Orville the Duck Orville the Duck Orville the Duck was the most famous puppet often used by the ventriloquist Keith Harris (1947–2015) and was named after Orville Wright (one of the Wright Brothers). Orville is a green duckling who wears nothing but a nappy with a large safety pin on the front. He speaks with a falsetto voice. Orville appeared on BBC television from 1982 to 1990 on "The Keith Harris Show", which featured assorted puppets such as Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey. At the peak of their popularity in December 1982, Harris and Orville released the single "Orville's Song", reaching
Kurt Felix (television presenter) Stich in 1968 (one of the first interactive programmes of the world) or That's TV (Chaplin-award, Rose d'Or award); Felix died in St. Gallen due to thymoma on 16 May 2012. Kurt Felix (television presenter) Kurt Felix (27 March 1941 – 16 May 2012) was a Swiss television presenter and entertainer. In the 1970s, Felix developed and hosted "Teleboy", the most watched TV-programme in the history of the Swiss television (DRS). The show is considered to be a predecessor of "Surprise, Surprise". Felix and his wife, singer Paola Del Medico, hosted "Verstehen Sie Spaß?", a Candid Camera-style show, for the