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E1 Series 6, Show 1
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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E2 Series 6, Show 2
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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E3 Series 6, Show 3
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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E4 Series 6, Show 4
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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E5 Series 6, Show 5
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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E6 Series 6, Show 6
Felicity Kendal didn't realise that watering the plants in Terry's dressing-room could take most of the day.
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E7 Series 6, Show 7
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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E8 Series 6, Show 8
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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E9 Series 6, Show 9
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E10 Series 6, Show 10
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E11 Series 6, Show 11
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E12 Series 6, Show 12
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E13 Series 6, Show 13
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E14 Series 6, Show 14
Welcome to the first frolic of February live from the TV Theatre.
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E15 Series 6, Show 15
Terry's febrile fancies feature fantastically tonight.
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E16 Series 6, Show 16
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E17 Series 6, Show 17
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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E18 Series 6, Show 18
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E19 Series 6, Show 19
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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E20 Series 6, Show 20
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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E21 Series 6, Show 21
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E22 Series 6, Show 22
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E23 Series 6, Show 23
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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E24 Series 6, Show 24
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E25 Series 6, Show 25
Guests include: Ian Charleson, Angela Fox, Edward Fox, James Fox, Robert Fox
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E26 Series 6, Show 26
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E27 Series 6, Show 27
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E28 Series 6, Show 28
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E29 Series 6, Show 29
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E30 Series 6, Show 30
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E31 Series 6, Show 31
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E32 Series 6, Show 32
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E33 Series 6, Show 33
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E34 Series 6, Show 34
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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E35 Series 6, Show 35
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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E36 Series 6, Show 36
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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E37 Series 6, Show 37
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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E38 Series 6, Show 38
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E39 Series 6, Show 39
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E40 Series 6, Show 40
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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E41 Series 6, Show 41
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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E42 Series 6, Show 42
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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E43 Series 6, Show 43
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E44 Series 6, Show 44
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E45 Series 6, Show 45
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E46 Series 6, Show 46
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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E47 Series 6, Show 47
Kenneth Williams hosts tonight's programme. Guests: Stephen Fry, Steve Hollings, Michael Palin, Barbara Windsor, Hank B. Marvin.
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E48 Series 6, Show 48
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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E49 Series 6, Show 49
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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E50 Series 6, Show 50
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E51 Series 6, Show 51
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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E52 Series 6, Show 52
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E53 Series 6, Show 53
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E54 Series 6, Show 54
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E55 Series 6, Show 55
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E56 Series 6, Show 56
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E57 Series 6, Show 57
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E58 Series 6, Show 58
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E59 Series 6, Show 59
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E60 Series 6, Show 60
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E61 Series 6, Show 61
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E62 Series 6, Show 62
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E63 Series 6, Show 63
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E64 Series 6, Show 64
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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E65 Series 6, Show 65
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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E66 Series 6, Show 66
6 June — an important date for Bjorn Borg, Captain Scott and Steve Donoghue. Terry makes it memorable tonight.
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E67 Series 6, Show 67
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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E68 Series 6, Show 68
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E69 Series 6, Show 69
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E70 Series 6, Show 70
"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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E71 Series 6, Show 71
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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E72 Series 6, Show 72
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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E73 Series 6, Show 73
Derek Jameson presents Rod Stewart and Kiri Te Kanawa. Rod Stewart performs "Every Beat Of My Heart".
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E74 Series 6, Show 74
This is the week to watch if you're sick to death of seeing the Irishman three times a week.
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E75 Series 6, Show 75
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E76 Series 6, Show 76
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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E77 Series 6, Show 77
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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E78 Series 6, Show 78
Terry celebrates the Fourth of July in his own inimitable Irish way.
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E79 Series 6, Show 79
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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E80 Series 6, Show 80
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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E81 Series 6, Show 81
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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E82 Series 6, Show 82
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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E83 Series 6, Show 83
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E84 Series 6, Show 84
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E85 Series 6, Show 85
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E86 Series 6, Show 86
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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E87 Series 6, Show 87
Tonight's guest: Paul Daniels
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E88 Series 6, Show 88
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E89 Series 6, Show 89
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E90 Series 6, Show 90
Guests include: Robert Kilroy-Silk, Paul McCartney
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E91 Series 6, Show 91
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E92 Series 6, Show 92
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E93 Series 6, Show 93
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E94 Series 6, Show 94
Guests include: Kenneth Branagh, Fanny Cradock, Jenny Seagrove, Tina Turner
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E95 Series 6, Show 95
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E96 Series 6, Show 96
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E97 Series 6, Show 97
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E98 Series 6, Show 98
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E99 Series 6, Show 99
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E100 Series 6, Show 100
Guests include: Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham
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E101 Series 6, Show 101
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E102 Series 6, Show 102
Tonight's guest: Bruce Fogle
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E103 Series 6, Show 103
Tonight's guests: "Five Star"
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E104 Series 6, Show 104
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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E105 Series 6, Show 105
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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E106 Series 6, Show 106
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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E107 Series 6, Show 107
Tonight, conversation and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
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E108 Series 6, Show 108
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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E109 Series 6, Show 109
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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E110 Series 6, Show 110
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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E111 Series 6, Show 111
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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E112 Series 6, Show 112
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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E113 Series 6, Show 113
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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E114 Series 6, Show 114
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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E115 Series 6, Show 115
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E116 Series 6, Show 116
A piquant peroration from Terry and his guests live at the Terryvision Theatre.
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E117 Series 6, Show 117
A bounteous bonanza of bans mots and bonnes bouches live with Terry at the Television Theatre.
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E118 Series 6, Show 118
Temporary resident required for empty chair in Television Theatre. Has David Frost got the job?
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E119 Series 6, Show 119
This is the week to watch if you don't care for the eponymous hero.
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E120 Series 6, Show 120
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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E121 Series 6, Show 121
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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E122 Series 6, Show 122
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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E123 Series 6, Show 123
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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E124 Series 6, Show 124
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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E125 Series 6, Show 125
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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E126 Series 6, Show 126
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.
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E127 Series 6, Show 127
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E128 Series 6, Show 128
Buddy Rich, the guest tonight, performs "Birdland".
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E129 Series 6, Show 129
Kate Bush performs "Experiment IV".
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E130 Series 6, Show 130
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E131 Series 6, Show 131
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E132 Series 6, Show 132
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E133 Series 6, Show 133
Guests include: Nick Kamen, Diana Rigg
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E134 Series 6, Show 134
Guests include: Gorden Kaye, Vicki Michelle
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E135 Series 6, Show 135
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E136 Series 6, Show 136
Terry kicks off a special week with more matchless guests live at the Television Theatre.
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E137 Series 6, Show 137
Halfway through the week, and Terry limbers up and gets into training for the rigours of Children in Need.
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E138 Series 6, Show 138
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.
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E139 Series 6, Show 139
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E140 Series 6, Show 140
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E141 Series 6, Show 141
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E142 Series 6, Show 142
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E143 Series 6, Show 143
Guests: Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Elaine Stritch
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E144 Series 6, Show 144
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E145 Series 6, Show 145
Dr Wogan's live lesson in the philosophy of frivolity lasts for 35 minutes.
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E146 Series 6, Show 146
Terry Wogan talks to primatologist Jane Goodall and actor Adrian Edmondson, with music by Eurythmics. There is also a satellite interview with Parker from Thunderbirds.
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E147 Series 6, Show 147
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.
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E148 Series 6, Show 148
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?
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E149 Series 6, Show 149
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.
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E150 Series 6, Show 150
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".
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E151 Series 6, Show 151
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".
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E152 Series 6, Show 152
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E153 Series 6, Show 153 (New Years Eve Special)
"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!"