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.
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
+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.
+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!
+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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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 😀
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?
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.
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.
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 :)
