Basil Brush very aggressive Scottish hedgehog also made by Peter Firmin. In the mid-1960s Basil became a supporting act for the magician David Nixon, upstaging Nixon on the latter's BBC1 show "Nixon at Nine-Five" in 1967 and "The Nixon Line" (1967–68), to such good effect that the fox was offered his own show. Basil thus acquired his own television series on the BBC, "The Basil Brush Show", which ran for 12 years from 1968 until 1980, in which he was supported by various famous stooges: first, in 1968, by the actor Rodney Bewes, known on the show as "Mr Rodney"; next, from
The Magician (U.S. TV series) magic specials on NBC and a series, "The Wonderful World of Magic", in first-run syndication. Visual Entertainment released the complete series on DVD in Region 1 on August 25, 2017. Though it ran only a single season, "The Magician" was an influence on later series. The show was a favorite of "The X-Files" creator Chris Carter, who worked it into Special Agent Fox Mulder's "origin" story: a teenaged Mulder was waiting to watch "The Magician" when his sister Samantha was abducted by mysterious forces. In the "Quantum Leap" episode "The Great Spontini", Scott Bakula's character, Dr. Sam Beckett, leaps into