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
1950s quiz show scandals also largely forbidden, meaning that a number of American game shows could not be faithfully reproduced in the UK. The lifting of these limits initially allowed more American shows to be adapted into British versions, and within a few years, the rise of game shows with much higher prize limits - most notably "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", would originate largely in the UK and make its way to the U.S. in the late 1990s. 1950s quiz show scandals The American quiz show scandals of the 1950s were a series of revelations that contestants of several popular television quiz