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
Johnny Basil J, Basil rooms with former Oz corrections officer Clayton Hughes and a sheriff named Alvin Yood. Glynn urges Basil to visit his wife, his lieutenant, and his former partner Nancy. He apologizes to his lieutenant, who is sorry to lose him to prison, and to Nancy, who is angered by his presence and says she is not sorry that he's in prison for what he did. Basil also meets his wife, whom he is scared to see since he let her down. After her visit, Basil insults Hughes, who in turn murders him. Hughes is sent to solitary as a