Wogan: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Wogan Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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Series 5, Show 1
Feb 18, 1985 · 35 min
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, T
Series 5, Show 2
Feb 20, 1985 · 35 min
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
Mar 22, 1985 · 35 min
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
Mar 27, 1985 · 35 min
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
Mar 29, 1985 · 35 min
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
Apr 1, 1985 · 35 min
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
Apr 3, 1985 · 35 min
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
Apr 8, 1985 · 35 min
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre for a Bank Holiday miscellany. Guests include: Tammy Wynette
Series 5, Show 22
Apr 10, 1985 · 35 min
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Wednesday wingwing.
Series 5, Show 23
Apr 12, 1985 · 35 min
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Friday farrago.
Series 5, Show 24
Apr 15, 1985 · 35 min
Terry says "Willkommen Pet" as Jimmy Nail joins him tonight for a Lumpschenkeln comparison.
Series 5, Show 25
Apr 17, 1985 · 35 min
Join Terry and his guests for impromptu knee-squeezing and ever-spontaneous events.
Series 5, Show 26
Apr 19, 1985 · 35 min
Join Terry and his guests as he flexes his thews.
Series 5, Show 29
Apr 26, 1985 · 35 min
Rams, black sheep and sacrificial lambs shepherded into the Television Theatre to entertain ewe.
Series 5, Show 30
Apr 29, 1985 · 35 min
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 32
May 3, 1985 · 35 min
Terry exercises his gastrocnemii leaping about the Television Theatre.
Series 5, Show 33
May 6, 1985 · 35 min
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
Series 5, Show 39
May 20, 1985 · 35 min
Marillion make their Wogan debut and perform their new single "Kayleigh".
Series 5, Show 40
May 22, 1985 · 35 min
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
May 24, 1985 · 35 min
Dilettante and wandering baritone Terry Wogan from Surrey, England, is the finalist in tonight's live Wogan.
Series 5, Show 47
Jun 7, 1985 · 35 min
The fast and furious Friday farrago live from fragrant Shepherd's Bush Green.
Series 5, Show 51
Jun 17, 1985 · 35 min
Pamela Bellwood, Chris Evert, John Lloyd, Aled Jones, pop band Dead or Alive (as Musical Guest)
Series 5, Show 53
Jun 21, 1985 · 35 min
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
Jul 12, 1985 · 35 min
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
Series 5, Show 66
Jul 22, 1985 · 35 min
Guests include: John Gordon Sinclair, Ulick O'Connor, Elizabeth Welch
Series 5, Show 71
Aug 2, 1985 · 35 min
Tonight's guest: the American rock band"Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show"
Series 5, Show 72
Aug 5, 1985 · 35 min
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
Series 5, Show 75
Aug 12, 1985 · 35 min
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
Aug 14, 1985 · 35 min
Surrealism, the Bauhaus, modernism, and now Wogan. Is art imitating life or has the cat got your tongue sandwich?
Series 5, Show 77
Aug 16, 1985 · 35 min
Can the cultural revolution turn on Shepherd's Bush? How many surrealists does it take to unscrew a light bulb?
Series 5, Show 78
Aug 19, 1985 · 35 min
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 tal
Series 5, Show 79
Aug 21, 1985 · 35 min
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
Aug 23, 1985 · 35 min
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 inces
Series 5, Show 81
Aug 26, 1985 · 35 min
Cliff Richard performs 'I Still Believe In You'.
Series 5, Show 82
Aug 28, 1985 · 35 min
Terry propounds the second premise which follows inexorably upon the first as Wednesday follows Monday.
Series 5, Show 85
Sep 4, 1985 · 35 min
Tonight: conversation and the art of Motorcycle maintenance.
Series 5, Show 86
Sep 6, 1985 · 35 min
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
Sep 9, 1985 · 35 min
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 s
Series 5, Show 88
Sep 11, 1985 · 35 min
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 c
Series 5, Show 89
Sep 13, 1985 · 35 min
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 chee
Series 5, Show 90
Sep 16, 1985 · 35 min
Guests include: John Inman, Demis Roussos, Diane Simpson
Series 5, Show 91
Sep 18, 1985 · 35 min
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 Wog
Series 5, Show 99
Oct 7, 1985 · 35 min
Selina Scott presents the guests: Les Dawson, Prue Leith, Alain Prost
Series 5, Show 102
Oct 14, 1985 · 35 min
Terry returns from lying down in a darkened room to celebrate the 100th edition of the thrice-weekly charivaria.
Series 5, Show 109
Oct 30, 1985 · 35 min
A veritable Milky Way of megastars shine down on Terry for the Wednesday charivari.
Series 5, Show 110
Nov 1, 1985 · 35 min
Guests include: Steve Cram, David Rappaport, Kenneth Williams, Prefab Sprout as performer
Series 5, Show 124
Dec 6, 1985 · 35 min
Jim Henson (Kermit the Frog), Michael Barrymore
Series 5, Show 125
Dec 9, 1985 · 35 min
Guests: John Cleese, Delia Smith, Whitney Houston as performer
Series 5, Show 130
Dec 20, 1985 · 35 min
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
Series 5, Show 131
Dec 23, 1985 · 35 min
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" a
Series 5, Show 133
Dec 27, 1985 · 35 min
"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.