History Series / OneThousandHeartbeats

!GameShowTropes in use:

* Personnel:
** TheAnnouncer: Dilly Barlow, who introduces the games and reads the questions, not unlike the robotic voice lady on ''Series/MinuteToWinIt.''
** GameShowHost: Vernon Kay.
** LovelyAssistant: The string quartet (The site [=UKGameshows=].com lists their names as Sarah Chapman, Catriona Parker, Hayley Pomfrett, and Llinos Richards). They are conducted by Paul Farrer (who composed the music ''and'' also created the show).

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!This show provides examples of:
* ChristmasEpisode: One was recorded for Series 2 in 2015, in which two celebrities (Tess Daly, Vernon's wife, and Leigh Francis as his signature character Keith Lemon) played for charity. Everyone appearing on stage wore a HomemadeSweaterFromHell.
* CreatorCameo: Not so much a cameo, since it's a really important role, but that's series creator Paul Farrer conducting the quartet; he also wrote all the music for the show.
* DownerEnding: Any time the contestant goes for the cash-out and fails. Particularly painful if the contestant keeps pulling off four correct answers in a row, then blowing the next one (the five right answers in the final game must be given consecutively).
* FlatLine: Run out of heartbeats, and you'll be able to hear a flatline under the losing noise.
* SongsInTheKeyOfPanic: Warning variant; if the quartet is playing fast, that means your heart's going fast, which in turn means the clock runs fast.

Of course, there's a twist, and that is that their time limit is set by their own heart rate. That's right, the contestant is hooked up to a heart monitor and has to complete as many games as possible ''and'' successfully cash out by correctly answering five true-or-false statements in a row within 1,000 of their own heartbeats in order to win their money. Along the way, any wrong answers carry a 25-heartbeat penalty. Also there to ramp up the tension is a live string quartet, who plays music at a tempo to match the contestant's heart rate.

* BonusRound: Of sorts. You have to play a final "cash-out" game in order to take home the money you've banked. It works like this: you have to get five consecutive correct answers to a series of true-or-false questions within your remaining heartbeats. A wrong answer resets the count ''on top of'' the normal 25-heartbeat penalty.

* ChristmasEpisode: One was recorded for Series 2 in 2015, in which two celebrities (including Vernon's wife, Tess Daly) played for charity. Everyone appearing on stage wore a HomemadeSweaterFromHell.

Of course, there's a twist, and that is that their time limit is set by their own heart rate. That's right, the contestant is hooked up to a heart monitor and has to complete as many games as possible ''and successfully cash out by correctly answering five true-or-false statements in a row'' within 1,000 of their own heartbeats in order to win their money. Along the way, any wrong answers carry a 25-heartbeat penalty. Also there to ramp up the tension is a live string quartet, who plays music at a tempo to match the contestant's heart rate.

* {{Lifelines}}: Just the one: the player can step off the pad (effectively passing on the rest of the question). Unlike most examples of this trope, this carries a penalty (50 heartbeats in Series 1, and 100 in Series 2). However, the contestant's progress carries over to the new question.

** GameShowHost: Vernon Kay

* {{Lifelines}}: Just the one: the player can step off the pad (effectively passing on the rest of the question). Unlike most examples of this trope, this carries a penalty (50 heartbeats, which is two wrong answers). However, the contestant's progress carries over to the new question.

!!!!GameShowTropes in use:

* {{Lifelines}}: Just the one: the player can step off the pad (effectively passing on the rest of the question). Unlike most examples of this trope, this carries a penalty (50 heartbeats, which is two wrong answers). But your progress carries over to the new question.

** TheAnnouncer: Dilly Barlow, who introduces the games and reads the questions (so, similar to the robotic voice lady on ''Series/MinuteToWinIt.'')

!!!!This show provides examples of:

* DownerEnding: Any time the contestant goes for the cash-out and fails. Particularly painful if the contestant keeps pulling off four correct answers in a row, then blowing the next one (remember, your five right answers in the final game have to be consecutive).

** TheAnnouncer: Dilly Barlow, who introduces the games and reads the questions (so, similar to the robotic voice lady on ''MinuteToWinIt.'')

** LovelyAssistant: The string quartet (The site UKGameshows.com lists their names as Sarah Chapman, Catriona Parker, Hayley Pomfrett, and Llinos Richards). They are conducted by Paul Farrer (who composed the music ''and'' also created the show).

** ThinkMusic: Provided by the aforementioned string quartet. The music speeds up and slows down to match the contestant's heart rate.

* LosingHorns: The time buzzer when you run out of heartbeats. It's a type A. Best way to describe it is a long "zap" sound like a machine powering down, underscored by a heart monitor {{Flatline/flatlining}}.

* LosingHorns: The time buzzer when you run out of heartbeats. It's a type A. Best way to describe it is a long "zap" sound like a machine powering down, underscored by a heart monitor {{Flatline flatlining}}.

* LosingHorns: The time buzzer when you run out of heartbeats. It's a type A. Best way to describe it is a long "zap" sound like a machine powering down, underscored by a heart monitor [[Flatline flatlining]].