This Is Your Life
Hugh Oloff de Wet
TV Flash files “Hugh Oloff de Wet” as hour 13 of 497 in the TV Flash guide — This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC, season 1, episode 13, aired 1956-04-08, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E13: listed hour 13 of 497 in the This Is Your Life guide, hour 13 of 16 in season 1. It aired 1956-04-08 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Lupino Lane” (S01E12). Next is “Beth Wilde” (S01E14). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Hugh Oloff de Wet, artist, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Hugh Oloff de Wet sit in the This Is Your Life guide?
S01E13 is listed hour 13 of 497 — hour 13 of 16 in season 1, season 1 episode 13.
When did This Is Your Life S01E13 air?
Hugh Oloff de Wet aired 1956-04-08 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…
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- 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…