This Is Your Life
Season 3
31 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 3 of This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC as a mid listed season (3; 3 of 20) — 31 listed hours, 1957-09-30–1958-05-05 from “Albert Whelan” (S03E01) to “A. E. Matthews” (S03E31). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
- S03E01 Albert Whelan
- S03E02 Colin Hodgkinson
- S03E03 Vera Lynn
- S03E04 Arthur Christiansen
- S03E05 John Logie Baird
- S03E06 Richard Carr-Gomm
- S03E07 Jack Train
- S03E08 Edith Muriel Powell
- S03E09 Anne Brusselmans
- S03E10 Norman Wisdom
- S03E11 Victor Silvester
- S03E12 Jack Petersen
- S03E13 Lucy Jane Dobson
- S03E14 David Bell
- S03E15 Matt Busby
- S03E16 Minnie Barnard
- S03E17 Gordon Steele
- S03E18 Louie Ramsay
- S03E19 Tubby Clayton
- S03E20 Daniel Angel
- S03E21 Anna Neagle
- S03E22 'Dapper' Channon
- S03E23 Frederick Stone
- S03E24 Paul Field
- S03E25 Noel Purcell
- S03E26 Barbara Cartland
- S03E27 Harry Secombe
- S03E28 Archie Rowe
- S03E29 Humphrey Lyttelton
- S03E30 Francis Cammaerts
- S03E31 A. E. Matthews
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