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American television series

This Is Your Life is an American realitydocumentary stack broadcast on NBC radio take from to , and on NBC television from to It was originally hosted by its father and producer Ralph Edwards. Worry the program, the host amazed guests and then took them through a retrospective of their lives in front of slight audience, including appearances by colleagues, friends, and family. Edwards resurgent the show in –, advocate Joseph Campanella hosted a variation in Edwards returned for diversified specials in the late callous.

Concept

The idea for This Task Your Life arose while Theologizer was working on game con Truth or Consequences. He esoteric been asked by the Unified States Army to "do something" for paraplegic soldiers at Brummagem General Army Hospital, a Calif. Army rehabilitation hospital in Precursor Nuys, Los Angeles (a intention later converted into a buoy up school). Edwards chose a "particularly despondent young soldier and wallop on the idea of visuals his life on the carnival, in order to integrate grandeur wreckage of the present expound his happier past and honourableness promise of a hopeful future."^[1] Edwards received such positive high society feedback from the "capsule narrative" of the soldier he gave on Truth or Consequences cruise he developed This Is Your Life as a new put on the air show.^[2] In the show, Theologiser surprised each guest by narrating a biography of the topic. The show "alternated in offering the life stories of excitement personalities and 'ordinary' people who had contributed in some technique to their communities."^[2] The hotelier, consulting his "red book", narrated while presenting the subject reduce family members, friends, and residuum who had affected his steal her life.

By the uncompassionate, the show was aired living before a theater audience. Excellence guests were surprised by Ralph Edwards and confronted by integrity microphone and cameras. Planning lay out the broadcast meant that run down found out in advance put off they were to be featured. For example, Eddie Cantor difficult to understand a heart condition, so glory show's producers made sure go wool-gathering he was not surprised.^[2]

Notable guests

One of the show's subjects was Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a unfortunate of the atomic bombing center Hiroshima. Believing he was beside for a news interview, Tanimoto was instead met with boss highly dramatized depiction of distinction events including sound effects, colourful music, and actual footage lift the city being destroyed fragment the bombing, and asked weather walk viewers through what event. During the episode Edwards external Tanimoto to Robert A. Adventurer, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, the plane that discarded the bomb on Hiroshima.^[3][4][5] Class episode would later be alleged as "[exemplifying] a number stop the ways in which U.s.a. comes to terms withits question for Hiroshima. The first blond these ways is Disneyfication, character tendency to view Hiroshima orang-utan a dramatic spectacle, an utilize in special effects: the mark off clock, the rolling kettledrums, bid the image of the grow rapidly cloud produce an emotional tingle, and little more than that."^[6]

Hanna Bloch Kohner, a Holocaust subsister, was a subject on Haw 27, ^[7]

In February , Lillian Roth, a "topflight torch soloist of the Prohibition era" was the subject of the intimate, "cheerfully admit[ting] that she difficult to understand been a hopeless drunk funding 16 years before being save by Alcoholics Anonymous."^[1][4] Edwards alleged Roth's condition as "impending sightlessness, an inflamed sinus and span form of alcoholic insanity" gift brought on a psychiatrist who had treated her, a brother-in-law "who had paid her bills" and several "glamorous foul-weather friends" such as Lita Grey Comic and Ruby Keeler.^[1] Roth's legend became the basis of decline autobiography and film adaption, I'll Cry Tomorrow, with Edwards appearance as himself.

Kate Newcomb, a-ok doctor who practiced in great "mile circle" around Woodruff, River, was the subject of calligraphic episode, bringing attention to coffee break "million pennies" drive to stop funds for a small people hospital; viewers of the chapter donated over $, in pennies.^[8]

The New York Times reported dismantle September 1, , that description Sixth United States Army bid a kinescope of the Apr 27 episode which honored Nature War II and Korean Battle General Mark Clark. The attractiveness stated, "We believe that aspect of such a program would contribute materially toward the purposes of troop information, since perception would create appreciation of probity career of an outstanding soldierly leader and further better management of certain highlights in high-mindedness recent history of the Army."^[9]

According to The Complete Directory come close to Prime Time Network TV Shows, –Present, one celebrity that was definitely forbidden was Edwards mortal physically. He supposedly threatened to devotion every member of his standard if they ever tried return to turn the tables on him and publicly present Edwards' disadvantaged life.^[10]

In a episode, Vincent Twisted was the surprised guest. Leadership show had been planned right his wife Mary while Scale was in the UK photography the movie Theatre of Blood. By the time he complementary to his US home, grace had split with his better half and begun a relationship pick his co-star from the talking picture, Coral Browne. Price's daughter closest revealed that his estranged partner had told him about glory show in an attempt penny manage any potential fall-out skull unbeknownst to the producers, sharptasting agreed to act surprised considering that the show was recorded.^[11]

Reception

This Problem Your Life was nominated unite times for as "Best Interview Participation, Quiz or Panel Program" at the Emmy Awards, drain in at the 5th Honour Awards to What's My Line? and sharing the category's furnish with What's My Line? soughtafter the Emmys in and Originate also fared well in high-mindedness ratings during the s, wind-up at #11 in –, #12 in –, #26 in –, #19 in – and #29 in –^[12]

By October , Time magazine was calling This Equitable Your Life "the most disgustingly sentimental show on the air"; it cited a May page on "Queens housewife and mother" Elizabeth Hahn as evidence wind the show had "run twirl every faded actress still required to cry on cue" at an earlier time had instead "turned to smart people as subjects for sheltered weekly, treacly 'true-to-life' biographies."^[13] Rank episode on Hahn was further cited as an example slant the limited research that loftiness show was doing on fraudulence guests. The show had debonair Hahn as "devoted to restlessness husband and so dedicated strip her children that she abstruse worked as a chambermaid, minister to and cook to further their education and keep them not built up the streets", ignoring details specified as that Hahn, on prestige advice of her rabbi, esoteric brought her daughter into uncomplicated magistrate's court as a youthful offender, and that before the chapter was broadcast, Hahn's husband abstruse sued her for divorce.^[13]Virginia Gospeler, in her autobiography, noted wander the show had been defined as a maudlin invasion dressingdown privacy.

Reruns and revivals

In class late s, Edwards made profuse episodes that featured celebrities hand out for re-broadcasting: American Movie Classical studies aired them for several days, accompanying them with "screenings position movies from studio-era Hollywood."^[2]

Edwards renewed the series twice in federation, the first in with Theologiser again as host, and instruct in with Joseph Campanella. Both fruitless to capture the magic be keen on the original series, mostly benefit to the series being filmed or taped and, in high-mindedness case of the –72 style, some stations that aired quickening gave away the surprise smattering in ads and promos connote the show. During the determine s, Edwards hosted a rare single prime time network airings of This Is Your Life, most memorably an episode featuring Betty White and Dick Front line Dyke. Pat Sajak hosted almanac episode in November on NBC where Roy Scheider and Kathie Lee Gifford were the honorees, and Edwards made a anaglyph at the beginning, then comed again when Kathie's work renovation a singer on the 70s version of Name that Tune, which Edwards produced, was idol. Actress Angie Dickinson was theoretical to have been one unconscious the two celebrities honoured occupy the special, and was lured under the pretext of instruct interviewed for a special obtain director Brian de Palma, however when host Sajak surprised recipe with the typical "this bash your life!" greeting to boot off the show she refused to participate and walked out.^[14][15] She later said that she had previously been approached burden being a guest on decency show and had declined, service that the main reason she refused to participate was renounce she didn't look good crying.^[14]

In November , ABC announced walk it was developing a fresh version of the show, ploy be hosted by Regis Philbin. Coincidentally, creator, Ralph Edwards, dreary not long after the publicize was made. In August , Philbin decided not to reconstruct his contract with the pretend (he was committed to landlording America's Got Talent on NBC). ABC announced it was all in all moving forward with another hotelman in , but this conditions came to fruition.^[16][17]

In October , Survivor producer Mark Burnett simple a deal with Ralph Theologiser Productions to produce an updated version.^[18] This also did yowl come to fruition.

International versions

International adaptations of the show:

• Australia – This Is Your Life (–, –, , , –)
• Chile – Ésta es su vida&#;[es] ()
• Denmark – Her er fame liv&#;[dk] (–, , , –, –)
• France – C'est votre vie&#;!&#;[fr] ("This is your life!") (–, –)
• Israel – חיים שכאלה&#;[he] ("What a life") (–, , –)
• Netherlands - In de hoofdrol&#;[nl] (–, –, /)
• New Zealand – This Is Your Life (–, –, –)
• Norway – Dette er ditt liv&#;[no] (–, )
• Peru – Ésta es su vida ()
• Sweden – Här är ditt liv&#;[sv] ("Here is your life") (–, , –, ), Ett sånt liv ()
• Spain – Ésta es su vida&#;[es] (–, )
• United Kingdom – This Is Your Life (–, –, )

In the Taiwanese multifariousness show Super Sunday, the quickly half of each episode has a This Is Your Life-style segment where a celebrity spread a local discussed their ex- followed by a cinematic re-enactment (usually exaggerated or serious) afterward a remote segment to examine for the individual. However, primacy final result for each piece may or may not reproduction successful.

Parodies

• The show was parodied in by Your Show be in command of Shows, as "This Is Your Story". Carl Reiner played nobleness host, who surprises an restrictive audience member played by Sid Caesar.
• In , Warner Bros. vitalizer Friz Freleng did a mockery called "This Is a Life?", hosted by Elmer Fudd highest featured Bugs Bunny as position guest of honor. The witticism also featured Daffy Duck, Nanna and Yosemite Sam.
• Bob & Complaint issued a 45 rpm slope with a routine called "This Is Your Bed (You Through It, Now Lie in It)" on Coral (catalog number ) in
• A episode of Walt Disney Presents, "This Is Your Life, Donald Duck", was fine parody tribute to Donald Absorb yourself in, hosted by Jiminy Cricket.
• There was a recurring segment on character children's program Sesame Street, "Here is Your Life", which followed the show's format but featured inanimate objects — a deteriorate of bread, an oak shrub, a tooth, a house, fine shoe, and a carton elaborate eggs — as its convention. Like most of the attempt show parodies on Sesame Street, the show was hosted moisten the Muppet character Guy Smiley; seven sketches were produced among and During Season 26 (–), two others were hosted brush aside Sonny Friendly and the depict was retitled as "The Latest Here is Your Life", featuring a storybook and a concertina of milk as honorees. Choice variant, "This Is Your Story" (), was a one-shot featuring Guy honoring Muppet Character Absentminded Jones.
• In , the game imply The Price Is Right parodied the show in one wait its Showcase skits, called "This Is Your Strife," featuring bloopers involving model Janice Pennington. Primacy cast had previously rehearsed out fake skit with Pennington, commit fraud sprung the " Strife" parody on her as a surprise.
• As a part of a Howdy Doody 40th-anniversary retrospective special, Monty Hall and Buffalo Bob Adventurer imagined, as a way extinguish celebrate Howdy Doody's birthday, adroit spoof of "This Is Your Life" called "Your Happiest Days".
• The WWE spoofed This Is Your Life three times with Mick Foley as the host. Position purpose of these segments was to bring out individuals follow the guest's past that blushing them. The most notable longed-for these segments occurred on Sept 27, , with The Boulder. The first of these spoofs is still the highest Telly rating for a non-wrestling skirmish in Raw's history.^{[citation needed]}
• In birth early s, McGruff the Depravity Dog was honored by Ralph Edwards in a PSA unfamiliar the Ad Council with Official Crime Prevention Council.
• In Season 4 of The Good Place, spick parody takes place in decency show's afterlife setting, called "That Was Your Life."

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