All Countdown Clocks And Their Seperate Sets - 1982 to Present

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[@lenmarfox2947]

At 3:22 a unique shot you don't see anymore.

[@syn397]

That's a nice Tnetennba.

[@thehammersmithcrumpetradar]

nice

[@ritadayal7881]

The calender countdown music is actually quite groovy!

[@lukemccorkell6533]

SWEAT

[@TheParadiseNetwork1]

It’s nice to see a bit of nostalgia with the “countdown clock” themes. The music appears to have remained relatively untouched since changing to its current version. There is a bit of a sound problem for the “celebrity countdown clock” theme but not to worry! Nice video to show historical themes.

[@lukemccorkell6533]

RAVEN

[@fernlew8828]

TBH, i like the jazzed up music from 1996

[@Ravinder2220]

I like the 80s Callander countdown clock music

[@BIGSCREENQUIZ]

3:03 I always thought I imagined this version of the Countdown Clock.

[@Qu33n_auth0r]

I didn’t even know about that version till I watched this xx

[@robertgoh8261]

Calendar Countdown (never seen on TV.) 1982-1986 1989-1991 1991-1995 1996-1999 (also includes a clock from Celebrity Countdown from 1998.) 1999-2003 2003-2008 2009-present

[@ajs41]

What happened between 1986 and 1989?

[@ILoveMaths07]

I love the 1982 one, especially the buzzer sound at the end!

[@lukemccorkell6533]

MARTIN

[@johnjtm1097]

The one at 3:04 is awful. They say it reduced the scores as it reduced contestants ability to think properly.

[@dbcnetwork6910]

John Martin ok

[@blxifyy]

true

[@pranavnairpallikkal5440]

I quite liked this one

[@robertgoh8261]

One of the clocks come from an episode from September 1995 and one of them comes from a New Year's Day episode 1996.

[@barbara-annemcgregor1769]

How did they think people could concentrate with 3:04-3:33

[@robertgoh8261]

Showing clocks from 1982,1991,1995,1996,(with menacing music) 1996 (normal) 1998 (celebrity countdown) 1999, 2007, 2009, 2012. including calendar countdown at the beginning.

[@dbcnetwork6910]

Robert Goh you forgot 1986!!

[@zeeboss2762]

I Love Them All But The One From January 1996 was best! Ill like!

[@thatdudewiththesunglasses]

Izaiah Pedrego oh ok. Most people would say that's the worst, but it's good to have people with differing opinions :D

[@paianis]

1989 was clearly when the themes became 'polished'.

[@thatdudewiththesunglasses]

Yeah, I would say it was the transition into what we know of the Countdown theme to be now :)

[@paianis]

+thatdudewiththesunglasses About the 1996 one - from Wikipedia: "Executive producer John Meade once commissioned Hawkshaw to revise the music for extra intensity; after hundreds of complaints from viewers, the old tune was reinstated.

[@thatdudewiththesunglasses]

+Paianni That's interesting. I suppose a show has to take some chances to see what will work in people's eyes and what won't. I think the 1996 one doesn't fit in with the rest of the tune. It's weird when they play the jingle and then the end of the song starts to play!

[@paianis]

+thatdudewiththesunglasses I notice that the 'shaker' at the end of the 1996 clock theme was also used in the remastered intro theme that came in at the same time. The difference is that that intro theme is still used today.

[@dbcnetwork6910]

Skye Wikipedia isn’t a good website to go on. Other people across the world can be writing that.

[@modtl]

My favourite is from Cats does Countdown S03E06, when Sean Lock changed the music for a piece of cheesey German pop that even had Rachel Riley jigging along.

[@nachoalvarez7171]

I'm happy you know of Kevin McLeod

[@DarkLight753]

I've always wondered why they changed the font with the letters and numbers in Celebrity Countdown. Well, it's still the same font, which is Futura, but it's not in *bold*. Didn't seem much point in the change to me...plus the bold font was always better to see.

[@thatdudewiththesunglasses]

I always thought it was a different font but now I know. I think they decided to change it in the intro sequence so it better suited the new title theme and then decided it would make more sense to have the same font through out the entire show.

[@DarkLight753]

thatdudewiththesunglasses Yeah, I think your right. That's the only reasonable explanation.

[@robertgoh7420]

@@thatdudewiththesunglasses From 1991-1994 when the winged set was introduced the clock had a grey inner circle from 1994-present the clock had a blue inner circle.

[@robertgoh7420]

@@thatdudewiththesunglasses during the winged set in 1994 they replaced the buff carpet to a red one and the clock's inner circle became blue

[@mattwebb6056]

No shot of the clock resetting itself

[@tubzy2001]

I remember the short lived 1996 theme

[@w8101]

1:30 It actually already is a word~

[@TSMC879]

My fav is the 1996 version

[@parkerschmitt1594]

Good morning that's a nice tnnetenba!

[@robertgoh7420]

One of the clocks came from 31/12/1999

[@ajs41]

The 1982 version is the most minimalist.

[@roryhazlie753]

They said the short lived 1996 clock couldn’t make the contestants concentrate? What a lot of rubbish it’s no different to the actual clock going tick tick tick so how r u meant to concentrate with the normal one going as opposed to the 96 one? Makes no sense. Bring back the 96 clock.

[@ayena-real]

The music has barely changed since 1989!

[@robertgoh8261]

At 5:07 it should have said 2003-2008.

[@thatdudewiththesunglasses]

Robert Goh yeah my bad

[@MarkAshleyG]

2:30 - 8x50 = 400. (6+9)2=30. 400+30 237 .... oh damnit I'm way off :-(

[@joolz6773]

1981 also had a 45 sec which is NOT 90 Secs he said 45

[@rontwentyone]

You'll have to add the latest set which was first seen this month.

[@thatdudewiththesunglasses]

rontwentyone ok :)

[@Ryan27x]

R u gonna add the new set from 2017

[@fernlew8828]

Nice tnetennba

[@M0jibake]

Does it annoy anyone else slightly that the beat isn't synchronised with the seconds? It's a 16-bar piece of music so there are 64 beats in 30 seconds. Why not make it 15 bars, that way it would be precisely 2 beats per second plus it would nicely mess with people's heads finishing one bar before you would expect :)

[@sillygoose635]

if it's not broke, don't fix it?

[@richardharrison4887]

Old clocks are nice

[@PatMazzola]

Okey

[@djdrwatson]

5:49 This one was bugging me because the woman was sitting there very calmly and had obviously solved it within 15 seconds, very different from the man - and then I got it! 6 x 7 = 42 3 - 2 = 1 42 - 1 = 41 41 x 6 = 246 😀

[@batlin]

I was hoping to rip the timer sound for personal use, but bloody Richard Whiteley keeps sucking air in dramatically when the timer ends! Either that or it's cut off. Why, Richard? Why?

[@ILoveMaths07]

Rofl

[@witherblaze]

Not bad. One minor complaint 0:09 5 seconds? (I know it is 45, but based on that, anyone who never saw it might think "what the heck do I do in 5 seconds?") Also, thanks.

[@thatdudewiththesunglasses]

Oh ok thanks for telling me☺

[@witherblaze]

Nothing major. Just something funny.

[@thatdudewiththesunglasses]

Oh ok :D I just added an annotation on over 90 to says 45 as that's what it is

[@leinstermapping]

@@thatdudewiththesunglasses Too bad they don't work anymore.

[@SPTSuperSprinter156]

Can they actually hear that in the studio?

[@thatdudewiththesunglasses]

Callyy F Apparently, yes they can for tension or something :)

[@richhall7377]

Ive always wondered that

[@Clavinovaman]

Oh yes, and it is very *very* loud!

[@ayrtonwaite9488]

Yes and its bloody annoying

[@RBenjo21]

Have to say when I was in studio it wasn't that loud. Maybe years of its exposure to me have led me to block that out!

[@Alex-il5bk]

what the hell? EOESRSRRH? Reshoes?

[@notmuchtoit3090]

1:44 tnemarhib

[@KoichiFirst8092]

If the M had been another E, we would've had HIBERNATE for 18 points.

[@Topcat634]

She on the left looks like Lisa Nandy from 01:59-02:25.

[@danielfotheringhamproducti7368]

1:05 - Anyone know who that is on the left?

[@TestNintendo]

Joyce Cansfield.

[@lukemccorkell6533]

KINS

[@123brownjames]

The 1989 and the current ones are the best!

[@danwoodhouse9290]

the current one is the 1989 one!

[@traeyboy529]

​@@danwoodhouse9290 It might be referring to the actual Countdown sets (the 1989-1991 and Nick Hewer-era versions) and not the clock's jingle

[@glassowlie]

1989 when it went standardised.

[@isyou1]

i like the 1982-1989 one but the bad thing about the clock is that it has no markings

[@cmch83]

The markings were added before the end of Series 1.

[@mxpph]

5:57 (6+7+3)^2 - sqrt(100)

[@moosenger]

NO SQUARES AND SQUARE ROOTS

[@pentagonanimates]

@@moosenger okay here’s no squares or square roots (0! + 0! + 0!)! = 6

[@thetimelordvictorious10]

You can use only - + × ÷ and the brackets

[@tagesschaumukbang345]

3:02

[@PrinceSulo]

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