S6E1 - Series 6, Show 1
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.
Jan. 3, 1986, midnight
S6E2 - Series 6, Show 2
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.
Jan. 6, 1986, midnight
S6E3 - Series 6, Show 3
Ronnie Corbett promises tall guests, small guests, tall stories and big names, with no jokes about absent Irishmen or people's height.
Jan. 8, 1986, midnight
S6E4 - Series 6, Show 4
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.
Jan. 10, 1986, midnight
S6E5 - Series 6, Show 5
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.
Jan. 13, 1986, midnight
S6E6 - Series 6, Show 6
Felicity Kendal didn't realise that watering the plants in Terry's dressing-room could take most of the day.
Jan. 15, 1986, midnight
S6E7 - Series 6, Show 7
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).
Jan. 17, 1986, midnight
S6E8 - Series 6, Show 8
Bronzed and fit after two weeks' absence far, far away from Shepherd's Bush, Terry returns to amaze and delight you.
Jan. 20, 1986, midnight
S6E9 - Series 6, Show 9
Jan. 22, 1986, midnight
S6E10 - Series 6, Show 10
Jan. 24, 1986, midnight
S6E11 - Series 6, Show 11
Jan. 27, 1986, midnight
S6E12 - Series 6, Show 12
Jan. 29, 1986, midnight
S6E13 - Series 6, Show 13
Jan. 31, 1986, midnight
S6E14 - Series 6, Show 14
Welcome to the first frolic of February live from the TV Theatre.
Feb. 3, 1986, midnight
S6E15 - Series 6, Show 15
Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.
Feb. 5, 1986, midnight
S6E16 - Series 6, Show 16
Feb. 7, 1986, midnight
S6E17 - Series 6, Show 17
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.
Feb. 10, 1986, midnight
S6E18 - Series 6, Show 18
Feb. 12, 1986, midnight
S6E19 - Series 6, Show 19
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.
Feb. 14, 1986, midnight
S6E20 - Series 6, Show 20
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.
Feb. 17, 1986, midnight
S6E21 - Series 6, Show 21
Feb. 19, 1986, midnight
S6E22 - Series 6, Show 22
Feb. 21, 1986, midnight
S6E23 - Series 6, Show 23
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.
Feb. 24, 1986, midnight
S6E24 - Series 6, Show 24
Feb. 26, 1986, midnight
S6E25 - Series 6, Show 25
Guests include: Ian Charleson, Angela Fox, Edward Fox, James Fox, Robert Fox
Feb. 28, 1986, midnight
S6E26 - Series 6, Show 26
March 3, 1986, midnight
S6E27 - Series 6, Show 27
March 5, 1986, midnight
S6E28 - Series 6, Show 28
March 7, 1986, midnight
S6E29 - Series 6, Show 29
March 10, 1986, midnight
S6E30 - Series 6, Show 30
March 12, 1986, midnight
S6E31 - Series 6, Show 31
March 14, 1986, midnight
S6E32 - Series 6, Show 32
March 17, 1986, midnight
S6E33 - Series 6, Show 33
March 19, 1986, midnight
S6E34 - Series 6, Show 34
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.
March 21, 1986, midnight
S6E35 - Series 6, Show 35
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.
March 24, 1986, midnight
S6E36 - Series 6, Show 36
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.
March 26, 1986, midnight
S6E37 - Series 6, Show 37
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).
March 28, 1986, midnight
S6E38 - Series 6, Show 38
March 31, 1986, midnight
S6E39 - Series 6, Show 39
April 4, 1986, midnight
S6E40 - Series 6, Show 40
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?
April 7, 1986, midnight
S6E41 - Series 6, Show 41
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?
April 9, 1986, midnight
S6E42 - Series 6, Show 42
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.
April 11, 1986, midnight
S6E43 - Series 6, Show 43
April 14, 1986, midnight
S6E44 - Series 6, Show 44
April 16, 1986, midnight
S6E45 - Series 6, Show 45
April 18, 1986, midnight
S6E46 - Series 6, Show 46
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.
April 21, 1986, midnight
S6E47 - Series 6, Show 47
Kenneth Williams hosts tonight's programme. Guests: Stephen Fry, Steve Hollings, Michael Palin, Barbara Windsor, Hank B. Marvin.
April 23, 1986, midnight
S6E48 - Series 6, Show 48
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.
April 25, 1986, midnight
S6E49 - Series 6, Show 49
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.
April 28, 1986, midnight
S6E50 - Series 6, Show 50
April 30, 1986, midnight
S6E51 - Series 6, Show 51
The international jet setter gets ready for a foray to foreign parts, but promises to stick around long enough to do tonight's programme.
May 2, 1986, midnight
S6E52 - Series 6, Show 52
May 5, 1986, midnight
S6E53 - Series 6, Show 53
May 7, 1986, midnight
S6E54 - Series 6, Show 54
May 9, 1986, midnight
S6E55 - Series 6, Show 55
May 12, 1986, midnight
S6E56 - Series 6, Show 56
May 14, 1986, midnight
S6E57 - Series 6, Show 57
May 16, 1986, midnight
S6E58 - Series 6, Show 58
May 19, 1986, midnight
S6E59 - Series 6, Show 59
May 21, 1986, midnight
S6E60 - Series 6, Show 60
May 23, 1986, midnight
S6E61 - Series 6, Show 61
May 26, 1986, midnight
S6E62 - Series 6, Show 62
May 28, 1986, midnight
S6E63 - Series 6, Show 63
May 30, 1986, midnight
S6E64 - Series 6, Show 64
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?
June 2, 1986, midnight
S6E65 - Series 6, Show 65
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.
June 4, 1986, midnight
S6E66 - Series 6, Show 66
6 June — an important date for Bjorn Borg, Captain Scott and Steve Donoghue. Terry makes it memorable tonight.
June 6, 1986, midnight
S6E67 - Series 6, Show 67
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
June 9, 1986, midnight
S6E68 - Series 6, Show 68
June 11, 1986, midnight
S6E69 - Series 6, Show 69
June 13, 1986, midnight
S6E70 - Series 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.
June 16, 1986, midnight
S6E71 - Series 6, Show 71
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.
June 18, 1986, midnight
S6E72 - Series 6, Show 72
With Anna Ford. The roar of the greasepaint. The smell of the crowd... and they are a loud lot at the Television Theatre.
June 20, 1986, midnight
S6E73 - Series 6, Show 73
Derek Jameson presents Rod Stewart and Kiri Te Kanawa. Rod Stewart performs "Every Beat Of My Heart".
June 23, 1986, midnight
S6E74 - Series 6, Show 74
This is the week to watch if you're sick to death of seeing the Irishman three times a week.
June 25, 1986, midnight
S6E75 - Series 6, Show 75
June 27, 1986, midnight
S6E76 - Series 6, Show 76
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.
June 30, 1986, midnight
S6E77 - Series 6, Show 77
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.
July 2, 1986, midnight
S6E78 - Series 6, Show 78
Terry celebrates the Fourth of July in his own inimitable Irish way.
July 4, 1986, midnight
S6E79 - Series 6, Show 79
Terry bounds out of the shamrock-shaped Jacuzzi in his luxuriously-appointed though miniscule dressing-room, and onto the stage of the Television Theatre.
July 7, 1986, midnight
S6E80 - Series 6, Show 80
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.
July 9, 1986, midnight
S6E81 - Series 6, Show 81
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.
July 11, 1986, midnight
S6E82 - Series 6, Show 82
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.
July 14, 1986, midnight
S6E83 - Series 6, Show 83
July 16, 1986, midnight
S6E84 - Series 6, Show 84
July 18, 1986, midnight
S6E85 - Series 6, Show 85
July 21, 1986, midnight
S6E86 - Series 6, Show 86
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)
July 23, 1986, midnight
S6E87 - Series 6, Show 87
Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels
July 25, 1986, midnight
S6E88 - Series 6, Show 88
July 28, 1986, midnight
S6E89 - Series 6, Show 89
July 30, 1986, midnight
S6E90 - Series 6, Show 90
Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney
Aug. 1, 1986, midnight
S6E91 - Series 6, Show 91
Aug. 4, 1986, midnight
S6E92 - Series 6, Show 92
Aug. 6, 1986, midnight
S6E93 - Series 6, Show 93
Aug. 8, 1986, midnight
S6E94 - Series 6, Show 94
Guests include: Kenneth Branagh, Fanny Cradock, Jenny Seagrove, Tina Turner
Aug. 11, 1986, midnight
S6E95 - Series 6, Show 95
Aug. 13, 1986, midnight
S6E96 - Series 6, Show 96
Aug. 15, 1986, midnight
S6E97 - Series 6, Show 97
Aug. 18, 1986, midnight
S6E98 - Series 6, Show 98
Aug. 20, 1986, midnight
S6E99 - Series 6, Show 99
Aug. 22, 1986, midnight
S6E100 - Series 6, Show 100
Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham
Aug. 25, 1986, midnight
S6E101 - Series 6, Show 101
Aug. 27, 1986, midnight
S6E102 - Series 6, Show 102
Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle
Aug. 29, 1986, midnight
S6E103 - Series 6, Show 103
Tonight's guests: "Five Star"
Sept. 1, 1986, midnight
S6E104 - Series 6, Show 104
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.
Sept. 3, 1986, midnight
S6E105 - Series 6, Show 105
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.
Sept. 5, 1986, midnight
S6E106 - Series 6, Show 106
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?
Sept. 8, 1986, midnight
S6E107 - Series 6, Show 107
Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
Sept. 10, 1986, midnight
S6E108 - Series 6, Show 108
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.
Sept. 12, 1986, midnight
S6E109 - Series 6, Show 109
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?
Sept. 15, 1986, midnight
S6E110 - Series 6, Show 110
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.
Sept. 17, 1986, midnight
S6E111 - Series 6, Show 111
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.
Sept. 19, 1986, midnight
S6E112 - Series 6, Show 112
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.
Sept. 22, 1986, midnight
S6E113 - Series 6, Show 113
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?
Sept. 24, 1986, midnight
S6E114 - Series 6, Show 114
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?
Sept. 26, 1986, midnight
S6E115 - Series 6, Show 115
Sept. 29, 1986, midnight
S6E116 - Series 6, Show 116
A piquant peroration from Terry and his guests live at the Terryvision Theatre.
Oct. 1, 1986, midnight
S6E117 - Series 6, Show 117
A bounteous bonanza of bans mots and bonnes bouches live with Terry at the Television Theatre.
Oct. 3, 1986, midnight
S6E118 - Series 6, Show 118
Temporary resident required for empty chair in Television Theatre. Has David Frost got the job?
Oct. 6, 1986, midnight
S6E119 - Series 6, Show 119
This is the week to watch if you don't care for the eponymous hero.
Oct. 8, 1986, midnight
S6E120 - Series 6, Show 120
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.
Oct. 10, 1986, midnight
S6E121 - Series 6, Show 121
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.
Oct. 13, 1986, midnight
S6E122 - Series 6, Show 122
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.
Oct. 15, 1986, midnight
S6E123 - Series 6, Show 123
Esther Rantzen continues to keep Terry's seat warm for his return on Monday by getting her teeth into the great and the good.
Oct. 17, 1986, midnight
S6E124 - Series 6, Show 124
Terry's back in the spotlight tonight live at the Television Theatre. After interview, the British singer Kim Wilde performs "Keep Me Hanging On".
Oct. 20, 1986, midnight
S6E125 - Series 6, Show 125
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?
Oct. 22, 1986, midnight
S6E126 - Series 6, Show 126
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.
Oct. 24, 1986, midnight
S6E127 - Series 6, Show 127
Oct. 27, 1986, midnight
S6E128 - Series 6, Show 128
Buddy Rich, the guest tonight, performs "Birdland".
Oct. 29, 1986, midnight
S6E129 - Series 6, Show 129
Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV".
Oct. 31, 1986, midnight
S6E130 - Series 6, Show 130
Nov. 3, 1986, midnight
S6E131 - Series 6, Show 131
Nov. 5, 1986, midnight
S6E132 - Series 6, Show 132
Nov. 7, 1986, midnight
S6E133 - Series 6, Show 133
Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg
Nov. 10, 1986, midnight
S6E134 - Series 6, Show 134
Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle
Nov. 12, 1986, midnight
S6E135 - Series 6, Show 135
Nov. 14, 1986, midnight
S6E136 - Series 6, Show 136
Terry kicks off a special week with more matchless guests live at the Television Theatre.
Nov. 17, 1986, midnight
S6E137 - Series 6, Show 137
Halfway through the week, and Terry limbers up and gets into training for the rigours of Children in Need.
Nov. 19, 1986, midnight
S6E138 - Series 6, Show 138
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.
Nov. 24, 1986, midnight
S6E139 - Series 6, Show 139
Nov. 26, 1986, midnight
S6E140 - Series 6, Show 140
Nov. 28, 1986, midnight
S6E141 - Series 6, Show 141
Dec. 1, 1986, midnight
S6E142 - Series 6, Show 142
Dec. 3, 1986, midnight
S6E143 - Series 6, Show 143
Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch
Dec. 5, 1986, midnight
S6E144 - Series 6, Show 144
Dec. 8, 1986, midnight
S6E145 - Series 6, Show 145
Dr Wogan's live lesson in the philosophy of frivolity lasts for 35 minutes.
Dec. 10, 1986, midnight
S6E146 - Series 6, Show 146
Dec. 12, 1986, midnight
S6E147 - Series 6, Show 147
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.
Dec. 15, 1986, midnight
S6E148 - Series 6, Show 148
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?
Dec. 17, 1986, midnight
S6E149 - Series 6, Show 149
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.
Dec. 19, 1986, midnight
S6E150 - Series 6, Show 150
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".
Dec. 22, 1986, midnight
S6E151 - Series 6, Show 151
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".
Dec. 24, 1986, midnight
S6E152 - Series 6, Show 152
Dec. 29, 1986, midnight
S6E153 - Series 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!"
Dec. 31, 1986, midnight