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
Mark Waddington (magician) Manorlands Hospice in memory of his grandfather. In a recent appearance was supporting Channel 4 magician Paul Zenon during his Stand-up show, as well as performing his own comedy magic act with Jimmy Cricket, Johnnie Casson, Bobby Knutt, Gorden Kaye, and others. Mark has appeared in the media many times and TV appearances include Channel 4, ITV and BBC. He has also made many appearances on the radio as a magician, including Fresh Radio, BCB Radio, BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio York, BBC Radio Sheffield and BBC Radio 1. Mark was recently crowned the First Place winner of Starnow UK