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August 9, 1985

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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.

5x76 - Series 5, Show 76

August 14, 1985

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

5x77 - Series 5, Show 77

August 16, 1985

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

5x78 - Series 5, Show 78

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".

5x79 - Series 5, Show 79

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.

5x80 - Series 5, Show 80

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.

5x81 - Series 5, Show 81

August 26, 1985

Cliff Richard performs 'I Still Believe In You'.

5x82 - Series 5, Show 82

August 28, 1985

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

5x83 - Series 5, Show 83

August 30, 1985

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September 2, 1985

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September 4, 1985

Tonight: conversation and the art of Motorcycle maintenance.

5x86 - Series 5, Show 86

September 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.

5x87 - Series 5, Show 87

September 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?

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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.

5x89 - Series 5, Show 89

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.

5x90 - Series 5, Show 90

September 16, 1985

Guests include: John Inman, Demis Roussos, Diane Simpson

5x91 - Series 5, Show 91

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?

5x92 - Series 5, Show 92

September 20, 1985

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September 23, 1985

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September 25, 1985

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September 27, 1985

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September 30, 1985

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October 2, 1985

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October 4, 1985

5x99 - Series 5, Show 99

October 7, 1985

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

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October 9, 1985

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October 11, 1985

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October 14, 1985

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

5x103 - Series 5, Show 103

October 16, 1985

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October 18, 1985

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October 21, 1985

5x106 - Series 5, Show 106

October 23, 1985

5x107 - Series 5, Show 107

October 25, 1985

5x108 - Series 5, Show 108

October 28, 1985

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October 30, 1985

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

5x110 - Series 5, Show 110

November 1, 1985

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

5x111 - Series 5, Show 111

November 4, 1985

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November 6, 1985

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November 8, 1985

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November 11, 1985

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November 13, 1985

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November 15, 1985

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November 18, 1985

5x118 - Series 5, Show 118

November 20, 1985

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November 25, 1985

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November 27, 1985

5x121 - Series 5, Show 121

November 29, 1985

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December 2, 1985

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December 4, 1985

5x125 - Series 5, Show 125

December 9, 1985

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

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December 11, 1985

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December 13, 1985

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December 16, 1985

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December 18, 1985

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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.

5x131 - Series 5, Show 131

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.

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December 25, 1985

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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.

5x134 - Series 5, Show 134

December 31, 1985