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These programmes, which we think are missing or somehow incomplete, matched your search.

COUNTDOWN

    • Extract
      The only known complete copy was recorded on a domestic video format (e.g. VHS, Beta, Philips 1500).

    • COUNTDOWN

    • 02.04.1966 [pilot] (missing)
  • Series 1
    • 01.10.1966 Episode No. 1 (missing)
    • 08.10.1966 Episode No. 2 (missing)
    • 15.10.1966 Episode No. 3 (missing)
    • 22.10.1966 Episode No. 4 (missing)
    • 28.10.1966 Episode No. 5 (missing)
    • 04.11.1966 Episode No. 6 (missing)
    • 11.11.1966 Episode No. 7 (missing)
    • 18.11.1966 Episode No. 8 (missing)
    • 25.11.1966 Episode No. 9 (missing)
    • 02.12.1966 Episode No. 10 (missing)
    • 09.12.1966 Episode No. 11 (missing)
    • 16.12.1966 Episode No. 12 (missing)

    • COUNTDOWN

  • Series 1
    • 02.10.1972 Aids to Calculation (missing)
    • 16.10.1972 What's Cooking? (missing)
    • 06.11.1972 Never Mind the Distance (missing)
    • 15.01.1973 The Path of True Love (missing)
    • 29.01.1973 What's in a Number? (missing)
    • 12.02.1973 As Long as a Piece of String (missing)
    • 19.03.1973 A Need of Numbers – 2 (missing)
    • 30.04.1973 Not So Much a Number… (missing)
    • 14.05.1973 Money to Spend (missing)
  • Series 2
    • 17.09.1973 Sure to Win (missing)
    • 01.10.1973 Take Any Number (missing)
    • 15.10.1973 Record of Crime (missing)
    • 19.11.1973 Shape to Remember (missing)
    • 14.01.1974 “Collection of Statistics” (missing)
    • 11.02.1974 Joe Meets His Match (missing)
    • 18.03.1974 No Mean Figure (missing)
    • 22.04.1974 Counting the Cost (missing)
    • 06.05.1974 Patterns of Change (missing)
  • Series 3
    • 07.10.1974 It All Adds Up (missing)
    • 21.10.1974 Five Times Table (missing)
    • 13.01.1975 Plan of Action (missing)
  • Series 4
    • 10.11.1975 The Q-Game (missing)
    • 12.01.1976 Harry Yes or No (missing)
    • 09.02.1976 Figures Cannot Lie (missing)
    • 26.04.1976 Star Quality (missing)

    • TARGET LUNA

    • 01.05.1960 Countdown (missing)

    • COUNTDOWN

  • Series 1
    • 13.12.1982 Episode No. 24 (missing)
  • Series 2
    • 12.04.1983 Episode No. 5 (missing)
    • 19.04.1983 Episode No. 9 (missing)
    • 07.06.1983 Episode No. 36 (missing)
    • 08.06.1983 Episode No. 37 (missing)
    • 09.06.1983 Episode No. 38 (missing)
    • 14.06.1983 Episode No. 40 (missing)
    • 16.06.1983 Episode No. 42 (missing)
    • 21.06.1983 Episode No. 44 (missing)
    • 28.06.1983 Episode No. 49 (missing)
    • 30.06.1983 Episode No. 51 (missing)

    • PLAY OF THE WEEK

    • 13.06.1961 Countdown at Woomera (missing)

    • CALENDAR COUNTDOWN

    • 07.06.1982 Episode No. 8 (missing)

    • These programmes, which exist complete, matched your search.

    These productions, which exist in the archives, matched your search.

    If the programme you were looking for isn’t here there could be a number of reasons:

    It’s worth double-checking that you typed in your search string correctly. But if you’re sure you have, please bear in mind that there are a lot of programmes we don’t have any information on at all.

    If the programme you’re searching for falls into one of these categories:

    Sports Programmes
    Documentaries
    Religious Broadcasts
    Reality Shows
    Quiz / Game Shows

    Some Children’s Magazine and Music Shows then we probably don’t have any information on it, so it might be missing, particularly if it was made in 1979 or earlier.

    Lastly, don’t forget that we only hold information on British TV programmes, you won’t be able to find any information about programmes made for American or Australian television, for example. Just because we don’t have a listing for your programme doesn’t mean that it isn’t of interest to us. It just means that we don’t have any information about it.

    We’ve got details on more than 175,000 different episodes, almost 40,000 of which are not thought to exist in the ‘official’ archives. Now, before you get too depressed by this fact, some of these are really old shows which were made before television programmes were generally recorded at all. We realise it’s very unlikely that these older programmes will exist at all, but there’s always the chance that someone recorded some 8mm film footage of them off their television screen or maybe made a sound recording of them while they were being broadcast. That’s still of interest to us.

    However, our main hope is that someone will be able to help us recover some programmes which were recorded, but which are now thought to be lost for ever. That’s what this search engine is for – to help you identify whether that old film print you’ve got in your attic, or that old video recording you made back in the early 1970s is missing from the archives.

    You could type in a programme name, or an episode name and click on ‘Search’ and it will give you some summary information whether or not the programme is lost. You don’t have to enter a complete name, entering part of the name – unless it’s very short – should find it too. If some or all of that programme is lost, you can click on the link and get further details. If it’s a music or variety programme you have, you may be able to locate it by typing in the names of one of the main guests and clicking on ‘Search’. This information is far from complete, but it may help you to identify a particular edition.

    Our information is good, but it’s not perfect. There will be mistakes in it, and we know it’s incomplete. In particular, information is very patchy on programmes in the some categories. This website only contains information concerning British broadcasts. Happy searching!

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