This Is Your Life
Season 5
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 5 of This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC as a mid listed season (5; 5 of 20) — 31 listed hours, 1959-08-31–1960-03-28 from “Evelyn Laye” (S05E01) to “Michael Ansell” (S05E31). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
- S05E01 Evelyn Laye
- S05E02 Donald Caskie
- S05E03 Eva Turner
- S05E04 Billy Butlin
- S05E05 James Slater
- S05E06 Edmund Arbuthnott
- S05E07 Louis Langford
- S05E08 O. P. Jones
- S05E09 Richard Hearne
- S05E10 Francoise Rigby
- S05E11 John Barclay
- S05E12 Thomas Drake
- S05E13 William Merrilees
- S05E14 John Lord
- S05E15 Russ Conway
- S05E16 Stanley Bishop
- S05E17 Leonard Stanmore
- S05E18 Arthur Askey
- S05E19 Robert Oldfield
- S05E20 Alicia Markova
- S05E21 Frederic Morena
- S05E22 Hilda Rowcliffe
- S05E23 Thomas Salmon
- S05E24 Harry Welchman
- S05E25 Harry Webb
- S05E26 Nat Gonella
- S05E27 David Barclay
- S05E28 Richard Todd
- S05E29 Thomas Bodkin
- S05E30 Gracie Fields
- S05E31 Michael Ansell
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