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
Magic Brush to achieve this dream even though he doesn't own a paintbrush. As Ma Liang gets ready for bed one night, he looks at all his drawings. Just as he was about to doze of, an elderly wizard-magician appears to him and says that he has earned a brush. He tells Ma Liang to use this brush wisely because it has great power. Before Ma Liang can thank him, the magician vanished. To test the power, Ma Liang uses the brush to paint a rooster. When he paint the last feather, the rooster comes to life and flies off. Ma Liang