Basil Brush …………….he was bloody great

Dominic

Sunday evening, loved it as a kid .
  He was like a Foxy Terry Thomas ………bit of a cad.

PolarityMan

No

starwarsnosebleed

Basil brush was shit.
Grotbags and the pink windmill was where it was at.

PolarityMan

No.

RocknRollDave

Eh heh BOOM BOOM Mr Richarrrd

Nitefly

Dirty Gertie from number 30!

richardhomer

And what do you do for a living?

I stick my hand up a fox's arse....

ICBM

He's OK. Theresa May wants to exterminate him...

Dominic

He was better than Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop but probably not as good as Rod Hull and Emu
Russell Hartey liked Emu !

starwarsnosebleed

...Rod,Jane and Freddy were pretty damn good too

littlegreenman

He was a bit of a cad as part of an evening's entertainment. Not quite sure exactly what he was there for though in hindsight. But then a lot of that era was like that, just sort of there just because...

The 70's were a bit bizarre after all!

Myranda

Ahh, Basil Brush, beloved children's entertainer from the 70's - surely only pleasant memories... Does Yewtree investigate woodland mammals?

Bucket

I think there was a remake in the 90s or early 2000s, my sister and I loved it when we were little.

Our cat is named Basil after him.

equalsql

He was great wasn't he. I remember watching the remake with my kids when they were young and it was really funny stuff. A joy to watch

axisus

Yes, he was great. I think that whoever 'played' him did a superb job - basically hiding under a desk with your arm in the air, following a script but also superb ad libbing. And zero fame, to this day I don't know who it was.

RocknRollDave

axisus said:

Yes, he was great. I think that whoever 'played' him did a superb job - basically hiding under a desk with your arm in the air, following a script but also superb ad libbing. And zero fame, to this day I don't know who it was.

What the hell are you talking about? He was a fox. Called Basil. He "played" himself. WYSIWYG 

proggy

Basil Brush was brilliant, better than that Roland Rat rubbish that came along.

The one I couldn't handle though was Lord Charles, he scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

Sporky

I was allowed to watch Basil Brush or Doctor Who.

One day we turned the telly on a few minutes early and Basil was doing a Doctor Who sketch. My parents saw it end and turned the telly off. So Basil can do one.

SteveRobinson

axisus said:

Yes, he was great. I think that whoever 'played' him did a superb job - basically hiding under a desk with your arm in the air, following a script but also superb ad libbing. And zero fame, to this day I don't know who it was.

The creator of Basil Brush was called Ivan Owen. He wrote the scripts I think, and died before the reboot which is why is wasn't nearly as funny.

57Deluxe

the inspiration for Alan Partridge's -  A-Ha!

57Deluxe

Q: What is the connection between Basil Brush and The Moody Blues???