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
Basil Brush has a cameo among the group of celebs observing Brian Potter and Andy Pipkin for the Comic Relief single "I would roll 500 miles". The Weakest Link On 10 December 2005 Basil appeared on "The Weakest Link" and won the show, receiving £10,900 for his chosen charity, the "Blue Peter" 2005 charity appeal, "Treasure Trail" (in aid of Childline). This makes him the first puppet to win "The Weakest Link" (Roland Rat had previously appeared as a puppet contestant, but did not win). Basil returned to "Weakest Link" as one of the contestants on the show's 1000th UK edition, recorded