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Premiered

Friday, January 3, 1986

Ended: Wednesday, December 31, 1986

When does Wogan Season 6 come out?

Wogan Season 6 premiered Friday, January 3, 1986 on BBC One and ended Wednesday, December 31, 1986. The season has 153 episodes.

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1. Series 6, Show 1

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 how Terry feels.

Friday · 40 years ago

2. Series 6, Show 2

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.

Monday · 40 years ago

3. Series 6, Show 3

Ronnie Corbett promises tall guests, small guests, tall stories and big names, with no jokes about absent Irishmen or people's height.

Wednesday · 40 years ago

4. Series 6, Show 4

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.

Friday · 40 years ago

5. Series 6, Show 5

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 elements.

Monday · 40 years ago

6. Series 6, Show 6

Felicity Kendal didn't realise that watering the plants in Terry's dressing-room could take most of the day.

Wednesday · 40 years ago

7. Series 6, Show 7

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 Star).

Friday · 40 years ago

8. Series 6, Show 8

Bronzed and fit after two weeks' absence far, far away from Shepherd's Bush, Terry returns to amaze and delight you.

Monday · 40 years ago

9. Series 6, Show 9

Wednesday · 40 years ago

10. Series 6, Show 10

Friday · 40 years ago

11. Series 6, Show 11

Monday · 40 years ago

12. Series 6, Show 12

Wednesday · 40 years ago

13. Series 6, Show 13

Friday · 40 years ago

14. Series 6, Show 14

Welcome to the first frolic of February live from the TV Theatre.

Monday · 40 years ago

15. Series 6, Show 15

Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.

Wednesday · 40 years ago

16. Series 6, Show 16

Friday · 40 years ago

17. Series 6, Show 17

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 public: not only acres of newly-planted shrubs but W12's answer to Rotten Row - for cyclists to navigate the green and avoid the police cars and fire engines racing past the Television Theatre. Guests tonight: Sue Cook, Clement Freud, Joanna Lumley, Eli Wallach.

Monday · 40 years ago

18. Series 6, Show 18

Wednesday · 40 years ago

19. Series 6, Show 19

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 Green. If only the sinking sun could reveal the delicately-staked cuttings, the ivy and the evergreen shrubs added to the landscape... but inside the theatre Terry tills another furrow.

Friday · 40 years ago

20. Series 6, Show 20

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 velotrucks.

Monday · 40 years ago

21. Series 6, Show 21

Wednesday · 40 years ago

22. Series 6, Show 22

Friday · 40 years ago

23. Series 6, Show 23

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.

Monday · 40 years ago

24. Series 6, Show 24

Wednesday · 40 years ago

25. Series 6, Show 25

Guests include: Ian Charleson, Angela Fox, Edward Fox, James Fox, Robert Fox

Friday · 40 years ago

26. Series 6, Show 26

Monday · 40 years ago

27. Series 6, Show 27

Wednesday · 40 years ago

28. Series 6, Show 28

Friday · 40 years ago

29. Series 6, Show 29

Monday · 40 years ago

30. Series 6, Show 30

Wednesday · 40 years ago

31. Series 6, Show 31

Friday · 40 years ago

32. Series 6, Show 32

Monday · 40 years ago

33. Series 6, Show 33

Wednesday · 40 years ago

34. Series 6, Show 34

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.

Friday · 40 years ago

35. Series 6, Show 35

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.

Monday · 40 years ago

36. Series 6, Show 36

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 10000, from which 150 have been selected to appear in the Food Aid Cookery Book. Tonight it's launched at a reception at the Savoy Hotel, London, and Terry and Delia are joined by the viewers and celebrities whose recipes are in the book, such as Brian Grimwood, Chloe Cheese, Debbie Cook, Alan Adler, Glynn Boyd Harte and a special appearance by Sir Bob Geldolf. Plus a chance to see two of the Britain's entries for A Song for Europe. Food Aid was the first great 'Famine Aid' project following Bob Geldolf's initial Band Aid in 1984 and Live Aid in 1985.

Wednesday · 40 years ago

37. Series 6, Show 37

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).

Friday · 40 years ago

38. Series 6, Show 38

Monday · 40 years ago

39. Series 6, Show 39

Friday · 40 years ago

40. Series 6, Show 40

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 months of desultory warfare in which his skill and courage gained him the highest reputation, he had the misfortune to be dangerously wounded and, no surgical assistance being within reach, his short but glorious career was terminated. Are there lessons to be learnt from the lives of these other Wogans?

Monday · 40 years ago

41. Series 6, Show 41

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 another Wogan last as long?

Wednesday · 40 years ago

42. Series 6, Show 42

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, killed coyotes with one shot and strangled rattlesnakes. The Great Chief of the Timpabaches condemned him to death. Guests tonight: Peter Batt, Bill Grant, Sue Lawley, Kenneth Williams.

Friday · 40 years ago

43. Series 6, Show 43

Monday · 40 years ago

44. Series 6, Show 44

Wednesday · 40 years ago

45. Series 6, Show 45

Friday · 40 years ago

46. Series 6, Show 46

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 Parkinson.

Monday · 40 years ago

47. Series 6, Show 47

Kenneth Williams hosts tonight's programme. Guests: Stephen Fry, Steve Hollings, Michael Palin, Barbara Windsor, Hank B. Marvin.

Wednesday · 40 years ago

48. Series 6, Show 48

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 (as ELO), Fay Masterson, Nicholas Parsons, Bertice Reading.

Friday · 40 years ago

49. Series 6, Show 49

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.

Monday · 40 years ago

50. Series 6, Show 50

Wednesday · 40 years ago

51. Series 6, Show 51

The international jet setter gets ready for a foray to foreign parts, but promises to stick around long enough to do tonight's programme.

Friday · 40 years ago

52. Series 6, Show 52

Monday · 40 years ago

53. Series 6, Show 53

Wednesday · 40 years ago

54. Series 6, Show 54

Friday · 40 years ago

55. Series 6, Show 55

Monday · 40 years ago

56. Series 6, Show 56

Wednesday · 40 years ago

57. Series 6, Show 57

Friday · 40 years ago

58. Series 6, Show 58

Monday · 40 years ago

59. Series 6, Show 59

Wednesday · 40 years ago

60. Series 6, Show 60

Friday · 40 years ago

61. Series 6, Show 61

Monday · 40 years ago

62. Series 6, Show 62

Wednesday · 40 years ago

63. Series 6, Show 63

Friday · 40 years ago

64. Series 6, Show 64

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?

Monday · 40 years ago

65. Series 6, Show 65

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 at Shepherd's Bush's answer to Agar's Plough.

Wednesday · 40 years ago

66. Series 6, Show 66

6 June — an important date for Bjorn Borg, Captain Scott and Steve Donoghue. Terry makes it memorable tonight.

Friday · 40 years ago

67. Series 6, Show 67

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 guest: Bonnie Tyler

Monday · 40 years ago

68. Series 6, Show 68

Wednesday · 40 years ago

69. Series 6, Show 69

Friday · 40 years ago

70. Series 6, Show 70

"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 gets used to anything". Tonight a new view on Wogan, with Anna Ford. The guests include: Evan Hunter (as Ed McBain), Michael Korda, Kenneth Williams.

Monday · 40 years ago

71. Series 6, Show 71

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.

Wednesday · 40 years ago

72. Series 6, Show 72

With Anna Ford. The roar of the greasepaint. The smell of the crowd... and they are a loud lot at the Television Theatre.

Friday · 40 years ago

73. Series 6, Show 73

Derek Jameson presents Rod Stewart and Kiri Te Kanawa. Rod Stewart performs "Every Beat Of My Heart".

Monday · 40 years ago

74. Series 6, Show 74

This is the week to watch if you're sick to death of seeing the Irishman three times a week.

Wednesday · 40 years ago

75. Series 6, Show 75

Friday · 40 years ago

76. Series 6, Show 76

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.

Monday · 40 years ago

77. Series 6, Show 77

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 the Television Theatre as Terry gets back into action.

Wednesday · 40 years ago

78. Series 6, Show 78

Terry celebrates the Fourth of July in his own inimitable Irish way.

Friday · 40 years ago

79. Series 6, Show 79

Terry bounds out of the shamrock-shaped Jacuzzi in his luxuriously-appointed though miniscule dressing-room, and onto the stage of the Television Theatre.

Monday · 40 years ago

80. Series 6, Show 80

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 Carriage Driving Championships to be held in August at Ascot.

Wednesday · 40 years ago

81. Series 6, Show 81

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.

Friday · 40 years ago

82. Series 6, Show 82

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, Gorden Kaye, Carmen Silvera.

Monday · 40 years ago

83. Series 6, Show 83

Wednesday · 40 years ago

84. Series 6, Show 84

Friday · 40 years ago

85. Series 6, Show 85

Monday · 40 years ago

86. Series 6, Show 86

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 Garnett)

Wednesday · 40 years ago

87. Series 6, Show 87

Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels

Friday · 40 years ago

88. Series 6, Show 88

Monday · 40 years ago

89. Series 6, Show 89

Wednesday · 40 years ago

90. Series 6, Show 90

Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney

Friday · 40 years ago

91. Series 6, Show 91

Monday · 40 years ago

92. Series 6, Show 92

Wednesday · 40 years ago

93. Series 6, Show 93

Friday · 40 years ago

94. Series 6, Show 94

Guests include: Kenneth Branagh, Fanny Cradock, Jenny Seagrove, Tina Turner

Monday · 40 years ago

95. Series 6, Show 95

Wednesday · 40 years ago

96. Series 6, Show 96

Friday · 40 years ago

97. Series 6, Show 97

Monday · 40 years ago

98. Series 6, Show 98

Wednesday · 40 years ago

99. Series 6, Show 99

Friday · 40 years ago

100. Series 6, Show 100

Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham

Monday · 40 years ago

101. Series 6, Show 101

Wednesday · 40 years ago

102. Series 6, Show 102

Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle

Friday · 40 years ago

103. Series 6, Show 103

Tonight's guests: "Five Star"

Monday · 40 years ago

104. Series 6, Show 104

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.

Wednesday · 40 years ago

105. Series 6, Show 105

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 show.

Friday · 40 years ago

106. Series 6, Show 106

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?

Monday · 40 years ago

107. Series 6, Show 107

Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.

Wednesday · 40 years ago

108. Series 6, Show 108

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.

Friday · 40 years ago

109. Series 6, Show 109

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?

Monday · 40 years ago

110. Series 6, Show 110

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 comes to forecasting the weather it's as much use as a concrete lettuce.

Wednesday · 40 years ago

111. Series 6, Show 111

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 cheered as he realises that inside the Television Theatre all is sunshine and stars.

Friday · 40 years ago

112. Series 6, Show 112

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 Wednesday to Friday with that Shakespearian buffoon from County Limerick live at seven o'clock.

Monday · 40 years ago

113. Series 6, Show 113

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 enlightenment, or a display of envy that Wogan is not screened in France?

Wednesday · 40 years ago

114. Series 6, Show 114

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 touched our hero for a fiver. Was he right?

Friday · 40 years ago

115. Series 6, Show 115

Monday · 40 years ago

116. Series 6, Show 116

A piquant peroration from Terry and his guests live at the Terryvision Theatre.

Wednesday · 40 years ago

117. Series 6, Show 117

A bounteous bonanza of bans mots and bonnes bouches live with Terry at the Television Theatre.

Friday · 40 years ago

118. Series 6, Show 118

Temporary resident required for empty chair in Television Theatre. Has David Frost got the job?

Monday · 40 years ago

119. Series 6, Show 119

This is the week to watch if you don't care for the eponymous hero.

Wednesday · 40 years ago

120. Series 6, Show 120

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 extensively renovated.

Friday · 40 years ago

121. Series 6, Show 121

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.

Monday · 40 years ago

122. Series 6, Show 122

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 outside on the pavement.

Wednesday · 40 years ago

123. Series 6, Show 123

Esther Rantzen continues to keep Terry's seat warm for his return on Monday by getting her teeth into the great and the good.

Friday · 40 years ago

124. Series 6, Show 124

Terry's back in the spotlight tonight live at the Television Theatre. After interview, the British singer Kim Wilde performs "Keep Me Hanging On".

Monday · 40 years ago

125. Series 6, Show 125

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?

Wednesday · 40 years ago

126. Series 6, Show 126

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 Bush Green.

Friday · 40 years ago

127. Series 6, Show 127

Monday · 40 years ago

128. Series 6, Show 128

Buddy Rich, the guest tonight, performs "Birdland".

Wednesday · 40 years ago

129. Series 6, Show 129

Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV".

Friday · 40 years ago

130. Series 6, Show 130

Monday · 40 years ago

131. Series 6, Show 131

Wednesday · 40 years ago

132. Series 6, Show 132

Friday · 40 years ago

133. Series 6, Show 133

Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg

Monday · 40 years ago

134. Series 6, Show 134

Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle

Wednesday · 40 years ago

135. Series 6, Show 135

Friday · 40 years ago

136. Series 6, Show 136

Terry kicks off a special week with more matchless guests live at the Television Theatre.

Monday · 40 years ago

137. Series 6, Show 137

Halfway through the week, and Terry limbers up and gets into training for the rigours of Children in Need.

Wednesday · 39 years ago

138. Series 6, Show 138

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.

Monday · 39 years ago

139. Series 6, Show 139

Wednesday · 39 years ago

140. Series 6, Show 140

Friday · 39 years ago

141. Series 6, Show 141

Monday · 39 years ago

142. Series 6, Show 142

Wednesday · 39 years ago

143. Series 6, Show 143

Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch

Friday · 39 years ago

144. Series 6, Show 144

Monday · 39 years ago

145. Series 6, Show 145

Dr Wogan's live lesson in the philosophy of frivolity lasts for 35 minutes.

Wednesday · 39 years ago

146. Series 6, Show 146

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.

Friday · 39 years ago

147. Series 6, Show 147

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 the Television Theatre.

Monday · 39 years ago

148. Series 6, Show 148

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?

Wednesday · 39 years ago

149. Series 6, Show 149

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 who'll be haunting the festive fishtank.

Friday · 39 years ago

150. Series 6, Show 150

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 discover they've fused. There's just time to strangle the carol singers who only know the first two lines of "Good King Wenceslas".

Monday · 39 years ago

151. Series 6, Show 151

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 need is a good talking-to. I look forward to bringing them together for Christmas".

Wednesday · 39 years ago

152. Series 6, Show 152

Monday · 39 years ago

153. Series 6, Show 153 (New Years Eve Special) Finale

"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 the chimes ring out - but have one for me, and a Happy New Year!"

Wednesday · 39 years ago

Wogan Season 6 guest stars

  • Kenneth Williams

    Kenneth Williams

    Self

  • Bob Monkhouse

    Bob Monkhouse

    Self

  • Bob Geldof

    Bob Geldof

    Self

  • Delia Smith

    Delia Smith

    Self

  • Debbie Cooke

    Self

  • Kim Wilde

    Kim Wilde

    Self

  • Kenneth Branagh

    Kenneth Branagh

    Self

  • Fanny Cradock

    Fanny Cradock

    Self

  • Jenny Seagrove

    Jenny Seagrove

    Self

  • Joanna Lumley

    Joanna Lumley

    Self

  • Peter Batt

    Self

  • Bill Grant

    Self

  • Paul McCartney

    Paul McCartney

    Self

  • Michael Palin

    Michael Palin

    Self

  • Elaine Paige

    Elaine Paige

    Self

  • Johnny Mathis

    Johnny Mathis

    Self

Wogan Season 6 FAQ

When does Wogan Season 6 come out?

Wogan Season 6 premiered Friday, January 3, 1986 on BBC One.

How many episodes are in Wogan Season 6?

Wogan Season 6 has 153 episodes.

Are new episodes of Wogan Season 6 released weekly?

Episodes are released on a mixed schedule; check the dates below.

When is the Wogan Season 6 finale?

The Wogan Season 6 finale (Episode 153) aired Wednesday, December 31, 1986.

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