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
Literature in the 1970s such as those of Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and J. R. R. Tolkien. Books discussing sex such as "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)" were popular as authors took advantage of the lifted censorship laws on literature in the sixties. Exposés such as "All the President's Men" were also popular. Self-help and diet books replaced the cookbooks and home fix-it manuals that topped the sixties's charts. After the experimentation and sexual offence subject matter that exemplified some of the sixties' most definitive works of literature, the early '70s brought a return to old-fashioned