This Is Your Life (American franchise)
This Is Your Life is an American reality documentary series broadcast on NBC radio from 1948 to 1952, and on NBC television from 1952 to 1961. It was originally hosted by its creator and producer Ralph Edwards. In the program, the host surprised guests and then took them through a retrospective of their lives in front of an audience, including appearances by colleagues, friends, and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971–1972, and Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for various specials in the late 1980s.
Title card from 1954
William Frawley receives a lifetime baseball pass from the Angels' Fred Haney in January 1961. Fred MacMurray also was part of the Frawley show.
Celebrity guest comedy duo Abbott and Costello
Ralph Edwards and Lillian Roth (1954)
Ralph Livingstone Edwards was an American radio and television host, radio producer, and television producer, best known for his radio-TV game shows Truth or Consequences and reality documentary series This Is Your Life.
Edwards in 1948
Edwards and family, 1952
Edwards with Buff Cobb on a 1949 stunt of Truth or Consequences.
This is Your Life NBC-TV ad in The Radio Annual and Television Yearbook, 1955
