Your favorite search engine will happily supply you with a plethora of links to other articles that explain this pattern thoroughly.įor this article I’ve decided to supply a concrete implemention and to focus less on the theory behind the pattern. Having explored the demo project I thought it might be interesting to write an article about this pattern. One of the articles I encountered included a demo project that made use of the Model View Presenter (MVP) pattern. Rachel Riley continues in a similar vein.Last week I was reading some articles about using WCF, the Entity Framework and how to transport entities across the service boundary.

From Series 18, Carol took on the hostess role as well as continuing in her original role of numbers adjudicator and solver. From then on, the hostess was responsible for putting up both the letters and the numbers, as well as operating the conundrum board until it was automated at the beginning of Series 9. until part way through Series 3), the numbers were put up by Beverley Isherwood, with the letters being put up by Cathy (or Angela). *e only appeared towards the end of the series, probably from QF2 to SF2.įor the first 117 programmes (i.e. *d approximately alternated with Carol Vorderman during Series 1 & 2, in some cases possibly both appearing on the same programme credited as Dr Linda Barrett. *c approximately alternated with Linda Barrett during Series 1 & 2, in some cases possibly both appearing on the same programme credited as Carol Mather from Series 9 (1986) to C of C III Grand Final (Series 13) (1987). *b appeared for the last time on 21/11/83. *a appeared in all programmes except those featuring Angela O'Dougherty. Karen Loughlin - Series 14 (1987) to Series 16 (1988) Linda Barrett - Series 1 (1982) to Series 2 (1983) *dĪngela O'Dougherty - Series 2 (1983) *e Hostesses, Vital Statisticians and Co-Presenters Cathy Hytner - Series 1 (1982) to Series 13 (1987) *aīeverley Isherwood - Series 1 (1982) to Series 3 (1983) *bĬarol Vorderman - Series 1 (1982) to Series 17 (1989) Series 18 (1989) to Series 53 (2005) Series 56 (2005) to Series 59 (2008) *c Jeff Stelling - Series 60 (2009) to Series 65 (2011) Īs noted elsewhere, the 1997 Christmas Special was presented by William G Stewart with Susie Dent.

Main Presenters Richard Whiteley - Series 1 (1982) to Series 53 (2005) Countdown Masters (1989-91) Celebrity Countdown (1998) Countdown Specials (2003-5) ĭesmond Lynam - Series 54 (2005) to Series 55 (2006) ĭes O'Connor - Series 56 (2007) to Series 59 (2008) Some of the information for the first three series is lacking in detail if you have anything you can add to the below, please This page lists all of the presenters, hostesses and 'vital statisticians' (as they were once known) who have appeared on Countdown over the years.

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