Taking Sides : Basil Brush.

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Yeah, obviously it's a different 'guy' and the kids don't care. But isn't there a subversive element missing from the new version?

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 28 November 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

and is it just me, or does he look like Frank Skinner in the first photo?

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 28 November 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

wasn't part of the thing with Basil Brush meant to be that he had drunk a bottle of sherry before the programme started (and that's a lot of sherry for a very small fox)?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 28 November 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I recall the original (i saw it in the 80s, so how 'original' is doubtfull) as a kid and loved it. Without the use of parent aimed inuendo he seemd to make the show a series of utterly clean yet strangely profane injokes. Basically he got the kids to laugh both with and at him.

― lukey (Lukey G), Monday, 29 November 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Dirty Gertie from number 30" was mentioned a lot!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 29 November 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i've just learnt from TV that his favourite catchphrase is "boom boom"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 29 November 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I cannot comment on the show itself. However, the second picture looks as if it is supposed to be a squirrel, not a fox.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 29 November 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The first one - a career spanning classic TV and probably my favourite album from my childhood. Versus one that tries to be too real.

― 3underscore (___), Monday, 29 November 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

He could be the same guy. He's just 20 years older. He looks like a dirty old man in a mac.

― KeithW (kmw), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I was slightly disappointed when I found out he wasn't a brush.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Basil Brush saying "It's dirty Gertie from number 30" is the clearest memory of crap Saturday night telly that I have. If I ever got to be a talking head on "Best Saturday evening kids shows ever", that would be the bit I would mention a lot whilst giggling in a "look at me, I'm clever, I remember stuff from about five minutes ago" manner.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

o basil, how could u??

TV puppet Basil Brush dragged into race row investigation

― haitch, Monday, 17 March 2008 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

The Basil Brush Show, whose star is famous for his "Boom Boom!" catchcry, first hit TV screens in 1970 and was screened in Australia.

It ran until the early 1980s but was revived a few years ago.

It is broadcast in Australia on the ABC.

Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia

― Mark G, Monday, 17 March 2008 08:58 (eighteen years ago)

Er well that IS an article from an Aus paper.

― Trayce, Monday, 17 March 2008 09:18 (eighteen years ago)

I know. Stil...

― Mark G, Monday, 17 March 2008 09:19 (eighteen years ago)

When did travellers stop selling heather/pegs?

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 17 March 2008 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure it wasn't long ago that I avoided someone selling me 'lucky heather' - but maybe they were 'faux' gypsies.

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 17 March 2008 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

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