This Is Your Life
Season 2
20 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 2 of This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC as a mid listed season (2; 2 of 20) — 20 listed hours, 1956-10-01–1957-06-24 from “Peter Scott” (S02E01) to “Season 2 Flashback Review” (S02E20). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
- S02E01 Peter Scott
- S02E02 Ada Reeve
- S02E03 Peter Methven
- S02E04 Susan Ryder
- S02E05 Harry S. Pepper
- S02E06 Compton Mackenzie
- S02E07 Maud Fairman
- S02E08 Billy Smart
- S02E09 Brian Hessian
- S02E10 John Barbirolli
- S02E11 Duncan Guthrie
- S02E12 Esmond Knight
- S02E13 Sammy McCarthy
- S02E14 Edwin Madron
- S02E15 Diana Dors
- S02E16 Parry Jones
- S02E17 Percy Flood
- S02E18 G. H. Elliott
- S02E19 Stuart Hibberd
- S02E20 Season 2 Flashback Review
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