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 Ages it sounded like a "classic free-blowing jazz album from the Sixties had been recorded with the clarity and punch of today's rock". Robert Christgau was less enthusiastic in "The Village Voice", giving it an "honorable mention" and sarcastically referring to it as "Bill and Elvin's excellent jazz record". He singled out "Little Rock" as the highlight. In the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of prominent American critics, "Ask the Ages" was voted the 15th best album of 1991. In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Steve Huey cited "Ask the Ages" as Sharrock's best work: "the most challenging jazz work he