WoganSeason 61986 · 153 episodesEpisodes1Series 6, Show 1How 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.2Series 6, Show 2Guest 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.3Series 6, Show 3Ronnie Corbett promises tall guests, small guests, tall stories and big names, with no jokes about absent Irishmen or people's height.4Series 6, Show 4Ronnie 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.5Series 6, Show 5At 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.6Series 6, Show 6Felicity Kendal didn't realise that watering the plants in Terry's dressing-room could take most of the day.7Series 6, Show 7Part 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).8Series 6, Show 8Bronzed and fit after two weeks' absence far, far away from Shepherd's Bush, Terry returns to amaze and delight you.9Series 6, Show 910Series 6, Show 1011Series 6, Show 1112Series 6, Show 1213Series 6, Show 1314Series 6, Show 14Welcome to the first frolic of February live from the TV Theatre.15Series 6, Show 15Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.16Series 6, Show 1617Series 6, Show 17Terry'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.18Series 6, Show 1819Series 6, Show 19Outside 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.20Series 6, Show 20Terry 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.21Series 6, Show 2122Series 6, Show 2223Series 6, Show 23Remember 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.24Series 6, Show 2425Series 6, Show 25Guests include: Ian Charleson, Angela Fox, Edward Fox, James Fox, Robert Fox26Series 6, Show 2627Series 6, Show 2728Series 6, Show 2829Series 6, Show 2930Series 6, Show 3031Series 6, Show 3132Series 6, Show 3233Series 6, Show 3334Series 6, Show 34Another 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.35Series 6, Show 35Another 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.36Series 6, Show 36Last 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 1985.37Series 6, Show 37A 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).38Series 6, Show 3839Series 6, Show 3940Series 6, Show 40Captain 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?41Series 6, Show 41Sir 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?42Series 6, Show 42Baron 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.43Series 6, Show 4344Series 6, Show 4445Series 6, Show 4546Series 6, Show 46With 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.47Series 6, Show 47Kenneth Williams hosts tonight's programme. Guests: Stephen Fry, Steve Hollings, Michael Palin, Barbara Windsor, Hank B. Marvin.48Series 6, Show 48Kenneth 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.49Series 6, Show 49Back 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.50Series 6, Show 5051Series 6, Show 51The international jet setter gets ready for a foray to foreign parts, but promises to stick around long enough to do tonight's programme.52Series 6, Show 5253Series 6, Show 5354Series 6, Show 5455Series 6, Show 5556Series 6, Show 5657Series 6, Show 5758Series 6, Show 5859Series 6, Show 5960Series 6, Show 6061Series 6, Show 6162Series 6, Show 6263Series 6, Show 6364Series 6, Show 64June 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?65Series 6, Show 65The 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.66Series 6, Show 666 June — an important date for Bjorn Borg, Captain Scott and Steve Donoghue. Terry makes it memorable tonight.67Series 6, Show 67If 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 Tyler68Series 6, Show 6869Series 6, Show 6970Series 6, Show 70"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.71Series 6, Show 71With 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.72Series 6, Show 72With Anna Ford. The roar of the greasepaint. The smell of the crowd... and they are a loud lot at the Television Theatre.73Series 6, Show 73Derek Jameson presents Rod Stewart and Kiri Te Kanawa. Rod Stewart performs "Every Beat Of My Heart".74Series 6, Show 74This is the week to watch if you're sick to death of seeing the Irishman three times a week.75Series 6, Show 7576Series 6, Show 76Back 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.77Series 6, Show 77The 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.78Series 6, Show 78Terry celebrates the Fourth of July in his own inimitable Irish way.79Series 6, Show 79Terry bounds out of the shamrock-shaped Jacuzzi in his luxuriously-appointed though miniscule dressing-room, and onto the stage of the Television Theatre.80Series 6, Show 80On 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.81Series 6, Show 81Pausing 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.82Series 6, Show 82With 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.83Series 6, Show 8384Series 6, Show 8485Series 6, Show 8586Series 6, Show 86Terry 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)87Series 6, Show 87Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels88Series 6, Show 8889Series 6, Show 8990Series 6, Show 90Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney91Series 6, Show 9192Series 6, Show 9293Series 6, Show 9394Series 6, Show 94Guests include: Kenneth Branagh, Fanny Cradock, Jenny Seagrove, Tina Turner95Series 6, Show 9596Series 6, Show 9697Series 6, Show 9798Series 6, Show 9899Series 6, Show 99100Series 6, Show 100Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham101Series 6, Show 101102Series 6, Show 102Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle103Series 6, Show 103Tonight's guests: "Five Star"104Series 6, Show 104Semi-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.105Series 6, Show 105Dilettante 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.106Series 6, Show 106As 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?107Series 6, Show 107Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.108Series 6, Show 108Tonight 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.109Series 6, Show 109As 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?110Series 6, Show 110As 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.111Series 6, Show 111As 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.112Series 6, Show 112Shakespeare 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.113Series 6, Show 113It 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?114Series 6, Show 114On 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?115Series 6, Show 115116Series 6, Show 116A piquant peroration from Terry and his guests live at the Terryvision Theatre.117Series 6, Show 117A bounteous bonanza of bans mots and bonnes bouches live with Terry at the Television Theatre.118Series 6, Show 118Temporary resident required for empty chair in Television Theatre. Has David Frost got the job?119Series 6, Show 119This is the week to watch if you don't care for the eponymous hero.120Series 6, Show 120Desirable 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.121Series 6, Show 121Esther 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.122Series 6, Show 122Esther 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.123Series 6, Show 123Esther Rantzen continues to keep Terry's seat warm for his return on Monday by getting her teeth into the great and the good.124Series 6, Show 124Terry's back in the spotlight tonight live at the Television Theatre. After interview, the British singer Kim Wilde performs "Keep Me Hanging On".125Series 6, Show 125Terry 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?126Series 6, Show 126A 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.127Series 6, Show 127128Series 6, Show 128Buddy Rich, the guest tonight, performs "Birdland".129Series 6, Show 129Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV".130Series 6, Show 130131Series 6, Show 131132Series 6, Show 132133Series 6, Show 133Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg134Series 6, Show 134Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle135Series 6, Show 135136Series 6, Show 136Terry kicks off a special week with more matchless guests live at the Television Theatre.137Series 6, Show 137Halfway through the week, and Terry limbers up and gets into training for the rigours of Children in Need.138Series 6, Show 138Who'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.139Series 6, Show 139140Series 6, Show 140141Series 6, Show 141142Series 6, Show 142143Series 6, Show 143Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch144Series 6, Show 144145Series 6, Show 145Dr Wogan's live lesson in the philosophy of frivolity lasts for 35 minutes.146Series 6, Show 146Terry Wogan talks to primatologist Jane Goodall and actor Adrian Edmondson, with music by Eurythmics. There is also a satellite interview with Parker from Thunderbirds.147Series 6, Show 147When 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.148Series 6, Show 148When 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?149Series 6, Show 149Terry 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.150Series 6, Show 150There'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".151Series 6, Show 151J.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".152Series 6, Show 152153Series 6, Show 153 (New Years Eve Special)"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!"Season 1Season 2Season 3Season 4Season 5Season 7Season 8Season 9Season 10Season 11Season 12
