Wogan (Season 6)

Series 6, Show 1 (Episode 1)

Air date: 1986-01-03

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 2)

Air date: 1986-01-06

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 3)

Air date: 1986-01-08

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 4)

Air date: 1986-01-10

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 5)

Air date: 1986-01-13

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 6)

Air date: 1986-01-15

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Felicity Kendal didn't realise that watering the plants in Terry's dressing-room could take most of the day.

Series 6, Show 7 (Episode 7)

Air date: 1986-01-17

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 8)

Air date: 1986-01-20

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 9)

Air date: 1986-01-22

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 10 (Episode 10)

Air date: 1986-01-24

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 11 (Episode 11)

Air date: 1986-01-27

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 12 (Episode 12)

Air date: 1986-01-29

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 13 (Episode 13)

Air date: 1986-01-31

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 14 (Episode 14)

Air date: 1986-02-03

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Welcome to the first frolic of February live from the TV Theatre.

Series 6, Show 15 (Episode 15)

Air date: 1986-02-05

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.

Series 6, Show 16 (Episode 16)

Air date: 1986-02-07

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 17 (Episode 17)

Air date: 1986-02-10

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 18)

Air date: 1986-02-12

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 19 (Episode 19)

Air date: 1986-02-14

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 20)

Air date: 1986-02-17

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 21)

Air date: 1986-02-19

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 22 (Episode 22)

Air date: 1986-02-21

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 23 (Episode 23)

Air date: 1986-02-24

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 24)

Air date: 1986-02-26

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 25 (Episode 25)

Air date: 1986-02-28

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Guests include: Ian Charleson, Angela Fox, Edward Fox, James Fox, Robert Fox

Series 6, Show 26 (Episode 26)

Air date: 1986-03-03

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 27 (Episode 27)

Air date: 1986-03-05

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 28 (Episode 28)

Air date: 1986-03-07

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 29 (Episode 29)

Air date: 1986-03-10

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 30 (Episode 30)

Air date: 1986-03-12

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 31 (Episode 31)

Air date: 1986-03-14

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 32 (Episode 32)

Air date: 1986-03-17

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 33 (Episode 33)

Air date: 1986-03-19

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 34 (Episode 34)

Air date: 1986-03-21

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 35)

Air date: 1986-03-24

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 36)

Air date: 1986-03-26

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 37)

Air date: 1986-03-28

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 38)

Air date: 1986-03-31

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 39 (Episode 39)

Air date: 1986-04-04

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 40 (Episode 40)

Air date: 1986-04-07

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 41)

Air date: 1986-04-09

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 42)

Air date: 1986-04-11

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 43)

Air date: 1986-04-14

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 44 (Episode 44)

Air date: 1986-04-16

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 45 (Episode 45)

Air date: 1986-04-18

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 46 (Episode 46)

Air date: 1986-04-21

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 47)

Air date: 1986-04-23

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Kenneth Williams hosts tonight's programme. Guests: Stephen Fry, Steve Hollings, Michael Palin, Barbara Windsor, Hank B. Marvin.

Series 6, Show 48 (Episode 48)

Air date: 1986-04-25

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 49)

Air date: 1986-04-28

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 50)

Air date: 1986-04-30

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 51 (Episode 51)

Air date: 1986-05-02

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 52)

Air date: 1986-05-05

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 53 (Episode 53)

Air date: 1986-05-07

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 54 (Episode 54)

Air date: 1986-05-09

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 55 (Episode 55)

Air date: 1986-05-12

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 56 (Episode 56)

Air date: 1986-05-14

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 57 (Episode 57)

Air date: 1986-05-16

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 58 (Episode 58)

Air date: 1986-05-19

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 59 (Episode 59)

Air date: 1986-05-21

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 60 (Episode 60)

Air date: 1986-05-23

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 61 (Episode 61)

Air date: 1986-05-26

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 62 (Episode 62)

Air date: 1986-05-28

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 63 (Episode 63)

Air date: 1986-05-30

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 64 (Episode 64)

Air date: 1986-06-02

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 65)

Air date: 1986-06-04

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 66)

Air date: 1986-06-06

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 6 June — an important date for Bjorn Borg, Captain Scott and Steve Donoghue. Terry makes it memorable tonight.

Series 6, Show 67 (Episode 67)

Air date: 1986-06-09

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 68)

Air date: 1986-06-11

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 69 (Episode 69)

Air date: 1986-06-13

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 70 (Episode 70)

Air date: 1986-06-16

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: "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 (Episode 71)

Air date: 1986-06-18

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 72)

Air date: 1986-06-20

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 73)

Air date: 1986-06-23

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Derek Jameson presents Rod Stewart and Kiri Te Kanawa. Rod Stewart performs "Every Beat Of My Heart".

Series 6, Show 74 (Episode 74)

Air date: 1986-06-25

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: This is the week to watch if you're sick to death of seeing the Irishman three times a week.

Series 6, Show 75 (Episode 75)

Air date: 1986-06-27

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 76 (Episode 76)

Air date: 1986-06-30

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 77)

Air date: 1986-07-02

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 78)

Air date: 1986-07-04

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Terry celebrates the Fourth of July in his own inimitable Irish way.

Series 6, Show 79 (Episode 79)

Air date: 1986-07-07

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 80)

Air date: 1986-07-09

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 81)

Air date: 1986-07-11

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 82)

Air date: 1986-07-14

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 83)

Air date: 1986-07-16

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 84 (Episode 84)

Air date: 1986-07-18

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 85 (Episode 85)

Air date: 1986-07-21

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 86 (Episode 86)

Air date: 1986-07-23

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 87)

Air date: 1986-07-25

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels

Series 6, Show 88 (Episode 88)

Air date: 1986-07-28

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 89 (Episode 89)

Air date: 1986-07-30

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 90 (Episode 90)

Air date: 1986-08-01

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney

Series 6, Show 91 (Episode 91)

Air date: 1986-08-04

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 92 (Episode 92)

Air date: 1986-08-06

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 93 (Episode 93)

Air date: 1986-08-08

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 94 (Episode 94)

Air date: 1986-08-11

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Guests include: Kenneth Branagh, Fanny Cradock, Jenny Seagrove, Tina Turner

Series 6, Show 95 (Episode 95)

Air date: 1986-08-13

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 96 (Episode 96)

Air date: 1986-08-15

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 97 (Episode 97)

Air date: 1986-08-18

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 98 (Episode 98)

Air date: 1986-08-20

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 99 (Episode 99)

Air date: 1986-08-22

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 100 (Episode 100)

Air date: 1986-08-25

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham

Series 6, Show 101 (Episode 101)

Air date: 1986-08-27

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 102 (Episode 102)

Air date: 1986-08-29

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle

Series 6, Show 103 (Episode 103)

Air date: 1986-09-01

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Tonight's guests: "Five Star"

Series 6, Show 104 (Episode 104)

Air date: 1986-09-03

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 105)

Air date: 1986-09-05

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 106)

Air date: 1986-09-08

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 107)

Air date: 1986-09-10

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.

Series 6, Show 108 (Episode 108)

Air date: 1986-09-12

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 109)

Air date: 1986-09-15

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 110)

Air date: 1986-09-17

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 111)

Air date: 1986-09-19

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 112)

Air date: 1986-09-22

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 113)

Air date: 1986-09-24

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 114)

Air date: 1986-09-26

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 115)

Air date: 1986-09-29

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 116 (Episode 116)

Air date: 1986-10-01

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: A piquant peroration from Terry and his guests live at the Terryvision Theatre.

Series 6, Show 117 (Episode 117)

Air date: 1986-10-03

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: A bounteous bonanza of bans mots and bonnes bouches live with Terry at the Television Theatre.

Series 6, Show 118 (Episode 118)

Air date: 1986-10-06

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Temporary resident required for empty chair in Television Theatre. Has David Frost got the job?

Series 6, Show 119 (Episode 119)

Air date: 1986-10-08

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: This is the week to watch if you don't care for the eponymous hero.

Series 6, Show 120 (Episode 120)

Air date: 1986-10-10

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 121)

Air date: 1986-10-13

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 122)

Air date: 1986-10-15

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 123)

Air date: 1986-10-17

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 124)

Air date: 1986-10-20

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 125)

Air date: 1986-10-22

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 126)

Air date: 1986-10-24

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 127)

Air date: 1986-10-27

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 128 (Episode 128)

Air date: 1986-10-29

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Buddy Rich, the guest tonight, performs "Birdland".

Series 6, Show 129 (Episode 129)

Air date: 1986-10-31

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV".

Series 6, Show 130 (Episode 130)

Air date: 1986-11-03

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 131 (Episode 131)

Air date: 1986-11-05

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 132 (Episode 132)

Air date: 1986-11-07

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 133 (Episode 133)

Air date: 1986-11-10

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg

Series 6, Show 134 (Episode 134)

Air date: 1986-11-12

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle

Series 6, Show 135 (Episode 135)

Air date: 1986-11-14

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 136 (Episode 136)

Air date: 1986-11-17

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Terry kicks off a special week with more matchless guests live at the Television Theatre.

Series 6, Show 137 (Episode 137)

Air date: 1986-11-19

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Halfway through the week, and Terry limbers up and gets into training for the rigours of Children in Need.

Series 6, Show 138 (Episode 138)

Air date: 1986-11-24

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 139)

Air date: 1986-11-26

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 140 (Episode 140)

Air date: 1986-11-28

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 141 (Episode 141)

Air date: 1986-12-01

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 142 (Episode 142)

Air date: 1986-12-03

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 143 (Episode 143)

Air date: 1986-12-05

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch

Series 6, Show 144 (Episode 144)

Air date: 1986-12-08

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 145 (Episode 145)

Air date: 1986-12-10

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Dr Wogan's live lesson in the philosophy of frivolity lasts for 35 minutes.

Series 6, Show 146 (Episode 146)

Air date: 1986-12-12

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 147)

Air date: 1986-12-15

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 148)

Air date: 1986-12-17

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 149)

Air date: 1986-12-19

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 150)

Air date: 1986-12-22

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 151)

Air date: 1986-12-24

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 152)

Air date: 1986-12-29

Runtime: 35 min

Series 6, Show 153 (New Years Eve Special) (Episode 153)

Air date: 1986-12-31

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: "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!"