Editing Countdown (game show) (section)

===Celebrations===
The first episode of ''Countdown'' was repeated on 1 October 2007 on [[More4]] and also on 2 November 2007 on Channel 4; this was as part of ''Channel 4 at 25'', a season of programmes to celebrate its 25th birthday.

On 2 November 2007, ''Countdown'' celebrated its 25th anniversary and aired a special 'birthday episode'. The two players were 2006 winner [[Conor Travers]] and 2002 winner [[Chris Wills]]. However, for the rounds, [[VIP]] guests selected the letters and numbers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.apterous.org/Episode_4473|title=Episode 4473 – Countdown|website=Wiki.apterous.org|access-date=30 May 2022}}</ref> Guests included [[Gordon Brown]], [[Amir Khan (British boxer)|Amir Khan]] and [[Richard Attenborough]]. A statement from the French TV network [[France Télévisions]] was read out on air by Carol Vorderman to commend [[Channel 4]] on its success of ''Countdown''.

On 26 March 2010, [[Queen Elizabeth II]] congratulated ''Countdown'' for amassing 5,000 episodes. On 5 September 2014, the programme received a Guinness World Record at the end of its 6,000th show for the longest-running television programme of its kind during the course of Series 71.

In September 2014, ''Countdown'' entered the ''[[Guinness World Records]]'' for the most series of a TV game show broadcast.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29072573 |title=TV's Countdown gets Guinness World Record on 6,000th show |publisher=BBC News |access-date=13 September 2014 |date=5 September 2014}}</ref>