Episode 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.
Episode 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.
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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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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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Episode 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.
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Episode 21
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre for a Bank Holiday miscellany. Guests include: Tammy Wynette
Episode 22
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Wednesday wingwing.
Episode 23
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Friday farrago.
Episode 24
Terry says "Willkommen Pet" as Jimmy Nail joins him tonight for a Lumpschenkeln comparison.
Episode 25
Join Terry and his guests for impromptu knee-squeezing and ever-spontaneous events.
Episode 26
Join Terry and his guests as he flexes his thews.
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Rams, black sheep and sacrificial lambs shepherded into the Television Theatre to entertain ewe.
Episode 30
Terry exercises his masseter, temporalis and pterygoid muscles in conversation with tonight's guests: Gregory Hines, Patrick Macnee, Miriam Margolyes, Major Pat Reid.
Episode 31
Terry puts his gluteus maximus to maximum use.
Episode 32
Terry exercises his gastrocnemii leaping about the Television Theatre.
Episode 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.
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Episode 39
Marillion make their Wogan debut and perform their new single "Kayleigh".
Episode 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.
Episode 41
Dilettante and wandering baritone Terry Wogan from Surrey, England, is the finalist in tonight's live Wogan.
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Episode 47
The fast and furious Friday farrago live from fragrant Shepherd's Bush Green.
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Pamela Bellwood, Chris Evert, John Lloyd, Aled Jones, pop band Dead or Alive (as Musical Guest)
Episode 52
Guests include: John Forsythe
Episode 53
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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Episode 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.
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Guests include: John Gordon Sinclair, Ulick O'Connor, Elizabeth Welch
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Episode 71
Tonight's guest: the American rock band"Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show"
Episode 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".
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Episode 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.
Episode 76
Surrealism, the Bauhaus, modernism, and now Wogan. Is art imitating life or has the cat got your tongue sandwich?
Episode 77
Can the cultural revolution turn on Shepherd's Bush? How many surrealists does it take to unscrew a light bulb?
Episode 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".
Episode 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.
Episode 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.
Episode 81
Cliff Richard performs 'I Still Believe In You'.
Episode 82
Terry propounds the second premise which follows inexorably upon the first as Wednesday follows Monday.
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Episode 85
Tonight: conversation and the art of Motorcycle maintenance.
Episode 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.
Episode 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?
Episode 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.
Episode 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.
Episode 90
Guests include: John Inman, Demis Roussos, Diane Simpson
Episode 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?
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Episode 99
Selina Scott presents the guests: Les Dawson, Prue Leith, Alain Prost
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Episode 102
Terry returns from lying down in a darkened room to celebrate the 100th edition of the thrice-weekly charivaria.
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Episode 109
A veritable Milky Way of megastars shine down on Terry for the Wednesday charivari.
Episode 110
Guests include: Steve Cram, David Rappaport, Kenneth Williams, Prefab Sprout as performer
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Jim Henson (Kermit the Frog), Michael Barrymore
Episode 125
Guests: John Cleese, Delia Smith, Whitney Houston as performer
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Episode 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.
Episode 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.
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Episode 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.
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