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Terry Wogan introduces a special programme featuring amusing highlights from his recent series (1-2). His guests include: Ronnie Barker, Pam Ayres, Peter Ustinov, Les Dawson, Diana Rigg, Freddie Starr, Arthur Marshall, Cilla Black and Sir Geraint Evans.
Terry Wogan introduces a special Programme featuring some of the memorable and amusing highlights of his recent series. Among those appearing: Mel Brooks, Boy George, French and Saunders, Lee Marvin, Victoria Principal, Cliff Richard, Joan Rivers, Lynn Redgrave, Tracey Ullman.
Terry Wogan and Felicity Kendal take another look at some of the great ladies who have appeared in the last series, including Grace Jones, Beryl Reid, Sophia Loren, Bo Derek, Raquel Welch
Terry Wogan hosts a special Christmas edition with Freddie Starr, Kiri Te Kanawa, Elton John, Victoria Principal, pianist Roger Vignoles.
After seven years and 1,300 shows Wogan is coming to an end. Tonight, Terry Wogan presents a grand finale, looking back over the galaxy of Hollywood stars, members of the Royal Family and a whole host of funny, curious or eccentric guests who have graced his show. Terry Wogan will be back on screen later this year with a new weekly show.
The first of eight programmes in 1982. Terry Wogan hosts a new late-night show with top stars from home and abroad, people in the headlines, film reports and the very best in music. With Paula Yates and tonight's special guest Bruce Forsyth.
Tonight's special guest David Frost.
Guests: Deborah Harry from "Blondie"; George Logan and Patrick Fyffe ("Hinge and Bracket"); celebrating 21 years of the British satirical magazine "Private Eye", its co-founders and editors — Richard Ingrams, William Rushton and John Wells.
Guests: Esther Rantzen, Leo Sayer, Victoria Wood and Geoffrey Durham (The Great Soprendo).
Guests include: Mike Harding
Guests include: Jeffrey Archer and Randy Edelman
Guests include: Gilbert O'Sullivan, Vincent Price, Selina Scott
Terry Wogan hosts a new season of his own talk show. A unique combination of Terry in conversation with top stars from home and abroad, people in the headlines and the very best in entertainment. Tonight's guests include: Ronnie Barker, James Whitaker (the 'royal watcher').
Guests include: Cilla Black and Len Deighton
Guests: John Cleese promoting "Privates on Parade", Shirley Conran, Sir Geraint Evans, and Sky.
Guests include: Patrick MacNee, Wayne Sleep with the "Dash" troupe
Guests include: Helen Reddy, Tommy Steele
Guests include: David Bellamy, Sir Harry Secombe
Guests include: Clive James, Neil Kinnock , Dolly Parton as musical guest
Guests include: Jim Davidson, Barbara Dickson, Danny La Rue
The last in the present series. Guests include: Rowan Atkinson, Johnny Mathis
Terry Wogan further hosts his own talk show. A unique combination of Terry in conversation with top stars from home and abroad, people in the headlines and the very best in entertainment. Tonight's guests include: Oscar-winning star Lee Marvin, and Pat Phoenix — one of television's most glamorous characters, best known as Elsie Tanner of Coronation Street.
Guests include: The Rt Hon Norman Tebbit, a member of parliament; Anthony Andrews, the actor acclaimed for his portrayal of Sebastian in Brideshead Revisited; Shakin' Stevens and Bonnie Tyler perform "A Rockin' Good Way".
Guests include: David Attenborough, the man who brings the human touch to the complexities of animal life on our planet Earth; Randy Crawford, one of America's top singing stars; Matthew Kelly, irrepressible funster of Game For a Laugh; and the magical touch of Paul Daniels.
Guests include: Tracey Ullman, Britain's most popular comedy actress and star of both Kick Up the Eighties and award-winning Three of a Kind; Brian Walden, presenter of Weekend World and former politician now the gadfly of British public life.
Guests include: Max Boyce, the 'boyo' from the Valleys of Wales; Bob Fosse, celebrated American choreographer and director of many films including Cabaret; and Lynn Redgrave, Hollywood star who returns for her first British sit-com series.
Guests include: Mel Brooks, the ascerbic writer and director; Larry Grayson, one of Britain's best-loved entertainers; "Manhattan Transfer", the stylish vocal quartet from America.
Guests include: Victoria Principal (Pam Ewing from the soapy Dallas) flies in to meet the saga's sternest critic; Noel Edmonds, television's most popular and personable prankster.
Guests include: Joan Rivers, the unpredictable, outrageous American comedienne returns to these shores; Gerald Priestland, world traveller, modern moralist, and 'guru' of contemporary problems.
Guests include: Roger Cook, the much-bruised investigative reporter of Radio 4's Checkpoint; David Essex, providing the music; French and Saunders, the sharp and witty female comedy duo from "The Comic Strip Presents".
Guests include: Bob Monkhouse, the brilliant comedian and game show host with the razor sharp wit; Stephanie Lawrence, West End star of "Evita" and "Marilyn" and soon to open in the musical "Starlight Express".
Guests include: Joan Collins, the international superstar whose portrayal of 'superbitch' Alexis has made Dynasty a worldwide success; Sheila Graham, the celebrated Hollywood gossip columnist and the author of Beloved Infidel — the story of her life with F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Cliff Richard performs 'Baby You're Dynamite' and is interviewed by Terry Wogan.
Guests include: Peter O'Toole, the actor and film star of such classics as Lawrence of Arabia and The Lion in Winter - soon to be seen on stage in Pygmalion; a cappella vocal group "The Flying Pickets"; Val Doonican, just back from down under with his account of what really happened at Ayers Rock.
Terry Wogan hosts his own talk show — a unique combination of Terry in conversation with top stars from home and abroad, people in the headlines and the very best in entertainment.
Guests include: Tony Blackburn, Joanna Lumley; George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley (Wham!)
Roberta Flack, Grace Jones, Nigel Rees
Guests include: Beryl Reid, Gore Vidal, Kim Wilde
Terry Wogan's Christmas Day guests include comedian Freddie Starr, Kiri Te Kanawa talking about her singing career and Maori background, and Elton John making his first appearance on the show. Victoria Principal appears in a feisty and hugely entertaining satellite interview, with Wogan gently mocking her television series Dallas, and Principal teasing Wogan at every opportunity, frequently reducing herself to tears of laughter in the process.
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.
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.
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".
Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.
Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.
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.
Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre for a Bank Holiday miscellany. Guests include: Tammy Wynette
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Wednesday wingwing.
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Friday farrago.
Terry says "Willkommen Pet" as Jimmy Nail joins him tonight for a Lumpschenkeln comparison.
Join Terry and his guests for impromptu knee-squeezing and ever-spontaneous events.
Join Terry and his guests as he flexes his thews.
Rams, black sheep and sacrificial lambs shepherded into the Television Theatre to entertain ewe.
Terry exercises his masseter, temporalis and pterygoid muscles in conversation with tonight's guests: Gregory Hines, Patrick Macnee, Miriam Margolyes, Major Pat Reid.
Terry puts his gluteus maximus to maximum use.
Terry exercises his gastrocnemii leaping about the Television Theatre.
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.
Marillion make their Wogan debut and perform their new single "Kayleigh".
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.
Dilettante and wandering baritone Terry Wogan from Surrey, England, is the finalist in tonight's live Wogan.
The fast and furious Friday farrago live from fragrant Shepherd's Bush Green.
Pamela Bellwood, Chris Evert, John Lloyd, Aled Jones, pop band Dead or Alive (as Musical Guest)
Guests include: John Forsythe
A little live lobbing from County Limerick's best-known tennis player, who despite many requests, will not be wearing shorts.
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.
Guests include: John Gordon Sinclair, Ulick O'Connor, Elizabeth Welch
Tonight's guest: the American rock band"Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show"
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".
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.
Surrealism, the Bauhaus, modernism, and now Wogan. Is art imitating life or has the cat got your tongue sandwich?
Can the cultural revolution turn on Shepherd's Bush? How many surrealists does it take to unscrew a light bulb?
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".
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.
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.
Cliff Richard performs 'I Still Believe In You'.
Terry propounds the second premise which follows inexorably upon the first as Wednesday follows Monday.
Tonight: conversation and the art of Motorcycle maintenance.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Guests include: John Inman, Demis Roussos, Diane Simpson
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?
Selina Scott presents the guests: Les Dawson, Prue Leith, Alain Prost
Terry returns from lying down in a darkened room to celebrate the 100th edition of the thrice-weekly charivaria.
A veritable Milky Way of megastars shine down on Terry for the Wednesday charivari.
Guests include: Steve Cram, David Rappaport, Kenneth Williams, Prefab Sprout as performer
Jim Henson (Kermit the Frog), Michael Barrymore
Guests: John Cleese, Delia Smith, Whitney Houston as performer
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
Ronnie Corbett promises tall guests, small guests, tall stories and big names, with no jokes about absent Irishmen or people's height.
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.
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.
Felicity Kendal didn't realise that watering the plants in Terry's dressing-room could take most of the day.
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).
Bronzed and fit after two weeks' absence far, far away from Shepherd's Bush, Terry returns to amaze and delight you.
Welcome to the first frolic of February live from the TV Theatre.
Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Guests include: Ian Charleson, Angela Fox, Edward Fox, James Fox, Robert Fox
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.
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.
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.
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).
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?
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?
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.
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.
Kenneth Williams hosts tonight's programme. Guests: Stephen Fry, Steve Hollings, Michael Palin, Barbara Windsor, Hank B. Marvin.
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.
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.
The international jet setter gets ready for a foray to foreign parts, but promises to stick around long enough to do tonight's programme.
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?
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.
6 June — an important date for Bjorn Borg, Captain Scott and Steve Donoghue. Terry makes it memorable tonight.
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
"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.
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.
With Anna Ford. The roar of the greasepaint. The smell of the crowd... and they are a loud lot at the Television Theatre.
Derek Jameson presents Rod Stewart and Kiri Te Kanawa. Rod Stewart performs "Every Beat Of My Heart".
This is the week to watch if you're sick to death of seeing the Irishman three times a week.
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.
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.
Terry celebrates the Fourth of July in his own inimitable Irish way.
Terry bounds out of the shamrock-shaped Jacuzzi in his luxuriously-appointed though miniscule dressing-room, and onto the stage of the Television Theatre.
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.
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.
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.
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)
Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels
Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney
Guests include: Kenneth Branagh, Fanny Cradock, Jenny Seagrove, Tina Turner
Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham
Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle
Tonight's guests: "Five Star"
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.
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.
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?
Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
A piquant peroration from Terry and his guests live at the Terryvision Theatre.
A bounteous bonanza of bans mots and bonnes bouches live with Terry at the Television Theatre.
Temporary resident required for empty chair in Television Theatre. Has David Frost got the job?
This is the week to watch if you don't care for the eponymous hero.
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.
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.
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.
Esther Rantzen continues to keep Terry's seat warm for his return on Monday by getting her teeth into the great and the good.
Terry's back in the spotlight tonight live at the Television Theatre. After interview, the British singer Kim Wilde performs "Keep Me Hanging On".
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?
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.
Buddy Rich, the guest tonight, performs "Birdland".
Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV".
Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg
Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle
Terry kicks off a special week with more matchless guests live at the Television Theatre.
Halfway through the week, and Terry limbers up and gets into training for the rigours of Children in Need.
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.
Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch
Dr Wogan's live lesson in the philosophy of frivolity lasts for 35 minutes.
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.
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?
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.
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".
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".
"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!"
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... The guest tonight: Billy Ocean
The guest tonight: Ken Bruce
Frolics and fun live from the hallowed portals of the Shepherd's Bush Empire where once the boards of the Coliseum of west London were trodden by Fred Karno, W.C. Fields, George Robey and Marie Lloyd.
Built in 1903, roughcast baroque with touches of art nouveau; is there something familiar in this description? It's the only monument in Shepherd's Bush that's both a listed building and an edifice dedicated to live entertainment, unless you count the grade'n'bingo hall next door.
On the stage once graced by Max Miller and George Formby join Terry live as the audience in the Television Theatre.
Cliff Richard interview
Tonight guests: Patrick Macnee, Honor Blackman
Tonight guest: Randy Crawford
Even when icicles hang by the wall, Terry warms to the prospect of good conversation with more guests.
Terry leaps into the weekend accompanied by the good and the great who are his guests tonight, live from London.
Join Terry's guest host Derek Jameson live at the Television Theatre as he talks to people in the news, presents the best in entertainment and springs the occasional surprise.
Join Terry's guest host Derek Jameson and his guests for conversation and entertainment, live from the Television Theatre.
Derek Jameson presents the guests tonight
In Terry's absence, Bruce Forsyth makes a welcome return to BBC television to present a week of conversation, comedy and music in his own inimitable style.
Bruce Forsyth continues to hold the fort while Terry's away with more conversation, comedy and music.
Bruce Forsyth presents another mixture of conversation, comedy and music and attempts to leave everything spick and span pending Terry's return.
Join Terry live at the Television Theatre as he talks to Teri Garr, Burl Ives, Kenneth Williams
Terry Wogan hosts the guests tonight: Bob Monkhouse and Kim Wilde with Junior Giscombe
Join Terry and his guests for conversation and entertainment, live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see the first two entries for A Song for Europe.
Join Terry live at the Television Theatre. With a chance to see two more entries for A Song for Europe.
Join Terry live at the Television Theatre. With a chance to see two more entries for A Song for Europe.
Join Terry live at the Television Theatre. With a chance to see two more entries for A Song for Europe.
Join Terry live at the Television Theatre. With a chance to see two more entries for A Song for Europe.
Tonight, the star of "20000 Leagues Under the Sea", "Spartacus" and "Gunfight at the OK Corral" — the legendary actor Kirk Douglas — in conversation with the almost-as-legendary Terry Wogan.
Over the years Max Bygraves and James Last have been awarded over 200 gold discs. Tonight, in a special holiday programme, Terry talks to them both and brings together their popular musical talents in performance for the first time. In fact, at Last, it's Max.
Guests tonight: Bernard Levin, Joanna Lumley, Kiri Te Kanawa
Guests tonight: Christopher Cazenove, Leann Hunley, Emma Samms, Gordon Thomson, Tammy Wynette
Terry plays host to a special holiday celebration of the golden days of British cinema. All the glamour, all the glitter and a host of screen stars, but please bring your own popcorn. Among guests: Peter Cushing
Terry hosts the second part of his celebration of the golden years of British film. Among his special guests tonight are Stewart Granger, Sir John Mills and Norman Wisdom. Other guests: Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor.
Guests tonight: Placido Domingo and Dame Eva Turner
In the seasonal absence of Terry, Sue Lawley returns to his chair to talk to more people in the news. Cliff Richard, the guest tonight, performs "My Pretty One".
Join Sue Lawley and her guests for conversation and entertainment, live from the Television Theatre.
Join Sue Lawley and her guests for conversation and entertainment, live from the Television Theatre.
Join Terry and his guests for conversation and entertainment live from the Television Theatre.
The guest tonight: Graham Chapman
The guest tonight: Art Metrano
Guests tonight: Dolores Gray, Julia McKenzie, Diana Rigg.
Selina Scott takes up residence in Terry's chair for conversation, music and surprises.
Selina Scott with tonight's topical mixture of the good, the great and the unusual.
Selina Scott finishes her week as guest host with sparkling conversation, Iturth, music and merriment.
Except it's Derek Jameson here with a country music special. Including: Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and Billie Jo Spears. Miss it if you dare!
Derek Jameson continues the plain man's guide to the week.
Derek Jameson moonlighting with his very own particular style of charm
Join Terry for a bank holiday extravaganza of fun and frolics starring the delectable Clementine and the divine Miss M herself — Bette Midler.
20 Years of Radio 1 Special. Carl Wayne with a live performance of the first record played on Radio 1 — Flowers in the Rain. Jogging memories in the theatre Tony Blackburn and John Peel. Plus a live guided tour around Radio 1 as it's happening with Mike Smith, Bruno Brookes and Janice Long. Music from the charts: Johnny Hates Jazz performing "I Don't Want to Be a Hero". And the final point of this marathon, an interview for four: Pete Murray, Ed Stewart, Dave Cash, David Symonds.
The guest tonight: Bonnie Tyler
Join Sue Lawley and guests for live entertainment.
Join Sue Lawley and her guests for conversation and entertainment.
Join Sue Lawley and her guests for conversation and entertainment live from the Television Theatre.
Join Terry and his guests for live entertainment.
Guests include: Boy George, Roger Cook, Charlton Heston, Roy Kinnear
"Say, say, say - it's another day, my love", so — with our band on the run — let's jet from the Mull of Kintyre to the BBC TV Theatre to hear Terry Wogan in conversation with Paul and Linda McCartney.
To coincide with the release of Cry Freedom (Schrei nach Freiheit, 1987), Terry interviews anti-apartheid campaigners Donald Woods and Wendy Woods, the subjects of the film, and they are joined by singer Peter Gabriel, who talks about the inspiration for his song "Biko" and why he believes pop stars can use their influence to achieve political change.
Peter Brough, Bill Cotton, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Hugh Paddick, Beryl Reid, Eric Sykes, Kenneth Williams
Terry Wogan presents another edition of his chat show. Guests Charlton Heston and Roy Kinnear appear in costume before going on stage to perform 'A Man for all Seasons', Boy George performs his new single in a distinctive outfit of his own, and singer-songwriter Roger Cook talks about his new career in Nashville, Tennessee.
Terry Wogan presents a special of his chat show from Radio 1's 20th Birthday - guests include John Peel, Tony Blackburn, Pete Murray, Ed Stewart, Dave Cash and David Symonds. And a live link up with the Radio 1 studios with Bruno Brookes, Janice Long and Mike Smith.
Audrey Hepburn interview
Guests include: Paul Hogan, Henry Mancini
Robin Williams
Cliff Richard, the one and only guest star on this show, granting his interview also performs the songs: Wired For Sound, Move It, Bachelor Boy, Some People.
Sue Lawley interviews Barry Humphries.
Terry interviews Jon Pertwee about his life and career, including Doctor Who (1963-1989) and Die Vogelscheuche (1979-1981).
Sammy Davis Jr. interview
Shirley Temple interview
Sue Lawley presents the guests: Alison Doody, Charlton Heston, Paul McCartney going to celebrate his 74th birthday. Paul McCartney performs two songs: "Figure of Eight" and "My Brave Face".
Joanna Lumley presents the guests: James Coburn, Daphne Sheldrick.
Joanna Lumley presents the guests: Douglas Adams, Michael Palin, Willy Russell.
Joanna Lumley presents the guests: Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke.
Joanna Lumley presents the guests: Denis Healey, Oprah Winfrey.
Joanna Lumley presents the guests: Muhammad Ali, Harry Carpenter, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, David McCallum.
Terry opens the show: "My one and only guest tonight... President Reagan invited him to sing and the Princess of Wales asked him to dance... Neil Diamond!". The guest starts with song "This Time", and in further interview gives an insight on what and how it is to be a famous performer when people call you "shy" and "silly". Neil makes a retrospective journey into his life from teen-age, and tells about his children he is proud of and happy marriage. The final accord of this episode is "I'm saying I'm sorry" performed by Neil Diamond.
Kate Bush, the guest tonight, performs "This Woman's Work".
Peggy Lee, the guest tonight, sings "Fever".
A whole episode devoted to a 40-minute interview with the current Prime Minister, Mrs. Margaret Thatcher.
Phil Collins performs "I Wish It Would Rain Down", then comes for his next interview with Terry Wogan.
Sue Lawley presents the guests: Whoopi Goldberg, Barry Humphries.
Guets include: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul McCartney performing "All My Trials"
Joanna Lumley presents the guests: Gyles Brandreth, Charles Fleischer, Kirsty MacColl.
Joanna Lumley presents the guests: Anthony Andrews, Lenny Kravitz, James Pickles, John Strang.
Joanna Lumley presents Bette Midler. Bette performs the song "From a Distance".
Joanna Lumley presents the guests: Philips Julia, Ali MacGraw.
The guest tonight: Madonna.
Gloria Hunniford presents the guests: Natalie Cole, Rik Mayall.
Appearing on the chat show tonight is Lenny Henry, the comedian and prime mover behind the BBC's annual charity fundraiser, Comic Relief. His new film, True Identity, in which he plays an actor who longs to be taken seriously but is only ever given stereotyped 'black parts', goes on general release on Friday. Henry can also be seen on BBC1 soon in Alive and Kicking, a powerful and disturbing black comedy about a drug addict shown as part of the Screen One season. Also on tonight's show are Simply Red, performing their new single, Something Got Me Started. Their first album for a year, Stars, will be released at the end of this month and, in a deliberate change of direction for the band, will feature no cover versions. All the songs are originals, written by lead singer Mick Hucknall.
Gloria Hunniford presents John Sessions.
Gloria Hunniford presents the guests: Julie Walters, Victoria Wood.
Kate Bush performs "Rocket Man"
Gloria Hunniford presents the guests: Kenny Everett, Lorna Luft, Wayne Sleep, Tina Turner.
(Trading Places was a charity event starting from 4 March 1992 about people who have been changing places with celebrities as part of a nationwide campaign to raise money for the breast cancer research charity Breakthrough). On March 5, Terry Wogan swapped jobs with bank clerk, Helen Egan, in preparation for Trading Places day. Tonight, after a short interview she introduces the guest: Lisa Stansfield performing "Time to Make You Mine". Then Terry presents Altovise Davis (the widow of Sammy Davis Junior) and Michael Ball (the candidate of United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest).
