Wogan

Wogan was a chat show on British television, hosted by Terry Wogan. The show was initially broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC ONE from 1982 to 1984, before being moved to weekday evenings at 7pm, where it remained, three nights per week, from 1985 to 1992. It was replaced by the soap opera Eldorado.

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When Wogan himself was unavailable to host the show, guest presenters were brought in - most notably Kenneth Williams (in 1986), Selina Scott (in 1990), Jonathan Ross (in 1991) and Gloria Hunniford (in 1991).

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The show was broadcast live from BBC Television Theatre in Shepherd's Bush, London, and is mainly remembered now through repeats of notable interviews on compilation clip shows. For example;

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• The appearance of an awkward Anne Bancroft, who admitted to her dislike of chat shows, and appeared before the audience counting up to ten in order to calm her nerves.
• David Icke appearing on the show wearing a turquoise-coloured shell suit, and claiming to be "a son of the Godhead". Wogan memorably commented to David at one point of the audience's laughter, "They're not laughing with you, David, they're laughing at you."
• Vivienne Westwood appearing on the show when it was being guest hosted by Sue Lawley, and displaying her latest medically-inspired collection. When the audience collapsed into laughter, Westwood told Lawley that if they didn't stop laughing, she'd tell the models to stop coming out.
• George Best appearing on the show in September 1990 extremely drunk, and needing to be escorted off set.
• David Bowie refusing to co-operate in with an interview. As Wogan put it, he "would not speak ... or at least not sensibly ... he will never know how close he came to a slap on live television".
• Chevy Chase remaining silent through his interview.

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