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
The Mint (UK game show) The Mint (UK game show) The Mint is a live, late night, interactive quiz show with celebrity guests and live studio contestants filmed on a large extravagant set designed to look like the inside of a mansion. The programme, which was dogged by criticism that its questions were ambiguous and arbitrary, aired on ITV and ITV2, Sunday to Wednesday. On 26 February 2007, ITV announced that "The Mint" would return to screens later in 2007, however an announcement on 12 September 2007 confirmed that the show, along with similar late night phone ins, would not be returning. "The Mint" was