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A visitor to the site was recently looking for That Was The Week That Was or TW3. The show was a groundbreaker when it first aired on the BBC in 1962. Perhaps for the first time ever British television viewers were introduced to 'satire'. The show was irreverent, poking fun at the British Establishment - perhaps the first time that the BBC managed to get itself into trouble. On screen performers were headed by David Frost and included the likes of Lance Percival, Bernard Levin, Kenneth Cope, Roy Kinnear, Willie Rushton and Frankie Howerd. The producer and director was Ned Sherrin, who also devised the show.

Off screen, contributions were made by many people, with the likes of John Albery, John Betjeman, John Bird, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Roald Dahl, Richard Ingrams, Gerald Kaufman, Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Bill Oddie, Dennis Potter, Eric Sykes, Kenneth Tynan, Keith Waterhouse and John Antrobus.

Perhaps the best remembered episode was the one broadcast on the day after Kennedy's assassination on 23 November 1963. This is slightly at odds with the show's ethos as no satire was included and the show took the form as a tribute to the late President. Since 1964 was a General Election year in Britain the show was suspended after its second series in 1963 as the BBC wished to remain impartial. The show did not return after the election. The show was broadcast live and very few of the shows were recorded for posterity.