Big Red Book
Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
In another change to the schedule, This Is Your Life now aired on a Thursday evening, but with no regular broadcast time.
Producer Leslie Jackson, who steered the programme since the very first edition, was promoted to Executive Producer.
This series included the first tribute to the only subject who would be honoured a record THREE times during the programme's history.
Also in this series, for the first time, a life story was told in two parts, not once but twice, as the production team revealed the remarkable wartime stories of a Belgian-born physician and a well-travelled teacher.
After nine years and 256 editions, the BBC cancelled This Is Your Life. Presenter Eamonn Andrews left the BBC after negotiating a lucrative contract with ABC Television to present the commercial channel's new sports programme and a live weekly chat show.
But, This Is Your Life would return...
related pages...
the producers who steered the programme's success
surprised again!
a brief biography
the show's fifty year history
Radio Times previews the ninth series
Radio Times feature on the sleuth-like manner of the 'pick-up'
| Stratford JOHNS | Actor | 3 October 1963 |
| Alice STERN | Concentration camp survivor | 10 October 1963 |
| Robert BOOTHBY | Former politician | 17 October 1963 |
| Bessie LOVE | Actress | 24 October 1963 |
| Joan STANTON | Housewife and mother | 31 October 1963 |
| Harry WORTH | Comedian and actor | 7 November 1963 |
| John DODD | Charity founder | 14 November 1963 |
| Ralph READER | Actor, producer and songwriter | 21 November 1963 |
| Albert GUERISSE | Physician and former army officer | 28 November 1963 |
| Albert GUERISSE | 5 December 1963 | |
| Margaret LOCKWOOD | Actress | 12 December 1963 |
| Franklin DAY | Teenager | 19 December 1963 |
| Frederick Spencer CHAPMAN | Teacher and former Army officer | 2 January 1964 |
| Frederick Spencer CHAPMAN | 9 January 1964 | |
| Thora HIRD | Actress | 16 January 1964 |
| Evelyn BARK | Director of International Affairs for the Red Cross | 23 January 1964 |
| Madge WATSON and | Fishermen's Mission Superintendent | 30 January 1964 |
| Elsie WOOD | Fishermen's Mission Superintendent | 30 January 1964 |
| Petula CLARK | Singer and actress | 6 February 1964 |
| Derek MCCULLOCH | Radio presenter and producer | 13 February 1964 |
| Bert MATTHEWS | Pearly King | 20 February 1964 |
| Ted MOULT | Farmer and radio and television personality | 27 February 1964 |
| Dot PALMER | Foster mother | 5 March 1964 |
| Teddy WINN | Retired RSPCA inspector | 12 March 1964 |
| Barbara MULLEN | Actress | 19 March 1964 |
| Paul BURROUGH | Anglian clergyman | 26 March 1964 |
| Sydney SCROGGIE | Hillwalker, writer and poet | 2 April 1964 |
| Ninette DE VALOIS | Ballet teacher, choreographer and former dancer | 9 April 1964 |
| Dominique PIRE | Belgian friar and humanitarian | 16 April 1964 |
| Olivia DE HAVILLAND | Actress | 23 April 1964 |
| Mary HAWKINS | Nurse | 30 April 1964 |
Broadcast details
BBC tv (editions 1-28) | BBC1 (editions 29-30)30 editions | 3 x 30 minutes | 27 x 25 minutes
Thursday | 8.35pm x 6 | 9.10pm x 5 | 10.10pm x 1 | 8.50pm x 17 | 9.25pm x 1
Production team
Devised by: Ralph EdwardsExecutive Producer: T Leslie Jackson | Producer: Vere Lorrimer
Directors: Michael Goodwin, Mark Patterson, David Matthews, Vere Lorrimer
Writers: Nickola Sterne, John Dalzell, Peter Moore, Gale Pedrick, Liam Nolan, Suzanne Twiston-Davies, Joan Reeder
Researchers: Nickola Sterne, John Dalzell, Suzanne Twiston-Davies, Alan Haire, Gale Pedrick
Script Editors: Bob Stuart, Peter Moore | Music: James Turner