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
Mazirian the Magician to his vats to recreate her. Mazirian the Magician "Mazirian the Magician" is a sword and sorcery short story by American writer Jack Vance. It was first published in 1950 as part of "The Dying Earth", a collection of loosely linked tales. It has been reissued in numerous anthologies since 1965, including "The Spell of Seven", edited by L. Sprague de Camp. Mazirian the Magician paces his enchanted garden, wrestling with the problem of how to invest the humanoid creatures he has created in vats with intelligence. The secret is held by the sorcerer Turjan, who has kept the secret