Theme for "This Week" 1963

Opening titles and music for This Week, ITV's first major weekly current affairs programme. It started in 1956, and was originally produced by Associated Rediffusion in london. It had a high reputation and employed many leading journalists of the time.
When Rediffusion was replaced by Thames Television in 1968, This Week continued. It was dropped in 1978, but revived again in 1986, and continued until Thames lost its franchise in 1992. The music is part of the Karelia Suite, by Sibelius.

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Education

Tags:

• itv
• current affairs
• rediffusion
• thames television
• black
• white
• vintage
• Television.

[LONDONGUY100]

Very true. All because of Death on the rock. A brilliant piece of investigative journalism.......

[sslaxx]

Ironic, they picked this program up from their predecessors who lost their franchise and it'd eventually cost them theirs...

[Galisphere347]

ITV used to produce stuff like this, now they prefer to film cretins eating Australian insects

[Broadercasting]

The opening bars preceding the main (Sibelius) theme tune is actually AR (Associated Rediffusion) in Morse code: ._ ._. di-dah di-dah-dit.

I didn't realise till just now!

[Broadercasting]

The opening bars preceding the main (Sibelius) theme tune is actually AR (Associated Rediffusion) in Morse code: ._ ._. di-dah di-dah-dit.

I didn't realise till just now!

[DaveyC95]

Does anybody have more up to date opening title sequences for This Week for the 80s/90s? because this precedes me by two decades!

[sulfacide]

Sibelus... Karelia suit... brilliant

[TashkentFox]

Death on the Rock was probably a bit ill-advised of Thames, because of the severe threat to the nation from terrorists at the time.