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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).

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March 31, 1986

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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?

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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?

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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.

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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.

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April 23, 1986

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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June 27, 1986

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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.

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July 4, 1986

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

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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.

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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.

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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)

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July 28, 1986

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July 30, 1986

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August 1, 1986

Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney

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August 4, 1986

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August 6, 1986

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August 8, 1986

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August 11, 1986

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

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August 13, 1986

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August 15, 1986

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August 18, 1986

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August 20, 1986

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August 22, 1986

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August 25, 1986

Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham

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August 27, 1986

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August 29, 1986

Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle

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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.

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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?

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September 29, 1986

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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.

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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.

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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.

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October 27, 1986

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October 29, 1986

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

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October 31, 1986

Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV".

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November 3, 1986

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November 5, 1986

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November 7, 1986

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November 10, 1986

Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg

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November 12, 1986

Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle

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November 14, 1986

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November 17, 1986

Terry kicks off a special week with more matchless guests live at the Television Theatre.

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.