YMMV / That Was the Week That Was

• Harsher in Hindsight: In the 29 December 1962 episode, one sketch satirised the low accuracy rate of the Sunday Express columnist Cross-Bencher's political predictions (such as predicting that Harold Wilson would not challenge for the Labour deputy leadership (he did), but that if he did he would win (he didn't)). At the end of the programme, Frost read a quote from the Cross-Bencher column from the next day's Sunday Express claiming that Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell, who had been making regular hospital visits for some time but was reportedly on the mend, had nothing to worry about on the health front, a prediction which prompted a "Sorry, Hugh!" from Frost. Three weeks later, Gaitskell died suddenly of lupus erythematosus.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A 1962 sketch featured Roy Kinnear in a spoof charity appeal to save Panorama, which, like the pit ponies who inspired the source of the parody, was presented as old, broken-down, tired, and in danger of being put down after nine years on the air. Panorama has now been on the air for over sixty years (though it has come close to cancellation numerous times), making it the longest-running programme in the history of British television.
• Retroactive Recognition: A woman by a postbox in a 1962 episode is played by Patsy Rowlands who would later be best known for her roles in the Carry On films.
• Values Dissonance: Although it was intended as a scathing indictment of racism in the American Deep South, the racial slur-heavy "Mississippi" song featuring Millicent Martin backed by the blackfaced George Mitchell Singers (on a break from their usual engagement on The Black and White Minstrel Show) would never get past today's censors.

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