Ask the Family both families were introduced as being almost identical save for surname, with all being quantity surveyors by profession (including the children). A spoof edition on the "Kenny Everett Television Show" featured Everett as Robert Robinson and as the (female) heads of the respective Windsor and Thatcher families. Ask the Family Ask the Family is a British game show that was first broadcast on BBC1 from 12 June 1967 to 22 October 1984 hosted by Robert Robinson and then on UK Gold from 6 June to 10 October 1999 hosted by Alan Titchmarsh and from 4 April to 5 May 2005
Ask the Dust Fante's most popular novel by far, the semi-autobiographical "Ask the Dust" is the third book in what is now referred to as "The Saga of Arturo Bandini" or "The Bandini Quartet". Bandini served as his alter ego in a total of four novels: "Wait Until Spring, Bandini" (1938), "The Road to Los Angeles" (chronologically, this is the first novel Fante wrote but it was unpublished until 1985), "Ask the Dust" (1939) and, finally, "Dreams from Bunker Hill" (1982). The last Fante dictated to his wife, Joyce, towards the end of his life after complications from diabetes brought about blindness and