Family Fortunes a large electronic board, known as "Mr. Babbage", which famously sounds a wrong answer "Eh-uhh" sound effect and its accompanying X to signal the strike, as well as a "ding" (for a right answer). "Family Fortunes" was first hosted by comedian Bob Monkhouse (1980–83) then by singer and entertainer Max Bygraves (1983–85). After being rested for the whole of 1986, the show returned on 27 June 1987 with Les Dennis as presenter, and had a consistently successful run for the next 15 years. It was then moved out of peak time and became a daily daytime show hosted by Andy
Felix Dennis of CBS's "60 Minutes" in the US. He had appeared as the guest on BBC Radio 4's "Desert Island Discs", hosted by Kirsty Young, first broadcast on 12 August 2007. In an interview with Ginny Dougary published in "The Times" in 2008 Dennis said that in the early 1980s he had killed a man, who had been abusing a woman he knew, by pushing him off a cliff. Dennis later said he had been talking "a load of hogwash" while drunk. In 2012, Dennis was the subject of "Felix Dennis: Millionaire Poet", produced by Endemol UK, and appeared on Sky