Wogan

Episode 1

Series 6, Show 1

Jan 3, 1986

How long is the Christmas holiday going on for? Sated with food, fed up with old movies on the box, struggling with the hangover from New Year's Eve and Hogmanay? Then you'll know how Terry feels.

Episode 2

Series 6, Show 2

Jan 6, 1986

Guest host Ronnie Corbett. Terry leaves the show in the more than capable and perfectly proportioned hands of the smaller Ronnie while he goes on holiday.

Episode 3

Series 6, Show 3

Jan 8, 1986

Ronnie Corbett promises tall guests, small guests, tall stories and big names, with no jokes about absent Irishmen or people's height.

Episode 4

Series 6, Show 4

Jan 10, 1986

Ronnie Corbett packs his bags and prepares to join his other half tomorrow night. But not before he's packed bags full of entertainment into tonight s live show.

Episode 5

Series 6, Show 5

Jan 13, 1986

At last, the good life invades the once verdant pastures of Shepherd's Bush Green as Felicity Kendal tries on Terry's wellies for the first of three titanic struggles with the elements.

Episode 6

Series 6, Show 6

Jan 15, 1986

Felicity Kendal didn't realise that watering the plants in Terry's dressing-room could take most of the day.

Episode 7

Series 6, Show 7

Jan 17, 1986

Part three of a short series of unpredictable dramas in which our Terryfied heroine (Felicity Kendal) promises a cliff-hanger ending. Tonight's performer: Denise Pearson (as Five Star).

Episode 8

Series 6, Show 8

Jan 20, 1986

Bronzed and fit after two weeks' absence far, far away from Shepherd's Bush, Terry returns to amaze and delight you.

Episode 9

Series 6, Show 9

Jan 22, 1986

Episode 10

Series 6, Show 10

Jan 24, 1986

Episode 11

Series 6, Show 11

Jan 27, 1986

Episode 12

Series 6, Show 12

Jan 29, 1986

Episode 13

Series 6, Show 13

Jan 31, 1986

Episode 14

Series 6, Show 14

Feb 3, 1986

Welcome to the first frolic of February live from the TV Theatre.

Episode 15

Series 6, Show 15

Feb 5, 1986

Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.

Episode 16

Series 6, Show 16

Feb 7, 1986

Episode 17

Series 6, Show 17

Feb 10, 1986

Terry's little palace of varieties has acquired a more verdant backdrop as Hammersmith Council pursue a policy of greening Shepherd's Bush and expanding its attractions to a wider public: not only acres of newly-planted shrubs but W12's answer to Rotten Row - for cyclists to navigate the green and avoid the police cars and fire engines racing past the Television Theatre. Guests tonight: Sue Cook, Clement Freud, Joanna Lumley, Eli Wallach.

Episode 18

Series 6, Show 18

Feb 12, 1986

Episode 19

Series 6, Show 19

Feb 14, 1986

Outside the Television Theatre, the audience files impatiently past the red-biddy drinkers lying in the gutter, as the gardeners toil to improve the outlook on to Shepherd's Bush Green. If only the sinking sun could reveal the delicately-staked cuttings, the ivy and the evergreen shrubs added to the landscape... but inside the theatre Terry tills another furrow.

Episode 20

Series 6, Show 20

Feb 17, 1986

Terry invites you to the Terryvision Theatre, nestling amid the newly-afforested acres of the Euonymus fortunei and tropical lianas — which strangle the cyclists on their velotrucks.

Episode 21

Series 6, Show 21

Feb 19, 1986

Episode 22

Series 6, Show 22

Feb 21, 1986

Episode 23

Series 6, Show 23

Feb 24, 1986

Remember the first programme all those weeks ago? The night Terry fell over? One year on — and they said it would never last more than a month.

Episode 24

Series 6, Show 24

Feb 26, 1986

Episode 25

Series 6, Show 25

Feb 28, 1986

Guests include: Ian Charleson, Angela Fox, Edward Fox, James Fox, Robert Fox

Episode 26

Series 6, Show 26

Mar 3, 1986

Episode 27

Series 6, Show 27

Mar 5, 1986

Episode 28

Series 6, Show 28

Mar 7, 1986

Episode 29

Series 6, Show 29

Mar 10, 1986

Episode 30

Series 6, Show 30

Mar 12, 1986

Episode 31

Series 6, Show 31

Mar 14, 1986

Episode 32

Series 6, Show 32

Mar 17, 1986

Episode 33

Series 6, Show 33

Mar 19, 1986

Episode 34

Series 6, Show 34

Mar 21, 1986

Another melange and macedoine of conversation and entertainment with Terry live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.

Episode 35

Series 6, Show 35

Mar 24, 1986

Another merry madcap mazurka mellows that Monday muzziness, as Terry meanders on stage live from the Television Theatre. Plus two of the entries for A Song for Europe.

Episode 36

Series 6, Show 36

Mar 26, 1986

Last year on 9 December, Delia Smith and Terry launched Food Aid and asked viewers to send in their favourite recipes. There was an overwhelming and immediate response of over 10000, from which 150 have been selected to appear in the Food Aid Cookery Book. Tonight it's launched at a reception at the Savoy Hotel, London, and Terry and Delia are joined by the viewers and celebrities whose recipes are in the book, such as Brian Grimwood, Chloe Cheese, Debbie Cook, Alan Adler, Glynn Boyd Harte and a special appearance by Sir Bob Geldolf. Plus a chance to see two of the Britain's entries for A Song for Europe. Food Aid was the first great 'Famine Aid' project following Bob Geldolf's initial Band Aid in 1984 and Live Aid in 1985.

Episode 37

Series 6, Show 37

Mar 28, 1986

A frolicking fandango foretastes the weekend with Terry and friends live at the TV Theatre. Plus the two final entries for A Song for Europe (the Eurovision Song Contest).

Episode 38

Series 6, Show 38

Mar 31, 1986

Episode 39

Series 6, Show 39

Apr 4, 1986

Episode 40

Series 6, Show 40

Apr 7, 1986

Captain Thomas Wogan signed the death warrant for Charles I, but despite years of being a Roundhead, he turned Royalist and supported the monarchy. Unfortunately, after several months of desultory warfare in which his skill and courage gained him the highest reputation, he had the misfortune to be dangerously wounded and, no surgical assistance being within reach, his short but glorious career was terminated. Are there lessons to be learnt from the lives of these other Wogans?

Episode 41

Series 6, Show 41

Apr 9, 1986

Sir John Wogan Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, 13th-century international mediator and conciliator, lies buried in St David's Cathedral in Wales. Will the reputation and memorial of another Wogan last as long?

Episode 42

Series 6, Show 42

Apr 11, 1986

Baron de Wogan, Spahis officer, battalion chief of the Garde Mobile, an intrepid explorer, travelled extensively in 1848. In North America, he fought Indians and grizzly bears, killed coyotes with one shot and strangled rattlesnakes. The Great Chief of the Timpabaches condemned him to death. Guests tonight: Peter Batt, Bill Grant, Sue Lawley, Kenneth Williams.

Episode 43

Series 6, Show 43

Apr 14, 1986

Episode 44

Series 6, Show 44

Apr 16, 1986

Episode 45

Series 6, Show 45

Apr 18, 1986

Episode 46

Series 6, Show 46

Apr 21, 1986

With guest presenter Kenneth Williams, who will be carrying on the fine old traditions laid down by the holidaying Irishman. Guests: Janet Brown, Derek Nimmo, Elaine Paige, Norman Parkinson.

Episode 47

Series 6, Show 47

Apr 23, 1986

Kenneth Williams hosts tonight's programme. Guests: Stephen Fry, Steve Hollings, Michael Palin, Barbara Windsor, Hank B. Marvin.

Episode 48

Series 6, Show 48

Apr 25, 1986

Kenneth Williams ends a week when his most arduous task has been keeping the plants alive in Dressing Room One. Tonight's guests: Denise Coffey, Electric Light Orchestra themselves (as ELO), Fay Masterson, Nicholas Parsons, Bertice Reading.

Episode 49

Series 6, Show 49

Apr 28, 1986

Back from lying down in a darkened room for two weeks, Terry emerges blinking into the light at the Television Theatre, clutching his Norwegian phrase book.

Episode 50

Series 6, Show 50

Apr 30, 1986

Episode 51

Series 6, Show 51

May 2, 1986

The international jet setter gets ready for a foray to foreign parts, but promises to stick around long enough to do tonight's programme.

Episode 52

Series 6, Show 52

May 5, 1986

Episode 53

Series 6, Show 53

May 7, 1986

Episode 54

Series 6, Show 54

May 9, 1986

Episode 55

Series 6, Show 55

May 12, 1986

Episode 56

Series 6, Show 56

May 14, 1986

Episode 57

Series 6, Show 57

May 16, 1986

Episode 58

Series 6, Show 58

May 19, 1986

Episode 59

Series 6, Show 59

May 21, 1986

Episode 60

Series 6, Show 60

May 23, 1986

Episode 61

Series 6, Show 61

May 26, 1986

Episode 62

Series 6, Show 62

May 28, 1986

Episode 63

Series 6, Show 63

May 30, 1986

Episode 64

Series 6, Show 64

Jun 2, 1986

June 2 — Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840, The Queen was crowned in 1953. What will be happening in 1986 live at the Television Theatre with Terry and his guests?

Episode 65

Series 6, Show 65

Jun 4, 1986

The glorious 4 June when Etonians celebrate the anniversary of George Ill's birthday with cricket matches and the Parade of Boats. Join Terry for his own peculiar celebrations live at Shepherd's Bush's answer to Agar's Plough.

Episode 66

Series 6, Show 66

Jun 6, 1986

6 June — an important date for Bjorn Borg, Captain Scott and Steve Donoghue. Terry makes it memorable tonight.

Episode 67

Series 6, Show 67

Jun 9, 1986

If you can take a pebble from the hand of the ancient Wo Gan, grasshopper, he will impart some of his antique wisdom and venerable saws, or perhaps show you his ears. Tonight's guest: Bonnie Tyler

Episode 68

Series 6, Show 68

Jun 11, 1986

Episode 69

Series 6, Show 69

Jun 13, 1986

Episode 70

Series 6, Show 70

Jun 16, 1986

"The dressing room at the Television Theatre is a dreadful shade of green. The shamrock-shaped bath is very uncomfortable. The little stacks of peat and potatoes ... but a girl gets used to anything". Tonight a new view on Wogan, with Anna Ford. The guests include: Evan Hunter (as Ed McBain), Michael Korda, Kenneth Williams.

Episode 71

Series 6, Show 71

Jun 18, 1986

With Anna Ford. A new model. Adjustable seats. All-round vision. Safety belts front and rear. Independent suspension. All in all, a luxury you can't af-Ford to miss.

Episode 72

Series 6, Show 72

Jun 20, 1986

With Anna Ford. The roar of the greasepaint. The smell of the crowd... and they are a loud lot at the Television Theatre.

Episode 73

Series 6, Show 73

Jun 23, 1986

Derek Jameson presents Rod Stewart and Kiri Te Kanawa. Rod Stewart performs "Every Beat Of My Heart".

Episode 74

Series 6, Show 74

Jun 25, 1986

This is the week to watch if you're sick to death of seeing the Irishman three times a week.

Episode 75

Series 6, Show 75

Jun 27, 1986

Episode 76

Series 6, Show 76

Jun 30, 1986

Back from his holiday, it's time for Terry to pack away the bucket and spade, shake the sand out of his shoes and get down to Shepherd's Bush Green again to see the stars.

Episode 77

Series 6, Show 77

Jul 2, 1986

The tan is beginning to fade, the sangria and paella are merely memories now. All that's left is the straw donkey and the bird-of-paradise flowers wilting in the dressing room of the Television Theatre as Terry gets back into action.

Episode 78

Series 6, Show 78

Jul 4, 1986

Terry celebrates the Fourth of July in his own inimitable Irish way.

Episode 79

Series 6, Show 79

Jul 7, 1986

Terry bounds out of the shamrock-shaped Jacuzzi in his luxuriously-appointed though miniscule dressing-room, and onto the stage of the Television Theatre.

Episode 80

Series 6, Show 80

Jul 9, 1986

On tonight's programme an interview with His Royal Highness Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, who talks about his involvement in and preparations for the World Four-In-Hand Carriage Driving Championships to be held in August at Ascot.

Episode 81

Series 6, Show 81

Jul 11, 1986

Pausing only to water the exotic and tropical plants in the sweltering heat of dressing room one, Terry trips on stage with the exotic and the topical.

Episode 82

Series 6, Show 82

Jul 14, 1986

With his customary savoirfaire the chat-show host par excellence introduces a Gallic flavour to tonight's edition en plein air. The guests include: Richard Gibson, Kim Hartman, Gorden Kaye, Carmen Silvera.

Episode 83

Series 6, Show 83

Jul 16, 1986

Episode 84

Series 6, Show 84

Jul 18, 1986

Episode 85

Series 6, Show 85

Jul 21, 1986

Episode 86

Series 6, Show 86

Jul 23, 1986

Terry introduces an "Epithalamion" that Edmund Spenser wouldn't recognise, with the "nymphs of Mulla" "merry larks" and the "trembling crowd". Tonight's guest: Warren Mitchell (Alf Garnett)

Episode 87

Series 6, Show 87

Jul 25, 1986

Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels

Episode 88

Series 6, Show 88

Jul 28, 1986

Episode 89

Series 6, Show 89

Jul 30, 1986

Episode 90

Series 6, Show 90

Aug 1, 1986

Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney

Episode 91

Series 6, Show 91

Aug 4, 1986

Episode 92

Series 6, Show 92

Aug 6, 1986

Episode 93

Series 6, Show 93

Aug 8, 1986

Episode 94

Series 6, Show 94

Aug 11, 1986

Guests include: Kenneth Branagh, Fanny Cradock, Jenny Seagrove, Tina Turner

Episode 95

Series 6, Show 95

Aug 13, 1986

Episode 96

Series 6, Show 96

Aug 15, 1986

Episode 97

Series 6, Show 97

Aug 18, 1986

Episode 98

Series 6, Show 98

Aug 20, 1986

Episode 99

Series 6, Show 99

Aug 22, 1986

Episode 100

Series 6, Show 100

Aug 25, 1986

Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham

Episode 101

Series 6, Show 101

Aug 27, 1986

Episode 102

Series 6, Show 102

Aug 29, 1986

Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle

Episode 103

Series 6, Show 103

Sep 1, 1986

Tonight's guests: "Five Star"

Episode 104

Series 6, Show 104

Sep 3, 1986

Semi-finalist Terry Wogan from Limerick goes on live to meet tonight's guests, in a no-punches-pulled rapfest. Winner to be announced on Friday.

Episode 105

Series 6, Show 105

Sep 5, 1986

Dilettante and wandering baritone, Terry Wogan from Berkshire, England is the finalist in tonight's live Wogan. Prizes include a cracked mug, a stage door pass and his own chat show.

Episode 106

Series 6, Show 106

Sep 8, 1986

As the leaves on Shepherd's Bush Green turn from green to gold, will Terry change colour, faced with a new season of myths and mellow fruitiness in front of him?

Episode 107

Series 6, Show 107

Sep 10, 1986

Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.

Episode 108

Series 6, Show 108

Sep 12, 1986

Tonight Terry shows off his new 'back to school' collection of ready-to-wear satchels, pencil cases and rubbers, and doffs his mortarboard to visiting megastars.

Episode 109

Series 6, Show 109

Sep 15, 1986

As he puts on his galoshes and trudges through the puddles on Shepherd's Bush Green to the day job, Terry wonders two things: will the rain ever stop, and will there be an Indian summer? That leads to a third question: what is an Indian summer?

Episode 110

Series 6, Show 110

Sep 17, 1986

As he shakes the rain from his trusty and impermeable umbrella, Terry ponders whether he made a mistake when he trusted that bit of seaweed he found outside the theatre. When it comes to forecasting the weather it's as much use as a concrete lettuce.

Episode 111

Series 6, Show 111

Sep 19, 1986

As the rain trickles down his neck from his yellow souwester it dawns on Terry with mounting horror that he hasn't seen a patch of blue sky all week. But his little heart is cheered as he realises that inside the Television Theatre all is sunshine and stars.

Episode 112

Series 6, Show 112

Sep 22, 1986

Shakespeare once wrote "talk show, talk show, talk show, life creeps on this petty place from day to day". What he got wrong, of course, was that it runs on from Monday to Wednesday to Friday with that Shakespearian buffoon from County Limerick live at seven o'clock.

Episode 113

Series 6, Show 113

Sep 24, 1986

It was near the public conveniences in Vichy that the great Gertrude Stein said "a talk show is a talk show is a talk show", and was then pelted with garlic. An act of French enlightenment, or a display of envy that Wogan is not screened in France?

Episode 114

Series 6, Show 114

Sep 26, 1986

On meeting Terry Wogan, the great Marshall McLuhan might have said "the meaning is the talk show and the talk show is the meaning — a microcosm of the global village" and then touched our hero for a fiver. Was he right?

Episode 115

Series 6, Show 115

Sep 29, 1986

Episode 116

Series 6, Show 116

Oct 1, 1986

A piquant peroration from Terry and his guests live at the Terryvision Theatre.

Episode 117

Series 6, Show 117

Oct 3, 1986

A bounteous bonanza of bans mots and bonnes bouches live with Terry at the Television Theatre.

Episode 118

Series 6, Show 118

Oct 6, 1986

Temporary resident required for empty chair in Television Theatre. Has David Frost got the job?

Episode 119

Series 6, Show 119

Oct 8, 1986

This is the week to watch if you don't care for the eponymous hero.

Episode 120

Series 6, Show 120

Oct 10, 1986

Desirable detached residence on Shepherd's Bush Green available for careful tenant. Needs a little attention to the air conditioning, but municipal surroundings have recently been extensively renovated.

Episode 121

Series 6, Show 121

Oct 13, 1986

Esther Rantzen sits in for Terry. That's a holiday for him, but that's life for her among the usual glitterati of Shepherd's Bush Green.

Episode 122

Series 6, Show 122

Oct 15, 1986

Esther Rantzen continues her week in the hot seat and discovers that it's just as much fun interviewing people in the warmth of the Television Theatre as it is stopping them outside on the pavement.

Episode 123

Series 6, Show 123

Oct 17, 1986

Esther Rantzen continues to keep Terry's seat warm for his return on Monday by getting her teeth into the great and the good.

Episode 124

Series 6, Show 124

Oct 20, 1986

Terry's back in the spotlight tonight live at the Television Theatre. After interview, the British singer Kim Wilde performs "Keep Me Hanging On".

Episode 125

Series 6, Show 125

Oct 22, 1986

Terry told us before he went away he'd let nothing pass his lips except gruel and hard tack. Was it true? Is there less of him than there was?

Episode 126

Series 6, Show 126

Oct 24, 1986

A darkened room, a stringent diet and a few refreshing draughts of Wittgenstein and Popper have had an invigorating effect on Terry, as he returns to his little home on Shepherd's Bush Green.

Episode 127

Series 6, Show 127

Oct 27, 1986

Episode 128

Series 6, Show 128

Oct 29, 1986

Buddy Rich, the guest tonight, performs "Birdland".

Episode 129

Series 6, Show 129

Oct 31, 1986

Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV".

Episode 130

Series 6, Show 130

Nov 3, 1986

Episode 131

Series 6, Show 131

Nov 5, 1986

Episode 132

Series 6, Show 132

Nov 7, 1986

Episode 133

Series 6, Show 133

Nov 10, 1986

Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg

Episode 134

Series 6, Show 134

Nov 12, 1986

Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle

Episode 135

Series 6, Show 135

Nov 14, 1986

Episode 136

Series 6, Show 136

Nov 17, 1986

Terry kicks off a special week with more matchless guests live at the Television Theatre.

Episode 137

Series 6, Show 137

Nov 19, 1986

Halfway through the week, and Terry limbers up and gets into training for the rigours of Children in Need.

Episode 138

Series 6, Show 138

Nov 24, 1986

Who's on the show tonight with Terry? It will depend on the day's news, the events of the week and whatever else takes Terry's fancy.

Episode 139

Series 6, Show 139

Nov 26, 1986

Episode 140

Series 6, Show 140

Nov 28, 1986

Episode 141

Series 6, Show 141

Dec 1, 1986

Episode 142

Series 6, Show 142

Dec 3, 1986

Episode 143

Series 6, Show 143

Dec 5, 1986

Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch

Episode 144

Series 6, Show 144

Dec 8, 1986

Episode 145

Series 6, Show 145

Dec 10, 1986

Dr Wogan's live lesson in the philosophy of frivolity lasts for 35 minutes.

Episode 146

Series 6, Show 146

Dec 12, 1986

Terry Wogan talks to primatologist Jane Goodall and actor Adrian Edmondson, with music by Eurythmics. There is also a satellite interview with Parker from Thunderbirds.

Episode 147

Series 6, Show 147

Dec 15, 1986

When icicles hang by the wall, and Dick the shepherd can't escape the foul ways and nipped blood of life on the Green, join Terry for a little live pot keeling and merry notes at the Television Theatre.

Episode 148

Series 6, Show 148

Dec 17, 1986

When even the red biddy drinkers at the stage door are practising 'wassail wassail', can Terry imbibe the Christmas spirit live tonight from the Television Theatre?

Episode 149

Series 6, Show 149

Dec 19, 1986

Terry unwraps a few goodies from the bag of exciting television programmes lined up on BBC1 for your delectation over the Christmas holiday and talks to some of the twinkling stars who'll be haunting the festive fishtank.

Episode 150

Series 6, Show 150

Dec 22, 1986

There's just time to send a card back to the people who've sent you one, but who you have crossed off the list this year. There's just time to find the lights for the tree and discover they've fused. There's just time to strangle the carol singers who only know the first two lines of "Good King Wenceslas".

Episode 151

Series 6, Show 151

Dec 24, 1986

J.R. and Sue Ellen stop their feuding for a seasonal reconciliation on the stage of the Television Theatre. Terry welcomes Linda Gray and Larry Hagman and says: "I'm sure all they need is a good talking-to. I look forward to bringing them together for Christmas".

Episode 152

Series 6, Show 152

Dec 29, 1986

Episode 153

Series 6, Show 153 (New Years Eve Special)

Dec 31, 1986

"And so, friends, we are poised on the cusp of the new year: who knows what challenges it may hold - and who cares? It's not much fun being the only sober person in the country as the chimes ring out - but have one for me, and a Happy New Year!"