List of 8 out of 10 Cats episodes

This is a list of episodes for the Channel 4 satirical panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. The first episode was broadcast on 2 January 2012.

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
Mash Up	2 January 2012	2 January 2012	1
1	24 August 2012	24 August 2012	1
2	12 April 2013	19 April 2013	2
3	26 July 2013	20 September 2013	6
4	3 January 2014	28 February 2014	6
5	6 June 2014	19 September 2014	10
6	19 December 2014	3 May 2015	8
7	15 May 2015	26 June 2015	6
8	3 July 2015	4 September 2015	10
9	8 December 2015	31 March 2016	10

The coloured backgrounds denote the result of each of the shows:

     – Indicates Sean's team won.

     – Indicates Jon's team won.

     – Indicates the game ended in a draw.

Channel 4 Mashup

No.	No. in Series	Sean's Team	Jon's Team	Dictionary Corner Guest	Original Airdate	Scores
1	1	None	None	Joe Wilkinson	2 January 2012	21-45

Series 1

No.	No. in Series	Sean's Team	Jon's Team	Dictionary Corner Guest	Original Airdate	Scores
2	1	Clarke Carlisle	Joe Wilkinson	David O'Doherty	24 August 2012[1]	50–41

Series 2

No.	No. in Series	Lee's Team	Jon's Team	Dictionary Corner Guest	Original Airdate	Scores
3	1	Lee Mack[Note 1] Rob Beckett	Rhod Gilbert	Tim Key	12 April 2013[2]	31–47
4	2	Lee Mack[Note 2] Richard Osman	Stephen Mangan	Henning Wehn	19 April 2013[3]	47–54

1. Guest captain in place of Sean Lock.
2. Guest captain in place of Sean Lock.

Series 3

No.	No. in Series	Sean's Team	Jon's Team	Dictionary Corner Guest	Original Airdate	Scores
5	1	Jason Manford	Rhod Gilbert	Danny Dyer	26 July 2013[4]	23–36
6	2	Rhod Gilbert	Miles Jupp	Nick Helm	2 August 2013[5]	49–47
7	3	Humphrey Ker	Sarah Millican	Rich Hall	9 August 2013[6]	30–52
8	4	Sarah Millican	Chris Ramsey	Abandoman	16 August 2013[7]	40–62
9	5	Lee Mack[Note 1] Bob Mortimer	Adam Hills	Alex Horne and The Horne Section	13 September 2013[8]	0–153[Note 2]
10	6[Note 3]	Lee Mack[Note 1] David O'Doherty	Henning Wehn	Vic Reeves	20 September 2013[9]	22–46

1. Guest captain in place of Sean Lock.
2. Having reached the Countdown Conundrum without scoring, Mack and Mortimer (with help from Joe Wilkinson) persuaded Jimmy Carr to award 100 points for the Conundrum (which they proceeded to lose anyway, with the bonus still being awarded to Hills and Richardson).
3. 80's Night Special.

Series 4

No.	No. in Series	Sean's Team	Jon's Team	Dictionary Corner Guest	Original Airdate	Scores
11	1	Rhod Gilbert	Kevin Bridges	Josie Long	3 January 2014[10]	27–39
12	2	Miles Jupp	Aisling Bea	Nick Helm	10 January 2014[11]	26–51
13	3	Kathy Burke	Josh Widdicombe	Dara Ó Briain	17 January 2014[12]	42–37
14	4	Dara Ó Briain	Sharon Horgan	Adam Buxton	24 January 2014[13]	28–29
15	5	Jack Dee	James Corden	Joe Lycett	21 February 2014[14]	35–31
16	6	James Corden	Kevin Bridges	Peter Serafinowicz	28 February 2014[15]	39–45

Series 5

No.	No. in Series	Sean's Team	Jon's Team	Dictionary Corner Guest	Original Airdate	Scores
17	1	Roisin Conaty	Jonathan Ross	David O'Doherty	6 June 2014[16]	21–54
18	2	Andrew Flintoff	Rhod Gilbert	Henning Wehn	13 June 2014[17]	16–43
19	3	Josie Long	Rob Beckett	Vic Reeves	20 June 2014[18]	41–25
20	4	Stephen Mangan	Jason Manford	Tim Key	27 June 2014[19]	36–40
21	5	Jo Brand	Claudia Winkleman	Bill Bailey	4 July 2014[20]	39–35
22	6	Bill Bailey	Josh Widdicombe	Jake Yapp[Note 1]	11 July 2014[21]	21–30
23	7	Bob Mortimer	Richard Osman	Matthew Crosby	18 July 2014[22]	17–57
24	8	Roisin Conaty	David Mitchell	Phill Jupitus[Note 2]	5 September 2014[23]	27–34
25	9	Trevor Noah	David Baddiel	Joey Essex[Note 3]	12 September 2014[24]	37–31
26	10	Jo Brand Jono O'Neill[Note 4]	Vic Reeves Rob Beckett	Adam Buxton[Note 5]	19 September 2014[25]	52–24

1. Lauren Goodger appeared in this episode in a sketch with Joe Wilkinson; they pretended to film a scene for The Only Way Is Essex.
2. Dennis Taylor appeared in this episode with Joe Wilkinson.
3. Joe Wilkinson was absent from this episode. Alex Horne and The Horne Section instead assisted Rachel Riley.
4. Introduced as "octochamp of regular Countdown."
5. Joe Wilkinson was absent from this episode.

Series 6

No.	No. in Series	Sean's Team	Jon's Team	Dictionary Corner Guest	Original Airdate	Scores
27	1[Note 1]	Kathy Burke	David Baddiel	Alex Horne and The Horne Section	29 December 2014	28–38
28	2	David Mitchell	Katherine Ryan	David O'Doherty	9 January 2015	22–31
29	3	Roisin Conaty	Jack Whitehall	Rob Beckett	16 January 2015	28–890[Note 2]
30	4	Reginald D. Hunter	Aisling Bea	Holly Walsh	23 January 2015	34–62
31	5	Romesh Ranganathan	Johnny Vegas	Josie Long	30 January 2015[26]	33–41
32	6	Vic Reeves	Bob Mortimer	Jack Whitehall	6 February 2015[27]	28–30
33	7	Jason Manford Jen Steadman[Note 3]	Sarah Millican[Note 4] Jonathan Ross Roisin Conaty	Bill Bailey[Note 5]	13 February 2015[28]	54–28
34	8	Bill Bailey Paul Foot	Sarah Millican[Note 4] Rob Delaney Romesh Ranganathan	Nina Conti	3 May 2015	54–13

1. Christmas Special
2. The conundrum was worth 843 points, in order for Jon to break Conor Travers' record for highest cumulative score on Countdown.
3. Introduced as "the greatest ever female player in Countdown history."
4. Guest captain in place of Jon Richardson.
5. Joe Wilkinson was absent from this episode.

Series 7

No.	No. in Series	Sean's Team	Jon's Team	Dictionary Corner Guest	Original Airdate	Scores
35	1	Kevin Bridges	Kathy Burke	Joe Lycett[Note 1]	15 May 2015	35–39
36	2	Rhod Gilbert	Sara Pascoe	Johnny Vegas[Note 2]	22 May 2015	23–34
37	3	Rob Beckett	Katherine Ryan	Greg Davies	29 May 2015	34–52
38	4	Miles Jupp	Greg Davies	Holly Walsh	5 June 2015	23–47
39	5	Vic Reeves	Lee Mack[Note 3] Sara Pascoe	Alex Horne and The Horne Section	19 June 2015[29]	26–28
40	6	Bob Mortimer	Sarah Millican[Note 3] Katherine Ryan	Alex Horne and The Horne Section	26 June 2015[30]	50–41

1. Nick Helm assisted Rachel Riley in place of Joe Wilkinson.
2. Joey Essex assisted Rachel Riley in place of Joe Wilkinson.
3. Guest captain in place of Jon Richardson.

Series 8

No.	No. in series	Sean's team	Jon's team	Dictionary Corner guest	Original airdate	Scores
41	1	Roisin Conaty Rachel Riley	Sarah Millican[Note 1] Rhod Gilbert Susie Dent	David O'Doherty	3 July 2015[31]	44–22
42	2	Seann Walsh Antoinette Ryan[Note 2]	Joe Wilkinson[Note 1] Danny Dyer	Bill Bailey[Note 3]	10 July 2015[32]	47–29
43	3	Johnny Vegas	Sarah Millican[Note 1] Rob Beckett	Vic Reeves	17 July 2015[33]	37–39
44	4	Mel Giedroyc	Lee Mack[Note 1] David O'Doherty	Adam Buxton	24 July 2015[34]	34–35
45	5	Andrew Flintoff	Bill Bailey[Note 1] Roisin Conaty	Rob Beckett	31 July 2015[35]	48–44
46	6	Liza Tarbuck	Sarah Millican[Note 1] Romesh Ranganathan	Phill Jupitus	7 August 2015[36]	42–18
47	7	Bill Bailey	Joe Wilkinson[Note 1] Isy Suttie	Joe Lycett	14 August 2015[37]	43–44
48	8	Henning Wehn	Bill Bailey[Note 1] Jessica Hynes	Tom Allen	21 August 2015[38]	34–17
49	9	Sara Pascoe	Josh Widdicombe Alex Brooker[Note 4]	Alex Horne and the Horne Section	28 August 2015[39]	50–57
50	10	Greg Davies	Holly Walsh	Vic Reeves[Note 5]	4 September 2015[40]	27–25

1. Guest captain in place of Jon Richardson.
2. Countdown octochamp. Helped out Sean Lock's team for the last round.
3. Kym Marsh appeared as a barmaid in charge of a special pub quiz round
4. Appeared as Widdicombe's Mascot.
5. Chris Eubank appeared in a section in which his voice was compared with an impersonation by Greg Davies.

Series 9

No.	No. in series	Sean's team	Jon's team	Dictionary Corner guest	Original airdate	Scores
51	1[Note 1]	Johnny Vegas	Katherine Ryan	David O'Doherty	8 December 2015[41]	34–33[Note 2]
52	2	Jason Manford	Roisin Conaty	Sam Simmons	15 January 2016	31–33
53	3	Rob Beckett	Cariad Lloyd	Jamie Laing	22 January 2016 [42]	32–22
54	4	Miles Jupp	Sara Pascoe	Sam Simmons	29 January 2016	33–28
55	5	Isy Suttie	Richard Osman	Alex Horne and The Horne Section	5 February 2016	44–57
56	6	Vic Reeves	Aisling Bea	David O'Doherty	25 February 2016	29–37
57	7[Note 3]	Bob Mortimer	Holly Walsh	Isy Suttie	3 March 2016	33–23
58	8[Note 4][Note 5]	Johnny Vegas[Note 6] Sara Pascoe	Alex Brooker	Tom Allen	10 March 2016	25–25
59	9	Kevin Bridges	Rebecca Front	Joe Lycett	24 March 2016 [43]	7–40
60	10[Note 7]	Katherine Ryan	David Mitchell	Nick Helm	31 March 2016	38–32

1. Christmas Special
2. Jimmy Carr stated that because it was the Christmas Special, the Countdown Conundrum was worth 13 points instead of 10, thus giving Sean and Johnny a shot at victory. During the round, Vegas was handed a suspicious piece of paper by Dictionary Corner, announced the answer shortly after, and secured the victory.
3. Claudia Winkleman stood in for Rachel Riley in this episode
4. Claudia Winkleman and Rob Beckett stood in for Rachel Riley in this episode
5. Kriss Akabusi and Sally Gunnell also appeared in this episode
6. Guest captain in place of Sean Lock
7. Dennis Taylor also appeared in this episode

Scores

Sean	Jon
Series wins (0 drawn)
3	7
Show wins (1 drawn)
22	37

Up to and including Series 9, Episode 10

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External links

• List of 8 Out of 10 Cats episodes at channel4.com
• List of 8 Out of 10 Cats episodes at the British Comedy Guide
• List of 8 Out of 10 Cats episodes at the Internet Movie Database
• List of 8 Out of 10 Cats episodes at TV.com