Ask The Family, BBC1, 18 April 1973

The third appearance of the Bradbury family from Sale in Cheshire in the 1973 season of the BBC quiz show "Ask The Family"

[@lindapirie7021]

This was before I was born, but I am fascinated by this kind of old school stuff.

[@BINGOTECH-lt8lt]

Cecil Korer - the man who knew so many beutey queens, that he made them hostesses on other quiz shows like Beverley Isherwood on Countdown

[@PastPresented]

After becoming one of Channel 4's first executives, in 1982 Korer also brought us _Minipops_

[@ProfessorBernardFuck]

Just want to say I fucking love this sort of stuff!

[@DVB0]

Recorded on 10 March 1973.

[@MarkHevingham]

Did you guys have a recorder or were these provided for you? Was it a reel to reel recording perhaps?

[@PastPresented]

As mentioned in the first of these videos, Dad was a college lecturer specialising in educational technology, so he had access to video recorders (but only monochrome, as colour VTRs were too expensive for the educational market). The machine was definitely reel-to-reel; VHS and Betamax video cassette recorders didn't go on sale until about three years later.

[@angelabrooke5059]

How stupid we have become !Horrifying.

[@PastPresented]

There's a fundamental problem. Until about the 17th century there was a very small common core of learning, which an individual could grasp. Once the idea of printing periodicals to share the latest information and thinking took root, the common core started to become increasingly fictitious. Now even what might be called the "lifeskills core" changes from year to year (or in the case of the classic waking-from-concussion question "Who is the current Prime Minister?" even more frequently).

[@anonUK]

​@@PastPresented And they are all Quantity Surveyors!

[@PastPresented]

@@anonUK Did a Quantity Surveyor kill your favourite pet or something?

[@anonUK]

@@PastPresented No, I had a pet aardvark called Ethel who tried it once... It was a Not the Nine O'clock News sketch done about this show a few years later than this recording, in which everyone, including the kids, was a Quantity Surveyor. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIrPgIltgJKrhbc kzbin.info/www/bejne/nITcnHqJitahgc0

[@PastPresented]

@@anonUK Thanks! That raises the question "Why can I remember _Monty Python_ sketches better than I can remember _Not_ ... sketches?"

[@willemslie]

I loved this show and was nine at the time of your appearances. I had no hope of following in your wake as I was the only child of a single parent. Nuclear? No thanks lol

[@PastPresented]

Yes, the format would have been problematic for both my mum and my dad if it had existed when they were children!

[@JakePurches-Base2music]

These questions make University Challenge look easy. No ordinary game show could possibly be like this today.

[@PastPresented]

So why do I find so many University Challenge questions really difficult?

[@Fluttermoth]

It's a different kind of knowledge; UC is more about knowing a subject to a depth that most viewers can't obtain, ATF was quite lateral, it's spiritual successor is Only Connect

[@80sandretrogubbins25]

If this is a domestic VCR recording then it's a bloody rare find.

[@PastPresented]

VTR! A Sony reel-to-reel machine at the college where my dad worked. Sadly, they couldn't afford colour.

[@80sandretrogubbins25]

@@PastPresented Ah well, still a good find.

[@paulbacchus1015]

Enjoyed that.

[@nguyendailam6703]

Gutted you got knocked out, that means no more recordings! Very bad form from The Taylors not to record their apperances.

[@PastPresented]

😂