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 42 min
None+
Genres: Family, Game Show, Talk, Talk Show
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
Sept. 21, 1962, midnight
S1E2 - Leeds v Exeter
Sept. 28, 1962, midnight
S1E3 - Leeds v Manchester
Oct. 5, 1962, midnight
S1E4 - Birmingham v London School of Economics
Oct. 12, 1962, midnight
S1E5 - London School of Economics v Cardiff
Oct. 19, 1962, midnight
S1E6 - London School of Economics v Edinburgh
Oct. 26, 1962, midnight
S1E7 - Edinburgh v St John's, Cambridge
Nov. 2, 1962, midnight
S1E8 - Episode 8
Nov. 6, 1962, midnight
S1E9 - Episode 9
Nov. 13, 1962, midnight
S1E10 - Keele v Liverpool
Nov. 20, 1962, midnight
S1E11 - King's College, Cambridge v Leicester
Nov. 27, 1963, midnight
S1E12 - Leicester v Bedford, London
Dec. 4, 1962, midnight
S1E13 - Episode 13
Dec. 11, 1962, midnight
S1E14 - Episode 14
Dec. 18, 1962, midnight
S1E15 - Episode 15
Jan. 1, 1963, midnight
S1E16 - Episode 16
Jan. 7, 1963, midnight
S1E17 - Balliol College, Oxford v Newcastle
Jan. 14, 1963, midnight
S1E18 - Episode 18
Jan. 21, 1963, midnight
S1E19 - Episode 19
Jan. 28, 1963, midnight
S1E20 - Episode 20
Feb. 4, 1963, midnight
S1E21 - Episode 21
Feb. 11, 1963, midnight
S1E22 - Episode 22
Feb. 18, 1963, midnight
S1E23 - Episode 23
Feb. 25, 1963, midnight
S1E24 - Episode 24
March 4, 1963, midnight
S1E25 - Episode 25
March 11, 1963, midnight
S1E26 - Episode 26
March 18, 1963, midnight
S1E27 - Episode 27
March 25, 1963, midnight
S1E28 - Episode 28
April 8, 1963, midnight
S1E29 - Episode 29
April 15, 1963, midnight
S1E30 - Episode 30
April 22, 1963, midnight
S1E31 - Episode 31
April 29, 1963, midnight
S1E32 - Episode 32
May 6, 1963, midnight
S1E33 - Westfield, London v Queen's, Cambridge
May 13, 1963, midnight
S1E34 - Queen's, Cambridge v Keble, Oxford
May 20, 1963, midnight
S1E35 - Keble, Oxford v Sussex
May 27, 1963, midnight
S1E36 - Keble, Oxford v St Catharine's, Cambridge
June 3, 1963, midnight
S1E37 - Queen's, Dundee v Queen Mary, London
June 10, 1963, midnight
S1E38 - Queen's, Dundee v Queen's, Belfast
June 17, 1963, midnight
S1E39 - Queen's, Dundee v Pembroke, Cambridge
June 24, 1963, midnight
S1E40 - Pembroke, Cambridge v Canadian Universities
July 1, 1963, midnight
S1E41 - Pembroke, Cambridge v SOAS
July 8, 1963, midnight
S1E42 - SOAS v St Anne's, Oxford
July 15, 1963, midnight
S1E43 - King's, London v Keble, Oxford
July 22, 1963, midnight
S1E44 - King's, London v Keble, Oxford
July 29, 1963, midnight
S1E45 - King's, London v Keble, Oxford
Aug. 5, 1963, midnight
S1E46 - Birkbeck, London v Leicester
Aug. 12, 1963, midnight
S1E47 - Birkbeck, London v Leicester
Aug. 19, 1963, midnight
S1E48 - Birkbeck, London v Leicester
Aug. 26, 1963, midnight
S1E49 - Birkbeck, London v Leicester
Sept. 2, 1963, midnight
S1E50 - Balliol, Oxford v Keele
Sept. 9, 1963, midnight
S1E51 - Balliol, Oxford v Keele
Sept. 17, 1963, midnight
S1E52 - Leeds v Nottingham
Sept. 24, 1963, midnight
S1E53 - Leeds v Nottingham
Oct. 1, 1963, midnight
S1E54 - King's, London v Leicester
Oct. 8, 1963, midnight
S1E55 - King's, London v Leicester
Oct. 15, 1963, midnight
S1E56 - Balliol, Oxford v Nottingham
Oct. 22, 1963, midnight
S1E57 - Balliol, Oxford v Nottingham
Oct. 29, 1963, midnight
S1E58 - Balliol, Oxford v Nottingham
Nov. 5, 1963, midnight
S1E59 - Final – Leicester v Balliol, Oxford
Nov. 12, 1963, midnight
S1E60 - Final – Leicester v Balliol, Oxford
Nov. 19, 1963, midnight
S1E61 - Final – Leicester v Balliol, Oxford
Nov. 26, 1963, midnight
Network: ITV1
Episode Runtime: 42 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: Sept. 21, 1962
Last Air Date: Dec. 15, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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