Armand Jammot (4 April 1922 – 19 April 1998) was a French

television producer A television producer is a person who oversees one or more aspects of video production on a television program. Some producers take more of an executive role, in that they conceive new programs and pitch them to the television networks, but upon ...

. He produced a number of shows, most notably ''Les Dossiers de l'Écran'', and in 1965, he created '' Des chiffres et des lettres''. In 1982, Yorkshire Television was given permission to produce ''

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'', a British version of ''Des chiffres et des lettres''. This show continues to the present day.

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