Countdown has ended

What I thought was just the usual showbiz nip into hospital for a quick byepass op (or soemthing like that), but no, it seems this was a little more serious, and Richard Whiteley popped his clogs. Countdown was the staple of my youth - the program that made you think after you had just got in from school, made you shout at the TV, and that your Dad was as addicted to as you were. And without the annoying sniggers when someone asked for "a p please, Bob".


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