Any recaps from older series should be posted here. This forum is unlikely to contain spoilers, but recaps may contain "forward references" if they are written much later, so approach with caution.
So, tidy up on the wiki will be by next job, which will take me many, many hours, but will be nice to have an even more relaxing job to do.
S'pose you could add the max words for the Series 2 progs as they get added - and maybe do partial c4c recaps for - if you fancy it. I've got a few of the contestants' scores and words from the qualifiers that I've yet to add and will probably do partial recaps for in the next week or two.
That would be nice, although I know what my first task is,........... wiki cleaning.
Making sure that all the wiki pages are spick and spam is my big task.
I have the wikicaps for all from 9 feb (end of my load) to 26 Jan (without 27 jan as Mike did it. I also have 19 jan and some random incomplete ones.
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'''Episode ?''' was broadcast on 3 February 1989 as part of [[Series 17]].
[[Tim Morrissey]] played [[Elizabeth Dorey]], with Tim Morrissey winning 59 - 40. The [[Dictionary Corner]] guest was [[Freda Thornton]], and the [[lexicographer]] was [[Frazer Hines]].
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'''Episode ?''' was broadcast on 31 January 1989 as part of [[Series 17]].
[[Tim Morrissey]] played [[Dave Chapple]], with Tim Morrissey winning 77 - 56. The [[Dictionary Corner]] guest was [[Freda Thornton]], and the [[lexicographer]] was [[Sylvia Sims]].
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'''Episode ?''' was broadcast on 6 February 1989 as part of [[Series 17]].
[[Nick Camp]] played [[Evan Simpson]], with Evan Simpson winning 65 - 45. The [[Dictionary Corner]] guest was [[Freda Thornton]], and the [[lexicographer]] was [[Frazer Hines]].
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'''Episode ?''' was broadcast on 9 February 1989 as part of [[Series 17]].
[[Evan Simpson]] played [[Eileen Stokes]], with Evan Simpson winning 69 - 5. The [[Dictionary Corner]] guest was [[Della Thompson]], and the [[lexicographer]] was [[Eve Pollard]].
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[[Category:Episodes with Della Thompson as a guest]]
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'''Episode ?''' was broadcast on 8 February 1989 as part of [[Series 17]].
[[Evan Simpson]] played [[Esther Poligadoo]], with Evan Simpson winning 73 - 34. The [[Dictionary Corner]] guest was [[Freda Thornton]], and the [[lexicographer]] was [[Frazer Hines]].
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'''Episode ?''' was broadcast on 7 February 1989 as part of [[Series 17]].
[[Evan Simpson]] played [[Frank Peach]], with Evan Simpson winning 49 - 48. The [[Dictionary Corner]] guest was [[Freda Thornton]], and the [[lexicographer]] was [[Frazer Hines]].
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[[Category:15-round games]]
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[[Category:Episodes presented by Richard Whiteley]]
[[Category:Episodes with Carol Vorderman as arithmetician]]
[[Category:Episodes with Frazer Hines as lexicographer]]
[[Category:Episodes with Freda Thornton as a guest]]
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'''Episode ?''' was broadcast on 2 February 1989 as part of [[Series 17]].
[[Tim Morrissey]] played [[Jenny O'Sullivan]], with Tim Morrissey winning 70 - 45. The [[Dictionary Corner]] guest was [[Freda Thornton]], and the [[lexicographer]] was [[Frazer Hines]].
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'''Episode ?''' was broadcast on 1 February 1989 as part of [[Series 17]].
[[Tim Morrissey]] played [[Gail Cattermole]], with Tim Morrissey winning 61 - 20. The [[Dictionary Corner]] guest was [[Freda Thornton]], and the [[lexicographer]] was [[Frazer Hines]].
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[[Category:15-round games]]
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[[Category:Episodes presented by Richard Whiteley]]
[[Category:Episodes with Carol Vorderman as arithmetician]]
[[Category:Episodes with Frazer Hines as lexicographer]]
[[Category:Episodes with Freda Thornton as a guest]]
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'''Episode ?''' was broadcast on 30 January 1989 as part of [[Series 17]].
[[Tim Morrissey]] played [[Mary Hawes]], with Tim Morrissey winning 46 - 35. The [[Dictionary Corner]] guest was [[Freda Thornton]], and the [[lexicographer]] was [[Sylvia Syms]].
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[[Category:15-round games]]
[[Category:Episodes in Series 17]]
[[Category:Episodes presented by Richard Whiteley]]
[[Category:Episodes with Carol Vorderman as arithmetician]]
[[Category:Episodes with Sylvia Syms as lexicographer]]
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'''Episode ?''' was broadcast on 26 January 1989 as part of [[Series 17]].
[[Tim Morrissey]] played [[Russell Turner]], with Tim Morrissey winning 57 - 25. The [[Dictionary Corner]] guest was [[Freda Thornton]], and the [[lexicographer]] was [[Sylvia Sims]].
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[[Category:9-round games]]
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[[Category:Episodes presented by Richard Whiteley]]
[[Category:Episodes with Carol Vorderman as arithmetician]]
[[Category:Episodes with Sylvia Sims as lexicographer]]
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'''Episode ?''' was broadcast on 19 January 1989 as part of [[Series 17]].
[[David Poulter]] played [[Alison Baker]], with David Poulter winning 58 - 31. The [[Dictionary Corner]] guest was [[Georgia Hole]], and the [[lexicographer]] was [[Lance Percival]].
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[[Category:15-round games]]
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[[Category:Episodes presented by Richard Whiteley]]
[[Category:Episodes with Carol Vorderman as arithmetician]]
[[Category:Episodes with Lance Percival as lexicographer]]
[[Category:Episodes with Georgia Hole as a guest]]
And that’s the end. I’ve got some incomplete ones here:
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[[Category:Episodes with Clement Freud as lexicographer]]
[[Category:Episodes with Georgia Hole as a guest]]
Just the Rounds bit
I also have a screenshot of 18 Jan, ask if you require it.
(The internet was dying and I managed to screenshot this before it did)
EP.SThey don't have episode numbers, and say they were 15s in the category thing. Sorry!
Yahoo seem to have done something to the groups so the pages that redisplay from there in series 50/51
eg http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/gevinc ... ssage/4350 give an error that the content cannot
be shown in a frame, but gives you a link to open a new window.
Also some from 2006 at the end of S54 and the 1st of S55 (games 690-700 and 713) are now blank.
Hopefully someone can sort it, and maybe convert the yahoo ones to current format!
Are all of the historical recaps supposed to be hosted on here as well as the Countdown database, or is cdb the main hub? Only I was looking for the MUTINEER game featured on the wiki and only found a recap on cdb.
So having been sent Andy Bruno’s Series 1 episodes I suppose that’s the best way we have to go and fill in the missing information: search out former contestants and ask for them to fill in the gaps.
If you include missing ttt clues there’s 1,411 episodes with at least some information missing. So whilst everything from Series 58 onwards is complete (mainly thanks to this thread and its predecessor), if you were on before that please have a look through the Wiki and see if there’s anything you can fill in from your episode(s) - even if it’s just a Teaser clue. Most people have kept recordings of their games, I believe.
Of course, it’s only thanks to Mike and Robbo we’ve got this far. But I’m a perfectionist...