Wogan

Season 5

Terry Wogan hosts his own long-running chat show, where he interviews a variety of guests, from public life to celebrities. Also featured are regular musical guests performing their latest songs.

Where to Watch Season 5

134 Episodes

Series 5, Show 1
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Series 5, Show 1Wogan changes from a post-watershed Saturday night show into a live, thrice-weekly series going out at prime time. Guests include Elton John and Tina Turner, but all eyes are on Terry as he slips and falls on the stage.
Series 5, Show 2
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Series 5, Show 2Terry hosts the second edition of his prime-time show the day after he'd won the TV Times "Personality of the Year" award for the seventh year running. Included is an update on the Children In Need appeal.
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Series 5, Show 5The critics are already showing signs of getting restless with Terry's three-times-a-week format, as he deals with a member of the public slating his golf, and a song tribute from Leni Harper. There's also a new pet for Bob Carolgees.
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Series 5, Show 6Terry tells Selina Scott that she's not "a morning person", while Arthur C. Clarke baffles the audience by claiming that the monoliths in "2001" are like Swiss army knives. Among the other guests are Bonnie Langford and Victor Spinetti.
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Series 5, Show 13In a packed show, guests include Pamela Sue Martin talking about playing Fallon in "Dynasty", Donald Sinden discussing his puppet in "Spitting Image", and north east club comedian Bobby Thompson performing a stand-up set.
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Series 5, Show 15Including an interview with HRH The Princess Anne (Mrs Mark Phillips that time). The British band Frankie Goes to Hollywood performs "Welcome to the Pleasuredome".
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Series 5, Show 17Join Terry and guests live from the Television Theatre, with a chance to see two of the entries for A Song for Europe.
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Series 5, Show 18Join 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
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Series 5, Show 19Join 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
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Series 5, Show 20Join 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
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Series 5, Show 21Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre for a Bank Holiday miscellany. Guests include: Tammy Wynette
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Series 5, Show 22Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Wednesday wingwing.
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Series 5, Show 23Join Terry and his guests live from the Television Theatre, London for the Friday farrago.
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Series 5, Show 24Terry says "Willkommen Pet" as Jimmy Nail joins him tonight for a Lumpschenkeln comparison.
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Series 5, Show 25Join Terry and his guests for impromptu knee-squeezing and ever-spontaneous events.
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Series 5, Show 26Join Terry and his guests as he flexes his thews.
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Series 5, Show 29Rams, black sheep and sacrificial lambs shepherded into the Television Theatre to entertain ewe.
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Series 5, Show 30Everton F.C. are on the show to sing their new record, "Here We Go", but Gary Lineker is absent from a situation he would later describe as "beyond cringeworthy". Included among the other guests are Miriam Margoyles and Patrick Macnee.
Series 5, Show 31
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Series 5, Show 31Terry puts his gluteus maximus to maximum use.
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Series 5, Show 32Terry exercises his gastrocnemii leaping about the Television Theatre.
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Series 5, Show 33Phil Collins performs "One More Night" at the piano and chats to Terry about his busy schedule, including his recent tour in Japan, getting offered a part in Miami Vice (1984) and his experience at the Oscars.
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Series 5, Show 39Marillion make their Wogan debut and perform their new single "Kayleigh".
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Series 5, Show 40Semi-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
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Series 5, Show 41Dilettante and wandering baritone Terry Wogan from Surrey, England, is the finalist in tonight's live Wogan.
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Series 5, Show 47The fast and furious Friday farrago live from fragrant Shepherd's Bush Green.
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Series 5, Show 49Guests include Antonia Fraser, Roy Orbison, June Havoc and The Mint Juleps.
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Series 5, Show 51Pamela Bellwood, Chris Evert, John Lloyd, Aled Jones, pop band Dead or Alive (as Musical Guest)
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Series 5, Show 52Guests include: John Forsythe
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Series 5, Show 53A little live lobbing from County Limerick's best-known tennis player, who despite many requests, will not be wearing shorts.
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Series 5, Show 62Prior to the next day's Live Aid (1985) concerts, Terry is joined by Bob Geldof and Nik Kershaw in the studio and Spandau Ballet via satellite link from their rehearsals at Wembley Stadium.
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Series 5, Show 65Five Star save the day by providing the music when The Smiths pull out of a scheduled appearance at late notice. Making up the chat side of things are Lesley-Anne Down, Nickolas Grace and cocktail shop boss Chrissie Vanstone-Walker.
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Series 5, Show 66Guests include: John Gordon Sinclair, Ulick O'Connor, Elizabeth Welch
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Series 5, Show 71Tonight's guest: the American rock band"Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show"
Series 5, Show 72
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Series 5, Show 72This 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)
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Series 5, Show 74
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Series 5, Show 74The show sees Terry take a "book train" to the Edinburgh Book Fair, chatting with writers including Terry Jones, Delia Smith, Michael Wood and Jonathan Miller. In the studio are John Houseman, Dusty Springfield and King.
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Series 5, Show 75Can 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.
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Series 5, Show 76Surrealism, the Bauhaus, modernism, and now Wogan. Is art imitating life or has the cat got your tongue sandwich?
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Series 5, Show 77Can the cultural revolution turn on Shepherd's Bush? How many surrealists does it take to unscrew a light bulb?
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Series 5, Show 78Reflecting 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".
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Series 5, Show 79Terry, 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
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Series 5, Show 80Terry'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
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Series 5, Show 81Cliff Richard performs 'I Still Believe In You'.
Series 5, Show 82
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Series 5, Show 82Terry propounds the second premise which follows inexorably upon the first as Wednesday follows Monday.
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Series 5, Show 83"Since you've been on that chat show, so many television sets have been sold," Les Dawson tells Terry via satellite, "I've sold mine." Also interviewed remotely are Mel Gibson and Joanna Lumley, while studio guests include Gloria Gaynor.
Series 5, Show 84
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Series 5, Show 84Terry is joined by Koo Stark, Ray Brooks and Michael Hordern, and gets to try his skills as a percussionist with Kodo, a drumming group from Sado Island.
Series 5, Show 85
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Series 5, Show 85Tonight: conversation and the art of Motorcycle maintenance.
Series 5, Show 86
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Series 5, Show 86Terry 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
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Series 5, Show 87As 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?
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Series 5, Show 88As 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.
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Series 5, Show 89As 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
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Series 5, Show 90Guests include: John Inman, Demis Roussos, Diane Simpson
Series 5, Show 91
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Series 5, Show 91It was in Vichy that the great Gertrude Stein said: 'A talk show is a talk show is a talk show', and was then pelted with garlic. French enlightenment or a display of envy that Wogan is not screened in France?
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Series 5, Show 95With Clare Francis, Rosemary Leach, Glenda Jackson, Elsie Waters and Sylvia Sims.
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Series 5, Show 99With Wogan now running all year round, the inevitable had to happen: the first episode with a stand-in host. Selina Scott gives Terry a week off, and immediately finds herself being flirted with by one of the guests, Alain Prost.
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Series 5, Show 102Terry returns from lying down in a darkened room to celebrate the 100th edition of the thrice-weekly charivaria.
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Series 5, Show 105Maya Angelou gives a charmingly eccentric interview, discussing her life, including how concerns over her sexuality led to her becoming pregnant at 16. Included among the other guests are Lynda Barron and belly dancer Tina Hobin.
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Series 5, Show 107The easy-going Wogan show gets an unusually barbed interview, as Terry asks Priscilla Presley what Elvis ever saw in her, and gets defensive when she asks if he's read her book. Other guests that get a softer treatment include Carl Sagan.
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Series 5, Show 109A veritable Milky Way of megastars shine down on Terry for the Wednesday charivari.
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Series 5, Show 110Guests include: Steve Cram, David Rappaport, Kenneth Williams, Prefab Sprout as performer
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Series 5, Show 112Terry talks to Simon Weston, the Guardsman burned in the Falklands conflict. There's also lighter moments, such as more Wogan Lookalikes, and Boxcar Willie taking a trip down to the "Wogan Stop" to sing "Watching A New Love Grow".
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Series 5, Show 119Sheena Easton reveals her leaving for the US started when the public "couldn't get arrested" with one of her records in the UK, and how she's "educating" her new husband in Scottish slang. Also featuring are guests including Arthur Hailey.
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Series 5, Show 122Terry talks to Michael J. Fox about the upcoming UK release of "Back To The Future". Also on the show are Stevie Wonder, Bob Carolgees and Bonnie Tyler.
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Series 5, Show 124Terry has a tough time when Kermit the Frog objects to his personal questions, and Michael Barrymore brings on an unannounced guest from the audience, Mrs. Brinkley from Leeds. Also among the guests on the show is Joni Mitchell.
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Series 5, Show 125Guests: John Cleese, Delia Smith, Whitney Houston as performer
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Series 5, Show 130Terry 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.
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Series 5, Show 131Guests: Cliff Richard, Hank B. Marvin, John Parr, Jimmy Savile, Loretta Swit. The show opens with John Parr singing "Bachelor Boy" partly, Cliff performs "It's In Everyone Of Us" and then the chat follows with Terry Wogan and Hank Marvin.
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Series 5, Show 133"You saw it first on Wogan" — among Terry's guests tonight are Andrew Lloyd Webber, with the first television performance of his musical The Phantom of the Opera.
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Series 5, Show 134A special late-night, hour-long edition of Wogan to celebrate its first year as a primetime series, and to see in the New Year. But Terry's guests are convinced that the BBC "champagne" is really ginger beer.