men's Grand Slam tennis, Graeme Le Saux tackles the history of Jersey, Gina Yashere gets into lifts and Peter Tatchell opts for Malcolm X. With John Humphrys.
4. Episode 4
Aired 1 January 2006 • 30 min
Diarmuid Gavin, Wendi Peters, Lembit Opik and Paul Ross are quizzed by John Humphrys on U2, Kander and Ebb musicals, Japanese motorcycles and Ezra Pound's life and work.
5. Episode 5
Aired 2 January 2006 • 30 min
Sid Waddell opts for the history of rock 'n' roll 1955-65, Iain Banks tests his knowledge of malt whisky, Myleene Klass is quizzed on the third series of Sex and the City and Alistair McGowan aims to make a good impression with his specialist subject, the life and work of Erik Satie. With John Humphrys.