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Dag Griffiths
Dag Griffiths was the runner-up of Series 35. A 55-year old retired school teacher originally from Cheshire, his unusual name came from his initials – David Arthur Griffiths. Dag beat five-time winner Stuart Barker in his first appearance, and racked up a further seven wins to become an octochamp and #1 seed for the final stages without facing a crucial conundrum in any of his eight games. He beat Sue Henning in the quarter-final in a low-scoring game in which he faced his first crcual conundrum, emerging triumphant after neither player was able to spot the Conundrum, and then came from behind on the Conundrum to defeat Amy Godel in the semi-final, but lost the final to Pete Cashmore after Pete unscrambled the crucial conundrum. Dag returned for Championship of Champions IX, but was beaten in the first round by Bhavin Manek.
Dag would return to the Countdown studios one more time to record a special game, facing Pete Cashmore once again in a rematch of their grand-final, where this time he came away victorious.
Dag has also been a series champion on Countdown's former sister show Fifteen-to-One (Series 29 – 2000) and has come closer than anyone else to "doing the double" of winning both.
Preceded by Harshan Lamabadusuriya |
Series runner-up Series 35 |
Followed by Maria Boyes |
Episodes
# | Date | Type | Contestant 1 | Score | Contestant 2 | Presenters | Guest | Lex | Max | |||
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1996 | 1/05/1997 | P | Stuart Barker | 32 – 45 | Dag Griffiths | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Angela Rippon | Susie Dent | |||
1997 | 2/05/1997 | P | Dag Griffiths | 56 – 26 | Olive Checkley | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Angela Rippon | Susie Dent | |||
1998 | 5/05/1997 | P | Dag Griffiths | 66 – 29 | Devansh Trehan | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Angela Rippon | Susie Dent | |||
1999 | 6/05/1997 | P | Dag Griffiths | 43 – 17 | Steve Dalton | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Angela Rippon | Susie Dent | |||
2000 | 7/05/1997 | P | Dag Griffiths | 48 – 23 | Jo Lockett | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Angela Rippon | Susie Dent | |||
2001 | 8/05/1997 | P | Dag Griffiths | 65 – 15 | Bob Dunmall | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Terry Wogan | Susie Dent | |||
2002 | 9/05/1997 | P | Dag Griffiths | 60 – 21 | Gordon Smith | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Terry Wogan | Susie Dent | |||
2003 | 12/05/1997 | P | Dag Griffiths | 70 – 35 | Alison Whitley | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Terry Wogan | Susie Dent | |||
2031 | 19/06/1997 | QF | Dag Griffiths | 32 – 25 | Sue Henning | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Nigel Rees | Rob Scriven | |||
2035 | 25/06/1997 | SF | Dag Griffiths | 48 – 41 | Amy Godel | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Ken Bruce | Catherine Stokes | |||
2037 | 27/06/1997 | GF | Dag Griffiths | 88 – 95 | Pete Cashmore | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Ken Bruce, Terry Wogan | Catherine Stokes | |||
2170 | 7/01/1998 | CP | Dag Griffiths | 44 – 67 | Bhavin Manek | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Gloria Hunniford | Mark Nyman | |||
S15 | 14/06/2004 | S | Pete Cashmore | 66 – 107 | Dag Griffiths | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Geoffrey Durham | Susie Dent |