This Is Your Life
Season 6
34 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 6 of This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC as a mid listed season (6; 6 of 20) — 34 listed hours, 1960-09-19–1961-05-08 from “Leonard Cheshire” (S06E01) to “Billy Wright” (S06E34). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Desk essentials in this season
- S06E01 Leonard Cheshire
Leonard Cheshire: mid-run titled life, genuine shock still the engine, occasional discomfort already in the tribute's bargain.
- S06E01 Leonard Cheshire
- S06E02 G.F. Bennett
- S06E03 David Sheppard
- S06E04 Sybil Thorndike
- S06E05 Clarence Wolfe
- S06E06 Charles Coward
- S06E07 T.E.B. Clarke
- S06E08 Helene Jeanty-Raven
- S06E09 Cyril Smith
- S06E10 Victor De Spiganovics
- S06E11 Bill Hartley
- S06E12 Ellen Martha Field
- S06E13 Anthony Deane-Drummond
- S06E14 John Mills
- S06E15 Richard Bancroft
- S06E16 Freddie Mills
- S06E17 William Simpson
- S06E18 Alan Herbert
- S06E19 Madame Vacani
- S06E20 Elizabeth Ambridge
- S06E21 Robert Fawcus
- S06E22 Flora Robson
- S06E23 Edward Chad Varah
- S06E24 James Zarb
- S06E25 Walter LANDAUER and Maryan RAWICZ
- S06E26 James Chipperfield
- S06E27 Anthony Kimmins
- S06E28 Thomas Cosmo Jones
- S06E29 Jessie Matthews
- S06E30 Helen Wilson
- S06E31 Charlie Chester
- S06E32 Brunel Cohen
- S06E33 Godfrey Winn
- S06E34 Billy Wright
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