One of Rod Hull’s last surviving Emu puppets has gone to live with Orville the Duck and George from Rainbow. The puppet, made in the mid-to-late 1980s for TV production company Endemol, was bought at ...

Orville the Duck and George from Rainbow have a new housemate after one of Rod Hull's last surviving Emu puppets was sold at an auction for almost nine times its estimate. Puppeteer Phil Fletcher - ...

They were once two of prime-time TV's biggest stars - one best known for the catchphrase "I wish I could fly", the other for an infamous attack on Michael Parkinson. Now, the original puppets for Emu ...

Orville and Emu have become puppets in a legal battle between the widows of late TV stars Keith Harris and Rod Hull. The famous pair were placed for sale with leading British auction house Bonhams, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following the news that Michael Parkinson has died at the age of 88, a number of the presenter’s most famous interviews have been ...

MUFFIN THE MULE A wooden puppet mule, made in 1933, became the biggest TV star of early broadcasting. Worked by husband-and-wife puppeteers Jan Bussell and Ann Hogarth it appeared on BBC show For The ...

The bird puppets are at the centre of a legal battle and are “trapped in captivity” but the man behind Zippy has joined calls for them to be put on display for the public. Seven months on, both are ...

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