Aired: February 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.
Aired: February 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.
Aired: February 22, 1985
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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".
Aired: March 25, 1985
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Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.
Aired: March 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.
Aired: April 01, 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.
Aired: April 03, 1985
Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.
Aired: April 08, 1985
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre for a Bank Holiday miscellany. Guests include: Tammy Wynette
Aired: April 10, 1985
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Wednesday wingwing.
Aired: April 12, 1985
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Friday farrago.
Aired: April 15, 1985
Terry says "Willkommen Pet" as Jimmy Nail joins him tonight for a Lumpschenkeln comparison.
Aired: April 17, 1985
Join Terry and his guests for impromptu knee-squeezing and ever-spontaneous events.
Aired: April 19, 1985
Join Terry and his guests as he flexes his thews.
Aired: April 22, 1985
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Rams, black sheep and sacrificial lambs shepherded into the Television Theatre to entertain ewe.
Aired: April 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.
Aired: May 01, 1985
Terry puts his gluteus maximus to maximum use.
Aired: May 03, 1985
Terry exercises his gastrocnemii leaping about the Television Theatre.
Aired: May 06, 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.
Aired: May 08, 1985
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Aired: May 20, 1985
Marillion make their Wogan debut and perform their new single "Kayleigh".
Aired: 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.
Aired: May 24, 1985
Dilettante and wandering baritone Terry Wogan from Surrey, England, is the finalist in tonight's live Wogan.
Aired: May 27, 1985
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The fast and furious Friday farrago live from fragrant Shepherd's Bush Green.
Aired: June 10, 1985
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Pamela Bellwood, Chris Evert, John Lloyd, Aled Jones, pop band Dead or Alive (as Musical Guest)
Aired: June 19, 1985
Guests include: John Forsythe
Aired: June 21, 1985
A little live lobbing from County Limerick's best-known tennis player, who despite many requests, will not be wearing shorts.
Aired: June 24, 1985
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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.
Aired: July 15, 1985
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Guests include: John Gordon Sinclair, Ulick O'Connor, Elizabeth Welch
Aired: July 24, 1985
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Aired: August 02, 1985
Tonight's guest: the American rock band"Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show"
Aired: August 05, 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".
Aired: August 07, 1985
Aired: August 09, 1985
Aired: August 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.
Aired: August 14, 1985
Surrealism, the Bauhaus, modernism, and now Wogan. Is art imitating life or has the cat got your tongue sandwich?
Aired: August 16, 1985
Can the cultural revolution turn on Shepherd's Bush? How many surrealists does it take to unscrew a light bulb?
Aired: August 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".
Aired: August 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.
Aired: August 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.
Aired: August 26, 1985
Cliff Richard performs 'I Still Believe In You'.
Aired: August 28, 1985
Terry propounds the second premise which follows inexorably upon the first as Wednesday follows Monday.
Aired: August 30, 1985
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Aired: September 04, 1985
Tonight: conversation and the art of Motorcycle maintenance.
Aired: September 06, 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.
Aired: September 09, 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?
Aired: September 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.
Aired: September 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.
Aired: September 16, 1985
Guests include: John Inman, Demis Roussos, Diane Simpson
Aired: September 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?
Aired: September 20, 1985
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Selina Scott presents the guests: Les Dawson, Prue Leith, Alain Prost
Aired: October 09, 1985
Aired: October 11, 1985
Aired: October 14, 1985
Terry returns from lying down in a darkened room to celebrate the 100th edition of the thrice-weekly charivaria.
Aired: October 16, 1985
Aired: October 18, 1985
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Aired: October 23, 1985
Aired: October 25, 1985
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Aired: October 30, 1985
A veritable Milky Way of megastars shine down on Terry for the Wednesday charivari.
Aired: November 01, 1985
Guests include: Steve Cram, David Rappaport, Kenneth Williams, Prefab Sprout as performer
Aired: November 04, 1985
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Jim Henson (Kermit the Frog), Michael Barrymore
Aired: December 09, 1985
Guests: John Cleese, Delia Smith, Whitney Houston as performer
Aired: December 11, 1985
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Aired: December 16, 1985
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Aired: December 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.
Aired: December 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.
Aired: December 25, 1985
Aired: December 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.
Aired: December 31, 1985