This Is Your Life
Jessie Matthews
TV Flash files “Jessie Matthews” as hour 160 of 497 in the TV Flash guide — This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC, season 6, episode 29, aired 1961-04-03, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E29: listed hour 160 of 497 in the This Is Your Life guide, hour 29 of 34 in season 6. It aired 1961-04-03 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Thomas Cosmo Jones” (S06E28). Next is “Helen Wilson” (S06E30). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Jessie Matthews sit in the This Is Your Life guide?
S06E29 is listed hour 160 of 497 — hour 29 of 34 in season 6, season 6 episode 29.
When did This Is Your Life S06E29 air?
Jessie Matthews aired 1961-04-03 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…