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 Million Second Quiz money they had accumulated and competed in a stepladder playoff for a top prize of $2,000,000. Executive produced by Stephen Lambert, Eli Holzman, and David Hurwitz, "The Million Second Quiz" was positioned as a live, multi-platform television event, which Lambert dubbed "the Olympics of quiz", that would help to promote NBC's lineup for the 2013–14 television season. The series was cross-promoted through several NBCUniversal properties, and NBC broadcast a live prime time show for each night of the competition (except for September 15, due to "Sunday Night Football") and a two-hour finale. Using a mobile app, viewers could play the