Janet McRae

Janet McRae was the runner-up of Series 12 in 1987. She was a housewife from Goffs Oak, Hertfordshire. After winning 2 heats, she returned for the final rounds as #7 seed, beating Cathy Morgan via a very easy sudden death conundrum (RMADILLOA) in the quarter-final which gave her an opportunity for revenge against Matthew Francis in the semi-final. Matthew had ended her run in the heats by pipping her on the conundrum, and history looked to be repeating itself in the semi-final when, with Janet again leading, he buzzed in after 1 second on the conundrum LEGALTIES. However, to Janet's relief, he offered LEGALITIES which was wrong, and she ran out the winner. In the final against Stephen Balment, a mistake in the final numbers game cost her a chance at a crucial conundrum, and she lost 81 – 66. Janet did not play in Championship of Champions III, but did play in the Supreme Championship, losing in the first round to Damian Eadie.

Preceded by David Reid

Series runner-up Series 12

Followed by Kevin Nelson

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
571	19/05/1987	P	Janet McRae	64 – 39	Geoffrey Reynolds	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Cathy Hytner	Lance Percival	Freda Thornton
572	20/05/1987	P	Janet McRae	34 – 25	Tony Donovan	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Cathy Hytner	Lance Percival	Freda Thornton
573	21/05/1987	P	Janet McRae	51 – 57	Matthew Francis	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Cathy Hytner	Humphrey Lyttelton	Freda Thornton
589	12/06/1987	QF	Cathy Morgan	57 – 67*	Janet McRae	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Cathy Hytner	Steve Jones	Julia Swannel
593	18/06/1987	SF	Matthew Francis	47 – 55	Janet McRae	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Cathy Hytner	Patrick Mower	Julia Swannel
594	19/06/1987	GF	Stephen Balment	81 – 66	Janet McRae	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Cathy Hytner	Diane Solomon, Patrick Mower	Julia Swannel
M38	18/12/89–22/12/89	Masters 1	Janet McRae	84 – 61	Robert Violett	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman					N/A	Freda Thornton
1889	26/11/1996	fQF	Janet McRae	38 – 62	Damian Eadie	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Tom O'Connor	Catherine Stokes

* includes 10 points from a tie-break conundrum