Wogan
Season 6
1986153 episodes
Episode 1
Series 6, Show 1
Jan 3, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
Episode 10
Series 6, Show 10
Jan 24, 198635m
Episode 11
Series 6, Show 11
Jan 27, 198635m
Episode 12
Series 6, Show 12
Jan 29, 198635m
Episode 13
Series 6, Show 13
Jan 31, 198635m
Episode 14
Series 6, Show 14
Feb 3, 198635m
Welcome to the first frolic of February live from the TV Theatre.
Episode 15
Series 6, Show 15
Feb 5, 198635m
Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.
Episode 16
Series 6, Show 16
Feb 7, 198635m
Episode 17
Series 6, Show 17
Feb 10, 198635m
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, 198635m
Episode 19
Series 6, Show 19
Feb 14, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
Episode 22
Series 6, Show 22
Feb 21, 198635m
Episode 23
Series 6, Show 23
Feb 24, 198635m
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, 198635m
Episode 25
Series 6, Show 25
Feb 28, 198635m
Guests include: Ian Charleson, Angela Fox, Edward Fox, James Fox, Robert Fox
Episode 26
Series 6, Show 26
Mar 3, 198635m
Episode 27
Series 6, Show 27
Mar 5, 198635m
Episode 28
Series 6, Show 28
Mar 7, 198635m
Episode 29
Series 6, Show 29
Mar 10, 198635m
Episode 30
Series 6, Show 30
Mar 12, 198635m
Episode 31
Series 6, Show 31
Mar 14, 198635m
Episode 32
Series 6, Show 32
Mar 17, 198635m
Episode 33
Series 6, Show 33
Mar 19, 198635m
Episode 34
Series 6, Show 34
Mar 21, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
Episode 39
Series 6, Show 39
Apr 4, 198635m
Episode 40
Series 6, Show 40
Apr 7, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
Episode 44
Series 6, Show 44
Apr 16, 198635m
Episode 45
Series 6, Show 45
Apr 18, 198635m
Episode 46
Series 6, Show 46
Apr 21, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
Episode 51
Series 6, Show 51
May 2, 198635m
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, 198635m
Episode 53
Series 6, Show 53
May 7, 198635m
Episode 54
Series 6, Show 54
May 9, 198635m
Episode 55
Series 6, Show 55
May 12, 198635m
Episode 56
Series 6, Show 56
May 14, 198635m
Episode 57
Series 6, Show 57
May 16, 198635m
Episode 58
Series 6, Show 58
May 19, 198635m
Episode 59
Series 6, Show 59
May 21, 198635m
Episode 60
Series 6, Show 60
May 23, 198635m
Episode 61
Series 6, Show 61
May 26, 198635m
Episode 62
Series 6, Show 62
May 28, 198635m
Episode 63
Series 6, Show 63
May 30, 198635m
Episode 64
Series 6, Show 64
Jun 2, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
Episode 69
Series 6, Show 69
Jun 13, 198635m
Episode 70
Series 6, Show 70
Jun 16, 198635m
"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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
Episode 76
Series 6, Show 76
Jun 30, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
Terry celebrates the Fourth of July in his own inimitable Irish way.
Episode 79
Series 6, Show 79
Jul 7, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
Episode 84
Series 6, Show 84
Jul 18, 198635m
Episode 85
Series 6, Show 85
Jul 21, 198635m
Episode 86
Series 6, Show 86
Jul 23, 198635m
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, 198635m
Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels
Episode 88
Series 6, Show 88
Jul 28, 198635m
Episode 89
Series 6, Show 89
Jul 30, 198635m
Episode 90
Series 6, Show 90
Aug 1, 198635m
Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney
Episode 91
Series 6, Show 91
Aug 4, 198635m
Episode 92
Series 6, Show 92
Aug 6, 198635m
Episode 93
Series 6, Show 93
Aug 8, 198635m
Episode 94
Series 6, Show 94
Aug 11, 198635m
Guests include: Kenneth Branagh, Fanny Cradock, Jenny Seagrove, Tina Turner
Episode 95
Series 6, Show 95
Aug 13, 198635m
Episode 96
Series 6, Show 96
Aug 15, 198635m
Episode 97
Series 6, Show 97
Aug 18, 198635m
Episode 98
Series 6, Show 98
Aug 20, 198635m
Episode 99
Series 6, Show 99
Aug 22, 198635m
Episode 100
Series 6, Show 100
Aug 25, 198635m
Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham
Episode 101
Series 6, Show 101
Aug 27, 198635m
Episode 102
Series 6, Show 102
Aug 29, 198635m
Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle
Episode 103
Series 6, Show 103
Sep 1, 198635m
Tonight's guests: "Five Star"
Episode 104
Series 6, Show 104
Sep 3, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
Episode 108
Series 6, Show 108
Sep 12, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
Episode 116
Series 6, Show 116
Oct 1, 198635m
A piquant peroration from Terry and his guests live at the Terryvision Theatre.
Episode 117
Series 6, Show 117
Oct 3, 198635m
A bounteous bonanza of bans mots and bonnes bouches live with Terry at the Television Theatre.
Episode 118
Series 6, Show 118
Oct 6, 198635m
Temporary resident required for empty chair in Television Theatre. Has David Frost got the job?
Episode 119
Series 6, Show 119
Oct 8, 198635m
This is the week to watch if you don't care for the eponymous hero.
Episode 120
Series 6, Show 120
Oct 10, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
Episode 128
Series 6, Show 128
Oct 29, 198635m
Buddy Rich, the guest tonight, performs "Birdland".
Episode 129
Series 6, Show 129
Oct 31, 198635m
Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV".
Episode 130
Series 6, Show 130
Nov 3, 198635m
Episode 131
Series 6, Show 131
Nov 5, 198635m
Episode 132
Series 6, Show 132
Nov 7, 198635m
Episode 133
Series 6, Show 133
Nov 10, 198635m
Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg
Episode 134
Series 6, Show 134
Nov 12, 198635m
Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle
Episode 135
Series 6, Show 135
Nov 14, 198635m
Episode 136
Series 6, Show 136
Nov 17, 198635m
Terry kicks off a special week with more matchless guests live at the Television Theatre.
Episode 137
Series 6, Show 137
Nov 19, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
Episode 140
Series 6, Show 140
Nov 28, 198635m
Episode 141
Series 6, Show 141
Dec 1, 198635m
Episode 142
Series 6, Show 142
Dec 3, 198635m
Episode 143
Series 6, Show 143
Dec 5, 198635m
Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch
Episode 144
Series 6, Show 144
Dec 8, 198635m
Episode 145
Series 6, Show 145
Dec 10, 198635m
Dr Wogan's live lesson in the philosophy of frivolity lasts for 35 minutes.
Episode 146
Series 6, Show 146
Dec 12, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
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, 198635m
Episode 153
Series 6, Show 153 (New Years Eve Special)
Dec 31, 198635m
"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!"