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This Week is a British weekly current affairs television programme that was first produced for ITV on 6 January 1956 by Associated-Rediffusion (later Thames Television), running until 20 July 1978, when it was replaced by TV Eye. On 11 September 1986, the earlier name was revived and This Week continued until Thames lost its franchise at the end of 1992.

In September 1958, This Week filmed George Harrison Marks and Pamela Green at their photography studio in Gerrard Street. David Kentick directed and Nick Barker interviewed Marks and Green. They were filmed working with a nude model, who was strategically covered by a very long wig. The film sequence ended with a montage of their photographs, mostly of nudes. However, the night it was to be broadcast Pope Pius XII died and the programme was cut, and the interview never shown. In 1964, This Week returned to their studio. This time round they showed a clip of the infamous striptease comedy film The Window Dresser.

One of its more notable episodes was an exposé of the National Front in 1974, which led to the party's members removing its Chairman John Tyndall and National Activities Organiser Martin Webster two weeks later. The programme featured revelations from former NF Chairman John O'Brien about their neo-Nazi paramilitary pasts and alleged continuing links to extremist groups.

In 1976 the episode Death in the West believed to contain the first recorded admission from a tobacco company representative that smoking causes health problems resulted in an injunction from Philip Morris International.

The most controversial edition was "Death on the Rock", a 1988 documentary which questioned the official account of the Gibraltar shootings.

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