The Girl in My Life

The Girl in My Life was a short-lived daytime reality show highlighting women who have made a difference in people's lives.

Broadcast
ABC: July 9, 1973-December 20, 1974

Packager
TM Productions/Metromedia Producers Corporation

Host
Fred Holiday

Announcers
John Harlan

Bob Warren

Premise
Each day on the show featured three to four vignettes of women. The people whose lives they touched would offer a testimonial statement about their special woman, always ending with the phrase "My name is (insert name), and the girl in my life is (insert name)." The woman would come out on stage and be interviewed by Holliday, and then would receive a modest prize package or an item of special meaning to the woman.

In Popular Culture
The show's format is spoofed in an episode of The Carol Burnett Show using the knockoff title The Girl That We Like.

Episode Status
The series was not rerunned after its original network run and is believed lost. One pilot program that used a different musical themed aired near the middle of the series' run.

Trivia
Bill Carruthers and William T. Naud are one of the executive producers of the show.