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Lawrence Pearse
Lawrence Pearse Octochamp Statistics | |
Final position | Winner |
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Seeding | 2 |
Points total | 438 |
Conundrums solved | 4 |
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, and they went on to play a Masters game against each other.
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 |