"Death on the Rock" was a British television documentary, part of Thames Television's current affairs series This Week. It was broadcast in 1988. The programme examined the killing of three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) members in Gibraltar in March 1988 by the British Special Air Service. "Death on the Rock" presented evidence that the IRA members were shot without warning or with their hands up. It was condemned by the British government and denounced in the press as sensationalist. After one of its witnesses retracted his statement, "Death on the Rock" became the first individual documentary to be the subject of an independent inquiry, in which it was largely vindicated.
The petrol station on Winston Churchill Avenue where two of the three IRA members were shot
Sir Geoffrey Howe, then Foreign Secretary, twice attempted to have the programme postponed.
A white Renault 5, similar to that driven into Gibraltar by Sean Savage
Thames Television, commonly simplified to just Thames, was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding areas from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992.
Thames Television broadcast from 09:25 Monday morning to 17:15 Friday afternoon at which time it would hand over to London Weekend Television (LWT).
Thames "London Skyline" ident, featuring London landmarks
Thames's main studio complex at Teddington
A Thames TV camera (a Marconi Mark 3) at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
The start of Thames ITV generic ident