Mastermind 1981 Episode 7 Episode 7 ( Air Date 1981-10-18 ) Genre Talk category. Overview "Four contestants from the South East of England meet at Middlesex Polytechnic in this seventh heat of Mastermind 1981. James Bitton (retired civil servant): The Second Boer War Maureen Blakesley (schoolteacher): The Royal Shakespeare Company James Craven (cook-general): Life of Marie Antoinette Craig Scott (advertising executive): History of 19th-century Leeds".