Wogan — Season 6

Aired 3 January 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 6 January 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 8 January 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 10 January 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 13 January 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 15 January 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 17 January 1986 • 35 min

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).

Aired 20 January 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 22 January 1986 • 35 min

Aired 24 January 1986 • 35 min

Aired 27 January 1986 • 35 min

Aired 29 January 1986 • 35 min

Aired 31 January 1986 • 35 min

Aired 3 February 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 5 February 1986 • 35 min

Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.

Aired 7 February 1986 • 35 min

Aired 10 February 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 12 February 1986 • 35 min

Aired 14 February 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 17 February 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 19 February 1986 • 35 min

Aired 21 February 1986 • 35 min

Aired 24 February 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 26 February 1986 • 35 min

Aired 28 February 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 3 March 1986 • 35 min

Aired 5 March 1986 • 35 min

Aired 7 March 1986 • 35 min

Aired 10 March 1986 • 35 min

Aired 12 March 1986 • 35 min

Aired 14 March 1986 • 35 min

Aired 17 March 1986 • 35 min

Aired 19 March 1986 • 35 min

Aired 21 March 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 24 March 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 26 March 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 28 March 1986 • 35 min

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).

Aired 31 March 1986 • 35 min

Aired 4 April 1986 • 35 min

Aired 7 April 1986 • 35 min

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?

Aired 9 April 1986 • 35 min

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?

Aired 11 April 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 14 April 1986 • 35 min

Aired 16 April 1986 • 35 min

Aired 18 April 1986 • 35 min

Aired 21 April 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 23 April 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 25 April 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 28 April 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 30 April 1986 • 35 min

Aired 2 May 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 5 May 1986 • 35 min

Aired 7 May 1986 • 35 min

Aired 9 May 1986 • 35 min

Aired 12 May 1986 • 35 min

Aired 14 May 1986 • 35 min

Aired 16 May 1986 • 35 min

Aired 19 May 1986 • 35 min

Aired 21 May 1986 • 35 min

Aired 23 May 1986 • 35 min

Aired 26 May 1986 • 35 min

Aired 28 May 1986 • 35 min

Aired 30 May 1986 • 35 min

Aired 2 June 1986 • 35 min

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?

Aired 4 June 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 6 June 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 9 June 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 11 June 1986 • 35 min

Aired 13 June 1986 • 35 min

Aired 16 June 1986 • 35 min

"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.

Aired 18 June 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 20 June 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 23 June 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 25 June 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 27 June 1986 • 35 min

Aired 30 June 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 2 July 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 4 July 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 7 July 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 9 July 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 11 July 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 14 July 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 16 July 1986 • 35 min

Aired 18 July 1986 • 35 min

Aired 21 July 1986 • 35 min

Aired 23 July 1986 • 35 min

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)

Aired 25 July 1986 • 35 min

Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels

Aired 28 July 1986 • 35 min

Aired 30 July 1986 • 35 min

Aired 1 August 1986 • 35 min

Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney

Aired 4 August 1986 • 35 min

Aired 6 August 1986 • 35 min

Aired 8 August 1986 • 35 min

Aired 11 August 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 13 August 1986 • 35 min

Aired 15 August 1986 • 35 min

Aired 18 August 1986 • 35 min

Aired 20 August 1986 • 35 min

Aired 22 August 1986 • 35 min

Aired 25 August 1986 • 35 min

Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham

Aired 27 August 1986 • 35 min

Aired 29 August 1986 • 35 min

Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle

Aired 1 September 1986 • 35 min

Tonight's guests: "Five Star"

Aired 3 September 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 5 September 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 8 September 1986 • 35 min

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?

Aired 10 September 1986 • 35 min

Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.

Aired 12 September 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 15 September 1986 • 35 min

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?

Aired 17 September 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 19 September 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 22 September 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 24 September 1986 • 35 min

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?

Aired 26 September 1986 • 35 min

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?

Aired 29 September 1986 • 35 min

Aired 1 October 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 3 October 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 6 October 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 8 October 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 10 October 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 13 October 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 15 October 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 17 October 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 20 October 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 22 October 1986 • 35 min

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?

Aired 24 October 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 27 October 1986 • 35 min

Aired 29 October 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 31 October 1986 • 35 min

Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV".

Aired 3 November 1986 • 35 min

Aired 5 November 1986 • 35 min

Aired 7 November 1986 • 35 min

Aired 10 November 1986 • 35 min

Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg

Aired 12 November 1986 • 35 min

Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle

Aired 14 November 1986 • 35 min

Aired 17 November 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 19 November 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 24 November 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 26 November 1986 • 35 min

Aired 28 November 1986 • 35 min

Aired 1 December 1986 • 35 min

Aired 3 December 1986 • 35 min

Aired 5 December 1986 • 35 min

Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch

Aired 8 December 1986 • 35 min

Aired 10 December 1986 • 35 min

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

Aired 12 December 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 15 December 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 17 December 1986 • 35 min

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?

Aired 19 December 1986 • 35 min

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.

Aired 22 December 1986 • 35 min

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".

Aired 24 December 1986 • 35 min

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".

Aired 29 December 1986 • 35 min

Aired 31 December 1986 • 35 min

"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!"