Billy SMART (1894-1966)

Billy Smart This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 23
  • Subject No: 23
  • Broadcast date: Mon 31 Dec 1956
  • Broadcast time: 8.00-8.30pm
  • Recorded: Sun 16 Dec 1956 8.45pm
  • Venue: King's Theatre, Hammersmith
  • Series: 2
  • Edition: 8

on the guest list...

  • Florence Curtis - sister
  • Jim Puddle
  • Charlie Beach
  • Nellie - wife
  • Violet Martin
  • Bobby Edwards
  • Charlie Davis
  • Ronnie - son
  • Ena Johnson - daughter
  • David - son
  • Olga - daughter-in-law
  • Peggy Stevens - daughter
  • Phyllis Squires - daughter
  • Hazel Wilson - daughter
  • Dolly Hawkes - daughter
  • Rosie Sacha - daughter
  • Kay - daughter-in-law
  • Billy Jnr - son
  • Margaret Ashby
  • Michael Coco
  • Sasha Coco
  • The Knife Throwing Texans
  • Johnny and Sheila Pugh
  • The Six Drum Majorettes

production team...

  • Researchers: Peter Moore, Nigel Ward
  • Writer: Gale Pedrick
  • Director: unknown
  • Producer: T Leslie Jackson
related pages...

The Big Top

the circus is in town


Stories behind This Is Your Life

a review of the second series


This Is Your Life by Eamonn Andrews

Weekend Magazine reports from behind-the-scenes


This Is Your Life

Radio Times feature on the sleuth-like manner of the 'pick-up'

Billy Smart on This Is Your Life as featured in the end of series review programme, Stories behind This Is Your Life, broadcast in June 1957

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Photographs of Billy Smart This Is Your Life

Series 2 subjects

Peter Scott | Ada Reeve | Peter Methven | Sue Ryder | Harry S Pepper | Compton Mackenzie | Maud Fairman | Billy Smart
Brian Hession | John Barbirolli | Duncan Guthrie | Esmond Knight | Sammy McCarthy | Edwin Madron | Diana Dors
Parry Jones | Percy Flood | G H Elliott | Stuart Hibberd