6x86 - Series 6, Show 86

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)

6x87 - Series 6, Show 87

July 25, 1986

Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels

6x88 - Series 6, Show 88

July 28, 1986

6x89 - Series 6, Show 89

July 30, 1986

6x90 - Series 6, Show 90

August 1, 1986

Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney

6x91 - Series 6, Show 91

August 4, 1986

6x92 - Series 6, Show 92

August 6, 1986

6x93 - Series 6, Show 93

August 8, 1986

6x94 - Series 6, Show 94

August 11, 1986

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

6x95 - Series 6, Show 95

August 13, 1986

6x96 - Series 6, Show 96

August 15, 1986

6x97 - Series 6, Show 97

August 18, 1986

6x98 - Series 6, Show 98

August 20, 1986

6x99 - Series 6, Show 99

August 22, 1986

6x100 - Series 6, Show 100

August 25, 1986

Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham

6x101 - Series 6, Show 101

August 27, 1986

6x102 - Series 6, Show 102

August 29, 1986

Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle

6x103 - Series 6, Show 103

September 1, 1986

Tonight's guests: "Five Star"

6x104 - Series 6, Show 104

September 3, 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.

6x105 - Series 6, Show 105

September 5, 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.

6x106 - Series 6, Show 106

September 8, 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?

6x107 - Series 6, Show 107

September 10, 1986

Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.

6x108 - Series 6, Show 108

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.

6x109 - Series 6, Show 109

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?

6x110 - Series 6, Show 110

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.

6x111 - Series 6, Show 111

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.

6x112 - Series 6, Show 112

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.

6x113 - Series 6, Show 113

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?

6x114 - Series 6, Show 114

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?

6x115 - Series 6, Show 115

September 29, 1986

6x116 - Series 6, Show 116

October 1, 1986

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

6x117 - Series 6, Show 117

October 3, 1986

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

6x118 - Series 6, Show 118

October 6, 1986

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

6x119 - Series 6, Show 119

October 8, 1986

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

6x120 - Series 6, Show 120

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.

6x121 - Series 6, Show 121

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.

6x122 - Series 6, Show 122

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.

6x123 - Series 6, Show 123

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.

6x124 - Series 6, Show 124

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".

6x125 - Series 6, Show 125

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?

6x126 - Series 6, Show 126

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.

6x127 - Series 6, Show 127

October 27, 1986

6x128 - Series 6, Show 128

October 29, 1986

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

6x129 - Series 6, Show 129

October 31, 1986

Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV".

6x130 - Series 6, Show 130

November 3, 1986

6x131 - Series 6, Show 131

November 5, 1986

6x132 - Series 6, Show 132

November 7, 1986

6x133 - Series 6, Show 133

November 10, 1986

Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg

6x134 - Series 6, Show 134

November 12, 1986

Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle

6x135 - Series 6, Show 135

November 14, 1986

6x137 - Series 6, Show 137

November 19, 1986

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

6x138 - Series 6, Show 138

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.

6x139 - Series 6, Show 139

November 26, 1986

6x140 - Series 6, Show 140

November 28, 1986

6x141 - Series 6, Show 141

December 1, 1986

6x142 - Series 6, Show 142

December 3, 1986

6x143 - Series 6, Show 143

December 5, 1986

Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch

6x144 - Series 6, Show 144

December 8, 1986

6x145 - Series 6, Show 145

December 10, 1986

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

6x146 - Series 6, Show 146

December 12, 1986

6x147 - Series 6, Show 147

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.

6x148 - Series 6, Show 148

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?

6x149 - Series 6, Show 149

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.

6x150 - Series 6, Show 150

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".

6x151 - Series 6, Show 151

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".

6x152 - Series 6, Show 152

December 29, 1986

6x153 - Series 6, Show 153 (New Years Eve Special)

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!"