This Is Your Life
Season 13
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 13 of This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC as a mid listed season (13; 13 of 20) — 26 listed hours, 1972-11-15–1973-05-09 from “Pat Phoenix” (S13E01) to “Francis O'Leary” (S13E26). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
- S13E01 Pat Phoenix
- S13E02 Bill Griffiths
- S13E03 Shirley Bassey
- S13E04 Warren Mitchell
- S13E05 Dudley Moore
- S13E06 Phyllis Calvert
- S13E07 Larry Grayson
- S13E08 Clive Sullivan
- S13E09 Bill Shankly
- S13E10 Willie Carson
- S13E11 Jack Smethurst
- S13E12 Mary Peters
- S13E13 Noele Gordon
- S13E14 James Corrigan
- S13E15 Pat Reid
- S13E16 Diana Coupland
- S13E17 Dulcie Gray
- S13E18 Janet Adams
- S13E19 Rita Hunter
- S13E20 Leslie Crowther
- S13E21 Jimmy Logan
- S13E22 Spike Milligan
- S13E23 Jackie Pallo
- S13E24 John Gregson
- S13E25 Jack Charlton
- S13E26 Francis O'Leary
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