QI
- TV panel show
- BBC Two / BBC One / BBC Four
- 2003 - 2025
- 324 episodes (22 series)
Panel game that contains lots of difficult questions and a large amount of quite interesting facts. Stars Sandi Toksvig, Stephen Fry and Alan Davies.
- Continues on Tuesday 31st December on BBC2 at 9pm with Series V, Episode 10
- Catch-up on Series V, Christmas Special
- Streaming rank this week: 186
Episode menu
Series P - Highlights Special
Topics
- Best Bit - Public & Private: Alan reveals a disturbing secret about Hampstead Heath.
- Best Bit - Potpourri: The panel play with periscopes.
- Best Bit - Parts Tangent: Ed Balls impersonates the "dying duck".
- Best Bit - Potpourri Tangent: Rhod Gilbert asks Sandi why her periscope is larger than the others.
- Best Bit - Phenomenal: Josh Widdicombe races against the world record holder for the sack race.
- Best Bit - Piecemeal: The correct way to eat pizza.
- New Material - Peril Tangent: Jason Manford complains about mediums being vague.
- Best Bit - Public & Private: Sandi tries to trigger Alan's reaction bubbles.
- Best Bit - Picnics: How the Basilica of Santa Croce keeps stops tourists from sitting on its steps.
- Best Bit - Pain & Punishment Tangent: Being able to buy your own breathalyser.
- Best Bit - Plants: Why might you put chilli in a condom?
- New Material - Peril Tangent: Mortality rates spiked by almost 1% on the first day of every month, and remain high for the next few days. The question is illustrated by a picture of coffins stacked at angles, with Lee Mack says is not the right way to store them. Sandi's father died 30 years ago, and when she and her brother went to the undertakers, the undertaker put six tiny replica coffins on his desk and asked what they thought. Sandi's brother said: "I think they're a bit small." Lee asks Sandi if she was tempted to steal one of the replicas for her funeral.
- Best Bit - Pubs Tangent: The origin of Samwise Gamgee.
- Best Bit - Past Times Tangent: The most difficult yoga pose.
- Best Bit - Plant Tangent: The three things Jason still remembers from school.
- Best Bit - Peril: Advice given by the British Board of Film Classification.
- Best Bit - Pictures Tangent: Alan seeing the Sistine Chapel, Sandi talking about how Ronnie Barker's daughter first learned about how famous her father was, and Hannah Gadsby not understanding the reference of her family's pet dog being named "Ronnie Barker".
- Best Bit - Pathological: What happens at the moment of conception.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 8th March 2019
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Sandi Toksvig | Host / Presenter |
Alan Davies | Regular Panellist |
Gyles Brandreth | Guest |
Jimmy Carr | Guest |
Phill Jupitus | Guest |
Johnny Vegas | Guest |
Lee Mack | Guest |
Jason Manford | Guest |
Sara Pascoe | Guest |
Noel Fielding | Guest |
Josh Widdicombe | Guest |
Richard Osman | Guest |
Victoria Coren Mitchell | Guest |
Aisling Bea | Guest |
Cariad Lloyd | Guest |
Rhod Gilbert | Guest |
Romesh Ranganathan | Guest |
Joe Lycett | Guest |
Sally Phillips | Guest |
Alice Levine | Guest |
Stephen K Amos | Guest |
Cally Beaton | Guest |
Ed Balls | Guest |
Bridget Christie | Guest |
Hannah Gadsby | Guest |
Rachel Parris | Guest |
Paul Sinha | Guest |
Ed Byrne | Guest |
Sindhu Vee | Guest |
Phil Wang | Guest |
Ellie Taylor | Guest |
Stephen Wildish | Self |
James Harkin | Script Editor |
Mat Coward | Researcher |
Will Bowen | Researcher |
Anna Ptaszynski | Researcher |
Andrew Hunter Murray | Researcher |
Ed Brooke-Hitching | Researcher |
Alice Campbell Davis | Researcher |
Mandy Fenton | Researcher |
Mike Turner | Researcher |
Ian Lorimer | Director |
John Lloyd (as John Lloyd CBE) | Series Producer |
Piers Fletcher | Producer |
Justin Pollard | Associate Producer |
Nick King | Editor |
Jonathan Paul Green | Production Designer |
Nick Collier | Lighting Designer |
Nigel Catmur | Lighting Designer |
Howard Goodall | Composer |
Sarah Clay | Commissioning Editor |
Kalpna Patel-Knight | Commissioning Editor |