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 German TV station
ARD between 1981 and 1990. Each episode attracted around 30 million viewers in Central Europe. He developed several TV-formats popular in Germany and Switzerland such as Stoeck, Wyss, 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. ==References==