
Episodes List

Ep.1 Series 5, Show 1
Air Date: 1985-02-18
The first edition of thrice-weekly TV show live from the Television Theatre on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Tonight's guests include: Elton John, Wendy Richard, Rory Bremner, Tina Turner.

Ep.2 Series 5, Show 2
Air Date: 1985-02-20
Guests: David Cassidy, Sue Cooke, Kathy Flower, Samantha Fox, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellern. Samantha Fox grants interview about her future career plans as a topless model.

Ep.3 Series 5, Show 3
Air Date: 1985-02-22

Ep.4 Series 5, Show 4
Air Date: 1985-02-25

Ep.5 Series 5, Show 5
Air Date: 1985-02-27

Ep.6 Series 5, Show 6
Air Date: 1985-03-01

Ep.7 Series 5, Show 7
Air Date: 1985-03-04

Ep.8 Series 5, Show 8
Air Date: 1985-03-06

Ep.9 Series 5, Show 9
Air Date: 1985-03-08

Ep.10 Series 5, Show 10
Air Date: 1985-03-11

Ep.11 Series 5, Show 11
Air Date: 1985-03-13

Ep.12 Series 5, Show 12
Air Date: 1985-03-15

Ep.13 Series 5, Show 13
Air Date: 1985-03-18

Ep.14 Series 5, Show 14
Air Date: 1985-03-20

Ep.15 Series 5, Show 15
Air Date: 1985-03-22
Including an interview with HRH The Princess Anne (Mrs Mark Phillips that time). The British band Frankie Goes to Hollywood performs "Welcome to the Pleasuredome".

Ep.16 Series 5, Show 16
Air Date: 1985-03-25

Ep.17 Series 5, Show 17
Air Date: 1985-03-27
Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.

Ep.18 Series 5, Show 18
Air Date: 1985-03-29
Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.

Ep.19 Series 5, Show 19
Air Date: 1985-04-01
Join the old fool on April Fool's Day for a foolish 40 minutes of tomfoolery. With a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.

Ep.20 Series 5, Show 20
Air Date: 1985-04-03
Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.

Ep.21 Series 5, Show 21
Air Date: 1985-04-08
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre for a Bank Holiday miscellany. Guests include: Tammy Wynette

Ep.22 Series 5, Show 22
Air Date: 1985-04-10
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Wednesday wingwing.

Ep.23 Series 5, Show 23
Air Date: 1985-04-12
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Friday farrago.

Ep.24 Series 5, Show 24
Air Date: 1985-04-15
Terry says "Willkommen Pet" as Jimmy Nail joins him tonight for a Lumpschenkeln comparison.

Ep.25 Series 5, Show 25
Air Date: 1985-04-17
Join Terry and his guests for impromptu knee-squeezing and ever-spontaneous events.

Ep.26 Series 5, Show 26
Air Date: 1985-04-19
Join Terry and his guests as he flexes his thews.

Ep.27 Series 5, Show 27
Air Date: 1985-04-22

Ep.28 Series 5, Show 28
Air Date: 1985-04-24

Ep.29 Series 5, Show 29
Air Date: 1985-04-26
Rams, black sheep and sacrificial lambs shepherded into the Television Theatre to entertain ewe.

Ep.30 Series 5, Show 30
Air Date: 1985-04-29
Terry exercises his masseter, temporalis and pterygoid muscles in conversation with tonight's guests: Gregory Hines, Patrick Macnee, Miriam Margolyes, Major Pat Reid.

Ep.31 Series 5, Show 31
Air Date: 1985-05-01
Terry puts his gluteus maximus to maximum use.

Ep.32 Series 5, Show 32
Air Date: 1985-05-03
Terry exercises his gastrocnemii leaping about the Television Theatre.

Ep.33 Series 5, Show 33
Air Date: 1985-05-06
Phil Collins performs "One More Night" at the piano and chats to Terry about his busy schedule, including his recent tour in Japan, getting offered a part in Miami Vice (1984) and his experience at the Oscars.

Ep.34 Series 5, Show 34
Air Date: 1985-05-08

Ep.35 Series 5, Show 35
Air Date: 1985-05-10

Ep.36 Series 5, Show 36
Air Date: 1985-05-13

Ep.37 Series 5, Show 37
Air Date: 1985-05-15

Ep.38 Series 5, Show 38
Air Date: 1985-05-17

Ep.39 Series 5, Show 39
Air Date: 1985-05-20
Marillion make their Wogan debut and perform their new single "Kayleigh".

Ep.40 Series 5, Show 40
Air Date: 1985-05-22
Semi-finalist Terry Wogan from Ireland goes on live to meet tonight's guests in a no-punches-pulled rapfest. Winner to be announced on Friday.

Ep.41 Series 5, Show 41
Air Date: 1985-05-24
Dilettante and wandering baritone Terry Wogan from Surrey, England, is the finalist in tonight's live Wogan.

Ep.42 Series 5, Show 42
Air Date: 1985-05-27

Ep.43 Series 5, Show 43
Air Date: 1985-05-29

Ep.44 Series 5, Show 44
Air Date: 1985-05-31

Ep.45 Series 5, Show 45
Air Date: 1985-06-03

Ep.46 Series 5, Show 46
Air Date: 1985-06-05

Ep.47 Series 5, Show 47
Air Date: 1985-06-07
The fast and furious Friday farrago live from fragrant Shepherd's Bush Green.

Ep.48 Series 5, Show 48
Air Date: 1985-06-10

Ep.49 Series 5, Show 49
Air Date: 1985-06-12

Ep.50 Series 5, Show 50
Air Date: 1985-06-14

Ep.51 Series 5, Show 51
Air Date: 1985-06-17
Pamela Bellwood, Chris Evert, John Lloyd, Aled Jones, pop band Dead or Alive (as Musical Guest)

Ep.52 Series 5, Show 52
Air Date: 1985-06-19
Guests include: John Forsythe

Ep.53 Series 5, Show 53
Air Date: 1985-06-21
A little live lobbing from County Limerick's best-known tennis player, who despite many requests, will not be wearing shorts.

Ep.54 Series 5, Show 54
Air Date: 1985-06-24

Ep.55 Series 5, Show 55
Air Date: 1985-06-26

Ep.56 Series 5, Show 56
Air Date: 1985-06-28

Ep.57 Series 5, Show 57
Air Date: 1985-07-01

Ep.58 Series 5, Show 58
Air Date: 1985-07-03

Ep.59 Series 5, Show 59
Air Date: 1985-07-05

Ep.60 Series 5, Show 60
Air Date: 1985-07-08

Ep.61 Series 5, Show 61
Air Date: 1985-07-10

Ep.62 Series 5, Show 62
Air Date: 1985-07-12
Prior to the next day's Live Aid (1985) concerts, Terry is joined by Bob Geldof and Nik Kershaw in the studio and Spandau Ballet via satellite link from their rehearsals at Wembley Stadium.

Ep.63 Series 5, Show 63
Air Date: 1985-07-15

Ep.64 Series 5, Show 64
Air Date: 1985-07-17

Ep.65 Series 5, Show 65
Air Date: 1985-07-19

Ep.66 Series 5, Show 66
Air Date: 1985-07-22
Guests include: John Gordon Sinclair, Ulick O'Connor, Elizabeth Welch

Ep.67 Series 5, Show 67
Air Date: 1985-07-24

Ep.68 Series 5, Show 68
Air Date: 1985-07-26

Ep.69 Series 5, Show 69
Air Date: 1985-07-29

Ep.70 Series 5, Show 70
Air Date: 1985-07-31

Ep.71 Series 5, Show 71
Air Date: 1985-08-02
Tonight's guest: the American rock band"Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show"

Ep.72 Series 5, Show 72
Air Date: 1985-08-05
This week sees the 31st birthday of spare but still vigorous Terry Wogan. As he casts that simple mind back over his halcyon days of broadcasting, he may well bear in mind what the Leo horoscope for today reads: "With Saturn rising up Uranus, be careful of female digital contact with the lower extremities". Words of wisdom that will be heeded as the galaxy of stars are wheeled in for 40 minutes of live conversation. Kate Bush performs "Running Up That Hill".

Ep.73 Series 5, Show 73 (Compilation)
Air Date: 1985-08-07

Ep.74 Series 5, Show 74
Air Date: 1985-08-09

Ep.75 Series 5, Show 75
Air Date: 1985-08-12
Can Terry ever escape from the culture palace on Shepherd's Bush Green? Is Wittgenstein just another German gag-writer? Watch and all will be revealed.

Ep.76 Series 5, Show 76
Air Date: 1985-08-14
Surrealism, the Bauhaus, modernism, and now Wogan. Is art imitating life or has the cat got your tongue sandwich?

Ep.77 Series 5, Show 77
Air Date: 1985-08-16
Can the cultural revolution turn on Shepherd's Bush? How many surrealists does it take to unscrew a light bulb?

Ep.78 Series 5, Show 78
Air Date: 1985-08-19
Reflecting on his idyllic childhood at the mercy of the Jesuits, Terry recalls: "Talking was often forbidden, and so it was at that ripe and tender age that I knew I wanted to talk to people and to have them beat my knees rather than the backs of my hands".

Ep.79 Series 5, Show 79
Air Date: 1985-08-21
Terry, who's never been averse to a slap on the wrist — from a lovely woman — squirms and fidgets in his chair as he parries with his guests live at the Television Theatre.

Ep.80 Series 5, Show 80
Air Date: 1985-08-23
Terry's was a lonely life at the bank in Dublin. Sometimes he would conduct question-and-answer sessions with himself. Many erstwhile scholars cite this as the reason for his incessant chattering today. Make your own mind up tonight.

Ep.81 Series 5, Show 81
Air Date: 1985-08-26
Cliff Richard performs 'I Still Believe In You'.

Ep.82 Series 5, Show 82
Air Date: 1985-08-28
Terry propounds the second premise which follows inexorably upon the first as Wednesday follows Monday.

Ep.83 Series 5, Show 83
Air Date: 1985-08-30

Ep.84 Series 5, Show 84
Air Date: 1985-09-02

Ep.85 Series 5, Show 85
Air Date: 1985-09-04
Tonight: conversation and the art of Motorcycle maintenance.

Ep.86 Series 5, Show 86
Air Date: 1985-09-06
Terry shows off his new 'back-to-school' collection of ready-to-wear satchels, pencil cases, felt pens, and rubbers. In between, he may chat to the odd visiting megastar.

Ep.87 Series 5, Show 87
Air Date: 1985-09-09
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?

Ep.88 Series 5, Show 88
Air Date: 1985-09-11
As he shakes the rain from his trusty and impermeable umbrella, Terry ponders whether he made a mistake when he trusted the bit of seaweed he brought back from Turnberry. When it comes to forecasting the weather, it's as much use as a concrete lettuce.

Ep.89 Series 5, Show 89
Air Date: 1985-09-13
As the rain trickles down his neck from his yellow sou'wester, 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.

Ep.90 Series 5, Show 90
Air Date: 1985-09-16
Guests include: John Inman, Demis Roussos, Diane Simpson

Ep.91 Series 5, Show 91
Air Date: 1985-09-18
It was 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. French enlightenment or a display of envy that Wogan is not screened in France?

Ep.92 Series 5, Show 92
Air Date: 1985-09-20

Ep.93 Series 5, Show 93
Air Date: 1985-09-23

Ep.94 Series 5, Show 94
Air Date: 1985-09-25

Ep.95 Series 5, Show 95
Air Date: 1985-09-27

Ep.96 Series 5, Show 96
Air Date: 1985-09-30

Ep.97 Series 5, Show 97
Air Date: 1985-10-02

Ep.98 Series 5, Show 98
Air Date: 1985-10-04

Ep.99 Series 5, Show 99
Air Date: 1985-10-07
Selina Scott presents the guests: Les Dawson, Prue Leith, Alain Prost

Ep.100 Series 5, Show 100
Air Date: 1985-10-09

Ep.101 Series 5, Show 101
Air Date: 1985-10-11

Ep.102 Series 5, Show 102
Air Date: 1985-10-14
Terry returns from lying down in a darkened room to celebrate the 100th edition of the thrice-weekly charivaria.

Ep.103 Series 5, Show 103
Air Date: 1985-10-16

Ep.104 Series 5, Show 104
Air Date: 1985-10-18

Ep.105 Series 5, Show 105
Air Date: 1985-10-21

Ep.106 Series 5, Show 106
Air Date: 1985-10-23

Ep.107 Series 5, Show 107
Air Date: 1985-10-25

Ep.108 Series 5, Show 108
Air Date: 1985-10-28

Ep.109 Series 5, Show 109
Air Date: 1985-10-30
A veritable Milky Way of megastars shine down on Terry for the Wednesday charivari.

Ep.110 Series 5, Show 110
Air Date: 1985-11-01
Guests include: Steve Cram, David Rappaport, Kenneth Williams, Prefab Sprout as performer

Ep.111 Series 5, Show 111
Air Date: 1985-11-04

Ep.112 Series 5, Show 112
Air Date: 1985-11-06

Ep.113 Series 5, Show 113
Air Date: 1985-11-08

Ep.114 Series 5, Show 114
Air Date: 1985-11-11

Ep.115 Series 5, Show 115
Air Date: 1985-11-13

Ep.116 Series 5, Show 116
Air Date: 1985-11-15

Ep.117 Series 5, Show 117
Air Date: 1985-11-18

Ep.118 Series 5, Show 118
Air Date: 1985-11-20

Ep.119 Series 5, Show 119
Air Date: 1985-11-25

Ep.120 Series 5, Show 120
Air Date: 1985-11-27

Ep.121 Series 5, Show 121
Air Date: 1985-11-29

Ep.122 Series 5, Show 122
Air Date: 1985-12-02

Ep.123 Series 5, Show 123
Air Date: 1985-12-04

Ep.124 Series 5, Show 124
Air Date: 1985-12-06
Jim Henson (Kermit the Frog), Michael Barrymore

Ep.125 Series 5, Show 125
Air Date: 1985-12-09
Guests: John Cleese, Delia Smith, Whitney Houston as performer

Ep.126 Series 5, Show 126
Air Date: 1985-12-11

Ep.127 Series 5, Show 127
Air Date: 1985-12-13

Ep.128 Series 5, Show 128
Air Date: 1985-12-16

Ep.129 Series 5, Show 129
Air Date: 1985-12-18

Ep.130 Series 5, Show 130
Air Date: 1985-12-20
Terry dips a tentative toe into the pool of exciting television programmes lined up on BBC1 for your delectation over the Christmas holiday, and talks to some of the stars who will be taking part.

Ep.131 Series 5, Show 131
Air Date: 1985-12-23
Guests: Cliff Richard, Hank B. Marvin, John Parr, Jimmy Savile, Loretta Swit. The show opens with John Parr singing "Bachelor Boy" partly, Cliff performs "It's In Everyone Of Us" and then the chat follows with Terry Wogan and Hank Marvin.

Ep.132 Series 5, Show 132
Air Date: 1985-12-25

Ep.133 Series 5, Show 133
Air Date: 1985-12-27
"You saw it first on Wogan" — among Terry's guests tonight are Andrew Lloyd Webber, with the first television performance of his musical The Phantom of the Opera.
