5x40 - Series 5, Show 40

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.

5x41 - Series 5, Show 41

May 24, 1985

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

5x42 - Series 5, Show 42

May 27, 1985

5x43 - Series 5, Show 43

May 29, 1985

5x44 - Series 5, Show 44

May 31, 1985

5x45 - Series 5, Show 45

June 3, 1985

5x46 - Series 5, Show 46

June 5, 1985

5x47 - Series 5, Show 47

June 7, 1985

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

5x48 - Series 5, Show 48

June 10, 1985

5x49 - Series 5, Show 49

June 12, 1985

5x50 - Series 5, Show 50

June 14, 1985

5x51 - Series 5, Show 51

June 17, 1985

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

5x52 - Series 5, Show 52

June 19, 1985

Guests include: John Forsythe

5x53 - Series 5, Show 53

June 21, 1985

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

5x54 - Series 5, Show 54

June 24, 1985

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June 26, 1985

5x56 - Series 5, Show 56

June 28, 1985

5x57 - Series 5, Show 57

July 1, 1985

5x58 - Series 5, Show 58

July 3, 1985

5x59 - Series 5, Show 59

July 5, 1985

5x60 - Series 5, Show 60

July 8, 1985

5x61 - Series 5, Show 61

July 10, 1985

5x62 - Series 5, Show 62

July 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.

5x63 - Series 5, Show 63

July 15, 1985

5x64 - Series 5, Show 64

July 17, 1985

5x65 - Series 5, Show 65

July 19, 1985

5x66 - Series 5, Show 66

July 22, 1985

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

5x67 - Series 5, Show 67

July 24, 1985

5x68 - Series 5, Show 68

July 26, 1985

5x69 - Series 5, Show 69

July 29, 1985

5x70 - Series 5, Show 70

July 31, 1985

5x71 - Series 5, Show 71

August 2, 1985

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

5x72 - Series 5, Show 72

August 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".

5x73 - Series 5, Show 73 (Compilation)

August 7, 1985

5x74 - Series 5, Show 74

August 9, 1985

5x75 - Series 5, Show 75

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

5x84 - Series 5, Show 84

September 2, 1985

5x85 - Series 5, Show 85

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?

5x88 - Series 5, Show 88

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.

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

5x93 - Series 5, Show 93

September 23, 1985

5x94 - Series 5, Show 94

September 25, 1985

5x95 - Series 5, Show 95

September 27, 1985

5x96 - Series 5, Show 96

September 30, 1985

5x97 - Series 5, Show 97

October 2, 1985

5x98 - Series 5, Show 98

October 4, 1985

5x99 - Series 5, Show 99

October 7, 1985

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

5x100 - Series 5, Show 100

October 9, 1985

5x101 - Series 5, Show 101

October 11, 1985

5x102 - Series 5, Show 102

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

5x104 - Series 5, Show 104

October 18, 1985

5x105 - Series 5, Show 105

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

5x109 - Series 5, Show 109

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

5x112 - Series 5, Show 112

November 6, 1985

5x113 - Series 5, Show 113

November 8, 1985

5x114 - Series 5, Show 114

November 11, 1985

5x115 - Series 5, Show 115

November 13, 1985

5x116 - Series 5, Show 116

November 15, 1985

5x117 - Series 5, Show 117

November 18, 1985

5x118 - Series 5, Show 118

November 20, 1985

5x119 - Series 5, Show 119

November 25, 1985

5x120 - Series 5, Show 120

November 27, 1985

5x121 - Series 5, Show 121

November 29, 1985

5x122 - Series 5, Show 122

December 2, 1985

5x123 - Series 5, Show 123

December 4, 1985

5x124 - Series 5, Show 124

December 6, 1985

Jim Henson (Kermit the Frog), Michael Barrymore

5x125 - Series 5, Show 125

December 9, 1985

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

5x126 - Series 5, Show 126

December 11, 1985

5x127 - Series 5, Show 127

December 13, 1985

5x128 - Series 5, Show 128

December 16, 1985

5x129 - Series 5, Show 129

December 18, 1985

5x130 - Series 5, Show 130

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.

5x132 - Series 5, Show 132

December 25, 1985

5x133 - Series 5, Show 133

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