Few programs in TV history caused as much discomfort and cringing as Ralph Edwards’ long-running show, This Is Your Life, in which the seemingly oblivious host forced sad people in entertainment to relive the pasts they got into show business to forget. I mean, that’s why they were in an industry driven by fantasy. Through the years, he mortified Stan Laurel, Lowell Thomas, Buster Keaton and Frances Farmer, to name just a few.

But what’s done is done, and I guess it can’t hurt to post an old episode. In this 1971 show, Herb Alpert helps Edwards stalk musical duo Richard and Karen Carpenter, the latter of whom had enough pain all by herself for a trio or quartet.