Countdown - Monday 29th June 1992 - Susie Dent's First Episode - Part 1 Of 3 - Episode 1263

This episode was kindly donated by Dan Woodhouse - Broadcast On Monday 29th June 1992 - Part 1 Of 3 - Richard Whiteley & Carol Vorderman host the show in which contestants race against the clock to pit their wits against vowels, consonants and numbers. With Susie Dent and dictionary corner guest Rula Lenska - All copyright remains with Yorkshire Television and ITV Productions - PLEASE COMMENT!

[@armv7-m603]

Jesus, she's been there longer than I've been alive! and she's still fit

[@siouxsiesway4214]

fitTER now then then.

[@aisha4651]

Hard to believe she’s over 50!!

[@harriantoncornell5405]

28 years she's been on countdown

[@harriantoncornell5405]

@Richard Christopher watch your language please thanks

[@harbourdogNL]

I'd like here to do a segment about the eytmology of the word "PHWOAAARRR!" because I say that every time I see her.

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

I had no idea Susie was on Countdown in 1992. She's certainly aged well.

[@bingo99aa]

I think she has got better

[@siouxsiesway4214]

that!

[@iainlewis2903]

Aye both her and Vorderman look better now!

[@diabrettic]

she would have been 27 years old here, to think she is now 55, yes she has aged very well

[@guypalmer7961]

This was her first episode as a lexicographer on Countdown. Despite this, it was some 12 years later that she became the show's permanent lexicographer.

[@ollieahokas9179]

Jimmy Carr looked a lot different bsck then....

[@amediocrehuman2885]

Ollie Ahokas ahahahahahahha this is gold

[@NPC-xt5bj]

Sounds a bit different too!

[@TheMajesticJunkyard]

I knew he had work done on him!

[@barneyward9431]

It's Richard Whitely! Unfunny.

[@post1305]

Barney Ward who are you to tell people what is funny or not? It’s subjective.

[@SergeiFragov]

Susie was and is a babe.

[@Chriswallace0405]

Maybe so but she'd bore you to death

[@thecookingapple5435]

Everyone talking about how well Suzi has aged, Jimmy Carr looks older here than he does now!

[@quaid667]

I can't believe it took a minute for me to figure out what you meant lol.

[@jimskea224]

The glasses add years to him.

[@UnIimited_Power]

Ha, ha, ha...

[@quizmaster85]

@@UnIimited_Power I could practically "hear" your reply in Jimmy Carr's voice.

[@billiejennings3531]

I was one day old when this aired. Cool. Cats does countdown really gave Susie a whole new fan base.

[@dangale123]

Bless her, the Dentster looks so nervous here. I want to give her a hug.

[@TheBarnem13]

Dan Gale Just a hug realy hmmmmm

[@diogenes9684]

When doesn't she seem nervous? It's quite endearing though.

[@fudgedog123]

Dan Gale hug? #euphamism

[@samuelalexander1014]

She is like April from Peep Show, the perfect combination of lovely with no self esteem

[@halfabeet]

On her podcast with Gyles Brandreth she mentions this appearance and confirms that yes, indeed, she was bricking it

[@matejadjedovic]

Batman, Wayne and Dent?

[@thedudeabides3294]

Ohh I missed Dent till you mentioned it!!

[@GirGir183]

What's the Dent connection?

[@ChrisTheSparky]

@@GirGir183 oh dear!

[@dirtykazoo2465]

Harvey "Two Face" Dent

[@Moonhermit2]

Also in Part III, the woman contestant has a Mother-in-Law named Barbara. Batman, Wayne, Dent AND Barbara. lol...

[@shurdi3]

4:34 Richard establishing the first rule of Countdown 26 years ago Don't fuck with Susie Dent

[@thejintymyster6396]

Greg Davies was just reinforcing the rules

[@roberthurley6457]

Susie Dent has been on the dictionary corner on the classic game show, “Countdown” for the last 30 years. Congrats Susie on your 30th year on “Countdown”.

[@jodifurstner-mclaughlin5933]

I like how he immediately introduces Countdown Rule #2: Never Fuck with Susie Dent.

[@Pamelalrene]

30 years!? What an icon. She's just as stunning now as she was then.

[@nekomochi486]

I was -5 years old lol. Susie's incredible. Killing it for over 30 years!

[@barath4545]

Wayne is 15 on this programme and 40 today. It's THAT long ago, damn.

[@brandon3872]

That makes me feel old, and I wasn't even born until a few years after this 😂

[@Milamberinx]

But Susie was 25 on this programme and 26 today, isn't time weird.

[@michaelhawkins7389]

@@Milamberinx hahaha good joke

[@Squab1972]

Susie Dent is the best lexicographer of all time, a really nice and down to earth person and viewer friendly as well.

[@corriedebeer799]

Yeah she puts more people to sleep than the manager of dignitas.

[@synaesthesia2010]

and she swears like a sailor too, she even did a program for channel 4 about swearing

[@U2QuoZepplin]

WOW!! Susie was young back then! Mind you I was still in Secondary School in 92 and I'm now 38 so The lovely Susie is bound to have been naught but a slip of a thing then too and back when you could take Vorderman seriously.. Great days when the prince of Countdown , Richard was still with us. RIP you legend

[@craftistic82]

She has such a sweet demeanor. Love Susie 💜

[@chooselife3000]

Susie Dent: absolutely beautiful 25 years ago and absolutely beautiful 25 years later. She's clearly lived a clean life. Many older women have had "work done" but don't think Susie has. All credit to her. Delightful mix of brains and beauty.

[@bunkerboy02]

I think she’s had lots of work done!

[@johnandrew6113]

@@bunkerboy02 susie just a natural beautiful stunning woman who looks after herself

[@bunkerboy02]

@@NinaRoad no, but to say that it’s her youthfulness is down to living a clean life is misguided!

[@bunkerboy02]

@@johnandrew6113 and pays for fillers and Botox but don’t let that get in the way of your perception of Oil of Olay.

[@johnandrew6113]

@@bunkerboy02must be hard to accept that someone could be just just natural instead of stupid people always thinking the worst susie is loved by millions

[@raven_of_zoso455]

That lovely, beautiful and talented, innocent young girl, waaaay before the most unnecessary joke was so elegantly served to her, as a minute followup to the simple question "So Susie, what have you been looking into lately". And British TV history was made, as endless laughter swiped over the gleam land, from Falmouth Bay to Dounreay.

[@LANCSKID]

(Un)dented despite some handling …

[@calum66]

Susie Dent was then and still is absolutely gorgeous.

[@luke_miint]

Susie Dent has not aged

[@loveconquersall143]

Gee, that young man has really nice manners! Lol. It's not often on this show - or any other for that matter, that you hear people say "please and thank you!" Still love watching this here in Australia 🇦🇺

[@martinmoore7920]

KZbin will probably delete this but man is Susie Dent serious wnaking material 😀

[@corriedebeer799]

so this is the carol vorderman that jimmy keeps on making rude jokes about.

[@Bergen98]

Yeah, she was the first in charge of numbers/letters, before Rachel came over.

[@TheFykle]

Why they always referring to her and hanging crap on her ? I wasnt familiar with her at the time so dont know what it all over

[@tunes4life]

@@TheFykle So she feels included in the group,as to begin with she had said in an interview that by Jimmy always being polite to her,when it came to the jokes,she had felt alienated, left out if you want... so being insulted jokingly,makes her feel included...

[@Milamberinx]

@@TheFykle I guess you're asking about Vorderman, she's a relatively clean person to have been on TV for so long, but she did leave Countdown because she wanted to keep her humongous wage (reportedly £900,000 per year). She went on to host the daytime TV show "Loose Women" where she and a few other women in their 50s would talk absolute horse manure for a few hours per day.

[@Nafon]

Well from what I have heard, those rude jokes are reasonable. My mum was on Countdown in 2003, and she told us that she's a self centred and vile woman, but both Susie Dent and Richard Whiteley were lovely.

[@languageoffootball]

The delectable Susie Dent!

[@Eyecyou64]

Susie looks fantastic!

[@Mr223P]

What an absolute sweetheart Susie Dent is, wonderful….

[@getupstairstobed]

2:45 THAT collective groan from the audience at Whiteley's dad jokes lmao

[@thegreenmanofnorwich]

I always liked Susie Dent's professionalism and intelligence.

[@RohexMoneyjivan]

2:36 'His hobbies include - being from Jersey of course'

[@unclvinny]

I love the gentle pace of this show. My how things have changed since 1992.

[@jmcd31]

Wow Susie hasn't changed much at all! Looks virtually the same now!

[@bokopoko3246]

The lovely Susie Dent!

[@scottpeacock5492]

RIP musician Alan Hawkshaw who created the Countdown theme tune.

[@simonhbrooke]

Never understood why Susie Dent wasn't a massive star...

[@paranoiia8]

Simon Brooke because star is too short for her :)

[@yellowmesh7821]

Simon Brooke bet she didn't wanted it, cause she could've been tbh

[@LANCSKID]

Maybe she wasn’t prepared to compromise herself …

[@notme222]

That opening title - very reminiscent of the 90s. Back when they were so obsessed with whether they could use CGI that they didn't stop to ask whether they should.

[@nnnnn1610]

When people were normal, natural, a little bit shy, but most of all not up their own arses.

[@HungrigerHugo89]

Holy shit! Are you sure that this got broadcasted in 1992 and not in the 70s :O

[@ajs41]

Why do you think it looks old? It doesn't look that old to me and I was 12 when this was first broadcast. Now, if you watch the first episode from 1982 that does look a bit old.

[@clairelouise3591]

I thought the same because of the fashion/camera quality but i was also born in 1998. I think its just strange for kids who were watching tv in the 2000s to see how different TV was like just 10 years before! If someone showed me this Id assume early 80s

[@Theoriginalbigbrillo]

@@ajs41 Yup , and Susie was like 17 years of age lol Same age as yours Truly );

[@TheFykle]

@@ajs41 hell im only few years younger than susie, and that set looks prehistoric for 92’ , i cant believe they went for that.. its def something id have expected in about ohh 1977 !

[@prakharjain9801]

3:40! The moment! Ps she was and is stunning!

[@notme222]

Second round I was surprised none of them could beat "cloudier" for 8. I found a 9-letter word: "Abdicates".

[@markneedham8726]

Love that smile.

[@eyeshandy]

happier times

[@annsmith9196]

She looks so young!

[@jakobpbengtsson3608]

Oh my, their faces when presented. Wow. So uncomfortable.

[@jzthompson9598]

I love how they never get to speak, but have to endure the prattle. sigh. Susie must looooove being on Cats/Countdown with the gang. These guys are sticks. As is Hick Newer.

[@-Scotty]

[@andrewsmith74]

She's now in her 50s, but looks much younger.

[@bunkerboy02]

Botox

[@Kulascus]

WAIT! SUSIE DENT STARTED STARRING ON COUNTDOWN 3 MONTHS AFTER I WAS BORN???? SHE STILL LOKS SO GORGEOUS!

[@AnkanBob]

Was sure he was gonna say eternety and not september

[@zambiaguy]

Happy 25th anniversary Susie!

[@williamjhughes9460]

Love Susie Dent the reason I watch it. I have three signed Series Cards of Susie. Got them off ebay 😎

[@muppet204]

Tune in tomorrow, same bat time, same bat channel!

[@ZuluRomeo]

3:41 A moment in television history, right there.

[@youknow227]

3:41

[@bowlchamps37]

Amazing that this show can survive for so long.

[@ajs41]

The show was already 10 years old at this time.

[@TheWildeFish]

Lol Family Feud/Fortunes is even older

[@BrooklynJackBlue]

Awwww! She's adorable here! And her demure smile hasn't changed a jot.

[@lieslceleste3395]

Agree, that’s why her video about swear words is so funny.

[@CElsharif]

Wow! Honest to god, I thought Susie was in her late thirties now.

[@r4h4al]

Same.

[@kevinfoo8031]

Congrats, Susie Dent, I'm lost for words!

[@tomhammond3495]

2:36 - "His hobbies include being from Jersey". Of course!

[@stefeniedavidmusic]

Susie still looks great.

[@Mountainman2468]

Susie isn’t aware just how cute she is . She’s stunning

[@WelshMan22]

R.I.P Richard Whiteley 1943-2005

[@gicking3898]

I came here after watch about 29 8OO10CDC videos. Gosh it's very subdued, and while Susie sounds the same, it's strange to see Carol wearing loose clothes, compared to Rachel's tight mini dresses.

[@DevilboyScooby]

I just heard "Batman" and then "Wayne" and thought WHO'S DEFENDING GOTHAM?

[@bentheswitchsportsfan06]

Happy 2tth anniversary, Susie!! From America.

[@synaesthesia2010]

can't believe that she's been at it for more than 30 years

[@WesWhite]

4:21 -- "...and Suzi Dent has the ultimate authority, don't you Suzi?" "I f**k'n do..."

[@Pienimusta]

25 years and shes still rocking it ^^ 2500 episodes or something like that?

[@paololim3513]

This show was based on Des Chiffres et Des Lettres from France. The format of the French show has evolved a lot.

[@ptroinks]

Look at Susie! So young!

[@sicario1375]

She was gorgeous

[@AIPChristina]

Anyone else getting creepy future serial killer from Wayne here?

[@muttley9520]

I think it's the eyes...and the slight 'vacant' look!

[@fireburn95rs]

AIPChristina haha XD

[@jacobhanson5302]

Wayne would be 39 now. I doubt he turned out to be the British Jeffrey Dahmer. He'd have been a household name if that'd turned out to be the case.

[@Formula1Madx]

Muttley Nuva wun pls 😨

[@SuperFerdie1965]

He's all right. Having said that, it would be difficult to make him laugh unless you took him a walk through the cemetery.

[@smokeylee1986]

I wish my name was Bernadette Batman :-(

[@RoobehTunes]

When you're so aesthetic that you like the suit.

[@50ShadesOfEndo]

She looks a bit like Lana Del Rey

[@falcychead8198]

That was the state of the art of computer graphics back then. And the state of the humor, apparently.

[@bladechild2449]

As a kid I always thought "why are these dictionary corner folk never contestants." Really weird how they sort of never mention the elephant in the room being that these answers are computed to them. Dent is still gorgeous 25 years on

[@garyw930]

A Bizarre Collection Of Puzzles by The Enigma is no ordinary puzzle book. Abandoning the standard format of numbers 1 to 9, this item contains a miscellany of names in the sudoku grids. These bizarre grids feature such general knowledge topics as geography, history, popular music, politics, and sport. You won't have seen anything like these before. Also, the author (a former contestant on Fifteen To One and Countdown) has assembled 300 conundrums and numbers games from Channel Four's Countdown.

[@turgsh01]

She kind of looks like Natalie Portman's twin in this episode. No wonder she's so pretty. I wonder if Natalie Portman will look just as pretty when she reaches the age of 52.

[@tomqelectronica]

natalie will always have it.

[@TheBex10169]

Nice and old time but I prefer the one with the 8 out of 10 cats crew and all the funny people. Glad Susie Dent is still there tho. I like her

[@sisigpapi]

Holy shit!! I had no idea Susie had been with Countdown so long!

[@LANCSKID]

Good agent … contract.

[@seadog365]

So much was different then, it was only half an hour long, it alternated with 15-1 every three months, and most crucially of all it was on at 4:30 rather than the bizarre 2:10 slot it's been relegated to these days.

[@cd-xr3gy]

also only had 4 channels back then

[@Mrlzman]

4:21 Susie's first episode, and Rule Number One of Countdown is already being laid down: Never Fuck With Susie Dent.

[@Gfresh844]

Susie has aged well but she was so attractive here.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

I'm sure they used to rotate who was in the corner but its been so long I can't remember who the others were. Got to a point where it was just Susie.

[@cchance1973]

I can remember a few - Della Thompson, Julia Swannell, Catherine Clark and Freda Thornton were from the 80s and early 90s

[@TheStevenWhiting]

@@cchance1973 I'm not going mad then. Now the only one I remember is Susie :)

[@tacticalultimatum]

It’s been 25 years and she hasn’t changed at all

[@dl2074]

what a great name

[@leapoffaith20]

Suzie hasn't aged a day, has she?

[@SkandiaAUS]

I wonder what she was looking into back then.

[@READYTEDDYBEAR]

I remember a bloke doing dictionary corner before her. I think his name was Sampson? Rula Lenska has the voice of woman who smokes 40 Benson & Hedges a day.

[@jameswest4692]

The joke about Batman and Wayne, cut to the picture of Wayne and a face of stone

[@stephenmcconnell1000]

His non-reaction was priceless and entirely befitting of Richard's cringey dad-jokes

[@TheTurtle]

Damn Susie is an absolute babe.

[@pjbolas]

Just to add to this, it was the Final of the 66th series as well that aired on the 29th June 2012. I don't know if it was mentioned though.

[@gavinthorburn5385]

I certainly feel old knowing shes been on countdown for 30 years lol

[@jacquesmertens3369]

The only British woman who gets prettier every year.

[@garyopenshaw9049]

Thumbs up if you ended up here from the new episode of purple

[@Vanadeo]

just been watching the 8 out of 10 spinoff and thoguht I recognised her.. wow 26 years and she aint changed much at all..

[@paulnash7630]

Nice to see Carol Vordeman looking normal and attractive.

[@scootscootriot1020]

Rula Lenska sounds like Natasha from Rocky & Bullwinkle.

[@ForestKicks]

Holy Countdown

[@psilow7789]

Susie was and is a Goddess!

[@sebaszwarc]

Holy mother...Rula Lenska? She played Mother Superior in Robin of Sherwood episode “7 sword of Wayland” 🙈 🗡

[@Chriswallace0405]

Nerd