This Is Your Life
Pat Coombs
TV Flash files “Pat Coombs” as hour 401 of 497 in the TV Flash guide — This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC, season 18, episode 12, aired 1978-02-08, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S18E12: listed hour 401 of 497 in the This Is Your Life guide, hour 12 of 27 in season 18. It aired 1978-02-08 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Margot Turner” (S18E11). Next is “Michael Croft” (S18E13). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Pat Coombs sit in the This Is Your Life guide?
S18E12 is listed hour 401 of 497 — hour 12 of 27 in season 18, season 18 episode 12.
When did This Is Your Life S18E12 air?
Pat Coombs aired 1978-02-08 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…