Only Connect

Name: Only Connect
Genre: Documentary

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A quiz whose easiest round asks what four things have in common, and whose hardest does not admit there is a connection at all.

Only Connect opens with a main title sequence of 28 seconds.

It arrived on BBC Four in 2008, when Talking Heads, Yes, Prime Minister and Absolutely Fabulous were also on the network.

1 sequence

The opening titles

28s

Fan upload of the BBC Four sequence. An earlier search for this returned only comedy shorts and a clickbait video.

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