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Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
Stuart HALL (1929-)
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Stuart Hall, broadcaster, was surprised by Michael Aspel while filming in Manchester for the Best of It's A Knockout: Here Come the Belgians! home video release.
Stuart, who was born in Ashton under Lyne, studied at Glossop Grammar School and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. After working in the family bakery Stuart joined the BBC in 1959 as a general reporter and later a sports journalist, becoming well known for his lyrical football commentaries.
In 1965 he became the anchor man for the BBC's North West regional news programme Look North and stayed with the programme until 1990 when he moved to ITV's Granada Reports. In 1972 he gained national recognition as presenter of the BBC game show It's A Knockout, which he regularly presented until the early 1990s.
"I can't believe this! How've you managed all this?"
programme details...
- Edition No: 1032
- Subject No: 1007
- Broadcast date: Mon 6 Dec 1999
- Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
- Recorded: Mon 18 Oct 1999
- Venue: Manchester
- Series: 40
- Edition: 7
- Code name: Poet
on the guest list...
- Johnnie Hamp
- Hazel - wife
- Francesca - daughter
- Dave - Francesca's partner
- Danny - son
- Melanie - daughter-in-law
- Alistair McGowan
- Keith - brother
- David Allsop
- Raymond Baxter
- David Davies
- Nick Clarke
- Alistair Macdonald
- Michael Delahaye
- Richard Dukinfield
- Martin Henfield
- Felicity Goodey
- Ronnie Moran
- Graeme Souness
- Guido Pancaldi
- Dr Kase Klose
- Bob Greaves
- Tom Pendry
- William Roache
- Mike Summerbee
- Francis Lee
- Ben - grandson Filmed tribute:
- Paul Spencer
production team...
- Researcher: Ruth Malone
- Writer: Ian Brown
- Director: John Gorman
- Associate Producer: Helen Gordon-Smith
- Executive Producer: John Longley
- Series Producer: Jack Crawshaw
- Producer: Sue Green
- names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
Photographs and screenshots of Stuart Hall This Is Your Life
Series 40 subjects
Roger Black | Hewitt Clark | Martin Kemp | Denise Welch | Rudolph Walker | Martin Jarvis | Stuart Hall | Rita TushinghamLen Vale-Onslow | Dale Winton | Ian Wright | Marguerite Patten | Eddie Jordan | Dave Lee Travis | Harry Hill
David Vine | John Craven | Richard Dunwoody | Tom Baker | Laurie Holloway | Kay Mellor | Mark Wingett
Christopher Timothy | Suggs | Jason Leonard | Desmond Wilcox | Roger Kendall | Daniel O'Donnell