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 of Lublin (film) geese in the sky – and one goose in particular, chasing after it. Yasha truly "had" learned to fly. The film was a box office and critical failure. As an example, "Time Out London" wrote: The Magician of Lublin (film) The Magician of Lublin is a 1979 drama film co-written and directed by Menahem Golan based on "The Magician of Lublin" by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The film's title song was performed by Kate Bush. Yasha Mazur (Alan Arkin) is a turn-of-the-20th-century Jewish stage magician, womaniser, conman, and mystic. His great ambition is to figure out how to fly – an