This Is Your Life
Season 9
30 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 9 of This Is Your Life (1952–1961) on NBC as a mid listed season (9; 9 of 20) — 30 listed hours, 1963-10-03–1964-04-30 from “Stratford Johns” (S09E01) to “Mary Hawkins” (S09E30). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
- S09E01 Stratford Johns
- S09E02 Alice Stern
- S09E03 Robert Boothby
- S09E04 Bessie Love
- S09E05 Joan Stanton
- S09E06 Harry Worth
- S09E07 John Dodd
- S09E08 Ralph Reader
- S09E09 Albert Guerisse
- S09E10 Albert Guerisse
- S09E11 Margaret Lockwood
- S09E12 Franklin Day
- S09E13 Frederick Spencer Chapman
- S09E14 Frederick Spencer Chapman
- S09E15 Thora Hird
- S09E16 Evelyn Bark
- S09E17 Madge Watson and Elsie Wood
- S09E18 Petula Clark
- S09E19 Derek McCulloch
- S09E20 Bert Matthews
- S09E21 Ted Moult
- S09E22 Dot Palmer
- S09E23 Teddy Winn
- S09E24 Barbara Mullen
- S09E25 Paul Burrough
- S09E26 Sydney Scroggie
- S09E27 Ninette de Valois
- S09E28 Dominique Pire
- S09E29 Olivia de Havilland
- S09E30 Mary Hawkins
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