This Is Your Life
Eamonn Andrews
TV Flash files “Eamonn Andrews” as a desk essential hour — This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC, season 1, episode 1, aired 1955-07-29, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 497 in the This Is Your Life guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 1955-07-29 (30 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Yvonne Bailey” (S01E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Essential hour: “Eamonn Andrews”. Eamonn Andrews: the life-tribute ambush opens on a host name, tissues mandatory, live television feeling dangerous and sweet.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Eamonn Andrews became the very first subject of This Is Your Life on British TV, when he was surprised by the host and creator of the show's American version, Ralph Edwards, at the BBC Television Theatre. Eamonn, already contracted to present future shows, was led to believe the subject was to be his friend, boxer Freddie Mills, after the original choice of footballer Stanley Matthews had been cancelled due to a press leak.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Eamonn Andrews sit in the This Is Your Life guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 497 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did This Is Your Life S01E01 air?
Eamonn Andrews aired 1955-07-29 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with Edwards ambushing a guest into their own biography. The shock-and-tissues contract is the show; named celebrity nights are the heat.
In the series
Why this series still plays
This Is Your Life had Ralph Edwards ambush a guest with their entire biography, tissues mandatory. Invented the life-tribute ambush still used at reunions and award-show montages. Watch it now as live television that felt dangerous and sweet — genuine shock, occasional discomfort, and biography as a surprise party with cameras.
The guest does not know the night is about them until the night is already on the air. This Is Your Life, NBC 1952–1961 in the classic American television run, had Ralph Edwards ambush a subject with their entire biography, tissues mandatory. Invented the life-tribute ambush still used at reunions and award-show montages: genuine shock, occasional discomfort, biography as a surprise party with cameras. Based on Edwards's radio format; the U.K. imitated it widely. Live television that felt dangerous and sweet in…
Filed against
- Ralph Edwards as Host
Ralph Edwards ambushed guests with their entire biography on This Is Your Life — tissues mandatory, live television that felt dangerous and sweet — and turned wrong answers into stunts on Truth or Consequences. Life-tribute as reunion…