Dag Griffiths

Dag Griffiths during his first game

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
1996	1/05/1997	P	Stuart Barker	32 – 45	Dag Griffiths	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Angela Rippon	Susie Dent
1997	2/05/1997	P	Olive Checkley	26 – 56	Dag Griffiths	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Angela Rippon	Susie Dent
1998	5/05/1997	P	Devansh Trehan	29 – 66	Dag Griffiths	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Angela Rippon	Susie Dent
1999	6/05/1997	P	Steve Dalton	17 – 43	Dag Griffiths	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Angela Rippon	Susie Dent
2000	7/05/1997	P	Jo Lockett	23 – 48	Dag Griffiths	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Angela Rippon	Susie Dent
2001	8/05/1997	P	Bob Dunmall	15 – 65	Dag Griffiths	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Terry Wogan	Susie Dent
2002	9/05/1997	P	Gordon Smith	21 – 60	Dag Griffiths	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Terry Wogan	Susie Dent
2003	12/05/1997	P	Alison Whitley	35 – 70	Dag Griffiths	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Terry Wogan	Susie Dent
2031	19/06/1997	QF	Dag Griffiths	32 – 25	Sue Henning	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Nigel Rees	Rob Scriven
2035	25/06/1997	SF	Dag Griffiths	48 – 41	Amy Godel	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Ken Bruce	Catherine Stokes
2037	27/06/1997	GF	Dag Griffiths	88 – 95	Peter Cashmore	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Ken Bruce, Terry Wogan	Catherine Stokes
2170	7/01/1998	CP	Dag Griffiths	44 – 67	Bhavin Manek	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Gloria Hunniford	Mark Nyman
S15	14/06/2004	S	Pete Cashmore	66 – 107	Dag Griffiths	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman					Geoffrey Durham	Susie Dent