Wogan Season 5 | Shows+ Discover & Track Series

1: Series 5, Show 1

Feb 18, 1985

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.

2: Series 5, Show 2

Feb 20, 1985

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.

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Feb 22, 1985

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Feb 25, 1985

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Feb 27, 1985

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Mar 1, 1985

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Mar 4, 1985

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Mar 6, 1985

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Mar 8, 1985

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Mar 11, 1985

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Mar 13, 1985

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Mar 15, 1985

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Mar 18, 1985

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Mar 20, 1985

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Mar 22, 1985

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".

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Mar 25, 1985

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Mar 27, 1985

Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.

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Mar 29, 1985

Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.

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Apr 1, 1985

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.

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Apr 3, 1985

Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.

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Apr 8, 1985

Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre for a Bank Holiday miscellany. Guests include: Tammy Wynette

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Apr 10, 1985

Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Wednesday wingwing.

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Apr 12, 1985

Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Friday farrago.

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Apr 15, 1985

Terry says "Willkommen Pet" as Jimmy Nail joins him tonight for a Lumpschenkeln comparison.

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Apr 17, 1985

Join Terry and his guests for impromptu knee-squeezing and ever-spontaneous events.

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Apr 19, 1985

Join Terry and his guests as he flexes his thews.

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Apr 22, 1985

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Apr 24, 1985

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Apr 26, 1985

Rams, black sheep and sacrificial lambs shepherded into the Television Theatre to entertain ewe.

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Apr 29, 1985

Terry exercises his masseter, temporalis and pterygoid muscles in conversation with tonight's guests: Gregory Hines, Patrick Macnee, Miriam Margolyes, Major Pat Reid.

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May 1, 1985

Terry puts his gluteus maximus to maximum use.

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May 3, 1985

Terry exercises his gastrocnemii leaping about the Television Theatre.

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May 6, 1985

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.

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May 8, 1985

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May 10, 1985

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May 13, 1985

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May 15, 1985

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May 17, 1985

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May 20, 1985

Marillion make their Wogan debut and perform their new single "Kayleigh".

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May 22, 1985

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.

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May 24, 1985

Dilettante and wandering baritone Terry Wogan from Surrey, England, is the finalist in tonight's live Wogan.

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May 27, 1985

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May 29, 1985

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May 31, 1985

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Jun 3, 1985

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Jun 5, 1985

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Jun 7, 1985

The fast and furious Friday farrago live from fragrant Shepherd's Bush Green.

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Jun 10, 1985

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Jun 12, 1985

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Jun 14, 1985

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Jun 17, 1985

Pamela Bellwood, Chris Evert, John Lloyd, Aled Jones, pop band Dead or Alive (as Musical Guest)

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Jun 19, 1985

Guests include: John Forsythe

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Jun 21, 1985

A little live lobbing from County Limerick's best-known tennis player, who despite many requests, will not be wearing shorts.

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Jun 24, 1985

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Jun 26, 1985

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Jun 28, 1985

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Jul 1, 1985

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Jul 3, 1985

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Jul 5, 1985

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Jul 8, 1985

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Jul 10, 1985

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Jul 12, 1985

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.

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Jul 15, 1985

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Jul 17, 1985

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Jul 19, 1985

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Jul 22, 1985

Guests include: John Gordon Sinclair, Ulick O'Connor, Elizabeth Welch

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Jul 24, 1985

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Jul 26, 1985

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Jul 29, 1985

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Jul 31, 1985

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Aug 2, 1985

Tonight's guest: the American rock band"Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show"

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Aug 5, 1985

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".

73: Series 5, Show 73 (Compilation)

Aug 7, 1985

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Aug 9, 1985

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Aug 12, 1985

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.

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Aug 14, 1985

Surrealism, the Bauhaus, modernism, and now Wogan. Is art imitating life or has the cat got your tongue sandwich?

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Aug 16, 1985

Can the cultural revolution turn on Shepherd's Bush? How many surrealists does it take to unscrew a light bulb?

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Aug 19, 1985

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".

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Aug 21, 1985

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.

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Aug 23, 1985

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.

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Aug 26, 1985

Cliff Richard performs 'I Still Believe In You'.

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Aug 28, 1985

Terry propounds the second premise which follows inexorably upon the first as Wednesday follows Monday.

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Aug 30, 1985

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Sep 2, 1985

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Sep 4, 1985

Tonight: conversation and the art of Motorcycle maintenance.

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Sep 6, 1985

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.

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Sep 9, 1985

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?

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Sep 11, 1985

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.

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Sep 13, 1985

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.

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Sep 16, 1985

Guests include: John Inman, Demis Roussos, Diane Simpson

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Sep 18, 1985

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?

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Sep 20, 1985

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Sep 23, 1985

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Sep 25, 1985

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Sep 27, 1985

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Sep 30, 1985

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Oct 2, 1985

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Oct 4, 1985

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Oct 7, 1985

Selina Scott presents the guests: Les Dawson, Prue Leith, Alain Prost

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Oct 9, 1985

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Oct 11, 1985

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Oct 14, 1985

Terry returns from lying down in a darkened room to celebrate the 100th edition of the thrice-weekly charivaria.

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Oct 16, 1985

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Oct 18, 1985

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Oct 21, 1985

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Oct 23, 1985

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Oct 25, 1985

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Oct 28, 1985

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Oct 30, 1985

A veritable Milky Way of megastars shine down on Terry for the Wednesday charivari.

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Nov 1, 1985

Guests include: Steve Cram, David Rappaport, Kenneth Williams, Prefab Sprout as performer

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Nov 4, 1985

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Nov 6, 1985

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Nov 8, 1985

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Nov 11, 1985

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Nov 13, 1985

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Nov 15, 1985

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Nov 18, 1985

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Nov 20, 1985

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Nov 25, 1985

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Nov 27, 1985

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Nov 29, 1985

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Dec 2, 1985

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Dec 4, 1985

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Dec 6, 1985

Jim Henson (Kermit the Frog), Michael Barrymore

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Dec 9, 1985

Guests: John Cleese, Delia Smith, Whitney Houston as performer

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Dec 11, 1985

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Dec 13, 1985

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Dec 16, 1985

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Dec 18, 1985

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Dec 20, 1985

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.

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Dec 23, 1985

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.

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Dec 25, 1985

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Dec 27, 1985

"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.

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Dec 31, 1985

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