| Rank | Names | Score% | |
| 1 | Brenda Vitty & Eileen Tonroe | 66.12 | Q |
| 2 | Malcolm Harris & Maria Budd | 62.31 | Q |
| 3 | Tom Gisborne & Sandy Davies | 61.83 | Q |
| 4 | Nigel Guthrie & John Dakin | 61.74 | Q |
| 5 | Shelagh Flett & Pauline Cooper | 61.72 | Q |
| 6 | Irving Gordon & William Whyte | 61.41 | Q |
| 7 | Andrew Willard & Joy Mayall | 60.7 | Q |
| 8 | Roy Garthwaite & Heather Hobson | 59.95 | Q |
| 9 | Charles Chisnall & John Short | 59.92 | Q |
| 10 | David Dickson & Mike Hill | 59.69 | Q |
| 11 | John Sansom & Pam Pearce | 59.39 | Q |
| 12 | David Jones & Mike Butler | 59.12 | Q |
| 13 | Winnie Godber & Edward Richart | 57.94 | Q |
| 14 | Dan Crofts & David Stevenson | 57.42 | Q |
| 15 | Jim Bochsler & Peter Baxter | 57.38 | Q |
| 16 | Patrick Collins & Andrew Petrie | 57.36 | Q |
| 17 | Bernard Goldenfiel & Rhona Goldenfield | 57.35 | Q |
| 18 | Mark Westley & Sheila Evans | 57.13 | Q |
| 19 | Malcolm Lewis & Tony Saunders | 56.91 | Q |
| 20 | Irene Fine & Janet Cohen | 56.88 | Q |
| 21 | David Sellman & Steve Eginton | 56.79 | Q |
| 22 | Mike Ash & Liz McGowan | 56.69 | Q |
| 23 | Dick Andrews & Gaynor Wiseman | 55.87 | Q |
| 24 | Ann Sharples & Robert Mott | 55.84 | Q |
| 25 | Andrew Moore & Jane Moore | 55.68 | Q |
| 26 | Roger Edmonds & David Stimson | 54.83 | Q |
| 27 | Beth Wennell & Barry Wennell | 54.73 | Q |
| 28 | Bill Hirst & Patrick Jourdain | 54.32 | Q |
| 29 | Victor Silverstone & Bernard Teltscher | 54.2 | Q |
| 30 | Ronald Sitch & Terence Treeby | 53.91 | Q |
| 31 | Paul Hackett & Roger O'Shea | 53.79 | Q |
| 32 | Jim Luck & Kath Nelson | 53.46 | Q |
| 33 | Mike Huggins & Irene Robinson | 52.74 | Q |
| 34 | Alex Harding & Rick Stevens | 52.33 | Q |
| 35 | John Brearley & Judy Brearley | 52.3 | Q |
| 36 | Erika Slatcher & John Holland | 52.02 | Q |
| 37 | Greta Chai & Ting To | 51.92 | Q |
| 38 | Nanette Gillespie & Alan Gillespie | 51.84 | Q |
| 39 | Jean Squires & Neville Shorrick | 51.66 | Q |
| 40 | John Thrower & Chris Jones | 51.56 | Q |
| 41 | John Williams & Shefton Kaplan | 51.3 | Q |
| 42 | Margaret Collins & Ronald James | 50.77 | Q |
| 43 | John Herbert & Dawn Herbert | 50.76 | Q |
| 44 | David Wing & Roland Gronau | 50.7 | Q |
| 45 | Linda Radford & Bob Shilling | 50.49 | Q |
| 46 | Ivan Bruce & Helen McEwing | 50.42 | Q |
| 47 | Agnes Baxter & Dodo Georgevic | 50.11 | Q |
| 48 | Christine Tomkin & Neil Tomkin | 50.03 | Q |
| 49 | Asim Chughtai & Gopal Srinivas | 49.75 | Q |
| 50 | David Jensen & Jane Jensen | 49.63 | Q |
| 51 | Roger Poulter & Pyers Pennant | 49.5 | Q |
| 52 | Christina Backhole & Shirley Eade | 49.26 | Q |
| 53 | Tony Turnage & Christine Dyer | 49.17 | Q |
| 54 | Mike Seaver & Eric Campbell | 48.79 | Q |
| 55 | Eve Snowden-Trigg & Eileen Perrigo | 48.51 | Q |
| 56 | Tilly Hennings & Fran Thornton | 48.51 | Q |
| 57 | Chris Clements & Susan Gregory | 47.98 | |
| 58 | Carol Wadsworth & Sandra Millikin | 47.69 | |
| 59 | Roy Dempster & Lyn Dempster | 47.62 | |
| 60 | John Gardner & Colin Webb | 47.39 | |
| 61 | Chris Frost & Peter Lowndes | 47.29 | |
| 62 | Peter Hand & Jean Hand | 47.24 | |
| 63 | Marian Wilcox & Sue Lane | 47.1 | |
| 64 | Jimmy Ledger & Maureen Hannah | 47.08 | |
| 65 | Roger Andrews & Jenny Gray | 46.99 | |
| 66 | Derek Harrison & Richard Cross | 46.68 | |
| 67 | Anne Read & Bert Mitchell | 46.67 | |
| 68 | David Solomons & Richard Spencer | 46.18 | |
| 69 | Angela McCready & John Samuels | 45.16 | |
| 70 | Peter Langston & Ian Macgregor | 44.83 | |
| 71 | Betty Attwood & Donald Attwood | 44.77 | |
| 72 | Sheila Price & Carole Tuininga | 44.63 | |
| 73 | Arthur Hughes & David Musson | 44.55 | |
| 74 | Valerie Benson & Muriel Bailey | 44.33 | |
| 75 | Gerry Stanford & Dave Franklin | 44.14 | |
| 76 | Geoff Daulby & Chris Elliott | 43.85 | |
| 77 | Cynthia Murday & Joyce Thirkell | 43.83 | |
| 78 | Bill Irvine & Janet Irvine | 43.75 | |
| 79 | Peter Collins & Dilys Jones | 43.72 | |
| 80 | Gloria Lankshear & John Lankshear | 43.63 | |
| 81 | Zizi Covrigaru & Liz Stevenson | 43.24 | |
| 82 | Eliza Wyatt & Elsa Nelson | 42.57 | |
| 83 | John Beamish & Diana Beamish | 42.47 | |
| 84 | Gina Dunn & Hazel Keith | 41.43 | |
| 85 | Amanda Bolton & Shirley Moore | 41.1 | |
| 86 | Bob Whiting & David Gilbert | 40.73 | |
| 87 | Jenny Gaunt & Lawrence Gaunt | 40.51 | |
| 88 | Adrian Knight & Prue Knight | 40.05 | |
| 89 | Stuart Marks & Rozanne Mendick | 39.94 | |
| 90 | Jan Bailey & Josie Noble | 38.18 | |
| 91 | Shirley Sturgess & Bob Muddimer | 37.44 | |
| 92 | Penny Phipps & Mary Briant | 35.22 | |
| 93 | Christopher Whelan & Jane Whelan | 34.53 | |
| 94 | Aline Sandberg & Jean Hicks | 33.26 | |
| 95 | Maggie Conway & Alison Turrell | 33.21 |