Dennis Fearon

Dennis Fearon was the runner-up of Series 32. He was a 28-year-old mature student from Nottingham, reading Law at Nottingham University.

He won the final four heats of the series to return for the final rounds as #5 seed, and beat Graeme Sugarman and Satbir Gupta in the quarter- and semi-finals respectively, both by way of a sudden-death conundrum and both with a 63 – 53 scoreline. In the final against Alan Sinclair, it went down to a crucial conundrum with Fearon leading by 5 points. LOSTAGAIN was revealed on the conundrum board, and Fearon buzzed on 3 seconds to say NOSTALGIC. However, this was incorrect, and as soon as the clock was restarted Sinclair buzzed with the correct answer, NOSTALGIA, meaning Fearon suffered his first-ever defeat on the show.

Fearon returned the following week for Championship of Champions VIII, but was comprehensively beaten in the first round by David Acton.

Preceded by Kenneth Michie

Series runner-up Series 32

Followed by Allan Saldanha

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
1837	13/09/1996	P	Mark Tripp	32 – 56	Dennis Fearon	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	David Jacobs	Catherine Stokes	71
1838	16/09/1996	P	Joan Boardman	30 – 58	Dennis Fearon	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Philip Franks	Susie Dent	75
1839	17/09/1996	P	Les Rendell	35 – 52	Dennis Fearon	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Philip Franks	Susie Dent	79
1840	18/09/1996	P	Lou Brundell	46 – 59	Dennis Fearon	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Philip Franks	Susie Dent	76
1844	24/09/1996	QF	Graeme Sugarman	53 – 63*	Dennis Fearon	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Philip Franks	Susie Dent	70
1845	25/09/1996	SF	Satbir Gupta	53 – 63*	Dennis Fearon	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Philip Franks	Susie Dent	73
1847	27/09/1996	GF	Alan Sinclair	78 – 73	Dennis Fearon	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Philip Franks	Susie Dent	117
1849	1/10/1996	CQF	David Acton	61 – 13	Dennis Fearon	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Jan Harvey	Susie Dent	81

* includes 10 points from a tie-break conundrum