This Is Your Life
Season 18
27 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 18 of This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC as a mid listed season (18; 15 of 20) — 27 listed hours, 1977-11-23–1978-05-31 from “Richard Beckinsale” (S18E01) to “Mike Yarwood” (S18E27). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
- S18E01 Richard Beckinsale
- S18E02 Peter Ustinov
- S18E03 Virginia Wade
- S18E04 Robert Arnott
- S18E05 Lin Berwick
- S18E06 Bob Paisley
- S18E07 The Bachelors
- S18E08 David Broome
- S18E09 Arthur English
- S18E10 Barry Sheene
- S18E11 Margot Turner
- S18E12 Pat Coombs
- S18E13 Michael Croft
- S18E14 Max Boyce
- S18E15 Nicholas Parsons
- S18E16 Richard Goolden
- S18E17 Ian Hendry
- S18E18 Marti Caine
- S18E19 Ian Wallace
- S18E20 Dennis Waterman
- S18E21 Anton Dolin
- S18E22 Terry Wogan
- S18E23 William Franklyn
- S18E24 Richard Murdoch
- S18E25 Harry Patterson
- S18E26 Julie Styne
- S18E27 Mike Yarwood
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