Season 6

01 Series 6, Show 1 Episode 13rd January 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. 02 Series 6, Show 2 Episode 26th January 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. 03 Series 6, Show 3 Episode 38th January 1986 Ronnie Corbett promises tall guests, small guests, tall stories and big names, with no jokes about absent Irishmen or people's height. 04 Series 6, Show 4 Episode 410th January 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. 05 Series 6, Show 5 Episode 513th January 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. 06 Series 6, Show 6 Episode 615th January 1986 Felicity Kendal didn't realise that watering the plants in Terry's dressing-room could take most of the day. 07 Series 6, Show 7 Episode 717th January 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). 08 Series 6, Show 8 Episode 820th January 1986 Bronzed and fit after two weeks' absence far, far away from Shepherd's Bush, Terry returns to amaze and delight you. 09 Series 6, Show 9 Episode 922nd January 1986 10 Series 6, Show 10 Episode 1024th January 1986 11 Series 6, Show 11 Episode 1127th January 1986 12 Series 6, Show 12 Episode 1229th January 1986 13 Series 6, Show 13 Episode 1331st January 1986 14 Series 6, Show 14 Episode 143rd February 1986 Welcome to the first frolic of February live from the TV Theatre. 15 Series 6, Show 15 Episode 155th February 1986 Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight. 16 Series 6, Show 16 Episode 167th February 1986 17 Series 6, Show 17 Episode 1710th February 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. 18 Series 6, Show 18 Episode 1812th February 1986 19 Series 6, Show 19 Episode 1914th February 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. 20 Series 6, Show 20 Episode 2017th February 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. 21 Series 6, Show 21 Episode 2119th February 1986 22 Series 6, Show 22 Episode 2221st February 1986 23 Series 6, Show 23 Episode 2324th February 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. 24 Series 6, Show 24 Episode 2426th February 1986 25 Series 6, Show 25 Episode 2528th February 1986 Guests include: Ian Charleson, Angela Fox, Edward Fox, James Fox, Robert Fox 26 Series 6, Show 26 Episode 263rd March 1986 27 Series 6, Show 27 Episode 275th March 1986 28 Series 6, Show 28 Episode 287th March 1986 29 Series 6, Show 29 Episode 2910th March 1986 30 Series 6, Show 30 Episode 3012th March 1986 31 Series 6, Show 31 Episode 3114th March 1986 32 Series 6, Show 32 Episode 3217th March 1986 33 Series 6, Show 33 Episode 3319th March 1986 34 Series 6, Show 34 Episode 3421st March 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. 35 Series 6, Show 35 Episode 3524th March 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. 36 Series 6, Show 36 Episode 3626th March 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. 37 Series 6, Show 37 Episode 3728th March 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). 38 Series 6, Show 38 Episode 3831st March 1986 39 Series 6, Show 39 Episode 394th April 1986 40 Series 6, Show 40 Episode 407th April 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? 41 Series 6, Show 41 Episode 419th April 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? 42 Series 6, Show 42 Episode 4211th April 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. 43 Series 6, Show 43 Episode 4314th April 1986 44 Series 6, Show 44 Episode 4416th April 1986 45 Series 6, Show 45 Episode 4518th April 1986 46 Series 6, Show 46 Episode 4621st April 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. 47 Series 6, Show 47 Episode 4723rd April 1986 Kenneth Williams hosts tonight's programme. Guests: Stephen Fry, Steve Hollings, Michael Palin, Barbara Windsor, Hank B. Marvin. 48 Series 6, Show 48 Episode 4825th April 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. 49 Series 6, Show 49 Episode 4928th April 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. 50 Series 6, Show 50 Episode 5030th April 1986 51 Series 6, Show 51 Episode 512nd May 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. 52 Series 6, Show 52 Episode 525th May 1986 53 Series 6, Show 53 Episode 537th May 1986 54 Series 6, Show 54 Episode 549th May 1986 55 Series 6, Show 55 Episode 5512th May 1986 56 Series 6, Show 56 Episode 5614th May 1986 57 Series 6, Show 57 Episode 5716th May 1986 58 Series 6, Show 58 Episode 5819th May 1986 59 Series 6, Show 59 Episode 5921st May 1986 60 Series 6, Show 60 Episode 6023rd May 1986 61 Series 6, Show 61 Episode 6126th May 1986 62 Series 6, Show 62 Episode 6228th May 1986 63 Series 6, Show 63 Episode 6330th May 1986 64 Series 6, Show 64 Episode 642nd June 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? 65 Series 6, Show 65 Episode 654th June 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. 66 Series 6, Show 66 Episode 666th June 1986 6 June — an important date for Bjorn Borg, Captain Scott and Steve Donoghue. Terry makes it memorable tonight. 67 Series 6, Show 67 Episode 679th June 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 68 Series 6, Show 68 Episode 6811th June 1986 69 Series 6, Show 69 Episode 6913th June 1986 70 Series 6, Show 70 Episode 7016th June 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. 71 Series 6, Show 71 Episode 7118th June 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. 72 Series 6, Show 72 Episode 7220th June 1986 With Anna Ford. The roar of the greasepaint. The smell of the crowd... and they are a loud lot at the Television Theatre. 73 Series 6, Show 73 Episode 7323rd June 1986 Derek Jameson presents Rod Stewart and Kiri Te Kanawa. Rod Stewart performs "Every Beat Of My Heart". 74 Series 6, Show 74 Episode 7425th June 1986 This is the week to watch if you're sick to death of seeing the Irishman three times a week. 75 Series 6, Show 75 Episode 7527th June 1986 76 Series 6, Show 76 Episode 7630th June 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. 77 Series 6, Show 77 Episode 772nd July 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. 78 Series 6, Show 78 Episode 784th July 1986 Terry celebrates the Fourth of July in his own inimitable Irish way. 79 Series 6, Show 79 Episode 797th July 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. 80 Series 6, Show 80 Episode 809th July 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. 81 Series 6, Show 81 Episode 8111th July 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. 82 Series 6, Show 82 Episode 8214th July 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. 83 Series 6, Show 83 Episode 8316th July 1986 84 Series 6, Show 84 Episode 8418th July 1986 85 Series 6, Show 85 Episode 8521st July 1986 86 Series 6, Show 86 Episode 8623rd July 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) 87 Series 6, Show 87 Episode 8725th July 1986 Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels 88 Series 6, Show 88 Episode 8828th July 1986 89 Series 6, Show 89 Episode 8930th July 1986 90 Series 6, Show 90 Episode 901st August 1986 Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney 91 Series 6, Show 91 Episode 914th August 1986 92 Series 6, Show 92 Episode 926th August 1986 93 Series 6, Show 93 Episode 938th August 1986 94 Series 6, Show 94 Episode 9411th August 1986 Guests include: Kenneth Branagh, Fanny Cradock, Jenny Seagrove, Tina Turner 95 Series 6, Show 95 Episode 9513th August 1986 96 Series 6, Show 96 Episode 9615th August 1986 97 Series 6, Show 97 Episode 9718th August 1986 98 Series 6, Show 98 Episode 9820th August 1986 99 Series 6, Show 99 Episode 9922nd August 1986 100 Series 6, Show 100 Episode 10025th August 1986 Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham 101 Series 6, Show 101 Episode 10127th August 1986 102 Series 6, Show 102 Episode 10229th August 1986 Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle 103 Series 6, Show 103 Episode 1031st September 1986 Tonight's guests: "Five Star" 104 Series 6, Show 104 Episode 1043rd September 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. 105 Series 6, Show 105 Episode 1055th September 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. 106 Series 6, Show 106 Episode 1068th September 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? 107 Series 6, Show 107 Episode 10710th September 1986 Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance. 108 Series 6, Show 108 Episode 10812th September 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. 109 Series 6, Show 109 Episode 10915th September 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? 110 Series 6, Show 110 Episode 11017th September 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. 111 Series 6, Show 111 Episode 11119th September 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. 112 Series 6, Show 112 Episode 11222nd September 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. 113 Series 6, Show 113 Episode 11324th September 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? 114 Series 6, Show 114 Episode 11426th September 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? 115 Series 6, Show 115 Episode 11529th September 1986 116 Series 6, Show 116 Episode 1161st October 1986 A piquant peroration from Terry and his guests live at the Terryvision Theatre. 117 Series 6, Show 117 Episode 1173rd October 1986 A bounteous bonanza of bans mots and bonnes bouches live with Terry at the Television Theatre. 118 Series 6, Show 118 Episode 1186th October 1986 Temporary resident required for empty chair in Television Theatre. Has David Frost got the job? 119 Series 6, Show 119 Episode 1198th October 1986 This is the week to watch if you don't care for the eponymous hero. 120 Series 6, Show 120 Episode 12010th October 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. 121 Series 6, Show 121 Episode 12113th October 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. 122 Series 6, Show 122 Episode 12215th October 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. 123 Series 6, Show 123 Episode 12317th October 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. 124 Series 6, Show 124 Episode 12420th October 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". 125 Series 6, Show 125 Episode 12522nd October 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? 126 Series 6, Show 126 Episode 12624th October 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. 127 Series 6, Show 127 Episode 12727th October 1986 128 Series 6, Show 128 Episode 12829th October 1986 Buddy Rich, the guest tonight, performs "Birdland". 129 Series 6, Show 129 Episode 12931st October 1986 Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV". 130 Series 6, Show 130 Episode 1303rd November 1986 131 Series 6, Show 131 Episode 1315th November 1986 132 Series 6, Show 132 Episode 1327th November 1986 133 Series 6, Show 133 Episode 13310th November 1986 Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg 134 Series 6, Show 134 Episode 13412th November 1986 Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle 135 Series 6, Show 135 Episode 13514th November 1986 136 Series 6, Show 136 Episode 13617th November 1986 Terry kicks off a special week with more matchless guests live at the Television Theatre. 137 Series 6, Show 137 Episode 13719th November 1986 Halfway through the week, and Terry limbers up and gets into training for the rigours of Children in Need. 138 Series 6, Show 138 Episode 13824th November 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. 139 Series 6, Show 139 Episode 13926th November 1986 140 Series 6, Show 140 Episode 14028th November 1986 141 Series 6, Show 141 Episode 1411st December 1986 142 Series 6, Show 142 Episode 1423rd December 1986 143 Series 6, Show 143 Episode 1435th December 1986 Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch 144 Series 6, Show 144 Episode 1448th December 1986 145 Series 6, Show 145 Episode 14510th December 1986 Dr Wogan's live lesson in the philosophy of frivolity lasts for 35 minutes. 146 Series 6, Show 146 Episode 14612th December 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. 147 Series 6, Show 147 Episode 14715th December 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. 148 Series 6, Show 148 Episode 14817th December 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? 149 Series 6, Show 149 Episode 14919th December 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. 150 Series 6, Show 150 Episode 15022nd December 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". 151 Series 6, Show 151 Episode 15124th December 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". 152 Series 6, Show 152 Episode 15229th December 1986 153 Series 6, Show 153 (New Years Eve Special) Episode 15331st December 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!"