Wogan

May 4, 1982

The first of eight programmes in 1982. Terry Wogan hosts a new late-night show with top stars from home and abroad, people in the headlines, film reports and the very best in music. With Paula Yates and tonight's special guest Bruce Forsyth.

May 11, 1982

Tonight's special guest David Frost.

May 18, 1982

Guests: Deborah Harry from "Blondie"; George Logan and Patrick Fyffe ("Hinge and Bracket"); celebrating 21 years of the British satirical magazine "Private Eye", its co-founders and editors — Richard Ingrams, William Rushton and John Wells.

May 25, 1982

Jun 1, 1982

Guests: Esther Rantzen, Leo Sayer, Victoria Wood and Geoffrey Durham (The Great Soprendo).

Jun 8, 1982

Guests include: Mike Harding

Jun 15, 1982

Guests include: Jeffrey Archer and Randy Edelman

Jun 22, 1982

Guests include: Gilbert O'Sullivan, Vincent Price, Selina Scott

Jan 15, 1983

Terry Wogan hosts a new season of his own talk show. A unique combination of Terry in conversation with top stars from home and abroad, people in the headlines and the very best in entertainment. Tonight's guests include: Ronnie Barker, James Whitaker (the 'royal watcher').

Jan 22, 1983

Guests include: Cilla Black and Len Deighton

Jan 29, 1983

Guests: John Cleese promoting "Privates on Parade", Shirley Conran, Sir Geraint Evans, and Sky.

Feb 5, 1983

Feb 12, 1983

Feb 19, 1983

Feb 26, 1983

Guests include: Patrick MacNee, Wayne Sleep with the "Dash" troupe

Mar 5, 1983

Mar 12, 1983

Guests include: Helen Reddy, Tommy Steele

Mar 19, 1983

Guests include: David Bellamy, Sir Harry Secombe

Mar 26, 1983

Guests include: Clive James, Neil Kinnock , Dolly Parton as musical guest

Apr 2, 1983

Apr 9, 1983

Guests include: Jim Davidson, Barbara Dickson, Danny La Rue

Apr 16, 1983

The last in the present series. Guests include: Rowan Atkinson, Johnny Mathis

Jan 14, 1984

Terry Wogan further hosts his own talk show. A unique combination of Terry in conversation with top stars from home and abroad, people in the headlines and the very best in entertainment. Tonight's guests include: Oscar-winning star Lee Marvin, and Pat Phoenix — one of television's most glamorous characters, best known as Elsie Tanner of Coronation Street.

Jan 21, 1984

Guests include: The Rt Hon Norman Tebbit, a member of parliament; Anthony Andrews, the actor acclaimed for his portrayal of Sebastian in Brideshead Revisited; Shakin' Stevens and Bonnie Tyler perform "A Rockin' Good Way".

Jan 28, 1984

Guests include: David Attenborough, the man who brings the human touch to the complexities of animal life on our planet Earth; Randy Crawford, one of America's top singing stars; Matthew Kelly, irrepressible funster of Game For a Laugh; and the magical touch of Paul Daniels.

Feb 4, 1984

Guests include: Tracey Ullman, Britain's most popular comedy actress and star of both Kick Up the Eighties and award-winning Three of a Kind; Brian Walden, presenter of Weekend World and former politician now the gadfly of British public life.

Feb 11, 1984

Guests include: Max Boyce, the 'boyo' from the Valleys of Wales; Bob Fosse, celebrated American choreographer and director of many films including Cabaret; and Lynn Redgrave, Hollywood star who returns for her first British sit-com series.

Feb 18, 1984

Guests include: Mel Brooks, the ascerbic writer and director; Larry Grayson, one of Britain's best-loved entertainers; "Manhattan Transfer", the stylish vocal quartet from America.

Feb 25, 1984

Guests include: Victoria Principal (Pam Ewing from the soapy Dallas) flies in to meet the saga's sternest critic; Noel Edmonds, television's most popular and personable prankster.

Mar 3, 1984

Guests include: Joan Rivers, the unpredictable, outrageous American comedienne returns to these shores; Gerald Priestland, world traveller, modern moralist, and 'guru' of contemporary problems.

Mar 10, 1984

Guests include: Roger Cook, the much-bruised investigative reporter of Radio 4's Checkpoint; David Essex, providing the music; French and Saunders, the sharp and witty female comedy duo from "The Comic Strip Presents".

Mar 17, 1984

Guests include: Bob Monkhouse, the brilliant comedian and game show host with the razor sharp wit; Stephanie Lawrence, West End star of "Evita" and "Marilyn" and soon to open in the musical "Starlight Express".

Mar 24, 1984

Guests include: Joan Collins, the international superstar whose portrayal of 'superbitch' Alexis has made Dynasty a worldwide success; Sheila Graham, the celebrated Hollywood gossip columnist and the author of Beloved Infidel — the story of her life with F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Mar 31, 1984

Cliff Richard performs 'Baby You're Dynamite' and is interviewed by Terry Wogan.

Apr 7, 1984

Guests include: Peter O'Toole, the actor and film star of such classics as Lawrence of Arabia and The Lion in Winter - soon to be seen on stage in Pygmalion; a cappella vocal group "The Flying Pickets"; Val Doonican, just back from down under with his account of what really happened at Ayers Rock.

Sep 22, 1984

Terry Wogan hosts his own talk show — a unique combination of Terry in conversation with top stars from home and abroad, people in the headlines and the very best in entertainment.

Sep 29, 1984

Oct 6, 1984

Guests include: Tony Blackburn, Joanna Lumley; George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley (Wham!)

Oct 13, 1984

Roberta Flack, Grace Jones, Nigel Rees

Oct 20, 1984

Oct 27, 1984

Nov 3, 1984

Guests include: Beryl Reid, Gore Vidal, Kim Wilde

Nov 17, 1984

Nov 24, 1984

Dec 1, 1984

Dec 8, 1984

Dec 15, 1984

Feb 18, 1985

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.

Feb 20, 1985

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.

Feb 22, 1985

Feb 25, 1985

Feb 27, 1985

Mar 1, 1985

Mar 4, 1985

Mar 6, 1985

Mar 8, 1985

Mar 11, 1985

Mar 13, 1985

Mar 15, 1985

Mar 18, 1985

Mar 20, 1985

Mar 22, 1985

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".

Mar 25, 1985

Mar 27, 1985

Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.

Mar 29, 1985

Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.

Apr 1, 1985

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.

Apr 3, 1985

Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.

Apr 8, 1985

Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre for a Bank Holiday miscellany. Guests include: Tammy Wynette

Apr 10, 1985

Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Wednesday wingwing.

Apr 12, 1985

Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Friday farrago.

Apr 15, 1985

Terry says "Willkommen Pet" as Jimmy Nail joins him tonight for a Lumpschenkeln comparison.

Apr 17, 1985

Join Terry and his guests for impromptu knee-squeezing and ever-spontaneous events.

Apr 19, 1985

Join Terry and his guests as he flexes his thews.

Apr 22, 1985

Apr 24, 1985

Apr 26, 1985

Rams, black sheep and sacrificial lambs shepherded into the Television Theatre to entertain ewe.

Apr 29, 1985

Terry exercises his masseter, temporalis and pterygoid muscles in conversation with tonight's guests: Gregory Hines, Patrick Macnee, Miriam Margolyes, Major Pat Reid.

May 1, 1985

Terry puts his gluteus maximus to maximum use.

May 3, 1985

Terry exercises his gastrocnemii leaping about the Television Theatre.

May 6, 1985

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.

May 8, 1985

May 10, 1985

May 13, 1985

May 15, 1985

May 17, 1985

May 20, 1985

Marillion make their Wogan debut and perform their new single "Kayleigh".

May 22, 1985

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.

May 24, 1985

Dilettante and wandering baritone Terry Wogan from Surrey, England, is the finalist in tonight's live Wogan.

May 27, 1985

May 29, 1985

May 31, 1985

Jun 3, 1985

Jun 5, 1985

Jun 7, 1985

The fast and furious Friday farrago live from fragrant Shepherd's Bush Green.

Jun 10, 1985

Jun 12, 1985

Jun 14, 1985

Jun 17, 1985

Pamela Bellwood, Chris Evert, John Lloyd, Aled Jones, pop band Dead or Alive (as Musical Guest)

Jun 19, 1985

Guests include: John Forsythe

Jun 21, 1985

A little live lobbing from County Limerick's best-known tennis player, who despite many requests, will not be wearing shorts.

Jun 24, 1985

Jun 26, 1985

Jun 28, 1985

Jul 1, 1985

Jul 3, 1985

Jul 5, 1985

Jul 8, 1985

Jul 10, 1985

Jul 12, 1985

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.

Jul 15, 1985

Jul 17, 1985

Jul 19, 1985

Jul 22, 1985

Guests include: John Gordon Sinclair, Ulick O'Connor, Elizabeth Welch

Jul 24, 1985

Jul 26, 1985

Jul 29, 1985

Jul 31, 1985

Aug 2, 1985

Tonight's guest: the American rock band"Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show"

Aug 5, 1985

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".

Aug 7, 1985

Aug 9, 1985

Aug 12, 1985

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.

Aug 14, 1985

Surrealism, the Bauhaus, modernism, and now Wogan. Is art imitating life or has the cat got your tongue sandwich?

Aug 16, 1985

Can the cultural revolution turn on Shepherd's Bush? How many surrealists does it take to unscrew a light bulb?

Aug 19, 1985

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".

Aug 21, 1985

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.

Aug 23, 1985

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.

Aug 26, 1985

Cliff Richard performs 'I Still Believe In You'.

Aug 28, 1985

Terry propounds the second premise which follows inexorably upon the first as Wednesday follows Monday.

Aug 30, 1985

Sep 2, 1985

Sep 4, 1985

Tonight: conversation and the art of Motorcycle maintenance.

Sep 6, 1985

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.

Sep 9, 1985

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?

Sep 11, 1985

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.

Sep 13, 1985

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.

Sep 16, 1985

Guests include: John Inman, Demis Roussos, Diane Simpson

Sep 18, 1985

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?

Sep 20, 1985

Sep 23, 1985

Sep 25, 1985

Sep 27, 1985

Sep 30, 1985

Oct 2, 1985

Oct 4, 1985

Oct 7, 1985

Selina Scott presents the guests: Les Dawson, Prue Leith, Alain Prost

Oct 9, 1985

Oct 11, 1985

Oct 14, 1985

Terry returns from lying down in a darkened room to celebrate the 100th edition of the thrice-weekly charivaria.

Oct 16, 1985

Oct 18, 1985

Oct 21, 1985

Oct 23, 1985

Oct 25, 1985

Oct 28, 1985

Oct 30, 1985

A veritable Milky Way of megastars shine down on Terry for the Wednesday charivari.

Nov 1, 1985

Guests include: Steve Cram, David Rappaport, Kenneth Williams, Prefab Sprout as performer

Nov 4, 1985

Nov 6, 1985

Nov 8, 1985

Nov 11, 1985

Nov 13, 1985

Nov 15, 1985

Nov 18, 1985

Nov 20, 1985

Nov 25, 1985

Nov 27, 1985

Nov 29, 1985

Dec 2, 1985

Dec 4, 1985

Dec 6, 1985

Jim Henson (Kermit the Frog), Michael Barrymore

Dec 9, 1985

Guests: John Cleese, Delia Smith, Whitney Houston as performer

Dec 11, 1985

Dec 13, 1985

Dec 16, 1985

Dec 18, 1985

Dec 20, 1985

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.

Dec 23, 1985

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.

Dec 25, 1985

Dec 27, 1985

"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.

Dec 31, 1985

Jan 3, 1986

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 6, 1986

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 8, 1986

Ronnie Corbett promises tall guests, small guests, tall stories and big names, with no jokes about absent Irishmen or people's height.

Jan 10, 1986

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 13, 1986

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 15, 1986

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

Jan 17, 1986

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 20, 1986

Bronzed and fit after two weeks' absence far, far away from Shepherd's Bush, Terry returns to amaze and delight you.

Jan 22, 1986

Jan 24, 1986

Jan 27, 1986

Jan 29, 1986

Jan 31, 1986

Feb 3, 1986

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

Feb 5, 1986

Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.

Feb 7, 1986

Feb 10, 1986

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 12, 1986

Feb 14, 1986

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 17, 1986

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 19, 1986

Feb 21, 1986

Feb 24, 1986

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 26, 1986

Feb 28, 1986

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

Mar 3, 1986

Mar 5, 1986

Mar 7, 1986

Mar 10, 1986

Mar 12, 1986

Mar 14, 1986

Mar 17, 1986

Mar 19, 1986

Mar 21, 1986

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.

Mar 24, 1986

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.

Mar 26, 1986

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.

Mar 28, 1986

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).

Mar 31, 1986

Apr 4, 1986

Apr 7, 1986

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?

Apr 9, 1986

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?

Apr 11, 1986

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.

Apr 14, 1986

Apr 16, 1986

Apr 18, 1986

Apr 21, 1986

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.

Apr 23, 1986

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

Apr 25, 1986

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.

Apr 28, 1986

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.

Apr 30, 1986

May 2, 1986

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 5, 1986

May 7, 1986

May 9, 1986

May 12, 1986

May 14, 1986

May 16, 1986

May 19, 1986

May 21, 1986

May 23, 1986

May 26, 1986

May 28, 1986

May 30, 1986

Jun 2, 1986

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?

Jun 4, 1986

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.

Jun 6, 1986

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

Jun 9, 1986

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

Jun 11, 1986

Jun 13, 1986

Jun 16, 1986

"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.

Jun 18, 1986

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.

Jun 20, 1986

With Anna Ford. The roar of the greasepaint. The smell of the crowd... and they are a loud lot at the Television Theatre.

Jun 23, 1986

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

Jun 25, 1986

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

Jun 27, 1986

Jun 30, 1986

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.

Jul 2, 1986

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.

Jul 4, 1986

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

Jul 7, 1986

Terry bounds out of the shamrock-shaped Jacuzzi in his luxuriously-appointed though miniscule dressing-room, and onto the stage of the Television Theatre.

Jul 9, 1986

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.

Jul 11, 1986

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.

Jul 14, 1986

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.

Jul 16, 1986

Jul 18, 1986

Jul 21, 1986

Jul 23, 1986

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)

Jul 25, 1986

Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels

Jul 28, 1986

Jul 30, 1986

Aug 1, 1986

Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney

Aug 4, 1986

Aug 6, 1986

Aug 8, 1986

Aug 11, 1986

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

Aug 13, 1986

Aug 15, 1986

Aug 18, 1986

Aug 20, 1986

Aug 22, 1986

Aug 25, 1986

Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham

Aug 27, 1986

Aug 29, 1986

Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle

Sep 1, 1986

Tonight's guests: "Five Star"

Sep 3, 1986

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.

Sep 5, 1986

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.

Sep 8, 1986

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?

Sep 10, 1986

Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.

Sep 12, 1986

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.

Sep 15, 1986

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?

Sep 17, 1986

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.

Sep 19, 1986

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.

Sep 22, 1986

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.

Sep 24, 1986

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?

Sep 26, 1986

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?

Sep 29, 1986

Oct 1, 1986

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

Oct 3, 1986

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

Oct 6, 1986

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

Oct 8, 1986

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

Oct 10, 1986

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 13, 1986

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 15, 1986

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 17, 1986

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 20, 1986

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 22, 1986

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 24, 1986

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 27, 1986

Oct 29, 1986

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

Oct 31, 1986

Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV".

Nov 3, 1986

Nov 5, 1986

Nov 7, 1986

Nov 10, 1986

Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg

Nov 12, 1986

Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle

Nov 14, 1986

Nov 17, 1986

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

Nov 19, 1986

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

Nov 24, 1986

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 26, 1986

Nov 28, 1986

Dec 1, 1986

Dec 3, 1986

Dec 5, 1986

Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch

Dec 8, 1986

Dec 10, 1986

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

Dec 12, 1986

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.

Dec 15, 1986

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 17, 1986

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 19, 1986

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 22, 1986

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 24, 1986

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 29, 1986

Dec 31, 1986

"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!"

Jan 2, 1987

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... The guest tonight: Billy Ocean

Jan 5, 1987

Jan 7, 1987

The guest tonight: Ken Bruce

Jan 9, 1987

Jan 12, 1987

Frolics and fun live from the hallowed portals of the Shepherd's Bush Empire where once the boards of the Coliseum of west London were trodden by Fred Karno, W.C. Fields, George Robey and Marie Lloyd.

Jan 14, 1987

Built in 1903, roughcast baroque with touches of art nouveau; is there something familiar in this description? It's the only monument in Shepherd's Bush that's both a listed building and an edifice dedicated to live entertainment, unless you count the grade'n'bingo hall next door.

Jan 16, 1987

On the stage once graced by Max Miller and George Formby join Terry live as the audience in the Television Theatre.

Jan 19, 1987

Cliff Richard interview

Jan 21, 1987

Jan 23, 1987

Tonight guests: Patrick Macnee, Honor Blackman

Jan 26, 1987

Tonight guest: Randy Crawford

Jan 28, 1987

Even when icicles hang by the wall, Terry warms to the prospect of good conversation with more guests.

Jan 30, 1987

Feb 2, 1987

Feb 4, 1987

Feb 6, 1987

Terry leaps into the weekend accompanied by the good and the great who are his guests tonight, live from London.

Feb 9, 1987

Feb 11, 1987

Feb 13, 1987

Feb 16, 1987

Feb 18, 1987

Feb 20, 1987

Feb 23, 1987

Join Terry's guest host Derek Jameson live at the Television Theatre as he talks to people in the news, presents the best in entertainment and springs the occasional surprise.

Feb 25, 1987

Join Terry's guest host Derek Jameson and his guests for conversation and entertainment, live from the Television Theatre.

Feb 27, 1987

Derek Jameson presents the guests tonight

Mar 2, 1987

In Terry's absence, Bruce Forsyth makes a welcome return to BBC television to present a week of conversation, comedy and music in his own inimitable style.

Mar 4, 1987

Bruce Forsyth continues to hold the fort while Terry's away with more conversation, comedy and music.

Mar 6, 1987

Bruce Forsyth presents another mixture of conversation, comedy and music and attempts to leave everything spick and span pending Terry's return.

Mar 9, 1987

Join Terry live at the Television Theatre as he talks to Teri Garr, Burl Ives, Kenneth Williams

Mar 11, 1987

Mar 13, 1987

Mar 16, 1987

Terry Wogan hosts the guests tonight: Bob Monkhouse and Kim Wilde with Junior Giscombe

Mar 18, 1987

Mar 20, 1987

Mar 23, 1987

Mar 25, 1987

Mar 27, 1987

Mar 30, 1987

Join Terry and his guests for conversation and entertainment, live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see the first two entries for A Song for Europe.

Apr 1, 1987

Join Terry live at the Television Theatre. With a chance to see two more entries for A Song for Europe.

Apr 3, 1987

Join Terry live at the Television Theatre. With a chance to see two more entries for A Song for Europe.

Apr 6, 1987

Join Terry live at the Television Theatre. With a chance to see two more entries for A Song for Europe.

Apr 8, 1987

Join Terry live at the Television Theatre. With a chance to see two more entries for A Song for Europe.

Apr 13, 1987

Apr 15, 1987

Apr 17, 1987

Tonight, the star of "20000 Leagues Under the Sea", "Spartacus" and "Gunfight at the OK Corral" — the legendary actor Kirk Douglas — in conversation with the almost-as-legendary Terry Wogan.

Apr 20, 1987

Over the years Max Bygraves and James Last have been awarded over 200 gold discs. Tonight, in a special holiday programme, Terry talks to them both and brings together their popular musical talents in performance for the first time. In fact, at Last, it's Max.

Apr 22, 1987

Apr 24, 1987