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Revision as of 12:25, 28 July 2009

Celebrity Countdown was a short-lived series in 1998 that, as the title suggests, pitted celebrities against each other in a game of Countdown. The format used was a shortened version of then then-standard 9 round format: dropping a letters game from each half to reduce the total number of rounds to 7. Thus the format was half of the 14-round format used for grand finals in the 9-round era. This format had also been used in the special game played on Christmas Day 1997 between Richard Whiteley and Carol Vorderman; that show is often credited as part of the celebrity series. The show was broadcast on Thursday evenings, but only lasted for eight episodes.

Episodes

# Date Type Contestant 1 Score Contestant 2 Presenters Guest Lex Max
C1 23/04/1998 CC Des Lynam 32 – 17 Sian Lloyd Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Magnus Magnusson Anna Eaton
C2 30/04/1998 CC Jo Brand 37 – 29 Arthur Smith Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Bamber Gascoigne Susie Dent
C3 07/05/1998 CC Edwina Currie 18 – 20 Charles Kennedy Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Roy Hattersley Susie Dent
C4 14/05/1998 CC Jilly Goolden 9 – 47 Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Patrick Lichfield Susie Dent
C5 28/05/1998 CC Ron Atkinson 39 – 27 Eamonn Holmes Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Andy Gray Mark Nyman
C6 4/06/1998 CC Jill Dando 20 – 41 Alastair Stewart Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman John Cole Mark Nyman
C7 11/06/1998 CC Loyd Grossman 20 – 23 David Steel Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Lucinda Lambton Mark Nyman
C8 18/06/1998 CC Alan Coren 35 – 29 Graeme Garden Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Matthew Parris Susie Dent

External Links

Watch the final three rounds of the first episode on Youtube: [1]