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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@billiejennings3531]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@NagasakiBladers]

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

[@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”.

[@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...

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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 …

[@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

[@Pamelalrene]

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

[@jodifurstner-mclaughlin5933]

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

[@craftistic82]

She has such a sweet demeanor. Love Susie 💜

[@getupstairstobed]

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

[@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 🇦🇺

[@unclvinny]

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

[@RohexMoneyjivan]

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

[@luke_miint]

Susie Dent has not aged

[@languageoffootball]

The delectable Susie Dent!

[@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 …

[@nekomochi486]

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

[@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.

[@Eyecyou64]

Susie looks fantastic!

[@calum66]

Susie Dent was then and still is absolutely gorgeous.

[@prakharjain9801]

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

[@Mr223P]

What an absolute sweetheart Susie Dent is, wonderful….

[@jmcd31]

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

[@thegreenmanofnorwich]

I always liked Susie Dent's professionalism and intelligence.

[@scottpeacock5492]

RIP musician Alan Hawkshaw who created the Countdown theme tune.

[@bokopoko3246]

The lovely Susie Dent!

[@nnnnn1610]

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

[@AnkanBob]

Was sure he was gonna say eternety and not september

[@martinmoore7920]

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

[@tomhammond3495]

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

[@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.

[@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 !

[@WesWhite]

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

[@markneedham8726]

Love that smile.

[@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.

[@notme222]

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

[@andrewsmith74]

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

[@bunkerboy02]

Botox

[@kevinfoo8031]

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

[@ZuluRomeo]

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

[@youknow227]

3:41

[@zambiaguy]

Happy 25th anniversary Susie!

[@Mountainman2468]

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

[@Mrlzman]

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

[@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

[@annsmith9196]

She looks so young!

[@muppet204]

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

[@bentheswitchsportsfan06]

Happy 2tth anniversary, Susie!! From America.

[@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

[@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.

[@Kulascus]

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

[@JonathanGymAddict]

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

[@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.

[@williamjhughes9460]

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

[@DevilboyScooby]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@synaesthesia2010]

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

[@-Scotty]

[@stefeniedavidmusic]

Susie still looks great.

[@eyeshandy]

happier times

[@WelshMan22]

R.I.P Richard Whiteley 1943-2005

[@ptroinks]

Look at Susie! So young!

[@RoobehTunes]

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

[@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.

[@sicario1375]

She was gorgeous

[@smokeylee1986]

I wish my name was Bernadette Batman :-(

[@CElsharif]

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

[@r4h4al]

Same.

[@Gfresh844]

Susie has aged well but she was so attractive here.

[@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.

[@50ShadesOfEndo]

She looks a bit like Lana Del Rey

[@formulacountdown]

No, they couldn't get that - Demeanors is a US infliction. The British Version is demeanoUrs

[@falcychead8198]

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

[@Pienimusta]

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

[@richardlongmore9301]

She is ultra beautiful

[@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 :)

[@paololim3513]

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

[@sisigpapi]

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

[@LANCSKID]

Good agent … contract.

[@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.

[@tacticalultimatum]

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

[@gavinthorburn5385]

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

[@paulnash7630]

Nice to see Carol Vordeman looking normal and attractive.

[@andysutherland1979]

I'M BATTMAN

[@c.j.stanbridge4560]

+andysutherland1979 And the other guy is Wayne.

[@nightw4tchman]

"Do you like me sex wise?"

[@bulletproofblouse]

You're not afraid to call a spade a spade, that's why I like you. Actually, you'd probably call it a giant tool.

[@nightw4tchman]

"You’ve got it on the bedsheets, you’ve got it on my dressing gown, you’ve got it on the valance!"

[@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

[@ajs41]

I have the grand final of this series on video. I shall upload to KZbin soon.

[@dl2074]

what a great name

[@TheTurtle]

Damn Susie is an absolute babe.

[@leapoffaith20]

Suzie hasn't aged a day, has she?

[@Classictv90s]

This is now a 20 year old edition of Countdown as we have now gone past 29th June.

[@shymike]

Now 30! Time flies

[@jacquesmertens3369]

The only British woman who gets prettier every year.

[@garyopenshaw9049]

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

[@ITVWeatherFans]

I was wondering that. I can only assume this was re-run due to cricket being abandoned at a guess. I recall 'Countdown''s older editions were occasionally shown in such an event.

[@rehan2118]

I have been watching Susie Dent for so many years on TV but only recently I have developed a crush on her.... I don't know if it's out of nostalgia or love.