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THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Doris Hare, actress, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews outside the White House Hotel in Regent's Park, London.

Doris was born in Bargoed, Wales, and began her career as a child actor with her parents' portable theatre, touring the mining towns of Wales. She appeared in cabaret and revue in the 1930s before becoming a household name during the Second World War presenting Shipmates Ashore on the BBC Forces Programme for the Merchant Navy.

In the 1960s, she worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic. She achieved national attention again in 1969 when she was cast as Mrs Butler in the ITV sitcom On The Buses.

"Oh, you didn't mean it! Oh, I haven't had my hair done!"

programme details...

• Edition No: 315
• Subject No: 316
• Broadcast live: Wed 29 Dec 1971
• Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
• Venue: Euston Road Studios
• Series: 12
• Edition: 7

on the guest list...

• Reg Varney
• Bob Grant
• Stephen Lewis
• Michael Robbins
• Anna Karen
• Bertie - brother
• Betty - sister
• Winifred - sister
• Cyril Cusack
• Mamie Suter
• Edward Underdown
• Evelyn Laye
• George Rolston
• Sylvia Potts
• Cleo Laine
• Dr John Fraser Roberts - husband
• Susan - daughter
• Katherine - daughter
• Norris Thornton

related appearances...

• Cleo Laine - Oct 1962
• Reg Varney - May 1970
• Arthur Marshall - Apr 1983
• John Mills - Oct 1983
• Kathy Staff - Mar 1984
• Johnnie Johnson - May 1985
• Evelyn Laye - Dec 1990

production team...

• Researcher: Alan Haire
• Writer: John Sandilands
• Director: Steve Minchin
• Producer: Malcolm Morris

• names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life

The Good Life

the sitcom stars

Cleo Laine

Evelyn Laye

Reg Varney

Screenshots of Doris Hare This Is Your Life