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 1982, he joined as one of the team on "Russ Abbot's Madhouse" and "The Russ Abbot Show" before forming a comedy partnership with fellow impressionist Dustin Gee, which in turn led to a series of their own, "The Laughter Show". Following Gee's sudden and unexpected death on 3 January 1986, Dennis carried on "The Laughter Show" as a solo performer and became the third host of "Family Fortunes" for a fifteen-year run from 1987 to 2002. It was at a recording of an episode of Family Fortunes in 1997 that Les Dennis was surprised by the "This Is Your Life"