This Is Your Life
Janet Adams
TV Flash files “Janet Adams” as hour 354 of 497 in the TV Flash guide — This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC, season 13, episode 18, aired 1973-03-14, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S13E18: listed hour 354 of 497 in the This Is Your Life guide, hour 18 of 26 in season 13. It aired 1973-03-14 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Dulcie Gray” (S13E17). Next is “Rita Hunter” (S13E19). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Janet Adams sit in the This Is Your Life guide?
S13E18 is listed hour 354 of 497 — hour 18 of 26 in season 13, season 13 episode 18.
When did This Is Your Life S13E18 air?
Janet Adams aired 1973-03-14 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…