This Is Your Life
Season 43
25 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 43 of This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC as a mid listed season (43; 19 of 20) — 25 listed hours, 2003-01-02–2003-08-08 from “David Dickenson” (S43E01) to “Aled Jones” (S43E25). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Desk essentials in this season
- S43E04 Mike Rutherford
Mike Rutherford: late-franchise named night, reunion-and-montage DNA of the ambush still walking into award-show afterlives.
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S43E01 David Dickenson -
S43E02 Mo Mowlam -
S43E03 Gillian Taylforth -
S43E04 Mike Rutherford -
S43E05 John McArdle -
S43E06 Elmer Bernstein -
S43E07 Charles Collingwood -
S43E08 Jonathan Davies MBE - S43E09 Elizabeth Pescops
- S43E10 George Best
- S43E11 Lisa Maxwell
- S43E12 Roger Cook
- S43E13 Bob Monkhouse OBE
- S43E14 Sir Nicholas Winton MBE
- S43E15 Anthony Andrews
- S43E16 Alex Norton
- S43E17 John Bardon
- S43E18 Simon Cowell
- S43E19 Alec Stewart
- S43E20 Vic Armstrong
- S43E21 Sir Chris Bonington CBE
- S43E22 John Middleton
- S43E23 Bob Harris
- S43E24 Gyles Brandreth
- S43E25 Aled Jones
More from the 1950s.