Wogan (1982)

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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.

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Tonight's special guest David Frost.

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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.

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Guests: Esther Rantzen, Leo Sayer, Victoria Wood and Geoffrey Durham (The Great Soprendo).

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Guests include: Mike Harding

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Guests include: Jeffrey Archer and Randy Edelman

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Guests include: Gilbert O'Sullivan, Vincent Price, Selina Scott

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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').

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Guests include: Cilla Black and Len Deighton

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Guests: John Cleese promoting "Privates on Parade", Shirley Conran, Sir Geraint Evans, and Sky.

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Guests include: Patrick MacNee, Wayne Sleep with the "Dash" troupe

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Guests include: Helen Reddy, Tommy Steele

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Guests include: David Bellamy, Sir Harry Secombe

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Guests include: Clive James, Neil Kinnock , Dolly Parton as musical guest

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Guests include: Jim Davidson, Barbara Dickson, Danny La Rue

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The last in the present series. Guests include: Rowan Atkinson, Johnny Mathis

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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.

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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".

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Guests include: Joan Rivers, the unpredictable, outrageous American comedienne returns to these shores; Gerald Priestland, world traveller, modern moralist, and 'guru' of contemporary problems.

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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".

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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".

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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.

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Cliff Richard performs 'Baby You're Dynamite' and is interviewed by Terry Wogan.

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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.

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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.

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Guests include: Tony Blackburn, Joanna Lumley; George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley (Wham!)

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Roberta Flack, Grace Jones, Nigel Rees

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Guests include: Beryl Reid, Gore Vidal, Kim Wilde

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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.

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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.

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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".

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Join 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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Join 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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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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Join Terry and his guests as he flexes his thews.

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

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

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Terry puts his gluteus maximus to maximum use.

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Terry exercises his gastrocnemii leaping about the Television Theatre.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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Guests include: John Forsythe

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

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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.

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

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

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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".

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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.

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

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

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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".

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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.

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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.

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Cliff Richard performs 'I Still Believe In You'.

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

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Tonight: conversation and the art of Motorcycle maintenance.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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Guests include: John Inman, Demis Roussos, Diane Simpson

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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?

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

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

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

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

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Jim Henson (Kermit the Frog), Michael Barrymore

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

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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.

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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.

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"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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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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).

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

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

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Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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?

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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?

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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?

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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.

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

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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

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"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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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)

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Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels

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Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney

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

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Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham

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Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle

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Tonight's guests: "Five Star"

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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.

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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.

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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?

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Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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?

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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?

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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.