Big Red Book
Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
TV Times magazine launched the return of This Is Your Life to the ITV autumn schedules with an article revealing more behind-the-scenes secrets, including a mention of those 'stars who said Not On Your Life!'
The production team revisited Hollywood in this series to tell three more glamorous life stories - including two British-born subjects who became international stars.
An occasional feature of This Is Your Life - particularly with subjects of a musical persuasion - was an 'impromptu' singalong or instrumental jam session as the credits rolled at the end of the programme. Over the years, this has involved whole choirs singing out from the studio audience or a band of musicians crowding onto the set. Or even the subject themselves singing out their own tribute, as was the case with a colourful jazz legend at the end of this series.
During the summer break between this series and the next, there was much coverage in the press of the announcement that This Is Your Life would be returning to the BBC in September 1994 - for the first time since 1964.
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the show's fifty year history
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This Is Your Life goes back to its birthplace
Press coverage on the return to the BBC
The Daily Mail profiles the programme's history
| Barbara WINDSOR | Actress | 30 September 1992 |
| Dickie BIRD | Cricket umpire | 7 October 1992 |
| Frazer HINES | Actor | 14 October 1992 |
| Pat KERR | Humanitarian and former air stewardess | 21 October 1992 |
| Juliet MILLS | Actress | 28 October 1992 |
| William TARMEY | Actor and singer | 4 November 1992 |
| Ellen POLLOCK | Actress | 11 November 1992 |
| Tessa SANDERSON | Javelin thrower and heptathlete | 18 November 1992 |
| Peter SAUNDERS | Theatre impresario | 25 November 1992 |
| Anthony NEWLEY | Actor, singer and songwriter | 2 December 1992 |
| Bert WEEDON | Guitarist and composer | 9 December 1992 |
| Glen MURPHY | Actor | 16 December 1992 |
| Les DAWSON | Comedian, actor, writer and presenter | 23 December 1992 |
| John SURTEES | Motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver | 30 December 1992 |
| Shirley BASSEY | Singer | 6 January 1993 |
| Albert and Michel ROUX | Chefs | 13 January 1993 |
| Anthony JONES | Mountain rescue expert | 20 January 1993 |
| Lynda BELLINGHAM | Actress | 27 January 1993 |
| Frank BRUNO | Boxer | 3 February 1993 |
| Johnnie HAMP | Television producer | 10 February 1993 |
| Honor BLACKMAN | Actress | 17 February 1993 |
| Sister AQUINAS | Headmistress behind St Winifred's School choir | 24 February 1993 |
| Roddy MCDOWALL | Actor | 3 March 1993 |
| Jimmy WHITE | Snooker player | 10 March 1993 |
| Peggy SPENCER | Dancer and choreographer | 17 March 1993 |
| Jackie COLLINS | Novelist | 24 March 1993 |
| Derek FOWLDS | Actor | 31 March 1993 |
| Nat LOFTHOUSE | Footballer | 7 April 1993 |
| Ann MILLER | Dancer, singer and actress | 14 April 1993 |
| George MELLY | Jazz and blues singer | 21 April 1993 |
Broadcast details
Thames Television production for ITV30 editions | 30 x 30 minutes
Wednesday | 7.00pm x 28 | 9.30pm x 2
Production team
Producer: Malcolm Morris | Associate Producer: John Graham | Directors: Brian Klein, Malcolm MorrisWriters: Roy Bottomley, Norman Giller | Researchers: Sue Green, Mandy Nixon, Elizabeth Ross, Ian Brown, Sarah Ann Cockcroft
Production Assistants: Irene Clark, Liz Fleming, Elizabeth Waddell, Angela Murgatroyd, Brenda Bentham
Programme Consultant: Roy Bottomley | Programme Co-ordinators: Mandy Lee | Designer: Harry Clark | Film Research: Susan Tiplady