The First National Lottery Live

[@JamieDaCosta]

Everything was so much happier and over the top in the 90's, you gotta love it!

[@alexrobinson4802]

+JamieDaCosta it was we could have fun live on tv we still can

[@deices20]

JamieDaCosta yttgyyff

[@RB-mq6em]

So true! Things felt optimistic and cheerful then. It’s so much more dreary now!

[@porcupinefizzy2908]

Damm it, I was only a little boy in the 90's.

[@SevenEllen]

It wasn't really. We were just kids, so our memories were happier and we had no adult troubles, stresses, responsibilities, etc, etc.

[@PhilSergeant88]

LuthansaTerminal, you are a legend for putting this up, I've been looking for this for ages, it is one of my first childhood memories. Cheers.

[@darrenclements]

Strange to watch this again: I remember it going out live. People clapping for a machine seems daft now but It was of course quite a thing at the time. Imagine if they did a live reveal from railway stations like that, ‘introducing the all new ticket machine here at London Victoria :)’

[@bobomb1986]

"Only the British could cheer half a ton of metal". Nobbut just 10 years later, we were cheering random people opening boxes and someone claiming it was anything other than a completely random game.

[@MegaMarie]

First lottery ever... I remember how excited I was though I was little.

[@shamirpatel3569]

Yeah same here I was one and remember going with my grandad to buy his ticket from woolies.

[@liammustapha6643]

Shamir Patel Ah, Woolworths... how we all miss it. I remember going to buy my pick n mix from there at age 7...

[@notapom]

Shamir Patel if you were one year old you 100% don't remember

[@RB-mq6em]

I remember watching this vividly. It was so exciting and we all really felt we were going to win! Happy times.

[@tangobob5268]

Fara Marie Justine Remember watching this I was 13.

[@argyle1805]

And this was the moment the nation became a nation of gamblers…..

[@underneonloneliness2]

I’m pretty sure the bookies were packed out before the lottery

[@derrinirl]

With the odds of matching 6 numbers out of 49 at 1 in 13,983,816 and there being 104 draws per year... your numbers will come up once in every 134,460 years.

[@deancoysh1650]

Lol Nutts

[@victoriaharbach5968]

happy 25th birthday to the netional lottery I was 6 years old when this was aired

[@clarissamcpigeon7857]

I remember watching this very draw and trying desperately to get dinner postponed so we could watch it to the end. Backstory: we were at a family friend's house for a big informal dinner and I was there, aged 7, with a bunch of other kids my age. Our parents were off doing the boring adult stuff. We were then called through to eat, but none of us wanted to go, because we were captivated by Noel Edmonds and his magic machine. --- I also remember Mystic Meg saying almost literally every week that a group of firefighters would be celebrating. It was always firefighters, not cleaners, teachers, police officers, nurses... always firefighters.

[@marchowes7872]

After 57 minutes your ticket will be in the bin having not won a penny. And here I am 20 years later and having still not managed to match those all important six evasive numbers. I know I'm a sinner, but please make me a winner! :-/

[@Analoguebubblebath89]

Lol

[@phillipwilloughby5013]

Match six numbers out of 59... There's 45,057,474 combinations of six numbers... And there's 104 draws per year... So each combination of six numbers will be drawn once in every 43,245 years.

[@gbgameshows]

That brilliant catchphrase from the late, great Bob Monkhouse!

[@yabbaguy]

The first time in TV history Noel got obsessively excited about something being blue. Then came Deal or No Deal...

[@hibbiea8841]

And Then came Doodle Do for Doodle Noel hosting

[@ferguscarey2006]

is that noel edmonds from deal or no deal?

[@JonesDylan874]

Yep.

[@matthall3077]

This was recorded on Saturday 19th November 1994

[@beherenowz]

I know one of the first winners of this!

[@TDKiller415]

This is from Saturday 19th November 1994

[@seadog365]

Noel's Michael Schumacher quip must have been because this very first lottery draw was just a week after the infamous collisoin between him and Damon Hill in Adelaide

[@princecaspen3449]

That music thou, brings me back

[@doitanywayz]

ive played the same numbers every wed and sat since september and have only had a maximum of 2 balls. but i know one day ill win it. you have to believe it!

[@dudtopics159]

Cookie Monster any luck?

[@spacecadet0697]

3, 5, 14, 22, 30, 44. Six numbers that will go down in history.

[@clarkejoseph49]

And the Bonus Ball of 10

[@tangobob5268]

Remember watching this I was 13.

[@coringraham1294]

Looks like Noel Edmonds has drove from his Great House in Crinkly Bottom to BBC Television in London for the first ever National Lottery Live!

[@johnking5174]

Noel Edmonds took an unprecedented move by ensuring his House Party was not airing live this same night, as he could not do two shows on the same night. Noel's House Party took a one week break.

[@GeorgeASFTHM]

Anthea Turner was at the Victoria Centre branch of Tesco in Nottingham at 3:40. That branch is still there, but its now joined by loads of smaller ones as well...

[@autistictechgirl]

Can't believe I was 4 years old when this was on

[@michaelsimcock1984]

Amazing how time flies I was 6 when this first happened

[@insertnamehere4921]

I was 7. I remember going to the video shop and then grabbing a Chinese with my dad. Heading back to our flat, all of us sitting in front of the TV, ready for the first lottery. Man, how I long to be back in those days again! Life was so happier compared to this shit world we live on nowdays.

[@Onmysheet]

@Chris Al The days before digital and social media. Things were simpler back then.

[@OneMor3Win]

Omg I remember watching these things when I was young in England

[@dieselboy87]

noel looks so young here, this brings back memories of my childhood, and makes me long for times gone by. sad in a nice way.

[@insertnamehere4921]

I feel you mate

[@Phone-hz5wk]

He doesn't age

[@underneonloneliness2]

He’s always looked 65

[@surreyboy84]

I remember watching this. 10 years old. All sat around the TV on Saturday Evening. Looks so corny now!

[@97channel]

Odd moment, as the audience begin to laugh at the first sight of Noel driving the truck, then extremely abruptly stop as they realise it's not a joke.

[@calvingraham9573]

He presented Top Gear years beforehand so he was pretty experienced at presenting to a camera in the car while driving.

[@clarkejoseph49]

Well, there’s like over £5,000,000 in that truck so obviously it’s no laughing matter.

[@mackybmx]

Remember when the BBC made a massive deal out of the lottery draws, Bands playing, Celebs to start the draw... now you'll miss the numbers on the news if you blink and have to look them up online!!

[@josssmith]

Are they even still announced on the news anymore?

[@christopherrowan3886]

A couple of strange and interesting facts about the National Lottery. The most jackpot winners occurred in 1995 (133) - with each winner taking home around £120,000. The highest jackpot win (Euromillions) was over £161 million pounds. Finally, for this debut lottery draw - seven people matched the jackpot, each taking home around 5.5 million smackaroonies each.

[@christopherrowan3886]

Marc Howes Nor me lol although a friend of my mam, Jackie Green won around £10 million on the lottery in my hometown of Failsworth, Greater Manchester. I was only 13 at the time but remember the press littered all over the White Lion pub after she had won as it was in the pub that Jackie realised she had scooped the jackpot. My mam was working that night and was due to go out with Jackie, but what a way to find out you had won. The White Lion also played host to another lottery winner a year or so before. Jackie Green is the niece to Michael Le Vell who plays Kevin Webster in Corrie! Another mad fact is that apparently Oldham which is only miles from Failsworth is one of the luckiest towns for lottery winners in Britain. Romford is apparently the luckiest! Thanks for correcting my mistake lol.

[@marchowes7872]

Cool story mate, just looked her win up online :). The year 1996 seems a life-time ago now, and she won it two years after the Lottery was first launched (1994) - belated congratulations to her and so so lucky!! She must have nearly pissed herself seeing her numbers come up right in front of her very eyes, and what a place to be when something like that happens, drinks all round!! I bet too the atmosphere in that pub was electrifying that night to say the least and a good excuse for a lock-in! :) Now if only I and many others could experience 'that feeling' that she felt when the realisation set in that her life was about to change forever and all her worries and insecurities would be no more. She went to the pub for a casual and regular night out and came home a multi-millionaire...what a night to remember! :) We can but only live in desperate hope that lady luck comes knocking on our door :). I do have two questions though: Why is Kevin Webster (her uncle) still living on Coronation Street? Surely Jackie could have purchased him a lavish upgrade lol. And finally, what's her bank account number and sort code? (Whispers: I'll split it with you 50/50, or has she blown the lot already?) ;) haha Where I live we've had 5 lottery winners since it began (four on lotto and one who scooped £1m on a scratchcard), with £5m being the highest amount won by a lady from our local Asda. The most numbers I've ever matched is 4 which I think has occurred four times during the last 22 years. Back in 2003/2004 and shortly before 'Lottery Xtra' was discontinued, my Mum and Dad matched five out of the six numbers drawn on one occasion, with the sixth being just four numbers away from that what was drawn - so near but yet so far from a life-changing sum which I think rolled to somewhere between £7m-£10m. It was never won and the money went to good causes when Lottery Xtra was made defunct. Lottery Xtra, just in case you you're not aware, was a 'second chance', jackpot-only, all-or-nothing draw which followed the main lottery draw, so to win you needed all six numbers. The jackpot was rarely ever won, with roll-overs being a regular occurrence. Apart from that, we've not had any real luck with the lottery, and with it being significantly harder to win now since Scamalot introduced changes to apparently give players 'more chance' of winning, I don't hold out much hope of striking gold any time soon. I don't play Lotto and EuroMillions religiously like my parents do, just now and then on the off-chance, when it's Mega-Week or when the jackpot balloons in size. But as they say, it is a lottery, a game of chance, and to be in with a chance you need to buy a ticket. You never know...you or I could be the next big winner - fingers crossed! Best of luck to you too! :)

[@christopherrowan3886]

Marc Howes​ Thanks for your great, great response Marc! Yes indeed, to realise you have become an instant multi millionaire whilst sat in a pub, is almost poetic. The feeling must have been unreal. 1996! I was 13 years of age....a lifetime ago, it does feel like, absolutely lol lol. Regarding Jackie's win, apparently, she didn't scream or leap around the pub like a jumped-up chihauhau (that would be me lol), but rather, simply sat where she was and cried in stunned disbelief. She was accompanied to the loo to get her head together and the pub had a huge booze up........yet, my mam was working her shift at Morrison's!!! She was gutted lol. Jackie eventually moved to Jamaica. It all comes down to luck Marc. My mam has had a few close connections to the rich and famous, funnily enough. She used to be mates with Mark Owen from Take That! He used to work in Barclay's Bank in Failsworth and my mam tells the story of the time she nipped in to see him and he told her that he wont be at work the following day, as he had an audition to be in a new band/group......I wonder what happened to him lol lol! She is also a lifelong friend of Lisa Stansfield. Lisa's originally from Rochdale which is just north of Failsworth and I remember her nipping round on occasion when I was a kid....crazy! Apart from that, Failsworth is a very ordinary little town. Ha ha! Regarding Kevin Webster, she could have at least given him a break from that bleeding mechanics shop and living next door to Gail Platt! Really lol! Sort code and account number.....I think my mam tried that one years ago lol (only joking). It seems very lucky where you are Marc, and the fact that you, yourself have matched 4 number multiple times is quite unreal, as I have only scooped 4 number once. I remember Lottery Xtra....and your mam and dad matched five out of six!! So near indeed. Isn't life a strange series of sliding door moments? You're spot on regarding the 'Scamalot' Marc. When Jackie won and up until a couple of years ago, the odds of winning the lottery jackpot were around 14 million to one (still an astronomically unlikely event, whereby becoming a NASA astronaut was more likely), but since introducing the extra numbers, the odds are now placed at around 50 million to one! To win the Euromillions which is around 110 million to one, the odds are so slim that if for instance you had a friend in Mexico but didn't know his phone number, you would have more chance of him answering by dialling a random telephone number! The odds are astronomical with both and people say, "well, somebody has to win", but there are of course weeks when people don't. Your mam and dad for instance Marc, even though they were one number off scooping the jackpot on Xtra, the difference in odds would have amounted to millions I suppose. It's a crazy game and a game of pure chance whereby little or no strategy is involved. But, you never know mate....one day lol! I sincerely wish you the very best of luck in life Marc and on the Lotto and I've got my fingers crossed aswell. All the best to you and yours! Chris.

[@marchowes7872]

Just checked my numbers...1 number and no match on the raffle :(. The waste bin has claimed yet another ticket (nom nom nom) :/. Thank you for your response too :). It was a very interesting and enjoyable read. Your mam clearly has rubbed shoulders with some top brass - just a shame none of the wealth rubbed off in the process...yet, anyway lol :). Moreover, just to think that she also had no idea, as I'm sure they did too, as to how successful and famous they would eventually become, and where they would be now - simply amazing! :) With regards to the odds of hitting the jackpot now, although 14m/1 was astronomical odds to beat before the recent changes came in to effect, 14m/1 certainly sounds a damn sight more do-able/achievable than the astronomical 50m/1 that it now stands at :/. And as for the EuroMillions, I would say there is more chance of it snowing in Dubai and Qatar at the same time than me ever winning that - ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE! lol :) Oh, and I did manage to get through to my 'mate in Mexico', but it went to voice mail - something about him being too busy to answer because he's in the process of helping to build some 'wall' along the US/Mexican border haha. Anyways, all the very best of luck in life to you too Christopher, and on the Clotto (fingers crossed). Take care, best wishes to you, as well as your family and friends also. Marc PS: I hear putting ones ticket through the washing machine can increase your chances of winning through the practise of money laundering :) ha ha. Finally, and just in case you may have been wondering, I'm from Lowestoft, Suffolk - the UK's most easterly, and somewhat 'lucky', town! But sadly not for me...yet :/. Good luck! :)

[@marchowes7872]

Correction: The prize fund amount for matching six numbers on the very first Lottery draw back in 1994 (Saturday 19th November 1994) was £5,874,778. There were seven jackpot winners in total, with each ticket pocketing £839,254. Sadly, and not unsurprisingly, it was not, and is still not, me twenty-two years on :(. Oh well, if at first you don't succeed...try, try again, 'there's always next week', and 'better luck next time'...though, 'next time' never seems to come :/. Good luck to everyone that plays Scamalot's National Clotto :). Next week, 'It Could Be YOU!' :)

[@JasonC1782]

If I remember rightly, the main content of the show was some kind of It's A Knockout-type game between members of the studio audience to win the right to start the draw.

[@WelpNathan]

noel would be such a good bingo caller

[@petehind1]

Come November this was 25 years ago 😯😯

[@philipj98]

I played it purely because of the music at the beggining! 😂

[@glammapaki]

I was so young but for some reason I still remembered the number 10 being drawn

[@JohnSmith-lj4dd]

It was 44 for me. Always getting bloody drawn 44!

[@ukthemeparksareawesome9747]

Gotta get a time machine and get a ticked with those exact numbers I’d be rich

[@phillipwilloughby5013]

In the first draw, the jackpot was £5,874,778 and seven people won it. And two months later, 133 people won the jackpot and got £122,510 each. Better to have a ticket in a draw which you're the only jackpot winner.

[@ukthemeparksareawesome9747]

@@phillipwilloughby5013 good to know

[@briangallacher6475]

@@phillipwilloughby5013 what about the billion draw that happened few years ago in America

[@hojios3073]

cut off at the end!? what was the jackpot!? I might play these numbers tomorrow!

[@tomogganwright7681]

Can't believe they used to televise the draws!

[@underneonloneliness2]

He looks the same there as he did in the late 00’s with deal or no deal

[@Luxarmusic]

Guinevere, Lancelot, and Merlin.

[@201081hero]

And Arthur.

[@RandomRadioJottings]

David Miles on continuity duty at the start of this recording

[@johnking5174]

Oh how times have changed. Now in 2018 there are no TV lottery draws anymore, all are now only shown online. How much has changed when not one UK draw is shown live on television. In the Irish republic they have at least kept airing their lottery draws live on RTE Television.

[@sambee8982]

John King Sadly, it happened because of declining viewers, especially since the lottery was done in a separate studio in Lottery HQ rather than in the same studio as it's gameshows that they had on Saturdays. I was shocked when they started doing that in late 2006, a few months after Lotto Extra was replaced by Dream Number....

[@chasb4515]

ITV show them in an ad break at 20:15 but it is not the same

[@johnking5174]

@@sambee8982 Shame that Ireland's RTE continues to commit to their lottery draws, and the BBC could not.

[@sambee8982]

@@johnking5174 I know, it's strange indeed. Maybe the BBC had enough of showing the lottery draws because the viewers declined....

[@johnking5174]

@@sambee8982 In Ireland, the lottery draws are still HUGE viewing events. Hundreds of thousands watch it. They also have it at a regular time - 7.57pm Wednesdays and Saturdays no matter what, and it is separate from their lottery game show Winning Streak. Have you ever seen the Irish way of doing the lottery?

[@Hankfan5379]

Saturday 19th November 1994 National lottery draws with noel edmonds

[@akumar7366]

Still waiting for my big win fingers crossed x

[@ianlivesey2889]

Does Noel Edmonds have a LGV licence?

[@utterlyawesomevideos7993]

+Ian Livesey I was wondering the exact same thing! Unless someone started it moving and they just shuffled him onto the drivers seat and said point it in a straight line and you'll be fine lol

[@ianlivesey2889]

in London though? Don't think he has the wits about him to drive a big truck through a big town

[@utterlyawesomevideos7993]

+Ian Livesey I dunno, he's not the densest man in the world is he!

[@ianlivesey2889]

no but he brought us Mr Blobby and gunge

[@StFidjnr]

speaking of that his house party will be preempted for that week only for the 1st ever national lottery draw

[@2001JamesTV]

I had it in my head that the live link up from Nottingham was during the second week- but cleary I'm wrong! At the time, where the Tesco branch is was in the middle of what used to be a big food hall, but a couple of years after this they revamped the Victoria Centre and turned it into a branch of House of Fraser, sadly...

[@seamusoblainn]

I watched this live too haha

[@PhilSergeant88]

Could you imagine if they went through this process before every draw?!

[@calvingraham9573]

They kinda did for 2-3 years. I was a kid and bought into it but eff knows what made rational adults behave this way. Especially with the Mystic Meg 'psychic' predictions being treated as if it we re Panorama. National broadcast television and watching it and living in it was a combination of culture and religion back then.

[@jacetaneneko_vt]

Back then was only the Lotto. They would have done this until they introduced the entertainment games when no draws happened.

[@ths3525]

this to me tells me that they know every tickets numbers and can easily come up with numbers that doesn't match any of them. After all, a machine can be rigged to only play certain balls each draw.

[@StFidjnr]

1:41 the national lottery's original ad slogan

[@benmac6147]

Who would have thought Noel Edmonds has a HGV licence.

[@johnking5174]

The man flies planes and helicopters, so no surprise there for me he has another licence

[@wrexham1983]

1:39 someone watching this show is gonna become a millionaire and it could be YOU. !!!!!!

[@MariaSantos-hi9df]

Presentador: Gordon Kennedy Productor Ejecutivo BBC: Andy Burns Productores Ejecutivos TVE: Pablo Garcia/Toni Prieto Productora Ejecutiva Tele 5: Finona Formoso Realizador: Peter Roberts Editor: Chris Arthur Equipo Técnico Estudios BBC Television Center Agradecimientos: The National Lottery Vestuario Gordon Kennedy: Cortefiel Armand Basi Jackpot By Carli Gry

[@DJDonnelly]

Who won it?

[@PhilSergeant88]

Actually it was £6.9 million and shared between 7 winners, hence Camelot's embarassment that a millionaire wasn't created from the first draw, e.g. listen to Noel at 1:40 - rather more sad I remember that, isn't it?!

[@Analoguebubblebath89]

Embarrassing

[@chrism28281]

Why are you putting all the details into the computer and why in shops today does your chosen numbers get scanned by the machine?

[@utterlyawesomevideos7993]

+chrism28281 They scan the barcode but it doesn't contain your numbers, it just tells the shops computer to include a lottery ticket in your bill, thats all.

[@karatebuff]

Back when the BBC was untouchable man to much has changed now they aren't even showing the Grand National this year what the hells the world coming to!!

[@CrashOrganism]

thought if you got all 6 numbers it was the jackpot not 100k

[@Woodys238]

How the hell did I end up here? Hours and hours of KZbin wondering 😒 anyway where's mystic meg?

[@marianbolocan3755]

Pls how i can talk with eny operator? I just get free ticket, end i win 11735$ end i can,t resive them.

[@TDKiller415]

@nje36 Don't you worry, if you watch this clip, look closely on the list of video clips on the right hand side. You'll see that Manmythandmirth has actually uploaded this whole programme. Watch it if you wish.

[@mazzab1970]

It was quite an occasion!

[@dakotareeves3939]

The numbers are as followed 3, 5, 14, 22, 30, 44 and bonus #10.

[@corinatsan]

Doesn't he mean "if your FIVE numbers match and your SEVENTH bonus ball"?

[@DanielLearmouth]

No; since there are six numbers on a Lotto ticket, five of the numbers will be standard balls, and the sixth the Bonus ball for the jackpot.

[@corinatsan]

Roger that =)

[@ferguscarey2006]

well i like it and i like noel ,anthea and gorden.

[@Maxmason.artist]

Wish I had a time machine

[@mazzab1970]

Looks like the set for Strictly Come Dancing!

[@bboychance]

u wanna relive Noel's crummy jokes throughout this show?

[@edtigger1]

english licences before a certain date allow u to drive 7.5ton lorries

[@97channel]

Wait!, one of those draw machines cost £200000?!! Did it (lottery) balls! £200000, 15 years on, and it still hasn't achieved the most basic task of simply picking the 6 numbers, from 49, which correspond to the ones on my ticket. Bl**dy thing.

[@oninineone]

Bring back Winning Lines, that's what I say. Actually, Who Dares Wins was rather good.

[@cutemimi25]

ITV owns the rights of Winning Lines now cause of the same people who makes Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.

[@Urko2005]

Mystic Meg :D

[@ChrisKentMusic]

I am going to win the lottery 😎

[@campervan-john]

Laughing at the high security van

[@deancoysh1650]

I'm never gambling again

[@NothingButElliot]

my brother won a little money on this one

[@Jasey2007]

we did a time capsule at school... i put in my tamagotchi and pokemon cards...

[@dakotareeves3939]

This is the first and only episode of the British game show "National Lottery Live" from the BBC.

[@terencetrentwatford.632]

The lottery is easy . I have won it 56 times . Just pick numbers that mean something like door numbers and birthdays .

[@creynolds094]

Saturday 19th November 1994

[@DeanMoxley87]

No one WON the first lottery

[@genericusername555]

First broadcast date?

[@gamingbytetv665]

19th of November, 1994

[@stephenkissane4268]

It would have been funny if noel won

[@PrimeMinisterBradderz]

Û

[@CarlD2]

Your grandmother sound like someone fun to watch TV with.

[@2001JamesTV]

I guess you can't be suprised really, it was a massive thing at the time! Still the whole lottery shows have been filler for years, originally it was crappy entertainment and performances, now it's crappy gameshows instead.

[@wrexham1983]

1:45 drum roll

[@john111257]

STILL WAITING 4 MY NUMBERS...GRRR

[@johncrilly3126]

wish they never altered it, why??? back then it was still hard to win but it was fun and fair now its overpriced, boring and unfair with 59 balls but still only 6 drawn!!

[@ForestKicks]

Spam 7 and laugh at Noel

[@davidattwell2574]

The 1990s was so much better than the 2020s covid 😱 ruined everything for us 🤓🤓🎤🎤

[@CarlD2]

Was this Noel Edmond's last big show?

[@MrJacksparrow07]

K Pryde no deal or no deal was

[@olaraay]

this is a bit OTT

[@KarlDowney]

I love how they spent the whole show and all the weeks running up to the first ever draw saying someone will be a millionaire but the top prize for the first ever draw was about £100k. 😂

[@Onmysheet]

Seriously?

[@201081hero]

@@Onmysheet It wasn't as low as £100k, the jackpot was split 7 ways and each winner got about £840k. But it was embarrassing to promote the becoming a millionaire thing knowing full well that it might not happen.

[@gameshowman1234]

@@201081hero That's not on them then. the fact that multiple winners is something you can't expect.

[@vybz987]

Noel? Wagwan

[@deancoysh1650]

Shsme they changed it to1-59

[@josssmith]

And doubled the price..

[@Analoguebubblebath89]

Rich Piana

[@UKAlexJames]

Can't help but be reminded of this: /watch?v=aT-Tmr4VtTQ

[@MyPhantomPhoenix]

Scott Mills brought me here

[@NFAQ1]

Christ what aload of guff