Anita HARRIS (1942-)

Anita Harris This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 587
  • Subject No: 584
  • Broadcast date: Wed 6 Jan 1982
  • Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
  • Recorded: Tue 5 Jan 1982
  • Venue: Royalty Theatre
  • Series: 22
  • Edition: 14
  • Code name: Skate

on the guest list...

  • Mike Margolis - husband
  • Jimmy Jewel
  • Jimmy Tarbuck
  • Marion - mother
  • Eric - father
  • Philip - brother
  • Samantha - niece
  • Debbie - niece
  • Nellie Gregory
  • Peter Gregory
  • Wendy Neame
  • Mavis Linter
  • Courtney Jones
  • Rose - mother-in-law
  • Cliff Adams
  • Bernard Braden
  • Pauline Grant
  • David - brother
  • Filmed tributes:
  • Tommy Trinder
  • Roy Hudd
  • Clive Dunn
  • Dora Bryan
  • Leslie Crowther
  • Billy Dainty
  • Danny La Rue
  • Aimi MacDonald

production team...

  • Researchers: Brian Klein, Cathy Parnall
  • Writers: Tom Brennand, Roy Bottomley
  • Directors: Paul Stewart Laing, Terry Yarwood
  • Producer: Jack Crawshaw
  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
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Anita Harris recalls her experience of This Is Your Life in an exclusive interview recorded in March 2012

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The Times article: Anita Harris This Is Your Life

The Times 2 February 1982


THE TIMES DIARY


Half way through its 13th season, television's weekly potted biog show, This Is Your Life is still clocking up some impressive viewing figures - 16 million is the average, and Anita Harris, first subject of 1982, drew a mammoth 19.3 million.


The secret of its success, according to its compere, Eamonn Andrews, is that it remains a friendly show, topical to the extent that people in the news get a look in alongside the basically showbiz element. It has a back-room staff of 20 and is recorded 24 hours before transmission. Hand on heart, Eamonn Andrews assures me there have been no refusals since Danny Blanchflower turned them down. Richard Gordon said no but relented. And more recently a doctor whose dossier was being completed rang up to say his wife was in the process of having a nervous breakdown so great was the strain of trying to keep it all secret.


They may fit him in next time round.

The Times article: Anita Harris This Is Your Life

The Times 13 February 1982


Top 20 sweep for ITV


The BBC did not get one programme among the top 20 television shows for January, joint audience research figures show.


Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett the comedians, pulled in the BBC's biggest audiences with three of their Saturday evening shows during the month. But they gained only 22nd place, joint equal twenty-eighth place and tenth place in the top 50 programmes named by the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board.


This is Your Life, which was taken up by independent television after the BBC scrapped the show, and Coronation Street dominated the top 20.


When Anita Harris, the singer, was on This Is Your Life it topped the ratings with 19,300,000 viewers on January 6. It also took sixth equal place, eighth place and fourteenth equal place.


Eleven editions of Coronation Street were among the top 29 programmes. It was in second place with 18,950,000 viewers, ninth and tenth places, thirteenth and fourteenth places and seventeenth and nineteenth places. The Two Ronnies's biggest audience was 16,400,000.


The BBC had only one other programme in the top 50, an edition of Dallas.


But overall the BBC's two networks won the biggest share of the audience during the month. BBC1 had 38.73 per cent; and BBC2 11.58 per cent, giving them 50.31 per cent against ITV's 43.69 per cent.

Series 22 subjects

Bob Champion | Bill Fraser | Wayne Sleep | Ian Botham | Cannon and Ball | Rob Buckman | Angela Rippon
Julia McKenzie | Jackie Milburn | Paul Shane | Peter Adamson | Kiri Te Kanawa | Mickie Most | Anita Harris
Mike Brace | Faith Brown | Robin Bailey | Rod Hull | Bob Monkhouse | John Toshack | Wally Herbert
Joe Gormley | Roger Whittaker | Alan Whicker | Peter Davison | Douglas Bader