This Is Your Life
Season 4
33 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 4 of This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC as a mid listed season (4; 4 of 20) — 33 listed hours, 1958-09-29–1959-05-11 from “Jo Capka” (S04E01) to “Tommy Trinder” (S04E33). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
- S04E01 Jo Capka
- S04E02 Jimmy Edwards
- S04E03 Andrew Milbourne
- S04E04 Bella Burge
- S04E05 Tommy Steele
- S04E06 Ronald Shiner
- S04E07 James Edward Wood
- S04E08 Margaret Rowena Jones
- S04E09 John Griffiths
- S04E10 Freddy Bloom
- S04E11 Bransby Williams
- S04E12 Miriam Moses
- S04E13 Elsie Mullock
- S04E14 John Vidler
- S04E15 Florence Desmond
- S04E16 Noel Duckworth
- S04E17 Alfred Daniel Wintle
- S04E18 Ted Heath
- S04E19 Andrew Macdonald
- S04E20 Harriet Cohen
- S04E21 G. W. Willie Hall
- S04E22 Reginald Blanchford
- S04E23 Kenneth More
- S04E24 Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes
- S04E25 Miriam Jowett
- S04E26 Ted Willis
- S04E27 Alfred Soothon
- S04E28 Tiger Sarll
- S04E29 Mary Ward
- S04E30 Roy Gill
- S04E31 Sterling Moss
- S04E32 Ethel Goldsack
- S04E33 Tommy Trinder
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