This Is Your Life
Season 44
1 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 44 of This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC as the last listed season of 20 — 1 listed hour, 2007-06-22 opening on “Simon Cowell” (S44E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Desk essentials in this season
- S44E01 Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell closes this mega-pack: last titled life, the tribute ambush still working on a celebrity the 1950s format could not have imagined.
More from the 1950s.