Wogan (Season 5)

Series 5, Show 1 (Episode 1)

Air date: 1985-02-18

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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.

Series 5, Show 2 (Episode 2)

Air date: 1985-02-20

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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.

Series 5, Show 3 (Episode 3)

Air date: 1985-02-22

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 4 (Episode 4)

Air date: 1985-02-25

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 5 (Episode 5)

Air date: 1985-02-27

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 6 (Episode 6)

Air date: 1985-03-01

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 7 (Episode 7)

Air date: 1985-03-04

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 8 (Episode 8)

Air date: 1985-03-06

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 9 (Episode 9)

Air date: 1985-03-08

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 10 (Episode 10)

Air date: 1985-03-11

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 11 (Episode 11)

Air date: 1985-03-13

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 12 (Episode 12)

Air date: 1985-03-15

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 13 (Episode 13)

Air date: 1985-03-18

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 14 (Episode 14)

Air date: 1985-03-20

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 15 (Episode 15)

Air date: 1985-03-22

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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".

Series 5, Show 16 (Episode 16)

Air date: 1985-03-25

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 17 (Episode 17)

Air date: 1985-03-27

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 18 (Episode 18)

Air date: 1985-03-29

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 19 (Episode 19)

Air date: 1985-04-01

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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.

Series 5, Show 20 (Episode 20)

Air date: 1985-04-03

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 21 (Episode 21)

Air date: 1985-04-08

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 22 (Episode 22)

Air date: 1985-04-10

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 23 (Episode 23)

Air date: 1985-04-12

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 24 (Episode 24)

Air date: 1985-04-15

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 25 (Episode 25)

Air date: 1985-04-17

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 26 (Episode 26)

Air date: 1985-04-19

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Join Terry and his guests as he flexes his thews.

Series 5, Show 27 (Episode 27)

Air date: 1985-04-22

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 28 (Episode 28)

Air date: 1985-04-24

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 29 (Episode 29)

Air date: 1985-04-26

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 30 (Episode 30)

Air date: 1985-04-29

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 31 (Episode 31)

Air date: 1985-05-01

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Terry puts his gluteus maximus to maximum use.

Series 5, Show 32 (Episode 32)

Air date: 1985-05-03

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Terry exercises his gastrocnemii leaping about the Television Theatre.

Series 5, Show 33 (Episode 33)

Air date: 1985-05-06

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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.

Series 5, Show 34 (Episode 34)

Air date: 1985-05-08

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 35 (Episode 35)

Air date: 1985-05-10

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 36 (Episode 36)

Air date: 1985-05-13

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 37 (Episode 37)

Air date: 1985-05-15

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 38 (Episode 38)

Air date: 1985-05-17

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 39 (Episode 39)

Air date: 1985-05-20

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 40 (Episode 40)

Air date: 1985-05-22

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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.

Series 5, Show 41 (Episode 41)

Air date: 1985-05-24

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 42 (Episode 42)

Air date: 1985-05-27

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 43 (Episode 43)

Air date: 1985-05-29

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 44 (Episode 44)

Air date: 1985-05-31

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 45 (Episode 45)

Air date: 1985-06-03

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 46 (Episode 46)

Air date: 1985-06-05

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 47 (Episode 47)

Air date: 1985-06-07

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 48 (Episode 48)

Air date: 1985-06-10

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 49 (Episode 49)

Air date: 1985-06-12

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 50 (Episode 50)

Air date: 1985-06-14

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 51 (Episode 51)

Air date: 1985-06-17

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 52 (Episode 52)

Air date: 1985-06-19

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Guests include: John Forsythe

Series 5, Show 53 (Episode 53)

Air date: 1985-06-21

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 54 (Episode 54)

Air date: 1985-06-24

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 55 (Episode 55)

Air date: 1985-06-26

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 56 (Episode 56)

Air date: 1985-06-28

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 57 (Episode 57)

Air date: 1985-07-01

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 58 (Episode 58)

Air date: 1985-07-03

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 59 (Episode 59)

Air date: 1985-07-05

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 60 (Episode 60)

Air date: 1985-07-08

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 61 (Episode 61)

Air date: 1985-07-10

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 62 (Episode 62)

Air date: 1985-07-12

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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.

Series 5, Show 63 (Episode 63)

Air date: 1985-07-15

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 64 (Episode 64)

Air date: 1985-07-17

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 65 (Episode 65)

Air date: 1985-07-19

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 66 (Episode 66)

Air date: 1985-07-22

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 67 (Episode 67)

Air date: 1985-07-24

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 68 (Episode 68)

Air date: 1985-07-26

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 69 (Episode 69)

Air date: 1985-07-29

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 70 (Episode 70)

Air date: 1985-07-31

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 71 (Episode 71)

Air date: 1985-08-02

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 72 (Episode 72)

Air date: 1985-08-05

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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".

Series 5, Show 73 (Compilation) (Episode 73)

Air date: 1985-08-07

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 74 (Episode 74)

Air date: 1985-08-09

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 75 (Episode 75)

Air date: 1985-08-12

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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.

Series 5, Show 76 (Episode 76)

Air date: 1985-08-14

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 77 (Episode 77)

Air date: 1985-08-16

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 78 (Episode 78)

Air date: 1985-08-19

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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".

Series 5, Show 79 (Episode 79)

Air date: 1985-08-21

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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.

Series 5, Show 80 (Episode 80)

Air date: 1985-08-23

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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.

Series 5, Show 81 (Episode 81)

Air date: 1985-08-26

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Cliff Richard performs 'I Still Believe In You'.

Series 5, Show 82 (Episode 82)

Air date: 1985-08-28

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 83 (Episode 83)

Air date: 1985-08-30

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 84 (Episode 84)

Air date: 1985-09-02

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 85 (Episode 85)

Air date: 1985-09-04

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Tonight: conversation and the art of Motorcycle maintenance.

Series 5, Show 86 (Episode 86)

Air date: 1985-09-06

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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.

Series 5, Show 87 (Episode 87)

Air date: 1985-09-09

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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?

Series 5, Show 88 (Episode 88)

Air date: 1985-09-11

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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.

Series 5, Show 89 (Episode 89)

Air date: 1985-09-13

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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.

Series 5, Show 90 (Episode 90)

Air date: 1985-09-16

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Guests include: John Inman, Demis Roussos, Diane Simpson

Series 5, Show 91 (Episode 91)

Air date: 1985-09-18

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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?

Series 5, Show 92 (Episode 92)

Air date: 1985-09-20

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 93 (Episode 93)

Air date: 1985-09-23

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 94 (Episode 94)

Air date: 1985-09-25

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 95 (Episode 95)

Air date: 1985-09-27

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 96 (Episode 96)

Air date: 1985-09-30

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 97 (Episode 97)

Air date: 1985-10-02

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 98 (Episode 98)

Air date: 1985-10-04

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 99 (Episode 99)

Air date: 1985-10-07

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 100 (Episode 100)

Air date: 1985-10-09

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 101 (Episode 101)

Air date: 1985-10-11

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 102 (Episode 102)

Air date: 1985-10-14

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 103 (Episode 103)

Air date: 1985-10-16

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 104 (Episode 104)

Air date: 1985-10-18

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 105 (Episode 105)

Air date: 1985-10-21

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 106 (Episode 106)

Air date: 1985-10-23

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 107 (Episode 107)

Air date: 1985-10-25

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 108 (Episode 108)

Air date: 1985-10-28

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 109 (Episode 109)

Air date: 1985-10-30

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 110 (Episode 110)

Air date: 1985-11-01

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 111 (Episode 111)

Air date: 1985-11-04

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 112 (Episode 112)

Air date: 1985-11-06

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 113 (Episode 113)

Air date: 1985-11-08

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 114 (Episode 114)

Air date: 1985-11-11

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 115 (Episode 115)

Air date: 1985-11-13

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 116 (Episode 116)

Air date: 1985-11-15

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 117 (Episode 117)

Air date: 1985-11-18

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 118 (Episode 118)

Air date: 1985-11-20

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 119 (Episode 119)

Air date: 1985-11-25

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 120 (Episode 120)

Air date: 1985-11-27

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 121 (Episode 121)

Air date: 1985-11-29

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 122 (Episode 122)

Air date: 1985-12-02

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 123 (Episode 123)

Air date: 1985-12-04

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 124 (Episode 124)

Air date: 1985-12-06

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: Jim Henson (Kermit the Frog), Michael Barrymore

Series 5, Show 125 (Episode 125)

Air date: 1985-12-09

Runtime: 35 min

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

Series 5, Show 126 (Episode 126)

Air date: 1985-12-11

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 127 (Episode 127)

Air date: 1985-12-13

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 128 (Episode 128)

Air date: 1985-12-16

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 129 (Episode 129)

Air date: 1985-12-18

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 130 (Episode 130)

Air date: 1985-12-20

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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.

Series 5, Show 131 (Episode 131)

Air date: 1985-12-23

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: 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.

Series 5, Show 132 (Episode 132)

Air date: 1985-12-25

Runtime: 35 min

Series 5, Show 133 (Episode 133)

Air date: 1985-12-27

Runtime: 35 min

Overview: "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.

Series 5, Show 134 (Episode 134)

Air date: 1985-12-31

Runtime: 35 min