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Channel 4 at 25

(September 2007)

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tvarksouthwest
Well done for removing the DOG. However, very insensitive choice of sponsor in Digital UK - just as we celebrate when C4 was good, there is this blunt reminder of how TV is about to get worse.

And even worse, I have just discovered my Sony DVD recorder with in-built Freeview won't let me pause out the adverts... Evil or Very Mad
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Colm
Oh dear - ECP!
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Brekkie
Did they get double points for a 9 letter word in the early days - don't recall it being mentioned!


And it was too good to be true wasn't it - an ECP at the end, and not even one with the C4 logo!
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A former member
carol was the first woman to speak on Ch4
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Paul Clark
nwtv2003 posted:
Paul Clark posted:
The bloke who got the closest to the total in the numbers game was given a point, but he used the 10 twice in his calculations, and you're not allowed to use a number twice - should he really have been given any points?


I'm certain he got 10 from adding 7 and 3.

Cheers, that would explain it! Laughing Must've been the way it was laid out on the board and I lost track a bit.

Interesting to see the conundrum made no attempt at craftily jumbling the word into something still english-sounding like they often do today.
NW
nwtv2003
tvarksouthwest posted:
And even worse, I have just discovered my Sony DVD recorder with in-built Freeview won't let me pause out the adverts... Evil or Very Mad


My old cheapo Asda DVD recorder could let me Pause the recording, I have since upgraded to a Sony DVD/HDD Recorder which won't allow me to do this! Evil or Very Mad

Other than the ECP at the end of Countdown, I really enjoyed seeing how different it was.
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Andrew Founding member
The bloke who won was a miserable beggar wasn't he. Surely they could have picked someone decent for the first episode

Loved the manual Countdown 'anagram' reveal Laughing
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Philip Cobbold
Paul Clark posted:
nwtv2003 posted:
Paul Clark posted:
The bloke who got the closest to the total in the numbers game was given a point, but he used the 10 twice in his calculations, and you're not allowed to use a number twice - should he really have been given any points?


I'm certain he got 10 from adding 7 and 3.

Cheers, that would explain it! Laughing Must've been the way it was laid out on the board and I lost track a bit.

Interesting to see the conundrum made no attempt at craftily jumbling the word into something still english-sounding like they often do today.

It wasn't even called the conundrum. When did that start to be used?
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Asa Admin
Strange wasn't it? Some of the standard elements still seen 25 years on in terms of camera work etc but all very retro otherwise.

Wonderful to see them going to the effort of DOGless and 4:3 but why then ruin it at the end? Surely just having the anno over the credits "like the old days" would have been sufficient.

Either that or mock up what a C4 ECP would have looked like back then!
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nwtv2003
Forgot to say it's nice they were merchandising Countdown since the first day, as Richard gave the losing contestant a very small board game version.
PT
Put The Telly On
Brookside now...al'ight Bobby mate..leave it out! Wink

Doesn't it just stink of 80s Thatcherism. Laughing
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Andrew Founding member
That special montage ident, why does it pause on today's current logo for an unusually long time!

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