This Is Your Life
Colin Milbern
TV Flash files “Colin Milbern” as hour 278 of 497 in the TV Flash guide — This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC, season 10, episode 20, aired 1970-04-08, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S10E20: listed hour 278 of 497 in the This Is Your Life guide, hour 20 of 26 in season 10. It aired 1970-04-08 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Ronnie Corbett” (S10E19). Next is “Frankie Vaughan” (S10E21). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Colin Milbern sit in the This Is Your Life guide?
S10E20 is listed hour 278 of 497 — hour 20 of 26 in season 10, season 10 episode 20.
When did This Is Your Life S10E20 air?
Colin Milbern aired 1970-04-08 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…