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.

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

6x10 - Series 6, Show 10

January 24, 1986

6x11 - Series 6, Show 11

January 27, 1986

6x12 - Series 6, Show 12

January 29, 1986

6x13 - Series 6, Show 13

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

6x22 - Series 6, Show 22

February 21, 1986

6x23 - Series 6, Show 23

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

6x25 - Series 6, Show 25

February 28, 1986

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

6x26 - Series 6, Show 26

March 3, 1986

6x27 - Series 6, Show 27

March 5, 1986

6x28 - Series 6, Show 28

March 7, 1986

6x29 - Series 6, Show 29

March 10, 1986

6x30 - Series 6, Show 30

March 12, 1986

6x31 - Series 6, Show 31

March 14, 1986

6x32 - Series 6, Show 32

March 17, 1986

6x33 - Series 6, Show 33

March 19, 1986

6x34 - Series 6, Show 34

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.

6x37 - Series 6, Show 37

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).

6x38 - Series 6, Show 38

March 31, 1986

6x39 - Series 6, Show 39

April 4, 1986

6x40 - Series 6, Show 40

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

6x44 - Series 6, Show 44

April 16, 1986

6x45 - Series 6, Show 45

April 18, 1986

6x46 - Series 6, Show 46

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

6x51 - Series 6, Show 51

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

6x53 - Series 6, Show 53

May 7, 1986

6x54 - Series 6, Show 54

May 9, 1986