E1 - Series 6, Show 1

Aired: January 03, 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.

E2 - Series 6, Show 2

Aired: January 06, 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.

E3 - Series 6, Show 3

Aired: January 08, 1986

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

E4 - Series 6, Show 4

Aired: January 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.

E5 - Series 6, Show 5

Aired: January 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.

E6 - Series 6, Show 6

Aired: January 15, 1986

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

E7 - Series 6, Show 7

Aired: January 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).

E8 - Series 6, Show 8

Aired: January 20, 1986

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

E9 - Series 6, Show 9

Aired: January 22, 1986

E10 - Series 6, Show 10

Aired: January 24, 1986

E11 - Series 6, Show 11

Aired: January 27, 1986

E12 - Series 6, Show 12

Aired: January 29, 1986

E13 - Series 6, Show 13

Aired: January 31, 1986

E14 - Series 6, Show 14

Aired: February 03, 1986

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

E15 - Series 6, Show 15

Aired: February 05, 1986

Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.

E16 - Series 6, Show 16

Aired: February 07, 1986

E17 - Series 6, Show 17

Aired: February 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.

E18 - Series 6, Show 18

Aired: February 12, 1986

E19 - Series 6, Show 19

Aired: February 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.

E20 - Series 6, Show 20

Aired: February 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.

E21 - Series 6, Show 21

Aired: February 19, 1986

E22 - Series 6, Show 22

Aired: February 21, 1986

E23 - Series 6, Show 23

Aired: February 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.

E24 - Series 6, Show 24

Aired: February 26, 1986

E25 - Series 6, Show 25

Aired: February 28, 1986

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

E26 - Series 6, Show 26

Aired: March 03, 1986

E27 - Series 6, Show 27

Aired: March 05, 1986

E28 - Series 6, Show 28

Aired: March 07, 1986

E29 - Series 6, Show 29

Aired: March 10, 1986

E30 - Series 6, Show 30

Aired: March 12, 1986

E31 - Series 6, Show 31

Aired: March 14, 1986

E32 - Series 6, Show 32

Aired: March 17, 1986

E33 - Series 6, Show 33

Aired: March 19, 1986

E34 - Series 6, Show 34

Aired: March 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.

E35 - Series 6, Show 35

Aired: March 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.

E36 - Series 6, Show 36

Aired: March 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.

E37 - Series 6, Show 37

Aired: March 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).

E38 - Series 6, Show 38

Aired: March 31, 1986

E39 - Series 6, Show 39

Aired: April 04, 1986

E40 - Series 6, Show 40

Aired: April 07, 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?

E41 - Series 6, Show 41

Aired: April 09, 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?

E42 - Series 6, Show 42

Aired: April 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.

E43 - Series 6, Show 43

Aired: April 14, 1986

E44 - Series 6, Show 44

Aired: April 16, 1986

E45 - Series 6, Show 45

Aired: April 18, 1986

E46 - Series 6, Show 46

Aired: April 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.

E47 - Series 6, Show 47

Aired: April 23, 1986

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

E48 - Series 6, Show 48

Aired: April 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.

E49 - Series 6, Show 49

Aired: April 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.

E50 - Series 6, Show 50

Aired: April 30, 1986

E51 - Series 6, Show 51

Aired: May 02, 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.

E52 - Series 6, Show 52

Aired: May 05, 1986

E53 - Series 6, Show 53

Aired: May 07, 1986

E54 - Series 6, Show 54

Aired: May 09, 1986

E55 - Series 6, Show 55

Aired: May 12, 1986

E56 - Series 6, Show 56

Aired: May 14, 1986

E57 - Series 6, Show 57

Aired: May 16, 1986

E58 - Series 6, Show 58

Aired: May 19, 1986

E59 - Series 6, Show 59

Aired: May 21, 1986

E60 - Series 6, Show 60

Aired: May 23, 1986

E61 - Series 6, Show 61

Aired: May 26, 1986

E62 - Series 6, Show 62

Aired: May 28, 1986

E63 - Series 6, Show 63

Aired: May 30, 1986

E64 - Series 6, Show 64

Aired: June 02, 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?

E65 - Series 6, Show 65

Aired: June 04, 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.

E66 - Series 6, Show 66

Aired: June 06, 1986

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

E67 - Series 6, Show 67

Aired: June 09, 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

E68 - Series 6, Show 68

Aired: June 11, 1986

E69 - Series 6, Show 69

Aired: June 13, 1986

E70 - Series 6, Show 70

Aired: June 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.

E71 - Series 6, Show 71

Aired: June 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.

E72 - Series 6, Show 72

Aired: June 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.

E73 - Series 6, Show 73

Aired: June 23, 1986

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

E74 - Series 6, Show 74

Aired: June 25, 1986

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

E75 - Series 6, Show 75

Aired: June 27, 1986

E76 - Series 6, Show 76

Aired: June 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.

E77 - Series 6, Show 77

Aired: July 02, 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.

E78 - Series 6, Show 78

Aired: July 04, 1986

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

E79 - Series 6, Show 79

Aired: July 07, 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.

E80 - Series 6, Show 80

Aired: July 09, 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.

E81 - Series 6, Show 81

Aired: July 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.

E82 - Series 6, Show 82

Aired: July 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.

E83 - Series 6, Show 83

Aired: July 16, 1986

E84 - Series 6, Show 84

Aired: July 18, 1986

E85 - Series 6, Show 85

Aired: July 21, 1986

E86 - Series 6, Show 86

Aired: July 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)

E87 - Series 6, Show 87

Aired: July 25, 1986

Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels

E88 - Series 6, Show 88

Aired: July 28, 1986

E89 - Series 6, Show 89

Aired: July 30, 1986

E90 - Series 6, Show 90

Aired: August 01, 1986

Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney

E91 - Series 6, Show 91

Aired: August 04, 1986

E92 - Series 6, Show 92

Aired: August 06, 1986

E93 - Series 6, Show 93

Aired: August 08, 1986

E94 - Series 6, Show 94

Aired: August 11, 1986

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

E95 - Series 6, Show 95

Aired: August 13, 1986

E96 - Series 6, Show 96

Aired: August 15, 1986

E97 - Series 6, Show 97

Aired: August 18, 1986

E98 - Series 6, Show 98

Aired: August 20, 1986

E99 - Series 6, Show 99

Aired: August 22, 1986

E100 - Series 6, Show 100

Aired: August 25, 1986

Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham

E101 - Series 6, Show 101

Aired: August 27, 1986

E102 - Series 6, Show 102

Aired: August 29, 1986

Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle

E103 - Series 6, Show 103

Aired: September 01, 1986

Tonight's guests: "Five Star"

E104 - Series 6, Show 104

Aired: September 03, 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.

E105 - Series 6, Show 105

Aired: September 05, 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.

E106 - Series 6, Show 106

Aired: September 08, 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?

E107 - Series 6, Show 107

Aired: September 10, 1986

Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.

E108 - Series 6, Show 108

Aired: September 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.

E109 - Series 6, Show 109

Aired: September 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?

E110 - Series 6, Show 110

Aired: September 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.

E111 - Series 6, Show 111

Aired: September 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.

E112 - Series 6, Show 112

Aired: September 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.

E113 - Series 6, Show 113

Aired: September 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?

E114 - Series 6, Show 114

Aired: September 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?

E115 - Series 6, Show 115

Aired: September 29, 1986

E116 - Series 6, Show 116

Aired: October 01, 1986

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

E117 - Series 6, Show 117

Aired: October 03, 1986

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

E118 - Series 6, Show 118

Aired: October 06, 1986

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

E119 - Series 6, Show 119

Aired: October 08, 1986

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

E120 - Series 6, Show 120

Aired: October 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.

E121 - Series 6, Show 121

Aired: October 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.

E122 - Series 6, Show 122

Aired: October 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.

E123 - Series 6, Show 123

Aired: October 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.

E124 - Series 6, Show 124

Aired: October 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".

E125 - Series 6, Show 125

Aired: October 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?

E126 - Series 6, Show 126

Aired: October 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.

E127 - Series 6, Show 127

Aired: October 27, 1986

E128 - Series 6, Show 128

Aired: October 29, 1986

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

E129 - Series 6, Show 129

Aired: October 31, 1986

Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV".

E130 - Series 6, Show 130

Aired: November 03, 1986

E131 - Series 6, Show 131

Aired: November 05, 1986

E132 - Series 6, Show 132

Aired: November 07, 1986

E133 - Series 6, Show 133

Aired: November 10, 1986

Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg

E134 - Series 6, Show 134

Aired: November 12, 1986

Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle

E135 - Series 6, Show 135

Aired: November 14, 1986

E136 - Series 6, Show 136

Aired: November 17, 1986

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

E137 - Series 6, Show 137

Aired: November 19, 1986

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

E138 - Series 6, Show 138

Aired: November 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.

E139 - Series 6, Show 139

Aired: November 26, 1986

E140 - Series 6, Show 140

Aired: November 28, 1986

E141 - Series 6, Show 141

Aired: December 01, 1986

E142 - Series 6, Show 142

Aired: December 03, 1986

E143 - Series 6, Show 143

Aired: December 05, 1986

Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch

E144 - Series 6, Show 144

Aired: December 08, 1986

E145 - Series 6, Show 145

Aired: December 10, 1986

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

E146 - Series 6, Show 146

Aired: December 12, 1986

E147 - Series 6, Show 147

Aired: December 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.

E148 - Series 6, Show 148

Aired: December 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?

E149 - Series 6, Show 149

Aired: December 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.

E150 - Series 6, Show 150

Aired: December 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".

E151 - Series 6, Show 151

Aired: December 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".

E152 - Series 6, Show 152

Aired: December 29, 1986

E153 - Series 6, Show 153 (New Years Eve Special)

Aired: December 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!"