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Calendar Countdown
Calendar Countdown was the first British adaptation of the Des chiffres et des lettres format, and the forerunner of Countdown itself.
The series was broadcast only in the Yorkshire TV region, on Monday evenings at 6.30pm (immediately following the region's news programme, Calendar) for eight weeks, from April 19 to June 7, 1982. The host was Richard Whiteley, the hostesses were Cathy Hytner and Robena Sharp, and the numbers girl was Denise McFarland-Cruikshanks. Each episode was self-contained and there was no overall series champion.
Richard Whiteley and Cathy Hytner (along with producer John Meade and most of the backstage staff) remained with the show when it was subsequently commissioned for Channel 4 under the shortened title of Countdown.
