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Lawrence Pearse
Lawrence Pearse was the Series 17 champion.
A civil servant from Cheltenham, he made his debut on 22 February 1989, near the end of the series, where he beat Jim Saywell 53 – 34. Pearse won a further seven games to become an octochamp and #2 seed for the series behind the hotly-favoured Tim Morrissey. In the final rounds, Pearse beat Jean Tweddell and Vicki McCarthy on the way to the final against Evan Simpson. The final was a back-and-forth affair, with Simpson leading by 19 points after the first conundrum, but Pearse managed to stage a comeback, and with Simpson not scoring due to a series of messed-up numbers games and disallowed words, it was done and dusted by the conundrum — Pearse ran out the 80 – 64 winner and champion of series 17. His son Alex had also appeared in the same series.
Pearse returned for Championship of Champions V, beating Michael Wareham in the first round before losing to Gino Corr in the semi-final, a game that is most remembered for the oft-repeated out-take where both contestants declared the word WANKERS [1].
Pearse returned one final time for the Supreme Championship in 1996, but was beaten by Jackie McLeod 47 – 45 in his first game.
Preceded by Tony Vick |
Series winner Series 17 |
Followed by Rajaretnam Yogasagarar |
Episodes
# | Date | Type | Contestant 1 | Score | Contestant 2 | Presenters | Guest | Lex | Max | |||
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850 | 22/02/1989 | P | Jim Saywell | 34 – 53 | Lawrence Pearse | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Lucy Summers | Tim Rice | Catherine Clarke | 94 | |
851 | 23/02/1989 | P | Anne Ives | 40 – 51 | Lawrence Pearse | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Lucy Summers | Tim Rice | Catherine Clarke | 84 | |
852 | 24/02/1989 | P | Cathy Frank | 49 – 57 | Lawrence Pearse | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Lucy Summers | Tim Rice | Catherine Clarke | 94 | |
853 | 27/02/1989 | P | Fuad Shammas | 48 – 49 | Lawrence Pearse | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Lucy Summers | Tim Rice | Catherine Clarke | 72 | |
854 | 28/02/1989 | P | Nadine Roebuck | 36 – 48 | Lawrence Pearse | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Lucy Summers | Ned Sherrin | Georgia Hole | 73 | |
855 | 1/03/1989 | P | David Thompson | 40 – 70 | Lawrence Pearse | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Lucy Summers | Ned Sherrin | Georgia Hole | 73 | |
856 | 2/03/1989 | P | Karen Hoggarth | 23 – 58 | Lawrence Pearse | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Lucy Summers | Ned Sherrin | Georgia Hole | 71 | |
857 | 3/03/1989 | P | David Gledhill | 12 – 52 | Lawrence Pearse | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Lucy Summers | Ned Sherrin | Georgia Hole | 72 | |
862 | 10/03/1989 | QF | Lawrence Pearse | 52 – 29 | Jean Tweddell | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Lucy Summers | Simon Williams | Georgia Hole | 73 | |
866 | 16/03/1989 | SF | Vicki McCarthy | 24 – 49 | Lawrence Pearse | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Lucy Summers | Simon Williams | Georgia Hole | 71 | |
867 | 17/03/1989 | GF | Evan Simpson | 64 – 80 | Lawrence Pearse | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Lucy Summers | Ned Sherrin, Frazer Hines | Freda Thornton | 140 | |
M35 | 27/11/1989-1/12/1989 | M | Lawrence Pearse | 75 – 77 | John Clarke | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | none | Freda Thornton | 138 | ||
1070 | 2/01/1991 | CQF | Michael Wareham | 38 – 54 | Lawrence Pearse | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Gyles Brandreth | Catherine Clarke | 71 | ||
1073 | 7/01/1991 | CSF | Gino Corr | 61 – 34 | Lawrence Pearse | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Gyles Brandreth | Catherine Clarke | 72 | ||
M96 | Unreleased | M | Alex Pearse | 80 – 77 | Lawrence Pearse | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | none | Freda Thornton | ?? | ||
1876 | 7/11/1996 | dQF | Lawrence Pearse | 45 – 47 | Jackie McLeod | Richard Whiteley | Carol Vorderman | Geoffrey Durham | Susie Dent | 81 |