That Was the Week That Was

Pilot episode; Millicent Martin opens the show with a song; Gaitskell and the new Liberal defector; James Meredith tries to get to the all-white University of Mississippi; an item on the Common Market; sketch about Henry Brooke; a confrontation between Bernard Levin and a group of lawyers; a send-up of Jim's Inn; and Percival sings a Calypso.

The first programme includes: A parody of BBC by-election coverage; The army becoming a political party; An expose of record producer Norrie Paramor; Bernard Levin interviewing a group of PR men; a skit on the then-current infomercial-style show ""Jim's Inn"", a parody of the recent hit song ""Love And Marriage"" and Timothy Birdsall's send-up of Identikit pictures.

Items include: A look at the possible successors to retired Conservative leader Harold MacMillan; a send-up of TV science shows; and a rant by a yobbish cricketer (Cope).

A monologue by a tobacconist (Roy Kinnear) on why smoking is a good thing, an expose of songwriter Lionel Bart's borrowings from old-time songs; Bernard Levin interviews hotellier Charles Forte, a group of Cardinals sing Arrivederci Roma; and a sketch (and subsequent calypso) on the subject of open flies.

A list of Britain's remaining colonies; trade unions quarrelling over a hole in the road; an old-time comedian (Roy Kinnear) complains about the satire boom.

The Queen's christmas broadcast being censored; Bernard Levin is shouted down by a group of farmers.

An expose of the ""Cross Bencher"" column in the Sunday Express.