Episodes
Series 6, Show 1
January 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.
Series 6, Show 2
January 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.
Series 6, Show 3
January 8, 1986
Ronnie Corbett promises tall guests, small guests, tall stories and big names, with no jokes about absent Irishmen or people's height.
Series 6, Show 4
January 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.
Series 6, Show 5
January 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.
Series 6, Show 6
January 15, 1986
Felicity Kendal didn't realise that watering the plants in Terry's dressing-room could take most of the day.
Series 6, Show 7
January 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).
Series 6, Show 8
January 20, 1986
Bronzed and fit after two weeks' absence far, far away from Shepherd's Bush, Terry returns to amaze and delight you.
Series 6, Show 9
January 22, 1986
Series 6, Show 10
January 24, 1986
Series 6, Show 11
January 27, 1986
Series 6, Show 12
January 29, 1986
Series 6, Show 13
January 31, 1986
Series 6, Show 14
February 3, 1986
Welcome to the first frolic of February live from the TV Theatre.
Series 6, Show 15
February 5, 1986
Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.
Series 6, Show 16
February 7, 1986
Series 6, Show 17
February 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.
Series 6, Show 18
February 12, 1986
Series 6, Show 19
February 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.
Series 6, Show 20
February 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.
Series 6, Show 21
February 19, 1986
Series 6, Show 22
February 21, 1986
Series 6, Show 23
February 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.
Series 6, Show 24
February 26, 1986
Series 6, Show 25
February 28, 1986
Guests include: Ian Charleson, Angela Fox, Edward Fox, James Fox, Robert Fox
Series 6, Show 26
March 3, 1986
Series 6, Show 27
March 5, 1986
Series 6, Show 28
March 7, 1986
Series 6, Show 29
March 10, 1986
Series 6, Show 30
March 12, 1986
Series 6, Show 31
March 14, 1986
Series 6, Show 32
March 17, 1986
Series 6, Show 33
March 19, 1986
Series 6, Show 34
March 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.
Series 6, Show 35
March 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.
Series 6, Show 36
March 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.
Series 6, Show 37
March 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).
Series 6, Show 38
March 31, 1986
Series 6, Show 39
April 4, 1986
Series 6, Show 40
April 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?
Series 6, Show 41
April 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?
Series 6, Show 42
April 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.
Series 6, Show 43
April 14, 1986
Series 6, Show 44
April 16, 1986
Series 6, Show 45
April 18, 1986
Series 6, Show 46
April 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.
Series 6, Show 47
April 23, 1986
Kenneth Williams hosts tonight's programme. Guests: Stephen Fry, Steve Hollings, Michael Palin, Barbara Windsor, Hank B. Marvin.
Series 6, Show 48
April 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.
Series 6, Show 49
April 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.
Series 6, Show 50
April 30, 1986
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.
Series 6, Show 52
May 5, 1986
Series 6, Show 53
May 7, 1986
Series 6, Show 54
May 9, 1986
Series 6, Show 55
May 12, 1986
Series 6, Show 56
May 14, 1986
Series 6, Show 57
May 16, 1986
Series 6, Show 58
May 19, 1986
Series 6, Show 59
May 21, 1986
Series 6, Show 60
May 23, 1986
Series 6, Show 61
May 26, 1986
Series 6, Show 62
May 28, 1986
Series 6, Show 63
May 30, 1986
Series 6, Show 64
June 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?
Series 6, Show 65
June 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.
Series 6, Show 66
June 6, 1986
6 June — an important date for Bjorn Borg, Captain Scott and Steve Donoghue. Terry makes it memorable tonight.
Series 6, Show 67
June 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
Series 6, Show 68
June 11, 1986
Series 6, Show 69
June 13, 1986
Series 6, Show 70
June 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.
Series 6, Show 71
June 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.
Series 6, Show 72
June 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.
Series 6, Show 73
June 23, 1986
Derek Jameson presents Rod Stewart and Kiri Te Kanawa. Rod Stewart performs "Every Beat Of My Heart".
Series 6, Show 74
June 25, 1986
This is the week to watch if you're sick to death of seeing the Irishman three times a week.
Series 6, Show 75
June 27, 1986
Series 6, Show 76
June 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.
Series 6, Show 77
July 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.
Series 6, Show 78
July 4, 1986
Terry celebrates the Fourth of July in his own inimitable Irish way.
Series 6, Show 79
July 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.
Series 6, Show 80
July 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.
Series 6, Show 81
July 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.
Series 6, Show 82
July 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.
Series 6, Show 83
July 16, 1986
Series 6, Show 84
July 18, 1986
Series 6, Show 85
July 21, 1986
Series 6, Show 86
July 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)
Series 6, Show 87
July 25, 1986
Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels
Series 6, Show 88
July 28, 1986
Series 6, Show 89
July 30, 1986
Series 6, Show 90
August 1, 1986
Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney
Series 6, Show 91
August 4, 1986
Series 6, Show 92
August 6, 1986
Series 6, Show 93
August 8, 1986
Series 6, Show 94
August 11, 1986
Guests include: Kenneth Branagh, Fanny Cradock, Jenny Seagrove, Tina Turner
Series 6, Show 95
August 13, 1986
Series 6, Show 96
August 15, 1986
Series 6, Show 97
August 18, 1986
Series 6, Show 98
August 20, 1986
Series 6, Show 99
August 22, 1986
Series 6, Show 100
August 25, 1986
Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham
Series 6, Show 101
August 27, 1986
Series 6, Show 102
August 29, 1986
Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle
Series 6, Show 103
September 1, 1986
Tonight's guests: "Five Star"
Series 6, Show 104
September 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.
Series 6, Show 105
September 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.
Series 6, Show 106
September 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?
Series 6, Show 107
September 10, 1986
Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
Series 6, Show 108
September 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.
Series 6, Show 109
September 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?
Series 6, Show 110
September 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.
Series 6, Show 111
September 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.
Series 6, Show 112
September 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.
Series 6, Show 113
September 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?
Series 6, Show 114
September 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?
Series 6, Show 115
September 29, 1986
Series 6, Show 116
October 1, 1986
A piquant peroration from Terry and his guests live at the Terryvision Theatre.
Series 6, Show 117
October 3, 1986
A bounteous bonanza of bans mots and bonnes bouches live with Terry at the Television Theatre.
Series 6, Show 118
October 6, 1986
Temporary resident required for empty chair in Television Theatre. Has David Frost got the job?
Series 6, Show 119
October 8, 1986
This is the week to watch if you don't care for the eponymous hero.
Series 6, Show 120
October 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.
Series 6, Show 121
October 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.
Series 6, Show 122
October 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.
Series 6, Show 123
October 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.
Series 6, Show 124
October 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".
Series 6, Show 125
October 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?
Series 6, Show 126
October 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.
Series 6, Show 127
October 27, 1986
Series 6, Show 128
October 29, 1986
Buddy Rich, the guest tonight, performs "Birdland".
Series 6, Show 129
October 31, 1986
Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV".
Series 6, Show 130
November 3, 1986
Series 6, Show 131
November 5, 1986
Series 6, Show 132
November 7, 1986
Series 6, Show 133
November 10, 1986
Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg
Series 6, Show 134
November 12, 1986
Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle
Series 6, Show 135
November 14, 1986
Series 6, Show 136
November 17, 1986
Terry kicks off a special week with more matchless guests live at the Television Theatre.
Series 6, Show 137
November 19, 1986
Halfway through the week, and Terry limbers up and gets into training for the rigours of Children in Need.
Series 6, Show 138
November 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.
Series 6, Show 139
November 26, 1986
Series 6, Show 140
November 28, 1986
Series 6, Show 141
December 1, 1986
Series 6, Show 142
December 3, 1986
Series 6, Show 143
December 5, 1986
Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch
Series 6, Show 144
December 8, 1986
Series 6, Show 145
December 10, 1986
Dr Wogan's live lesson in the philosophy of frivolity lasts for 35 minutes.
Series 6, Show 146
December 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.
Series 6, Show 147
December 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.
Series 6, Show 148
December 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?
Series 6, Show 149
December 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.
Series 6, Show 150
December 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".
Series 6, Show 151
December 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".
Series 6, Show 152
December 29, 1986
Series 6, Show 153 (New Years Eve Special)
December 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!"
