Season 5
Episodes
1. Series 5, Show 1
1985-02-18
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
1985-02-20
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.
3. Series 5, Show 3
1985-02-22
No overview available.
4. Series 5, Show 4
1985-02-25
No overview available.
5. Series 5, Show 5
1985-02-27
No overview available.
6. Series 5, Show 6
1985-03-01
No overview available.
7. Series 5, Show 7
1985-03-04
No overview available.
8. Series 5, Show 8
1985-03-06
No overview available.
9. Series 5, Show 9
1985-03-08
No overview available.
10. Series 5, Show 10
1985-03-11
No overview available.
11. Series 5, Show 11
1985-03-13
No overview available.
12. Series 5, Show 12
1985-03-15
No overview available.
13. Series 5, Show 13
1985-03-18
No overview available.
14. Series 5, Show 14
1985-03-20
No overview available.
15. Series 5, Show 15
1985-03-22
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".
16. Series 5, Show 16
1985-03-25
No overview available.
17. Series 5, Show 17
1985-03-27
Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.
18. Series 5, Show 18
1985-03-29
Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.
19. Series 5, Show 19
1985-04-01
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.
20. Series 5, Show 20
1985-04-03
Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.
21. Series 5, Show 21
1985-04-08
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre for a Bank Holiday miscellany. Guests include: Tammy Wynette
22. Series 5, Show 22
1985-04-10
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Wednesday wingwing.
23. Series 5, Show 23
1985-04-12
Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Friday farrago.
24. Series 5, Show 24
1985-04-15
Terry says "Willkommen Pet" as Jimmy Nail joins him tonight for a Lumpschenkeln comparison.
25. Series 5, Show 25
1985-04-17
Join Terry and his guests for impromptu knee-squeezing and ever-spontaneous events.
26. Series 5, Show 26
1985-04-19
Join Terry and his guests as he flexes his thews.
27. Series 5, Show 27
1985-04-22
No overview available.
28. Series 5, Show 28
1985-04-24
No overview available.
29. Series 5, Show 29
1985-04-26
Rams, black sheep and sacrificial lambs shepherded into the Television Theatre to entertain ewe.
30. Series 5, Show 30
1985-04-29
Terry exercises his masseter, temporalis and pterygoid muscles in conversation with tonight's guests: Gregory Hines, Patrick Macnee, Miriam Margolyes, Major Pat Reid.
31. Series 5, Show 31
1985-05-01
Terry puts his gluteus maximus to maximum use.
32. Series 5, Show 32
1985-05-03
Terry exercises his gastrocnemii leaping about the Television Theatre.
33. Series 5, Show 33
1985-05-06
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.
34. Series 5, Show 34
1985-05-08
No overview available.
35. Series 5, Show 35
1985-05-10
No overview available.
36. Series 5, Show 36
1985-05-13
No overview available.
37. Series 5, Show 37
1985-05-15
No overview available.
38. Series 5, Show 38
1985-05-17
No overview available.
39. Series 5, Show 39
1985-05-20
Marillion make their Wogan debut and perform their new single "Kayleigh".
40. Series 5, Show 40
1985-05-22
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.
41. Series 5, Show 41
1985-05-24
Dilettante and wandering baritone Terry Wogan from Surrey, England, is the finalist in tonight's live Wogan.
42. Series 5, Show 42
1985-05-27
No overview available.
43. Series 5, Show 43
1985-05-29
No overview available.
44. Series 5, Show 44
1985-05-31
No overview available.
45. Series 5, Show 45
1985-06-03
No overview available.
46. Series 5, Show 46
1985-06-05
No overview available.
47. Series 5, Show 47
1985-06-07
The fast and furious Friday farrago live from fragrant Shepherd's Bush Green.
48. Series 5, Show 48
1985-06-10
No overview available.
49. Series 5, Show 49
1985-06-12
No overview available.
50. Series 5, Show 50
1985-06-14
No overview available.
51. Series 5, Show 51
1985-06-17
Pamela Bellwood, Chris Evert, John Lloyd, Aled Jones, pop band Dead or Alive (as Musical Guest)
52. Series 5, Show 52
1985-06-19
Guests include: John Forsythe
53. Series 5, Show 53
1985-06-21
A little live lobbing from County Limerick's best-known tennis player, who despite many requests, will not be wearing shorts.
54. Series 5, Show 54
1985-06-24
No overview available.
55. Series 5, Show 55
1985-06-26
No overview available.
56. Series 5, Show 56
1985-06-28
No overview available.
57. Series 5, Show 57
1985-07-01
No overview available.
58. Series 5, Show 58
1985-07-03
No overview available.
59. Series 5, Show 59
1985-07-05
No overview available.
60. Series 5, Show 60
1985-07-08
No overview available.
61. Series 5, Show 61
1985-07-10
No overview available.
62. Series 5, Show 62
1985-07-12
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.
63. Series 5, Show 63
1985-07-15
No overview available.
64. Series 5, Show 64
1985-07-17
No overview available.
65. Series 5, Show 65
1985-07-19
No overview available.
66. Series 5, Show 66
1985-07-22
Guests include: John Gordon Sinclair, Ulick O'Connor, Elizabeth Welch
67. Series 5, Show 67
1985-07-24
No overview available.
68. Series 5, Show 68
1985-07-26
No overview available.
69. Series 5, Show 69
1985-07-29
No overview available.
70. Series 5, Show 70
1985-07-31
No overview available.
71. Series 5, Show 71
1985-08-02
Tonight's guest: the American rock band"Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show"
72. Series 5, Show 72
1985-08-05
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)
1985-08-07
No overview available.
74. Series 5, Show 74
1985-08-09
No overview available.
75. Series 5, Show 75
1985-08-12
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.
76. Series 5, Show 76
1985-08-14
Surrealism, the Bauhaus, modernism, and now Wogan. Is art imitating life or has the cat got your tongue sandwich?
77. Series 5, Show 77
1985-08-16
Can the cultural revolution turn on Shepherd's Bush? How many surrealists does it take to unscrew a light bulb?
78. Series 5, Show 78
1985-08-19
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".
79. Series 5, Show 79
1985-08-21
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.
80. Series 5, Show 80
1985-08-23
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.
81. Series 5, Show 81
1985-08-26
Cliff Richard performs 'I Still Believe In You'.
82. Series 5, Show 82
1985-08-28
Terry propounds the second premise which follows inexorably upon the first as Wednesday follows Monday.
83. Series 5, Show 83
1985-08-30
No overview available.
84. Series 5, Show 84
1985-09-02
No overview available.
85. Series 5, Show 85
1985-09-04
Tonight: conversation and the art of Motorcycle maintenance.
86. Series 5, Show 86
1985-09-06
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.
87. Series 5, Show 87
1985-09-09
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?
88. Series 5, Show 88
1985-09-11
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.
89. Series 5, Show 89
1985-09-13
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.
90. Series 5, Show 90
1985-09-16
Guests include: John Inman, Demis Roussos, Diane Simpson
91. Series 5, Show 91
1985-09-18
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?
92. Series 5, Show 92
1985-09-20
No overview available.
93. Series 5, Show 93
1985-09-23
No overview available.
94. Series 5, Show 94
1985-09-25
No overview available.
95. Series 5, Show 95
1985-09-27
No overview available.
96. Series 5, Show 96
1985-09-30
No overview available.
97. Series 5, Show 97
1985-10-02
No overview available.
98. Series 5, Show 98
1985-10-04
No overview available.
99. Series 5, Show 99
1985-10-07
Selina Scott presents the guests: Les Dawson, Prue Leith, Alain Prost
100. Series 5, Show 100
1985-10-09
No overview available.
101. Series 5, Show 101
1985-10-11
No overview available.
102. Series 5, Show 102
1985-10-14
Terry returns from lying down in a darkened room to celebrate the 100th edition of the thrice-weekly charivaria.
103. Series 5, Show 103
1985-10-16
No overview available.
104. Series 5, Show 104
1985-10-18
No overview available.
105. Series 5, Show 105
1985-10-21
No overview available.
106. Series 5, Show 106
1985-10-23
No overview available.
107. Series 5, Show 107
1985-10-25
No overview available.
108. Series 5, Show 108
1985-10-28
No overview available.
109. Series 5, Show 109
1985-10-30
A veritable Milky Way of megastars shine down on Terry for the Wednesday charivari.
110. Series 5, Show 110
1985-11-01
Guests include: Steve Cram, David Rappaport, Kenneth Williams, Prefab Sprout as performer
111. Series 5, Show 111
1985-11-04
No overview available.
112. Series 5, Show 112
1985-11-06
No overview available.
113. Series 5, Show 113
1985-11-08
No overview available.
114. Series 5, Show 114
1985-11-11
No overview available.
115. Series 5, Show 115
1985-11-13
No overview available.
116. Series 5, Show 116
1985-11-15
No overview available.
117. Series 5, Show 117
1985-11-18
No overview available.
118. Series 5, Show 118
1985-11-20
No overview available.
119. Series 5, Show 119
1985-11-25
No overview available.
120. Series 5, Show 120
1985-11-27
No overview available.
121. Series 5, Show 121
1985-11-29
No overview available.
122. Series 5, Show 122
1985-12-02
No overview available.
123. Series 5, Show 123
1985-12-04
No overview available.
124. Series 5, Show 124
1985-12-06
Jim Henson (Kermit the Frog), Michael Barrymore
125. Series 5, Show 125
1985-12-09
Guests: John Cleese, Delia Smith, Whitney Houston as performer
126. Series 5, Show 126
1985-12-11
No overview available.
127. Series 5, Show 127
1985-12-13
No overview available.
128. Series 5, Show 128
1985-12-16
No overview available.
129. Series 5, Show 129
1985-12-18
No overview available.
130. Series 5, Show 130
1985-12-20
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.
131. Series 5, Show 131
1985-12-23
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.
132. Series 5, Show 132
1985-12-25
No overview available.
133. Series 5, Show 133
1985-12-27
"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.
134. Series 5, Show 134
1985-12-31
No overview available.