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
Quiz with Hale Quiz with Hale Quiz with Hale was an early television game show. A British series, it aired on the BBC from 1946 to 1947. Presented by Lionel Hale, the 30-minute series invited viewers to play along by marking their own quiz paper. Page 29 (31 of file) of volume 147 of "The Chemist and Druggist" says episode telecast 28 December 1946 asked viewers to identify three substances from their Latin labels. The programme is lost, as methods to record live television were not developed until late 1947, and were used very rarely by the BBC until the mid-1950s, additionally U.K.