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
The Magician (U.S. TV series) an amateur magician in 1974 who aspires to appear on Bill Bixby's "The Magician"; however, owing to his partial amnesia, Dr. Beckett, at first, can only recall Bixby's connection with "The Incredible Hulk," which had not been made at that time. "The Incredible Hulk" series featured an episode that paid homage to both "The Magician" and Bixby's earlier series, "My Favorite Martian". In "The Incredible Hulk's" "My Favorite Magician" episode, Bixby's character became the temporary apprentice to a stage magician played by Bixby's "Martian" co-star, Ray Walston. Mark Wilson was on hand again as the episode's "magic consultant" as well.