Wogan: Season 6
Season 6 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 5.
- 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
Season 6 Progress Shield
Series 6, Show 1
Jan 3, 1986 · 35 min
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
Series 6, Show 2
Jan 6, 1986 · 35 min
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.
Series 6, Show 3
Jan 8, 1986 · 35 min
Ronnie Corbett promises tall guests, small guests, tall stories and big names, with no jokes about absent Irishmen or people's height.
Series 6, Show 4
Jan 10, 1986 · 35 min
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.
Series 6, Show 5
Jan 13, 1986 · 35 min
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 elem
Series 6, Show 6
Jan 15, 1986 · 35 min
Felicity Kendal didn't realise that watering the plants in Terry's dressing-room could take most of the day.
Series 6, Show 7
Jan 17, 1986 · 35 min
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 S
Series 6, Show 8
Jan 20, 1986 · 35 min
Bronzed and fit after two weeks' absence far, far away from Shepherd's Bush, Terry returns to amaze and delight you.
Series 6, Show 14
Feb 3, 1986 · 35 min
Welcome to the first frolic of February live from the TV Theatre.
Series 6, Show 15
Feb 5, 1986 · 35 min
Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.
Series 6, Show 17
Feb 10, 1986 · 35 min
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
Series 6, Show 19
Feb 14, 1986 · 35 min
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 G
Series 6, Show 20
Feb 17, 1986 · 35 min
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 velotruck
Series 6, Show 23
Feb 24, 1986 · 35 min
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.
Series 6, Show 25
Feb 28, 1986 · 35 min
Guests include: Ian Charleson, Angela Fox, Edward Fox, James Fox, Robert Fox
Series 6, Show 34
Mar 21, 1986 · 35 min
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.
Series 6, Show 35
Mar 24, 1986 · 35 min
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.
Series 6, Show 36
Mar 26, 1986 · 35 min
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 1000
Series 6, Show 37
Mar 28, 1986 · 35 min
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).
Series 6, Show 40
Apr 7, 1986 · 35 min
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 mon
Series 6, Show 41
Apr 9, 1986 · 35 min
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
Series 6, Show 42
Apr 11, 1986 · 35 min
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, kil
Series 6, Show 46
Apr 21, 1986 · 35 min
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
Series 6, Show 47
Apr 23, 1986 · 35 min
Kenneth Williams hosts tonight's programme. Guests: Stephen Fry, Steve Hollings, Michael Palin, Barbara Windsor, Hank B. Marvin.
Series 6, Show 48
Apr 25, 1986 · 35 min
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
Series 6, Show 49
Apr 28, 1986 · 35 min
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.
Series 6, Show 51
May 2, 1986 · 35 min
The international jet setter gets ready for a foray to foreign parts, but promises to stick around long enough to do tonight's programme.
Series 6, Show 64
Jun 2, 1986 · 35 min
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?
Series 6, Show 65
Jun 4, 1986 · 35 min
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
Series 6, Show 66
Jun 6, 1986 · 35 min
6 June — an important date for Bjorn Borg, Captain Scott and Steve Donoghue. Terry makes it memorable tonight.
Series 6, Show 67
Jun 9, 1986 · 35 min
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 gue
Series 6, Show 70
Jun 16, 1986 · 35 min
"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 get
Series 6, Show 71
Jun 18, 1986 · 35 min
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.
Series 6, Show 72
Jun 20, 1986 · 35 min
With Anna Ford. The roar of the greasepaint. The smell of the crowd... and they are a loud lot at the Television Theatre.
Series 6, Show 73
Jun 23, 1986 · 35 min
Derek Jameson presents Rod Stewart and Kiri Te Kanawa. Rod Stewart performs "Every Beat Of My Heart".
Series 6, Show 74
Jun 25, 1986 · 35 min
This is the week to watch if you're sick to death of seeing the Irishman three times a week.
Series 6, Show 76
Jun 30, 1986 · 35 min
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.
Series 6, Show 77
Jul 2, 1986 · 35 min
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 t
Series 6, Show 78
Jul 4, 1986 · 35 min
Terry celebrates the Fourth of July in his own inimitable Irish way.
Series 6, Show 79
Jul 7, 1986 · 35 min
Terry bounds out of the shamrock-shaped Jacuzzi in his luxuriously-appointed though miniscule dressing-room, and onto the stage of the Television Theatre.
Series 6, Show 80
Jul 9, 1986 · 35 min
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 Car
Series 6, Show 81
Jul 11, 1986 · 35 min
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.
Series 6, Show 82
Jul 14, 1986 · 35 min
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, Gor
Series 6, Show 86
Jul 23, 1986 · 35 min
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
Series 6, Show 90
Aug 1, 1986 · 35 min
Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney
Series 6, Show 94
Aug 11, 1986 · 35 min
Guests include: Kenneth Branagh, Fanny Cradock, Jenny Seagrove, Tina Turner
Series 6, Show 104
Sep 3, 1986 · 35 min
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.
Series 6, Show 105
Sep 5, 1986 · 35 min
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 sho
Series 6, Show 106
Sep 8, 1986 · 35 min
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?
Series 6, Show 107
Sep 10, 1986 · 35 min
Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
Series 6, Show 108
Sep 12, 1986 · 35 min
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.
Series 6, Show 109
Sep 15, 1986 · 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 6, Show 110
Sep 17, 1986 · 35 min
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 co
Series 6, Show 111
Sep 19, 1986 · 35 min
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 cheere
Series 6, Show 112
Sep 22, 1986 · 35 min
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 Wednesda
Series 6, Show 113
Sep 24, 1986 · 35 min
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 enlig
Series 6, Show 114
Sep 26, 1986 · 35 min
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 touc
Series 6, Show 116
Oct 1, 1986 · 35 min
A piquant peroration from Terry and his guests live at the Terryvision Theatre.
Series 6, Show 117
Oct 3, 1986 · 35 min
A bounteous bonanza of bans mots and bonnes bouches live with Terry at the Television Theatre.
Series 6, Show 118
Oct 6, 1986 · 35 min
Temporary resident required for empty chair in Television Theatre. Has David Frost got the job?
Series 6, Show 119
Oct 8, 1986 · 35 min
This is the week to watch if you don't care for the eponymous hero.
Series 6, Show 120
Oct 10, 1986 · 35 min
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
Series 6, Show 121
Oct 13, 1986 · 35 min
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.
Series 6, Show 122
Oct 15, 1986 · 35 min
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 outsid
Series 6, Show 123
Oct 17, 1986 · 35 min
Esther Rantzen continues to keep Terry's seat warm for his return on Monday by getting her teeth into the great and the good.
Series 6, Show 124
Oct 20, 1986 · 35 min
Terry's back in the spotlight tonight live at the Television Theatre. After interview, the British singer Kim Wilde performs "Keep Me Hanging On".
Series 6, Show 125
Oct 22, 1986 · 35 min
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?
Series 6, Show 126
Oct 24, 1986 · 35 min
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
Series 6, Show 128
Oct 29, 1986 · 35 min
Buddy Rich, the guest tonight, performs "Birdland".
Series 6, Show 136
Nov 17, 1986 · 35 min
Terry kicks off a special week with more matchless guests live at the Television Theatre.
Series 6, Show 137
Nov 19, 1986 · 35 min
Halfway through the week, and Terry limbers up and gets into training for the rigours of Children in Need.
Series 6, Show 138
Nov 24, 1986 · 35 min
Who's on the show tonight with Terry? It will depend on the day's news, the events of the week and whatever else takes Terry's fancy.
Series 6, Show 143
Dec 5, 1986 · 35 min
Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch
Series 6, Show 145
Dec 10, 1986 · 35 min
Dr Wogan's live lesson in the philosophy of frivolity lasts for 35 minutes.
Series 6, Show 146
Dec 12, 1986 · 35 min
Terry Wogan talks to primatologist Jane Goodall and actor Adrian Edmondson, with music by Eurythmics. There is also a satellite interview with Parker from Thunderbirds.
Series 6, Show 147
Dec 15, 1986 · 35 min
When icicles hang by the wall, and Dick the shepherd can't escape the foul ways and nipped blood of life on the Green, join Terry for a little live pot keeling and merry notes at t
Series 6, Show 148
Dec 17, 1986 · 35 min
When even the red biddy drinkers at the stage door are practising 'wassail wassail', can Terry imbibe the Christmas spirit live tonight from the Television Theatre?
Series 6, Show 149
Dec 19, 1986 · 35 min
Terry unwraps a few goodies from the bag of exciting television programmes lined up on BBC1 for your delectation over the Christmas holiday and talks to some of the twinkling stars
Series 6, Show 150
Dec 22, 1986 · 35 min
There's just time to send a card back to the people who've sent you one, but who you have crossed off the list this year. There's just time to find the lights for the tree and disc
Series 6, Show 151
Dec 24, 1986 · 35 min
J.R. and Sue Ellen stop their feuding for a seasonal reconciliation on the stage of the Television Theatre. Terry welcomes Linda Gray and Larry Hagman and says: "I'm sure all they
Series 6, Show 153 (New Years Eve Special)
Dec 31, 1986 · 35 min
"And so, friends, we are poised on the cusp of the new year: who knows what challenges it may hold - and who cares? It's not much fun being the only sober person in the country as