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=== US versions === An American version was on NBC from 10 November 1963 to May 1965.<ref>{{cite news |title=Originator Here to Assist 'T.W. 3' / David Frost Will Appear on New Satirical Revue|work=The New York Times |page=49|author=Gardner, Paul|author-link=Paul Gardner (journalist)|date=3 January 1964|access-date=19 November 2018| url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1964/01/03/118649788.html?pageNumber=49}}</ref> The pilot featured [[Henry Fonda]] and [[Henry Morgan (comedian)|Henry Morgan]], with [[Mike Nichols]] and [[Elaine May]] as guests, and supporting performers including [[Gene Hackman]]. The recurring cast included Frost, Morgan, [[Buck Henry]], [[Tom Bosley]],<ref name="youtube/NBC/TWTWTW"> *{{cite web |author1=NBC |title=That Was The Week That Was - June 12, 1964 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtVRJ2qdYw4 |website=youtube |date=12 June 2014 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=en}} *{{cite web |author1=NBC |title=That Was The Week That Was - June 19, 1964 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pprBfg6OSRM |website=youtube |date=19 June 2014 |access-date=12 June 2023 |language=en}} </ref> and [[Alan Alda]],<ref name="youtube/NBC/TWTWTW"/> with [[Nancy Ames]] singing an opening news-satire-song<ref name="youtube/NBC/TWTWTW"/> and Stanley Grover and Ames performing solos and duets. Regularly contributing writers included [[Gloria Steinem]], [[William F. Brown (writer)|William F. Brown]], [[Tom Lehrer]], and [[Calvin Trillin]].<ref>Carlton, Jim</ref><ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1964/01/20/97160719.html?pageNumber=87 "Morse for 'T.W. 3'"]. ''The New York Times'', January 20, 1964, p. 87. Retrieved 27 October 2018.</ref> [[Norman Paris]] was the musical director.<ref>Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earl F. (2009). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&pg=PA1372&dq=%22norman+Paris%22+%22that+was+the+week+that+was%22 The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present]''. New York: Ballantine Books. p. 1372. {{ISBN|978-0-345-49773-4}}.</ref> The announcer was [[Jerry Damon]]. A running gag was a mock feud with [[Jack Paar]], whose own program followed ''TW3'' on the NBC Friday schedule; Paar repeatedly referred to ''TW3'' as "Henry Morgan's Amateur Hour". Of 50 episodes, only a few survive in video form, yet audio episodes survive on [[acetate disc]].<ref name="youtube/NBC/TWTWTW"/> The first-season black-and-white episodes were preserved on [[kinescope]] film; the surviving colour episodes of the second and final season were recorded in the then-standard two-inch colour [[quadruplex videotape]] format. The [[Paley Center]] has copies of some seven episodes, including the hour-long pilot. Also, scripts of all shows survive, both in the NBC Collection at the [[Library of Congress]] and in the papers of executive producer [[Leland Hayward]] at the New York Public Library. Amateur audio recordings of all or nearly all episodes also survive,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/991119.stories.html |title=Lost and Found Sound: The Stories |publisher=NPR |access-date=31 May 2014|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20000818090523/https://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/991119.stories.html|archive-date=August 18, 2000}}</ref> and an hour-long recording, ''That Was That Was The Week That Was,'' a compilation of bits from various shows, was issued on LP and, in 1992, reissued on CD. After the series' cancellation, Lehrer, who did not appear on the show, recorded a collection of his songs used on the show on ''[[That Was The Year That Was]]'', released by [[Reprise Records]] in September 1965. ABC aired a ''That Was The Week That Was'' special on 21 April 1985, hosted by David Frost and [[Anne Bancroft]] and featuring future ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' cast members [[Jan Hooks]] and [[A. Whitney Brown]] and puppetry from ''[[Spitting Image]]''.<ref name="hubcity">{{cite web|url=http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=that+was+the+week+that+was&p=1&item=T:05198|title=That Was The Week That Was (TV)|access-date=5 November 2015}}</ref>
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