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'''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.
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'''Celebrity Countdown'''as the title suggests, pitts celebrities against each other in a game of Countdown. The format used is a shortened version of the [[9 --[[User:Ashton|Ashton]] 20:33, 12 February 2019 (UTC)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 is broadcast on Thursday evenings.
  
 
==Episodes==
 
==Episodes==
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Series 1
 
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{{ep | C1 | 23/04/1998 | CC |[[Des Lynam]]| 32 - 17 |[[Sian Lloyd]]|[[Magnus Magnusson]]|[[Anna Eaton]]|59}}
 
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{{ep | C9| 15/02/2019 | CC |[[Shaun Wallace]]TBC-TBC|[[Carol Vorderman ]]|[[Collin Murray & Jenny Eclair ]]|[[Susie Dent]]|59}}
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Revision as of 20:33, 12 February 2019

Celebrity Countdownas the title suggests, pitts celebrities against each other in a game of Countdown. The format used is a shortened version of the [[9 --Ashton 20:33, 12 February 2019 (UTC)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 is broadcast on Thursday evenings.

Episodes

Series 1

# 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 59
C2 30/04/1998 CC Jo Brand 37 – 29 Arthur Smith Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Bamber Gascoigne Susie Dent 60
C3 7/05/1998 CC Edwina Currie 18 – 20 Charles Kennedy Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Roy Hattersley Susie Dent 62
C4 14/05/1998 CC Jilly Goolden 9 – 47 Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Patrick Lichfield Susie Dent 58
C5 28/05/1998 CC Ron Atkinson 39 – 27 Eamonn Holmes Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Andy Gray Mark Nyman 61
C6 4/06/1998 CC Jill Dando 20 – 41 Alastair Stewart Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman John Cole Mark Nyman 79
C7 11/06/1998 CC Loyd Grossman 20 – 23 David Steel Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Lucinda Lambton Mark Nyman 59
C8 18/06/1998 CC Alan Coren 35 – 29 Graeme Garden Richard Whiteley Carol Vorderman Matthew Parris Susie Dent 59

Series 2

# Date Type Contestant 1 Score Contestant 2 Presenters Guest Lex Max
C9 15/02/2019 CC Shaun WallaceTBC-TBC Carol Vorderman Collin Murray & Jenny Eclair Nick Hewer Rachel Riley Susie Dent 59