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
Return of the Magician Return of the Magician Lupin III: Return of the Magician, known in Japan as , is the second OVA of the "Lupin III" franchise, released on April 3, 2002. "Return of the Magician" features the return of an old villain, Pycal, in recognition of the 30th anniversary of the anime. When Lupin attempts to steal a gem, he is interrupted by Pycal, a magician who was considered to have died after facing off with Lupin in the past (chapter 7: "Magician" of the original manga and episode 02: "The Man They Called a Magician" of the first anime series). Pycal,