University Challenge scored 520 points in the final ITV season in 1987. In the Jeremy Paxman era, the team from Open University scored the highest score, 415, in the semi-final in 1997 against Charing Cross Hospital. The producers of the programme have taken the more recent inclusion of mature students to its logical conclusion by making two series without any student participants: "University Challenge Reunited" (2002) brought former teams back together, while "University Challenge: The Professionals" (from 2003) matched occupational groups such as civil servants, architects and doctors against each other. In 2003, the former was won by the 1979 team from
University Challenge 2009–10 the semi-final; any team losing both were eliminated from the competition. The four remaining teams engaged in an additional play-off round for the other two semi-final places. University Challenge 2009–10 Series 39 of "University Challenge" began on 6 July 2009 and aired on BBC Two. Below is a list of the matches played with their scores and outcomes. The series comprised 37 matches over five rounds, airing between July 2009 and April 2010. The format of the show changed for the first time in many years. The quarter-finals were not a straight knock-out competition but involved a variant on the