Show Info

Status: Ended
First Aired: October 1, 1952
Seasons: 9
Episodes: 289
Networks: NBC
Genres: Documentary

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This Is Your Life(1952)

TMDB Rating: 6.4 (12 votes)

Overview

This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.

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Season 1

38 episodes • 1952

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Laura Stone Marr	Oct 1, 1952
2	Jimmy McHugh	Oct 8, 1952
3	Joan Caulfield	Oct 15, 1952
4	Mary Ross	Oct 22, 1952
5	Casey Stengel	Oct 29, 1952
6	James Templeton	Nov 5, 1952
7	Jeanette MacDonald	Nov 12, 1952
8	Billie Clevenger	Nov 19, 1952
9	Jim McClain	Nov 26, 1952
10	Mrs. Gus Edwards	Dec 3, 1952
11	Sara Berner	Dec 10, 1952
12	Rock Hudson	Dec 17, 1952
13	Ruth Eiler	Dec 24, 1952
14	Nellie Lutcher	Dec 31, 1952
15	Frank Sparks	Jan 7, 1953
16	Roy Rogers	Jan 14, 1953
17	Harris Pottier	Jan 21, 1953
18	Nadia Scarpitti	Jan 28, 1953
19	Lillian Roth	Feb 4, 1953
20	Alett Radzai	Feb 11, 1953
21	Gene Biscailuz	Feb 18, 1953
22	Dinah Shore	Feb 25, 1953
23	Frank T. Coffyn	Mar 4, 1953
24	Helene Ruthling	Mar 18, 1953
25	Fifi D'Orsay	Mar 25, 1953
26	Arthur Franz	Apr 1, 1953
27	Virginia Marmaduke	Apr 8, 1953
28	Demetros Apostolon	Apr 15, 1953
29	Eva McGown	Apr 22, 1953
30	Eddie Janis	Apr 29, 1953
31	Don DeFore	May 6, 1953
32	Corny Pearson	May 13, 1953
33	Fran Allison	May 20, 1953
34	Hanna Bloch Kohner	May 27, 1953
35	Ed Wynn	Jun 3, 1953
36	Pat O'Brien	Jun 10, 1953
37	Vivian Cosby	Jun 17, 1953
38	Mary Healy	Jun 24, 1953

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Season 2

39 episodes • 1953

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Lily Pons	Sep 30, 1953
2	John Robinson Cates	Oct 7, 1953
3	Mrs. Robert L. Vann	Oct 14, 1953
4	Roy Keyser	Oct 21, 1953
5	Victor McLaglen	Oct 28, 1953
6	Lou Babcock	Nov 4, 1953
7	Eddie LeBaron	Nov 11, 1953
8	Rachel Mellinger	Nov 18, 1953
9	Martha Raye	Nov 25, 1953
10	Eugenia Russel	Dec 2, 1953
11	Toots Shor	Dec 9, 1953
12	Edna Gladney	Dec 16, 1953
13	Eddie Cantor	Dec 23, 1953
14	Pansy Stockton	Dec 30, 1953
15	Andrew Griffin	Jan 6, 1954
16	Hope Emerson	Jan 13, 1954
17	Douglas Stringfellow	Jan 20, 1954
18	Danny Thomas	Jan 27, 1954
19	Alice Marble	Feb 3, 1954
20	Ruby Bradley	Feb 10, 1954
21	Gregor Shelkan	Feb 17, 1954
22	Connie Haines	Feb 24, 1954
23	Thelma Morgan	Mar 3, 1954
24	Mack Sennett	Mar 10, 1954
25	Kate Pelham Newcomb	Mar 17, 1954
26	Smith Robinson	Mar 24, 1954
27	Jinx Falkenburg	Mar 31, 1954
28	Louis Silvie Zamperini	Apr 7, 1954
29	Hal Foster	Apr 14, 1954
30	Marjorie Williams	Apr 21, 1954
31	Jean Hersholt	Apr 28, 1954
32	George Mardikian	May 5, 1954
33	Emma Jo Wengert	May 12, 1954
34	Patrick Joseph Kelly	May 19, 1954
35	Alicia Alonso	May 26, 1954
36	Mary Ann	Jun 2, 1954
37	Tom Moore	Jun 9, 1954
38	Frances Nickmann	Jun 16, 1954
39	Gilda Gray	Jun 23, 1954

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Season 3

38 episodes • 1954

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Bebe Daniels Lyon	Sep 29, 1954
2	Kenneth Porter	Oct 6, 1954
3	Kenyon J. Scudder	Oct 13, 1954
4	Dorothy Lamour	Oct 20, 1954
5	Roy Davenport	Oct 27, 1954
6	Joe E. Brown	Nov 3, 1954
7	Ruth Lowe	Nov 10, 1954
8	Norman Vincent Peale	Nov 17, 1954
9	Nellie Logan Adkins	Nov 24, 1954
10	Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy	Dec 1, 1954
11	William A. Wellman	Dec 8, 1954
12	Laurence C. Jones	Dec 15, 1954
13	Clarinda Mason	Dec 22, 1954
14	Jennie Grossinger	Dec 29, 1954
15	Helen Ostrowski	Jan 5, 1955
16	Robert Richards	Jan 12, 1955
17	Eddie Hamilton	Jan 26, 1955
18	Andy Devine	Feb 2, 1955
19	Mae Williams	Feb 9, 1955
20	Samuel W. Magill	Feb 16, 1955
21	Yvonne Kennedy	Feb 23, 1955
22	Clyde Lamb	Mar 2, 1955
23	Carl J. Sedlmayr	Mar 9, 1955
24	Helen Kelleher	Mar 16, 1955
25	Mickey Walker	Mar 23, 1955
26	Walter Brennan	Mar 30, 1955
27	Wayman R. Presley	Apr 6, 1955
28	Viola Ruth	Apr 13, 1955
29	Gale Storm	Apr 20, 1955
30	Mark Clark	Apr 27, 1955
31	Rene Belbenoit	May 4, 1955
32	Kiyoshi Tanimoto	May 11, 1955
33	Marjorie Lawrence	May 18, 1955
34	Van Heflin	May 25, 1955
35	Belle Baker	Jun 1, 1955
36	George Gregory Jr.	Jun 8, 1955
37	Frankie Laine	Jun 15, 1955
38	George Foote Bond	Jun 22, 1955

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Season 4

39 episodes • 1955

#	Episode	Air Date
1	George Burns	Sep 28, 1955
2	Llewellyn J. Scott	Oct 5, 1955
3	Kathleen Norris	Oct 12, 1955
4	John Weber Jr.	Oct 19, 1955
5	John Paul Stapp	Oct 26, 1955
6	Ilse Stanley	Nov 2, 1955
7	William Bendix	Nov 9, 1955
8	Julia Judge	Nov 16, 1955
9	Daniele Alberghetti	Nov 23, 1955
10	Ralph Veady	Nov 30, 1955
11	Alice Lloyd	Dec 7, 1955
12	Harold Lloyd	Dec 14, 1955
13	Mary Noyes Dunham	Dec 21, 1955
14	Marion Domenicali	Dec 28, 1955
15	Lew Ayres	Jan 4, 1956
16	Henry Clay Conner	Jan 11, 1956
17	Ruth Stromer	Jan 18, 1956
18	Mala Powers	Jan 25, 1956
19	William Hennessey	Feb 1, 1956
20	Bela Herskovits	Feb 8, 1956
21	Virginia Graham	Feb 15, 1956
22	Catherine MacFarlane	Feb 22, 1956
23	J. Harrison Heckman	Feb 29, 1956
24	Joseph Jacob Foss	Mar 7, 1956
25	Marguerita Sylva	Mar 14, 1956
26	H. Park Tucker	Mar 21, 1956
27	Marion Miller	Mar 28, 1956
28	Robert Cummings	Apr 4, 1956
29	Ruth Joiner	Apr 11, 1956
30	Dore Schary	Apr 18, 1956
31	Marjorie Rambeau	Apr 25, 1956
32	Joseph Anthony	May 2, 1956
33	Richard J. Finnegan	May 9, 1956
34	Myrna Loy	May 16, 1956
35	James B. Hendryx	May 23, 1956
36	Ruth Slenczynska	May 30, 1956
37	Milton Berle	Jun 6, 1956
38	Alice Middleton McDougall	Jun 13, 1956
39	Gilbert Roland	Jun 20, 1956

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Season 5

39 episodes • 1956

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Georgia Bowen	Sep 26, 1956
2	Red Nichols	Oct 3, 1956
3	Alexandra Tolstoy	Oct 10, 1956
4	Dean E. Hess	Oct 17, 1956
5	Ernest Borgnine	Oct 24, 1956
6	Darlene Miller	Oct 31, 1956
7	Agness Underwood	Nov 7, 1956
8	Ernest Breech	Nov 14, 1956
9	Lou Costello	Nov 21, 1956
10	Alice Princess Siwundhla	Nov 28, 1956
11	Phil Thatcher	Dec 5, 1956
12	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Dec 12, 1956
13	Pearl Routon	Dec 19, 1956
14	Thomas Orley	Dec 26, 1956
15	Mike Masaoka	Jan 2, 1957
16	Gladys Workman	Jan 9, 1957
17	Jack Dempsey	Jan 16, 1957
18	Gloria Swanson	Jan 23, 1957
19	Hugh Barr Miller Jr.	Jan 30, 1957
20	Constance Hope	Feb 6, 1957
21	Katya Skotnicki	Feb 13, 1957
22	Duke Kahanamoku	Feb 20, 1957
23	Arries Ann Ward	Feb 27, 1957
24	Lawrence Welk	Mar 6, 1957
25	Ivy Baker Priest	Mar 13, 1957
26	George Hays Gale	Mar 20, 1957
27	Maureen O'Hara	Mar 27, 1957
28	Buster Keaton	Apr 3, 1957
29	Tommy Sands	Apr 10, 1957
30	Edward N. Bliss Jr.	Apr 17, 1957
31	Lila Lee	Apr 24, 1957
32	Minnie Pearl	May 1, 1957
33	Ted Husing	May 8, 1957
34	Ruth Davis	May 15, 1957
35	Lee De Forest	May 22, 1957
36	Thelma White	May 29, 1957
37	Rachel Saint	Jun 5, 1957
38	Jesse L. Lasky	Jun 12, 1957
39	Guy Gabaldon	Jun 19, 1957

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Season 6

38 episodes • 1957

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Phil Harris	Sep 25, 1957
2	Vincent Tracy	Oct 2, 1957
3	Gladys Feldman Braham	Oct 9, 1957
4	Frank Lovejoy	Oct 16, 1957
5	Giselle MacKenzie	Oct 23, 1957
6	Ronnie Deauville	Nov 6, 1957
7	Billy Graham	Nov 13, 1957
8	Boris Karloff	Nov 20, 1957
9	Marie Killilea	Dec 4, 1957
10	Dennis Weaver	Dec 11, 1957
11	Lela Elliot	Dec 18, 1957
12	Ralph A. Edwards	Dec 25, 1957
13	Sue Sikking	Jan 1, 1958
14	James Gleason	Jan 8, 1958
15	Ida Lupino	Jan 15, 1958
16	Randall Harris	Jan 22, 1958
17	Frances Farmer	Jan 29, 1958
18	Dr. Dennis Branch	Feb 5, 1958
19	Jesse Stuart	Feb 12, 1958
20	Helen Kane	Feb 19, 1958
21	Martha Smith	Feb 26, 1958
22	Belden Paulson	Mar 5, 1958
23	Ben Alexander	Mar 12, 1958
24	Harry Warren	Mar 19, 1958
25	Donna Reed	Mar 26, 1958
26	Felix McCool	Apr 2, 1958
27	Neil Schaffner	Apr 9, 1958
28	Roberta Sherwood	Apr 16, 1958
29	Jessie Steward	Apr 23, 1958
30	Father Bernard Hubbard	Apr 30, 1958
31	Casey Tibbs	May 7, 1958
32	Hugh Bentley	May 14, 1958
33	Harry Momita	May 21, 1958
34	Kirk Douglas	May 28, 1958
35	Conrad Hilton	Jun 4, 1958
36	Harvey L. 'Mike' Fetters	Jun 11, 1958
37	Leo Seligman	Jun 18, 1958
38	James Garner	Jun 25, 1958

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Season 7

38 episodes • 1958

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Steve Allen	Sep 24, 1958
2	Roy Campanella	Oct 1, 1958
3	Mrs. Alfred Abeles	Oct 8, 1958
4	Eddie Albert	Oct 15, 1958
5	Chester Gould	Oct 22, 1958
6	Olga Little	Oct 29, 1958
7	Tim McCoy	Nov 5, 1958
8	Colleen Townsend	Nov 12, 1958
9	Sadie Glommen	Nov 19, 1958
10	Jim Backus	Nov 26, 1958
11	Samuel G. Fuqua	Dec 3, 1958
12	Lauritz Melchior	Dec 10, 1958
13	Coy and Goldie Watson	Dec 17, 1958
14	Danny Davey	Dec 24, 1958
15	Marie Wilson	Dec 31, 1958
16	Carlos Romulo	Jan 7, 1959
17	Harry and Allison Neal	Jan 14, 1959
18	Jimmie Rodgers	Jan 21, 1959
19	Robb White	Jan 28, 1959
20	William E. Powers	Feb 4, 1959
21	Desmond Doss	Feb 18, 1959
22	Zaddie Bunker	Feb 25, 1959
23	Ted Lewis	Mar 4, 1959
24	Serge Obolensky	Mar 11, 1959
25	Caleb Chu	Mar 18, 1959
26	Mungai Njoroge	Mar 25, 1959
27	Ann Blyth	Apr 1, 1959
28	Roger Williams	Apr 8, 1959
29	Leo Carrillo	Apr 15, 1959
30	Max Nussbaum	Apr 22, 1959
31	Sidonie Flacco	Apr 29, 1959
32	Holger Nelson Toftoy	May 13, 1959
33	Janet Blair	May 20, 1959
34	William H. Young	May 27, 1959
35	James Obenauf	Jun 3, 1959
36	Frank Capra	Jun 10, 1959
37	Lucille Warnecke	Jun 17, 1959
38	Dick Clark	Jun 24, 1959

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Season 8

12 episodes • 1959

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Lowell Thomas	Sep 30, 1959
14	Nat "King" Cole	Jan 6, 1960
16	Don McNeill	Jan 20, 1960
18	Stephen Boyd	Feb 3, 1960
21	Mervyn LeRoy	Mar 2, 1960
22	Harry Blackstone	Mar 9, 1960
24	Carl Reiner	Mar 23, 1960
25	Billy Barty	Mar 30, 1960
28	Rossano Brazzi	Apr 20, 1960
29	Jesse Owens	Apr 27, 1960
32	Ken Murray	May 18, 1960
37	Charles Coburn	Jun 29, 1960

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Season 9

8 episodes • 1961

#	Episode	Air Date
15	William Frawley	Jan 8, 1961
16	Connie Francis	Jan 9, 1961
17	Robert Horton	Jan 22, 1961
19	Ole Olsen	Feb 5, 1961
20	Peter Palmer	Feb 12, 1961
21	Richard Arlen	Feb 19, 1961
26	Debbie Reynolds	Mar 26, 1961
30	Dale Robertson	Apr 30, 1961

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