This Is Your Life
Season 12
26 listed hours · 1952–1961 · NBC
From the desk
How this season is filed
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.
TV Flash files Season 12 of This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC as a mid listed season (12; 12 of 20) — 26 listed hours, 1971-11-17–1972-05-10 from “George Best” (S12E01) to “Lulu” (S12E26). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
- S12E01 George Best
- S12E02 Alfred Marks
- S12E03 Rolf Harris
- S12E04 Don Whillans
- S12E05 Sacha Distel
- S12E06 Les Dawson
- S12E07 Doris Hare
- S12E08 Keith Michell
- S12E09 David Frost
- S12E10 Barry John
- S12E11 Michael Flanders
- S12E12 Charlie Williams
- S12E13 Ginette Spanier
- S12E14 Hughie Green
- S12E15 Tom Courtenay
- S12E16 Hylda Baker
- S12E17 Gordon Banks
- S12E18 Alan Rudkin
- S12E19 Michael Wood
- S12E20 Graham Kerr
- S12E21 Pauline Collins
- S12E22 Ray Illingworth
- S12E23 Patricia Hayes
- S12E24 Frederick "Nosher" Powell
- S12E25 Richard Briers
- S12E26 Lulu
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