#37: Christmas With The Carringtons

Robin Day hated this 1985 Terry-and-Dynasty talk-in because, as he told reporters, Wogan "was talking to people as characters. He was speaking to fictional people who don't exist as if they were real. It was appalling." It ended up being a press cause celebre and Day was invited onto the first live Wogan of the new year to tell Tel his issue with the show face to face. In fact Wogan later revealed in one of his many autobiographies that he didn't much care for the finished product either - it had been pitched as a fully set up Christmas Dinner With The Carringtons but when the BBC team got to America they found Aaron Spelling had changed all the plans on them and ended up having to snatch interviews and set visits instead. Still, the festive titles are a treat.