Whicker's World
| Whicker's World | |
|---|---|
Title screen (1978—80), featuring Concorde | |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Presented by | Alan Whicker |
| Theme music composer | "West End" by Laurie Johnson (1959—68); "Horizons" by Frank Talley and The New Concert Orchestra (1968—77); Andrew Lloyd Webber (1978—80); "Newsweek" by Graham de Wilde (1984) |
| Production | |
| Production companies | BBC Yorkshire Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC 1 (1959–1968, 1984–1992) ITV (1968–1983, 1992–1994) |
| Release | 21 March 1959 – 18 December 1994 |
Whicker's World was a British television documentary series that ran from 1959 to 1994, presented by journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker.
Originally a segment on the BBC's Tonight programme in 1959, Whicker's World became a fully-fledged television series in its own right in the 1960s. The series was first shown by the BBC until 1968, and then by ITV from 1968 to 1983, when it was produced by Yorkshire Television, in which Whicker himself was a shareholder. The series returned to the BBC in 1984, and to ITV again in 1992.