Don't Ask Me was a popular British

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 television science show made by Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...

 for the ITV

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 network and ran from 1974 to 1978. It attempted to answer science-based questions and contributors included Magnus Pyke

Magnus Pyke

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 (natural science

Natural science

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s), Rob Buckman

Rob Buckman

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 (medicine), David Bellamy

David Bellamy

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 (biology), Miriam Stoppard

Miriam Stoppard

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 (medicine), and Derek Griffiths

Derek Griffiths

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. Those behind the scenes included Adam Hart-Davis

Adam Hart-Davis

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, who later became a well-known science presenter in his own right.

The theme music was "House of the King" by the contemporary Dutch fusion band Focus

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A follow up called Don't Just Sit There ran for 19 episodes from 1979 to 1980. It was also produced for Yorkshire TV and featured the same panel.