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Wogan (1982 – 1992)

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Wogan — Season 6

153 episodes · Jan 3, 1986

1. Series 6, Show 1
Jan 3, 1986 · 35m

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.

2. Series 6, Show 2
Jan 6, 1986 · 35m

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.

3. Series 6, Show 3
Jan 8, 1986 · 35m

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

4. Series 6, Show 4
Jan 10, 1986 · 35m

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.

5. Series 6, Show 5
Jan 13, 1986 · 35m

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.

6. Series 6, Show 6
Jan 15, 1986 · 35m

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

7. Series 6, Show 7
Jan 17, 1986 · 35m

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).

8. Series 6, Show 8
Jan 20, 1986 · 35m

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

9. Series 6, Show 9
Jan 22, 1986 · 35m
10. Series 6, Show 10
Jan 24, 1986 · 35m
11. Series 6, Show 11
Jan 27, 1986 · 35m
12. Series 6, Show 12
Jan 29, 1986 · 35m
13. Series 6, Show 13
Jan 31, 1986 · 35m
14. Series 6, Show 14
Feb 3, 1986 · 35m

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

15. Series 6, Show 15
Feb 5, 1986 · 35m

Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.

16. Series 6, Show 16
Feb 7, 1986 · 35m
17. Series 6, Show 17
Feb 10, 1986 · 35m

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 ans…

18. Series 6, Show 18
Feb 12, 1986 · 35m
19. Series 6, Show 19
Feb 14, 1986 · 35m

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-st…

20. Series 6, Show 20
Feb 17, 1986 · 35m

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.

21. Series 6, Show 21
Feb 19, 1986 · 35m
22. Series 6, Show 22
Feb 21, 1986 · 35m
23. Series 6, Show 23
Feb 24, 1986 · 35m

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.

24. Series 6, Show 24
Feb 26, 1986 · 35m
25. Series 6, Show 25
Feb 28, 1986 · 35m

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

26. Series 6, Show 26
Mar 3, 1986 · 35m
27. Series 6, Show 27
Mar 5, 1986 · 35m
28. Series 6, Show 28
Mar 7, 1986 · 35m
29. Series 6, Show 29
Mar 10, 1986 · 35m
30. Series 6, Show 30
Mar 12, 1986 · 35m
31. Series 6, Show 31
Mar 14, 1986 · 35m
32. Series 6, Show 32
Mar 17, 1986 · 35m
33. Series 6, Show 33
Mar 19, 1986 · 35m
34. Series 6, Show 34
Mar 21, 1986 · 35m

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.

35. Series 6, Show 35
Mar 24, 1986 · 35m

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.

36. Series 6, Show 36
Mar 26, 1986 · 35m

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 A…

37. Series 6, Show 37
Mar 28, 1986 · 35m

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).

38. Series 6, Show 38
Mar 31, 1986 · 35m
39. Series 6, Show 39
Apr 4, 1986 · 35m
40. Series 6, Show 40
Apr 7, 1986 · 35m

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 gain…

41. Series 6, Show 41
Apr 9, 1986 · 35m

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?

42. Series 6, Show 42
Apr 11, 1986 · 35m

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 Gr…

43. Series 6, Show 43
Apr 14, 1986 · 35m
44. Series 6, Show 44
Apr 16, 1986 · 35m
45. Series 6, Show 45
Apr 18, 1986 · 35m
46. Series 6, Show 46
Apr 21, 1986 · 35m

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.

47. Series 6, Show 47
Apr 23, 1986 · 35m

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

48. Series 6, Show 48
Apr 25, 1986 · 35m

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.

49. Series 6, Show 49
Apr 28, 1986 · 35m

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.

50. Series 6, Show 50
Apr 30, 1986 · 35m
51. Series 6, Show 51
May 2, 1986 · 35m

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

52. Series 6, Show 52
May 5, 1986 · 35m
53. Series 6, Show 53
May 7, 1986 · 35m
54. Series 6, Show 54
May 9, 1986 · 35m
55. Series 6, Show 55
May 12, 1986 · 35m
56. Series 6, Show 56
May 14, 1986 · 35m
57. Series 6, Show 57
May 16, 1986 · 35m
58. Series 6, Show 58
May 19, 1986 · 35m
59. Series 6, Show 59
May 21, 1986 · 35m
60. Series 6, Show 60
May 23, 1986 · 35m
61. Series 6, Show 61
May 26, 1986 · 35m
62. Series 6, Show 62
May 28, 1986 · 35m
63. Series 6, Show 63
May 30, 1986 · 35m
64. Series 6, Show 64
Jun 2, 1986 · 35m

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?

65. Series 6, Show 65
Jun 4, 1986 · 35m

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.

66. Series 6, Show 66
Jun 6, 1986 · 35m

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

67. Series 6, Show 67
Jun 9, 1986 · 35m

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

68. Series 6, Show 68
Jun 11, 1986 · 35m
69. Series 6, Show 69
Jun 13, 1986 · 35m
70. Series 6, Show 70
Jun 16, 1986 · 35m

"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 …

71. Series 6, Show 71
Jun 18, 1986 · 35m

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.

72. Series 6, Show 72
Jun 20, 1986 · 35m

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

73. Series 6, Show 73
Jun 23, 1986 · 35m

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

74. Series 6, Show 74
Jun 25, 1986 · 35m

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

75. Series 6, Show 75
Jun 27, 1986 · 35m
76. Series 6, Show 76
Jun 30, 1986 · 35m

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.

77. Series 6, Show 77
Jul 2, 1986 · 35m

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.

78. Series 6, Show 78
Jul 4, 1986 · 35m

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

79. Series 6, Show 79
Jul 7, 1986 · 35m

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

80. Series 6, Show 80
Jul 9, 1986 · 35m

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.

81. Series 6, Show 81
Jul 11, 1986 · 35m

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.

82. Series 6, Show 82
Jul 14, 1986 · 35m

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.

83. Series 6, Show 83
Jul 16, 1986 · 35m
84. Series 6, Show 84
Jul 18, 1986 · 35m
85. Series 6, Show 85
Jul 21, 1986 · 35m
86. Series 6, Show 86
Jul 23, 1986 · 35m

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)

87. Series 6, Show 87
Jul 25, 1986 · 35m

Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels

88. Series 6, Show 88
Jul 28, 1986 · 35m
89. Series 6, Show 89
Jul 30, 1986 · 35m
90. Series 6, Show 90
Aug 1, 1986 · 35m

Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney

91. Series 6, Show 91
Aug 4, 1986 · 35m
92. Series 6, Show 92
Aug 6, 1986 · 35m
93. Series 6, Show 93
Aug 8, 1986 · 35m
94. Series 6, Show 94
Aug 11, 1986 · 35m

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

95. Series 6, Show 95
Aug 13, 1986 · 35m
96. Series 6, Show 96
Aug 15, 1986 · 35m
97. Series 6, Show 97
Aug 18, 1986 · 35m
98. Series 6, Show 98
Aug 20, 1986 · 35m
99. Series 6, Show 99
Aug 22, 1986 · 35m
100. Series 6, Show 100
Aug 25, 1986 · 35m

Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham

101. Series 6, Show 101
Aug 27, 1986 · 35m
102. Series 6, Show 102
Aug 29, 1986 · 35m

Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle

103. Series 6, Show 103
Sep 1, 1986 · 35m

Tonight's guests: "Five Star"

104. Series 6, Show 104
Sep 3, 1986 · 35m

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.

105. Series 6, Show 105
Sep 5, 1986 · 35m

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.

106. Series 6, Show 106
Sep 8, 1986 · 35m

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?

107. Series 6, Show 107
Sep 10, 1986 · 35m

Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.

108. Series 6, Show 108
Sep 12, 1986 · 35m

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.

109. Series 6, Show 109
Sep 15, 1986 · 35m

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 sum…

110. Series 6, Show 110
Sep 17, 1986 · 35m

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 concret…

111. Series 6, Show 111
Sep 19, 1986 · 35m

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 s…

112. Series 6, Show 112
Sep 22, 1986 · 35m

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 Lime…

113. Series 6, Show 113
Sep 24, 1986 · 35m

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…

114. Series 6, Show 114
Sep 26, 1986 · 35m

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?

115. Series 6, Show 115
Sep 29, 1986 · 35m
116. Series 6, Show 116
Oct 1, 1986 · 35m

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

117. Series 6, Show 117
Oct 3, 1986 · 35m

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

118. Series 6, Show 118
Oct 6, 1986 · 35m

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

119. Series 6, Show 119
Oct 8, 1986 · 35m

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

120. Series 6, Show 120
Oct 10, 1986 · 35m

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.

121. Series 6, Show 121
Oct 13, 1986 · 35m

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.

122. Series 6, Show 122
Oct 15, 1986 · 35m

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.

123. Series 6, Show 123
Oct 17, 1986 · 35m

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

124. Series 6, Show 124
Oct 20, 1986 · 35m

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

125. Series 6, Show 125
Oct 22, 1986 · 35m

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?

126. Series 6, Show 126
Oct 24, 1986 · 35m

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.

127. Series 6, Show 127
Oct 27, 1986 · 35m
128. Series 6, Show 128
Oct 29, 1986 · 35m

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

129. Series 6, Show 129
Oct 31, 1986 · 35m

Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV".

130. Series 6, Show 130
Nov 3, 1986 · 35m
131. Series 6, Show 131
Nov 5, 1986 · 35m
132. Series 6, Show 132
Nov 7, 1986 · 35m
133. Series 6, Show 133
Nov 10, 1986 · 35m

Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg

134. Series 6, Show 134
Nov 12, 1986 · 35m

Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle

135. Series 6, Show 135
Nov 14, 1986 · 35m
136. Series 6, Show 136
Nov 17, 1986 · 35m

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

137. Series 6, Show 137
Nov 19, 1986 · 35m

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

138. Series 6, Show 138
Nov 24, 1986 · 35m

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.

139. Series 6, Show 139
Nov 26, 1986 · 35m
140. Series 6, Show 140
Nov 28, 1986 · 35m
141. Series 6, Show 141
Dec 1, 1986 · 35m
142. Series 6, Show 142
Dec 3, 1986 · 35m
143. Series 6, Show 143
Dec 5, 1986 · 35m

Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch

144. Series 6, Show 144
Dec 8, 1986 · 35m
145. Series 6, Show 145
Dec 10, 1986 · 35m

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

146. Series 6, Show 146
Dec 12, 1986 · 35m

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.

147. Series 6, Show 147
Dec 15, 1986 · 35m

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.

148. Series 6, Show 148
Dec 17, 1986 · 35m

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?

149. Series 6, Show 149
Dec 19, 1986 · 35m

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.

150. Series 6, Show 150
Dec 22, 1986 · 35m

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…

151. Series 6, Show 151
Dec 24, 1986 · 35m

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 …

152. Series 6, Show 152
Dec 29, 1986 · 35m
153. Series 6, Show 153 (New Years Eve Special)
Dec 31, 1986 · 35m

"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 Y…