Phillip Alder

Phillip Alder was a contestant in Series 4 and Series 5. He was the editor of Bridge magazine.

Alder amassed four wins in the preliminaries, and, under the seeding rules as they were later standardised, would have qualified for the Series 5 finals as the #3 seed; however, at the time, only points that were amassed during the same series as the finalists' appearance were counted, meaning that Alder's two Series 4 wins were ignored and he did not qualify. (It is also for this reason that Clive Freedman was required to play nine preliminaries before retiring.)

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
176	14/06/1984	P	St. John Daly	26 – 46	Phillip Alder	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Cathy Hytner	Ned Sherrin	Julia Swannell	73
177	18/06/1984	P	Ian Golightly	28 – 36	Phillip Alder	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Cathy Hytner	Ned Sherrin	Julia Swannell	73
192	24/10/1984	P	Michael Smith	24 – 49	Phillip Alder	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Cathy Hytner	Nigel Rees	Yvonne Warburton	67
193	25/10/1984	P	Graham Jones	32 – 36	Phillip Alder	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Cathy Hytner	Ned Sherrin	Yvonne Warburton	68
194	26/10/1984	P	Jan Turner	39 – 37	Phillip Alder	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Cathy Hytner	Nigel Rees	Yvonne Warburton	74