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That Was The Week That Was. Copyright: BBC
That Was The Week That Was

That Was The Week That Was

  • TV sketch show
  • BBC One
  • 1962 - 1963
  • 37 episodes (2 series)

Groundbreaking and controversial weekly satire series, fronted by David Frost, Millicent Martin, Ken Cope, Lance Percival, Willie Rushton and others. Also features Kenneth Cope, David Kernan, Bernard Levin, William Rushton, Roy Kinnear and more.

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Press clippings Page 2

TW3 was still, after 14 years, nice and warm like fish and chips wrapped in newspaper. It was always a newspaper baby, from the Director General who protected it, to the journalists, often critics, who wrote for it.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 13th August 1977

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