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 Young Magician Tomio Tada and "Understanding Genetics" by Hironori Kodama. Because of the content in the first volume, she often received letters asking if the manga was horror—which she does not consider it to be. Written and illustrated by Yuri Narushima, the chapters of "The Young Magician" have appeared as a serial in the Japanese manga magazine "Wings" between its November 1995 issue and its December 2016 issue. Shinshokan collected the chapters into eighteen "tankōbon" between September 9, 1996 and July 25, 2015. In 2005, the manga imprint of DC Comics, CMX, announced that it had licensed "The Young Magician" for an