
Episodes List

Ep.1 Series 6, Show 1
Air Date: 1986-01-03
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.

Ep.2 Series 6, Show 2
Air Date: 1986-01-06
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.

Ep.3 Series 6, Show 3
Air Date: 1986-01-08
Ronnie Corbett promises tall guests, small guests, tall stories and big names, with no jokes about absent Irishmen or people's height.

Ep.4 Series 6, Show 4
Air Date: 1986-01-10
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.

Ep.5 Series 6, Show 5
Air Date: 1986-01-13
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.

Ep.6 Series 6, Show 6
Air Date: 1986-01-15
Felicity Kendal didn't realise that watering the plants in Terry's dressing-room could take most of the day.

Ep.7 Series 6, Show 7
Air Date: 1986-01-17
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).

Ep.8 Series 6, Show 8
Air Date: 1986-01-20
Bronzed and fit after two weeks' absence far, far away from Shepherd's Bush, Terry returns to amaze and delight you.

Ep.9 Series 6, Show 9
Air Date: 1986-01-22

Ep.10 Series 6, Show 10
Air Date: 1986-01-24

Ep.11 Series 6, Show 11
Air Date: 1986-01-27

Ep.12 Series 6, Show 12
Air Date: 1986-01-29

Ep.13 Series 6, Show 13
Air Date: 1986-01-31

Ep.14 Series 6, Show 14
Air Date: 1986-02-03
Welcome to the first frolic of February live from the TV Theatre.

Ep.15 Series 6, Show 15
Air Date: 1986-02-05
Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.

Ep.16 Series 6, Show 16
Air Date: 1986-02-07

Ep.17 Series 6, Show 17
Air Date: 1986-02-10
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.

Ep.18 Series 6, Show 18
Air Date: 1986-02-12

Ep.19 Series 6, Show 19
Air Date: 1986-02-14
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.

Ep.20 Series 6, Show 20
Air Date: 1986-02-17
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.

Ep.21 Series 6, Show 21
Air Date: 1986-02-19

Ep.22 Series 6, Show 22
Air Date: 1986-02-21

Ep.23 Series 6, Show 23
Air Date: 1986-02-24
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.

Ep.24 Series 6, Show 24
Air Date: 1986-02-26

Ep.25 Series 6, Show 25
Air Date: 1986-02-28
Guests include: Ian Charleson, Angela Fox, Edward Fox, James Fox, Robert Fox

Ep.26 Series 6, Show 26
Air Date: 1986-03-03

Ep.27 Series 6, Show 27
Air Date: 1986-03-05

Ep.28 Series 6, Show 28
Air Date: 1986-03-07

Ep.29 Series 6, Show 29
Air Date: 1986-03-10

Ep.30 Series 6, Show 30
Air Date: 1986-03-12

Ep.31 Series 6, Show 31
Air Date: 1986-03-14

Ep.32 Series 6, Show 32
Air Date: 1986-03-17

Ep.33 Series 6, Show 33
Air Date: 1986-03-19

Ep.34 Series 6, Show 34
Air Date: 1986-03-21
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.

Ep.35 Series 6, Show 35
Air Date: 1986-03-24
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.

Ep.36 Series 6, Show 36
Air Date: 1986-03-26
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.

Ep.37 Series 6, Show 37
Air Date: 1986-03-28
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).

Ep.38 Series 6, Show 38
Air Date: 1986-03-31

Ep.39 Series 6, Show 39
Air Date: 1986-04-04

Ep.40 Series 6, Show 40
Air Date: 1986-04-07
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?

Ep.41 Series 6, Show 41
Air Date: 1986-04-09
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?

Ep.42 Series 6, Show 42
Air Date: 1986-04-11
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.

Ep.43 Series 6, Show 43
Air Date: 1986-04-14

Ep.44 Series 6, Show 44
Air Date: 1986-04-16

Ep.45 Series 6, Show 45
Air Date: 1986-04-18

Ep.46 Series 6, Show 46
Air Date: 1986-04-21
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.

Ep.47 Series 6, Show 47
Air Date: 1986-04-23
Kenneth Williams hosts tonight's programme. Guests: Stephen Fry, Steve Hollings, Michael Palin, Barbara Windsor, Hank B. Marvin.

Ep.48 Series 6, Show 48
Air Date: 1986-04-25
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.

Ep.49 Series 6, Show 49
Air Date: 1986-04-28
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.

Ep.50 Series 6, Show 50
Air Date: 1986-04-30

Ep.51 Series 6, Show 51
Air Date: 1986-05-02
The international jet setter gets ready for a foray to foreign parts, but promises to stick around long enough to do tonight's programme.

Ep.52 Series 6, Show 52
Air Date: 1986-05-05

Ep.53 Series 6, Show 53
Air Date: 1986-05-07

Ep.54 Series 6, Show 54
Air Date: 1986-05-09

Ep.55 Series 6, Show 55
Air Date: 1986-05-12

Ep.56 Series 6, Show 56
Air Date: 1986-05-14

Ep.57 Series 6, Show 57
Air Date: 1986-05-16

Ep.58 Series 6, Show 58
Air Date: 1986-05-19

Ep.59 Series 6, Show 59
Air Date: 1986-05-21

Ep.60 Series 6, Show 60
Air Date: 1986-05-23

Ep.61 Series 6, Show 61
Air Date: 1986-05-26

Ep.62 Series 6, Show 62
Air Date: 1986-05-28

Ep.63 Series 6, Show 63
Air Date: 1986-05-30

Ep.64 Series 6, Show 64
Air Date: 1986-06-02
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?

Ep.65 Series 6, Show 65
Air Date: 1986-06-04
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.

Ep.66 Series 6, Show 66
Air Date: 1986-06-06
6 June — an important date for Bjorn Borg, Captain Scott and Steve Donoghue. Terry makes it memorable tonight.

Ep.67 Series 6, Show 67
Air Date: 1986-06-09
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

Ep.68 Series 6, Show 68
Air Date: 1986-06-11

Ep.69 Series 6, Show 69
Air Date: 1986-06-13

Ep.70 Series 6, Show 70
Air Date: 1986-06-16
"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.

Ep.71 Series 6, Show 71
Air Date: 1986-06-18
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.

Ep.72 Series 6, Show 72
Air Date: 1986-06-20
With Anna Ford. The roar of the greasepaint. The smell of the crowd... and they are a loud lot at the Television Theatre.

Ep.73 Series 6, Show 73
Air Date: 1986-06-23
Derek Jameson presents Rod Stewart and Kiri Te Kanawa. Rod Stewart performs "Every Beat Of My Heart".

Ep.74 Series 6, Show 74
Air Date: 1986-06-25
This is the week to watch if you're sick to death of seeing the Irishman three times a week.

Ep.75 Series 6, Show 75
Air Date: 1986-06-27

Ep.76 Series 6, Show 76
Air Date: 1986-06-30
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.

Ep.77 Series 6, Show 77
Air Date: 1986-07-02
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.

Ep.78 Series 6, Show 78
Air Date: 1986-07-04
Terry celebrates the Fourth of July in his own inimitable Irish way.

Ep.79 Series 6, Show 79
Air Date: 1986-07-07
Terry bounds out of the shamrock-shaped Jacuzzi in his luxuriously-appointed though miniscule dressing-room, and onto the stage of the Television Theatre.

Ep.80 Series 6, Show 80
Air Date: 1986-07-09
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.

Ep.81 Series 6, Show 81
Air Date: 1986-07-11
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.

Ep.82 Series 6, Show 82
Air Date: 1986-07-14
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.

Ep.83 Series 6, Show 83
Air Date: 1986-07-16

Ep.84 Series 6, Show 84
Air Date: 1986-07-18

Ep.85 Series 6, Show 85
Air Date: 1986-07-21

Ep.86 Series 6, Show 86
Air Date: 1986-07-23
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)

Ep.87 Series 6, Show 87
Air Date: 1986-07-25
Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels

Ep.88 Series 6, Show 88
Air Date: 1986-07-28

Ep.89 Series 6, Show 89
Air Date: 1986-07-30

Ep.90 Series 6, Show 90
Air Date: 1986-08-01
Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney

Ep.91 Series 6, Show 91
Air Date: 1986-08-04

Ep.92 Series 6, Show 92
Air Date: 1986-08-06

Ep.93 Series 6, Show 93
Air Date: 1986-08-08

Ep.94 Series 6, Show 94
Air Date: 1986-08-11
Guests include: Kenneth Branagh, Fanny Cradock, Jenny Seagrove, Tina Turner

Ep.95 Series 6, Show 95
Air Date: 1986-08-13

Ep.96 Series 6, Show 96
Air Date: 1986-08-15

Ep.97 Series 6, Show 97
Air Date: 1986-08-18

Ep.98 Series 6, Show 98
Air Date: 1986-08-20

Ep.99 Series 6, Show 99
Air Date: 1986-08-22

Ep.100 Series 6, Show 100
Air Date: 1986-08-25
Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham

Ep.101 Series 6, Show 101
Air Date: 1986-08-27

Ep.102 Series 6, Show 102
Air Date: 1986-08-29
Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle

Ep.103 Series 6, Show 103
Air Date: 1986-09-01
Tonight's guests: "Five Star"

Ep.104 Series 6, Show 104
Air Date: 1986-09-03
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.

Ep.105 Series 6, Show 105
Air Date: 1986-09-05
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.

Ep.106 Series 6, Show 106
Air Date: 1986-09-08
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?

Ep.107 Series 6, Show 107
Air Date: 1986-09-10
Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.

Ep.108 Series 6, Show 108
Air Date: 1986-09-12
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.

Ep.109 Series 6, Show 109
Air Date: 1986-09-15
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.110 Series 6, Show 110
Air Date: 1986-09-17
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.

Ep.111 Series 6, Show 111
Air Date: 1986-09-19
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.

Ep.112 Series 6, Show 112
Air Date: 1986-09-22
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.

Ep.113 Series 6, Show 113
Air Date: 1986-09-24
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?

Ep.114 Series 6, Show 114
Air Date: 1986-09-26
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?

Ep.115 Series 6, Show 115
Air Date: 1986-09-29

Ep.116 Series 6, Show 116
Air Date: 1986-10-01
A piquant peroration from Terry and his guests live at the Terryvision Theatre.

Ep.117 Series 6, Show 117
Air Date: 1986-10-03
A bounteous bonanza of bans mots and bonnes bouches live with Terry at the Television Theatre.

Ep.118 Series 6, Show 118
Air Date: 1986-10-06
Temporary resident required for empty chair in Television Theatre. Has David Frost got the job?

Ep.119 Series 6, Show 119
Air Date: 1986-10-08
This is the week to watch if you don't care for the eponymous hero.

Ep.120 Series 6, Show 120
Air Date: 1986-10-10
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.

Ep.121 Series 6, Show 121
Air Date: 1986-10-13
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.

Ep.122 Series 6, Show 122
Air Date: 1986-10-15
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.

Ep.123 Series 6, Show 123
Air Date: 1986-10-17
Esther Rantzen continues to keep Terry's seat warm for his return on Monday by getting her teeth into the great and the good.

Ep.124 Series 6, Show 124
Air Date: 1986-10-20
Terry's back in the spotlight tonight live at the Television Theatre. After interview, the British singer Kim Wilde performs "Keep Me Hanging On".

Ep.125 Series 6, Show 125
Air Date: 1986-10-22
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?

Ep.126 Series 6, Show 126
Air Date: 1986-10-24
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.

Ep.127 Series 6, Show 127
Air Date: 1986-10-27

Ep.128 Series 6, Show 128
Air Date: 1986-10-29
Buddy Rich, the guest tonight, performs "Birdland".

Ep.129 Series 6, Show 129
Air Date: 1986-10-31
Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV".

Ep.130 Series 6, Show 130
Air Date: 1986-11-03

Ep.131 Series 6, Show 131
Air Date: 1986-11-05

Ep.132 Series 6, Show 132
Air Date: 1986-11-07

Ep.133 Series 6, Show 133
Air Date: 1986-11-10
Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg

Ep.134 Series 6, Show 134
Air Date: 1986-11-12
Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle

Ep.135 Series 6, Show 135
Air Date: 1986-11-14

Ep.136 Series 6, Show 136
Air Date: 1986-11-17
Terry kicks off a special week with more matchless guests live at the Television Theatre.

Ep.137 Series 6, Show 137
Air Date: 1986-11-19
Halfway through the week, and Terry limbers up and gets into training for the rigours of Children in Need.

Ep.138 Series 6, Show 138
Air Date: 1986-11-24
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.

Ep.139 Series 6, Show 139
Air Date: 1986-11-26

Ep.140 Series 6, Show 140
Air Date: 1986-11-28

Ep.141 Series 6, Show 141
Air Date: 1986-12-01

Ep.142 Series 6, Show 142
Air Date: 1986-12-03

Ep.143 Series 6, Show 143
Air Date: 1986-12-05
Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch

Ep.144 Series 6, Show 144
Air Date: 1986-12-08

Ep.145 Series 6, Show 145
Air Date: 1986-12-10
Dr Wogan's live lesson in the philosophy of frivolity lasts for 35 minutes.

Ep.146 Series 6, Show 146
Air Date: 1986-12-12

Ep.147 Series 6, Show 147
Air Date: 1986-12-15
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.

Ep.148 Series 6, Show 148
Air Date: 1986-12-17
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?

Ep.149 Series 6, Show 149
Air Date: 1986-12-19
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.

Ep.150 Series 6, Show 150
Air Date: 1986-12-22
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".

Ep.151 Series 6, Show 151
Air Date: 1986-12-24
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".

Ep.152 Series 6, Show 152
Air Date: 1986-12-29

Ep.153 Series 6, Show 153 (New Years Eve Special)
Air Date: 1986-12-31
"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!"