The two hundred and eighteenth TV show: #12 This Is Your Life
There's something nice about watching this show - seeing celebrities visited by family and friends, giving an overview of their lives. It's with some overdone enthusiasm sometimes (they clearly don't remember all the guests that visit), but when the guest is on, like with Carl Reiner, it's a lot of fun. If anything, I prefer the later editions as the early fifties edition moves, quite unexpectedly, a bit too quick, at times not giving the guests or anecdotes enough room to breath. A lot of it depends on how well you know the person - which I did select for - but on the whole you can see why it would appeal even if I wouldn't track down too much.