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Tim Morrissey

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Tim Morrissey was commonly regarded as being the second great 'Countdown prodigy' after Allan saldanha. Tim made his debut at the age of twelve on 24 January 1989 in the tenth heat of series 17, defeating Jean Tweddell 63-60. Tim went onto become an octochamp, despite drawing a game against Mary Hawes in the middle of his run, and returned for the final rounds as #1 seed. His total score from his eight wins was 482 points- putting him amongst the highest scoring octochamps of all time. In the final rounds, he defeated Jim Saywell 60-46 in the quarter-final, but came unstuck against Evan Simpson in the semi-final, losing 56-45. His performances and his memorable character meant that he was the ideal candidate to take on Allan Saldanha in a 14 round game celebrating Countdown's 1000th show. Tim narrowly lost 94-93 following a crucial conundrum, which, it later transpired, was mis-spelled! Six months later, Tim would once again return to the Countdown studios, this time for Championship of Champions V, for which Tim was a hot favourite. After defeating Liz Barber and Lindsay Denyer, Tim took on Gino Corr in the final, and won a tight match 78-62 to become the fifth champion of champions.

Tim would return to Countdown one final time in 1996 to participate in the supreme championship. Displaying the same impressive form that saw him win Championship of Champions V, Tim beat Nita Marr, Kevin Nelson, Tony Vick and Hilary Hopper to set up a mouth-watering semi-final clash with Allan Saldanha. unfortunately for Tim, history would repeat itself once again as Aallan ran out the 61-57 winner.

Preceded by
Nic Brown
Champion of Champions
Championship of Champions V
Followed by
Wayne Summers