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Series 15 opened with an edition billed as an Election Night special, broadcast on the same day as the UK's 1974 General Election results and several weeks before the series began its regular run. The subject - a former politician - unusually sat on the left of the This Is Your Life set due to being deaf. This arrangement also happened in at least two other shows.

TV Times previewed the launch of the new series with an article profiling the programme's new producer, Jack Crawshaw, who would lead the show through the remainder of the decade and into the 1980s and later return as Series Producer in 1996 for the programme's final seven series.

TV Times covered the edition when a world-famous singer and actress became the first female subject of This Is Your Life to be featured twice - having been previously honoured in February 1964. She later became the only subject to be honoured THREE times.

The disguises Eamonn Andrews wore for the surprise 'pick-ups' became slightly more outlandish when he dressed up as a pantomime Humpty Dumpty to surprise a comedian for a second time.

TV Times rounded off the series with a feature which included a collection of quotes from recent subjects.

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Producing Life

the producers who steered the programme's success

Life Second Time Around

surprised again!

Timeline

the show's fifty year history

Being gentlemen solves many of Life's problems

TV Times interview with new producer Jack Crawshaw

Life Lines

TV Times feature on recent subjects

The Night We Shocked Petula

TV Times photo feature on Petula Clark's second This Is Your Life surprise