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The TV show was controversial.

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Critics claimed that it exploited its subjects. They said it played into hopelessly hackneyed stereotypes. They said it had no redeeming cultural value.

These critics weren't talking about the latest Andy Cohen production or some Real Housewives meets Honey Boo Boo crossover.

Instead, they were talking about This is Your Life, first a radio show and then a TV ratings powerhouse in the 1950s.

The proto-reality show was created and hosted by Ralph Edwards, who understood that what viewers craved was a simple premise and easy-to-follow narrative of trial, tribulation, and redemption.

Each show starred a different person (sometimes famous, sometimes not), caught off-guard by Edwards.

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He or she was then whisked to a TV studio and, over 30 minutes, taken through the highs and lows of a life well-lived.

Versions of the show appeared in England and Australia, and Edwards himself hosted revivals in later decades.

But the real This is Your Life, the one lambasted by Time magazine, was a live show. It wa

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