Ask the Family 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 hosted by Dick & Dom on BBC Two. The theme music, with its distinctive sitar, was "Acka Raga" by John Mayer and Joe Harriott. The show took the form of a quiz contest between two teams, with each team consisting of four members of a single family
Top of the Form (quiz show) tended to feature grammar schools; in later years, as these schools became less numerous, comprehensive schools sometimes featured, but less often, and there was an increasing dominance by independent schools. However, as comprehensive schools were becoming more commonplace under the Harold Wilson government, the autumn 1967 TV series of "Top of the Form" featured only comprehensive schools. "Top of The Form" was satirised in the 1960s pre-Python television series "At Last the 1948 Show". "Natural Born Quizzers", an episode of Steve Coogan’s comedy series "Coogan's Run", involved a thinly-disguised version of the show. In 2008, Dave Gorman traced the history