This Is Your Life

This Is Your Life was a long-running television show created and hosted by Ralph Edwards. In each show, an unsuspecting person would be surprised with their life story (narrated by Edwards from a book), as friends, family, and others from their past would come forth (preceded by their voice, which the guest was asked to guess). Edwards began the series on radio in 1948, which after two short-lived runs moved to television in 1952, remaining until 1961.