6x1 - Series 6, Show 1

January 3, 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.

6x2 - Series 6, Show 2

January 6, 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.

6x3 - Series 6, Show 3

January 8, 1986

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

6x4 - Series 6, Show 4

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.

6x5 - Series 6, Show 5

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.

6x6 - Series 6, Show 6

January 15, 1986

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

6x7 - Series 6, Show 7

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).

6x8 - Series 6, Show 8

January 20, 1986

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

6x9 - Series 6, Show 9

January 22, 1986

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January 24, 1986

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January 27, 1986

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January 29, 1986

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January 31, 1986

6x14 - Series 6, Show 14

February 3, 1986

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

6x15 - Series 6, Show 15

February 5, 1986

Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.

6x16 - Series 6, Show 16

February 7, 1986

6x17 - Series 6, Show 17

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.

6x18 - Series 6, Show 18

February 12, 1986

6x19 - Series 6, Show 19

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.

6x20 - Series 6, Show 20

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.

6x21 - Series 6, Show 21

February 19, 1986

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February 21, 1986

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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.

6x24 - Series 6, Show 24

February 26, 1986

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February 28, 1986

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

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March 3, 1986

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March 5, 1986

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March 7, 1986

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March 10, 1986

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March 12, 1986

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March 14, 1986

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March 17, 1986

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March 19, 1986

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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.

6x35 - Series 6, Show 35

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.

6x36 - Series 6, Show 36

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.

6x38 - Series 6, Show 38

March 31, 1986

6x39 - Series 6, Show 39

April 4, 1986

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April 7, 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?

6x41 - Series 6, Show 41

April 9, 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?

6x42 - Series 6, Show 42

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.

6x43 - Series 6, Show 43

April 14, 1986

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April 16, 1986

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April 18, 1986

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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.

6x47 - Series 6, Show 47

April 23, 1986

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

6x48 - Series 6, Show 48

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.

6x49 - Series 6, Show 49

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.

6x50 - Series 6, Show 50

April 30, 1986

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May 2, 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.

6x52 - Series 6, Show 52

May 5, 1986

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May 7, 1986

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May 9, 1986

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May 12, 1986

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May 14, 1986

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May 16, 1986

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May 19, 1986

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May 21, 1986

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May 23, 1986

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May 26, 1986

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May 28, 1986

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May 30, 1986

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June 2, 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?

6x65 - Series 6, Show 65

June 4, 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.

6x66 - Series 6, Show 66

June 6, 1986

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

6x67 - Series 6, Show 67

June 9, 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

6x68 - Series 6, Show 68

June 11, 1986

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June 13, 1986

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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.

6x71 - Series 6, Show 71

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.

6x72 - Series 6, Show 72

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.

6x73 - Series 6, Show 73

June 23, 1986

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

6x74 - Series 6, Show 74

June 25, 1986

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

6x75 - Series 6, Show 75

June 27, 1986

6x76 - Series 6, Show 76

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.

6x77 - Series 6, Show 77

July 2, 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.

6x78 - Series 6, Show 78

July 4, 1986

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

6x79 - Series 6, Show 79

July 7, 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.

6x80 - Series 6, Show 80

July 9, 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.

6x81 - Series 6, Show 81

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.

6x82 - Series 6, Show 82

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.

6x83 - Series 6, Show 83

July 16, 1986

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July 18, 1986

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July 21, 1986

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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