Bridget Caldwell
Director
University Challenge (1962)
1962–1963
Academic quiz show where teams of students from UK universities answer questions on all manner of subjects.
Released Sept. 21, 1962
Episode 29 min
None+
Genres: Family, Game Show, Talk
Keywords: tmdb.competition, tmdb.game-show, imdb.quiz-show, tmdb.university, tmdb.trivia, tmdb.academia, tmdb.quiz + 21 more, imdb.quiz-show-host, imdb.contestant, imdb.catchphrase, imdb.famous-opening-theme, imdb.partially-lost-tv-series, imdb.general-knowledge, imdb.random-question, imdb.intellect, imdb.high-iq, imdb.elimination-quiz, imdb.non-fiction, imdb.1960s, imdb.1970s, imdb.1980s, imdb.1990s, imdb.2000s, imdb.2010s, imdb.tournament, imdb.england, imdb.competition, imdb.intelligence
Production Companies: Lifted Entertainment, Granada Television
Network: ITV1
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Leeds v Reading
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Sept. 21, 1962, midnight
S1E2 - Leeds v Exeter
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Sept. 28, 1962, midnight
S1E3 - Leeds v Manchester
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Oct. 5, 1962, midnight
S1E4 - Birmingham v London School of Economics
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Oct. 12, 1962, midnight
S1E5 - London School of Economics v Cardiff
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Oct. 19, 1962, midnight
S1E6 - London School of Economics v Edinburgh
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Oct. 26, 1962, midnight
S1E7 - Edinburgh v St John's, Cambridge
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Nov. 2, 1962, midnight
S1E8 - Episode 8
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Nov. 6, 1962, midnight
S1E9 - Episode 9
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Nov. 13, 1962, midnight
S1E10 - Keele v Liverpool
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Nov. 20, 1962, midnight
S1E11 - King's College, Cambridge v Leicester
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Nov. 27, 1963, midnight
S1E12 - Leicester v Bedford, London
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Dec. 4, 1962, midnight
S1E13 - Episode 13
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Dec. 11, 1962, midnight
S1E14 - Episode 14
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Dec. 18, 1962, midnight
S1E15 - Episode 15
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Jan. 1, 1963, midnight
S1E16 - Episode 16
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Jan. 7, 1963, midnight
S1E17 - Balliol College, Oxford v Newcastle
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Jan. 14, 1963, midnight
S1E18 - Episode 18
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Jan. 21, 1963, midnight
S1E19 - Episode 19
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Jan. 28, 1963, midnight
S1E20 - Episode 20
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Feb. 4, 1963, midnight
S1E21 - Episode 21
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Feb. 11, 1963, midnight
S1E22 - Episode 22
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Feb. 18, 1963, midnight
S1E23 - Episode 23
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Feb. 25, 1963, midnight
S1E24 - Episode 24
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March 4, 1963, midnight
S1E25 - Episode 25
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March 11, 1963, midnight
S1E26 - Episode 26
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March 18, 1963, midnight
S1E27 - Episode 27
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March 25, 1963, midnight
S1E28 - Episode 28
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April 8, 1963, midnight
S1E29 - Episode 29
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April 15, 1963, midnight
S1E30 - Episode 30
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April 22, 1963, midnight
S1E31 - Episode 31
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April 29, 1963, midnight
S1E32 - Episode 32
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May 6, 1963, midnight
S1E33 - Westfield, London v Queen's, Cambridge
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May 13, 1963, midnight
S1E34 - Queen's, Cambridge v Keble, Oxford
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May 20, 1963, midnight
S1E35 - Keble, Oxford v Sussex
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May 27, 1963, midnight
S1E36 - Keble, Oxford v St Catharine's, Cambridge
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June 3, 1963, midnight
S1E37 - Queen's, Dundee v Queen Mary, London
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June 10, 1963, midnight
S1E38 - Queen's, Dundee v Queen's, Belfast
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June 17, 1963, midnight
S1E39 - Queen's, Dundee v Pembroke, Cambridge
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June 24, 1963, midnight
S1E40 - Pembroke, Cambridge v Canadian Universities
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July 1, 1963, midnight
S1E41 - Pembroke, Cambridge v SOAS
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July 8, 1963, midnight
S1E42 - SOAS v St Anne's, Oxford
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July 15, 1963, midnight
S1E43 - King's, London v Keble, Oxford
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July 22, 1963, midnight
S1E44 - King's, London v Keble, Oxford
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July 29, 1963, midnight
S1E45 - King's, London v Keble, Oxford
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Aug. 5, 1963, midnight
S1E46 - Birkbeck, London v Leicester
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Aug. 12, 1963, midnight
S1E47 - Birkbeck, London v Leicester
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Aug. 19, 1963, midnight
S1E48 - Birkbeck, London v Leicester
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Aug. 26, 1963, midnight
S1E49 - Birkbeck, London v Leicester
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Sept. 2, 1963, midnight
S1E50 - Balliol, Oxford v Keele
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Sept. 9, 1963, midnight
S1E51 - Balliol, Oxford v Keele
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Sept. 17, 1963, midnight
S1E52 - Leeds v Nottingham
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Sept. 24, 1963, midnight
S1E53 - Leeds v Nottingham
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Oct. 1, 1963, midnight
S1E54 - King's, London v Leicester
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Oct. 8, 1963, midnight
S1E55 - King's, London v Leicester
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Oct. 15, 1963, midnight
S1E56 - Balliol, Oxford v Nottingham
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Oct. 22, 1963, midnight
S1E57 - Balliol, Oxford v Nottingham
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Oct. 29, 1963, midnight
S1E58 - Balliol, Oxford v Nottingham
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Nov. 5, 1963, midnight
S1E59 - Final – Leicester v Balliol, Oxford
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Nov. 12, 1963, midnight
S1E60 - Final – Leicester v Balliol, Oxford
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Nov. 19, 1963, midnight
S1E61 - Final – Leicester v Balliol, Oxford
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Nov. 26, 1963, midnight
ITV1
29 min/ep
58957 min
Sept. 21, 1962
Jan. 12, 2026, midnight
Jan. 19, 2026, midnight
Returning Series
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