Harry SECOMBE (1921-2001)

Harry Secombe This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 61
  • Subject No: 61
  • Broadcast live: Mon 31 Mar 1958
  • Broadcast time: 8.45-9.15pm
  • Repeated: Wed 7 Aug 1963 9.50pm
  • Repeated: Fri 7 Nov 1986 7.20pm
  • Venue: BBC Television Theatre
  • Series: 3
  • Edition: 27

on the guest list...

  • Peter Haigh
  • Eric Sykes
  • Fred - father
  • Nellie - mother
  • Fred Jnr - brother
  • Carol - sister
  • Percy Roberts
  • Bill Layman
  • Johnny Owens
  • Ken Harling
  • Mrs Harling
  • Len Lightowler
  • Myra - wife
  • Jimmy Grafton
  • Mai Jones
  • Katie Boyle
  • Kathleen Savage
  • Spike Milligan
  • Peter Sellers
  • Ray Ellington
  • Filmed tribute:
  • Adele Leigh

production team...

  • Researcher: Michael Williams
  • Writer: Ken Smith
  • Director: unknown
  • Producer: T Leslie Jackson
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
related pages...

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The Night of 1000 Lives

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the genesis of the programme


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Press speculation on the future of This Is Your Life


Biggest night of all for the big red book

Press coverage for The Night of 1000 Lives


Katie Boyle


Spike Milligan


Eric Sykes

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Series 3 subjects

Albert Whelan | Colin Hodgkinson | Vera Lynn | Arthur Christiansen | John Logie Baird | Richard Carr-Gomm | Jack Train
Edith Powell | Anne Brusselmans | Norman Wisdom | Victor Silvester | Jack Petersen | Lucy Jane Dobson
David Bell | Matt Busby | Minnie Barnard | Gordon Steele | Louie Ramsay | Tubby Clayton | Daniel Angel
Anna Neagle | 'Dapper' Channon | Frederick Stone | Paul Field | Noel Purcell | Barbara Cartland
Harry Secombe | Archie Rowe | Humphrey Lyttelton | Francis Cammaerts | A E Matthews