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
John Milner (magician) Boon, Woof!, Chancer, Soldier Soldier, The Barchester Chronicles and Doctors. Thames Television: This Week 1844. BBC: The Incredible Robert Baldick. He Said, She Said, Thirty-Minute Theatre, The Brothers, The Pallisers, Gangsters, Z-Cars, The Brothers, Angels, All Creatures Great & Small and Doctor Who (as a unit soldier with Tom Baker). TV Credits as a magician: ATV’s New Faces. John Milner (magician) John David Milner (born 1948 in Stourbridge, Worcestershire) is an English magician, stage and TV performer. He learnt magic from the performer and mentor to many well-known magicians, Ken Brooke. In 1963, he was a finalist in The Magic