Family Fortunes the sound-proof booth caused Bob to overhear his partner say Chicken for the 3rd question; thus, the answer of turkey was stuck in his head. After the taping, Bob's wife offered producer William G. Stewart £100 not to air the show, but when Stewart advised her it cost the production company £38,000 to produce the one episode, she declined to pursue the matter any further. The original theme music was used from 1980 to 1985, and was composed by Jack Parnell and David Lindup. This was during the Bob Monkhouse and Max Bygraves eras. In 1987 when Les Dennis became
Les Dennis "Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong" in 2008; he began the episode by mentioning how the set was a ripoff of the "Family Fortunes" set, only to have Alan Carr interrupt him by making an "X" with his arms and imitating the infamous "UH-UHH!" sound. In 2009, Dennis played Herbert Soppitt in J. B. Priestley's "When We Are Married" at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds and the Playhouse, Liverpool. At Christmas 2009, he returned to the Liverpool Empire to appear in "Peter Pan" with Fonz actor Henry Winkler and again in 2010 to play the role of Aladdin's brother, Wishee Washee