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134 episodesSeries 5, Show 1
The first edition of thrice-weekly TV show live from the Television Theatre on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Tonight's guests include: Elton John, Wendy Richard, Rory Bremner, Tina Turner.
Series 5, Show 2
Guests: David Cassidy, Sue Cooke, Kathy Flower, Samantha Fox, Joanna Lumley, Ian McKellern. Samantha Fox grants interview about her future career plans as a topless model.
Series 5, Show 15
Including an interview with HRH The Princess Anne (Mrs Mark Phillips that time). The British band Frankie Goes to Hollywood performs "Welcome to the Pleasuredome".
Series 5, Show 17
Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.
Series 5, Show 18
Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.
Series 5, Show 19
Join the old fool on April Fool's Day for a foolish 40 minutes of tomfoolery. With a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.
Series 5, Show 20
Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.
Series 5, Show 21
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre for a Bank Holiday miscellany. Guests include: Tammy Wynette
Series 5, Show 22
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Wednesday wingwing.
Series 5, Show 23
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Friday farrago.
Series 5, Show 24
Terry says "Willkommen Pet" as Jimmy Nail joins him tonight for a Lumpschenkeln comparison.
Series 5, Show 25
Join Terry and his guests for impromptu knee-squeezing and ever-spontaneous events.
Series 5, Show 26
Join Terry and his guests as he flexes his thews.
Series 5, Show 29
Rams, black sheep and sacrificial lambs shepherded into the Television Theatre to entertain ewe.
Series 5, Show 30
Terry exercises his masseter, temporalis and pterygoid muscles in conversation with tonight's guests: Gregory Hines, Patrick Macnee, Miriam Margolyes, Major Pat Reid.
Series 5, Show 31
Terry puts his gluteus maximus to maximum use.
Series 5, Show 32
Terry exercises his gastrocnemii leaping about the Television Theatre.
Series 5, Show 33
Phil Collins performs "One More Night" at the piano and chats to Terry about his busy schedule, including his recent tour in Japan, getting offered a part in Miami Vice (1984) and his experience at the Oscars.
Series 5, Show 39
Marillion make their Wogan debut and perform their new single "Kayleigh".
Series 5, Show 40
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.
Series 5, Show 41
Dilettante and wandering baritone Terry Wogan from Surrey, England, is the finalist in tonight's live Wogan.
Series 5, Show 47
The fast and furious Friday farrago live from fragrant Shepherd's Bush Green.
Series 5, Show 51
Pamela Bellwood, Chris Evert, John Lloyd, Aled Jones, pop band Dead or Alive (as Musical Guest)
Series 5, Show 52
Guests include: John Forsythe
Series 5, Show 53
A little live lobbing from County Limerick's best-known tennis player, who despite many requests, will not be wearing shorts.
Series 5, Show 62
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.
Series 5, Show 66
Guests include: John Gordon Sinclair, Ulick O'Connor, Elizabeth Welch
Series 5, Show 71
Tonight's guest: the American rock band"Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show"
Series 5, Show 72
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".
Series 5, Show 75
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.
Series 5, Show 76
Surrealism, the Bauhaus, modernism, and now Wogan. Is art imitating life or has the cat got your tongue sandwich?
Series 5, Show 77
Can the cultural revolution turn on Shepherd's Bush? How many surrealists does it take to unscrew a light bulb?
Series 5, Show 78
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".
Series 5, Show 79
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.
Series 5, Show 80
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.
Series 5, Show 81
Cliff Richard performs 'I Still Believe In You'.
Series 5, Show 82
Terry propounds the second premise which follows inexorably upon the first as Wednesday follows Monday.
Series 5, Show 85
Tonight: conversation and the art of Motorcycle maintenance.
Series 5, Show 86
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.
Series 5, Show 87
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?
Series 5, Show 88
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.
Series 5, Show 89
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.
Series 5, Show 90
Guests include: John Inman, Demis Roussos, Diane Simpson
Series 5, Show 91
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?
Series 5, Show 99
Selina Scott presents the guests: Les Dawson, Prue Leith, Alain Prost
Series 5, Show 102
Terry returns from lying down in a darkened room to celebrate the 100th edition of the thrice-weekly charivaria.
Series 5, Show 109
A veritable Milky Way of megastars shine down on Terry for the Wednesday charivari.
Series 5, Show 110
Guests include: Steve Cram, David Rappaport, Kenneth Williams, Prefab Sprout as performer
Series 5, Show 124
Jim Henson (Kermit the Frog), Michael Barrymore
Series 5, Show 125
Guests: John Cleese, Delia Smith, Whitney Houston as performer
Series 5, Show 130
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.
Series 5, Show 131
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.
Series 5, Show 133
"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.