'This Week' was ITV's second-longest running current affairs strand after 'World In Action' from Granada. 'This Week' was seen by viewers with end-caps declaring it to be an Associated-Rediffusion production, a Rediffusion London production and a Thames production (where it perished with Thames on 31 December 1992), making it one of the few shows to have 3 parent companies (another being 'Mr and Mrs' from TWW, HTV and Border).

Thursday 9 July 1964 saw 'This Week' discussing the forthcoming US Presidential election - President Lyndon B Johnson for the Democrats standing against the Republican Senator Barry Goldwater (who was appointed candidate a week later). 'This Week' points to the escalating problems of Civil Rights in the States following the death of JFK.

For the record, Johnson won, but became tangled in the bloody (and ultimately unsuccessful) Vietnam war and chose not to stand again at the next election.

Granada's 'What the Papers Say' now shows on BBC-2, but was on Channel Four for much of the 1980s and ITV (but not fully networked) before that, making it another unusual show for having a home on three of the (now) 5 analogue terrestrial channels.

This edition would also have covered the 'big news' in the papers that week - American politics, a war somewhere far away, and divisions in one of the British political parties... so, no change there, then!