Which puppet became famous after appearing on David Nixon's magic shows on TV?
"Continental"". Nixon's big break came in 1954 when he was invited to be a panelist on the British version of the highly successful television quiz show ""What's My Line"". He presented various series including the British version of ""Candid Camera"", ""Comedy Bandbox"" (1962) (later ""David Nixon's Comedy Bandbox"" (1966) and was Basil Brush's first partner. His magic shows included ""Tonight with David Nixon"" (1969), ""David Nixon's Magic Box"" (1970) and ""The David Nixon Show"" (1972) as well as ""David Nixon's Christmas Magic"" (1974) that featured a classic magic trick where Lynsey de Paul appears to disappear from a glass casket"
"of the day. He wrote for the first TV series of Irish comedian Dave Allen; ""Tonight with Dave Allen"", as well as material for artistes such as Rolf Harris, Jimmy Tarbuck, Paul Daniels, Harry Worth and Tommy Cooper. He became the main writer and ideas man, as well as script and production associate, for renowned magician David Nixon. When the then unknown legendary fox puppet, Basil Brush, appeared as a weekly guest on ""The Nixon Line"", Martin helped develop the character and subsequently was the sole writer of every Basil Brush show for many years, (throughout the 1960s and 70s)."
"David Nixon (magician) David Nixon (29 December 1919 – 1 December 1978) was an English magician and television personality. At the height of his career, Nixon was the best-known magician in the UK. Born in Muswell Hill, London, Nixon attended the Westcliff High School for Boys in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. His father was a lawyer whose hobby was magic and who took Nixon to watch performers such as Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant. One magician who made an early impression on the young boy was Stanley Collins, who had a gentlemanly image which influenced Nixon's later performing style. Nixon started performing"
"birth of the couple's son Nicholas. Nixon remarried in 1961 to Vivienne Robinson, the daughter of the bandleader Eric Robinson. They had a daughter, Mandy, in 1961. David Nixon (magician) David Nixon (29 December 1919 – 1 December 1978) was an English magician and television personality. At the height of his career, Nixon was the best-known magician in the UK. Born in Muswell Hill, London, Nixon attended the Westcliff High School for Boys in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. His father was a lawyer whose hobby was magic and who took Nixon to watch performers such as Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant. One"
"UK in 1970, Vox dropped his Canadian characters in favor of his soft puppet Jeorge, a dog, which became his main character. He also used another soft puppet character, Orlando. He made his British television debut with Jeorge on the Basil Brush Show on BBC in 1970. Shortly after this, he did a warm up spot for the David Nixon show at Thames Television that was seen by the head of Children’s programming, Lewis Rudd, who approached him with the idea of building a show around his character Jeorge. Larry Parker was hired to develop the story line for the"
"constructed by Jan Dalibor, and his work was noted for its fine craftsmanship which enabled the puppets to be shown in close-up. Over 200 episodes of the show were broadcast. At the peak of their popularity in the early and mid-1960s, the shows attracted audiences of 15 million, and the characters, with high-pitched speeded-up voices, appeared on records as well as a wide range of merchandise. They appeared at the 1963 Royal Variety Performance alongside the Beatles and Marlene Dietrich, and the characters also became popular in the US, appearing on ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" and in Las Vegas. In"
"Nixon show. When he was nine his parents gave him a David Nixon Magic set as a Christmas present and thereafter he became a dedicated performer always seeking to learn new tricks. During a school trip to London to visit the British Museum he stumbled upon the Davenports magic shop, to which he would return often during his teens as he sought to learn more about professional magic. At Davenports he met magician Pat Page who became a mentor and lifelong friend. Other influences cited by Dobson include Roy Johnson, Ken Brooke and Dai Vernon, who was revered among magicians"
"appearance on the September 11, 1966, episode of the show—released to DVD on 2011 as part of a collection of episodes featuring the Rolling Stones—Sullivan mis-introduced Henson as ""Jim Newsom and his Puppets""). This first national television broadcast greatly increased exposure, which led to hundreds of commercial appearances by Henson characters throughout the '60s. Among the most popular of Henson's commercials was a series for the local Wilkins Coffee company in Washington, DC, in which his Muppets were able to get away with a greater level of slapstick violence than might have been acceptable with human actors and would later"
"demonstrate to his young audiences just how easily puppets could be made. From time to time, his own children participated in his performances for the Australian Theatre for Young People during the school holidays, and also in the shows that he presented at various Department Stores (Anthony Horden's, Farmer's, Grace Bros., and David Jones, etc.), such as ""Enchanted Scarecrow"", ""The Magic Tinderbox"", ""The Moon for Supper"" and ""Nicky's Christmas Snowman"". His innovative and creative design and construction skills were such that, from time to time, he was also asked to design puppets for others to operate in their own shows."
"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"
"appearing in adverts for the Trustee Savings Bank for children's savings accounts. The Magic House (puppet show) The Magic House was a children's animation puppet show created by Joe Austen and made for Scottish Television. The series was adapted from a series of children's books written and illustrated by Austen in the early 1980s. The show's 55 10-minute episodes were aired across the ITV Network between 1994 and 1998. As well as the television episodes, a spin-off series of books was also produced, written and illustrated by Joe Austen. The show, which featured Uncle Teapot, Kitty Kettle, Barney Bin and"
"Zig and Zag (puppets) Zig and Zag are a puppet duo performed by Mick O'Hara and Ciaran Morrison. The characters are a pair of furry extraterrestrial twins from the planet Zog. They made their television début on 22nd September 1987 on RTÉ's ""Dempsey's Den"". A year later they won a Jacob's Award for TV Personalities of the year. In 1992 Zig and Zag found fame in the UK when they joined the team of the Channel 4 breakfast show ""The Big Breakfast"". Eventually Zig and Zag evolved into Jedward. During the 1990s the characters spawned a merchandising range of comic"
"Roland Rat Roland Rat is a British television puppet character. He was created, operated and voiced by David Claridge, who had previously designed and operated Mooncat, a puppet in the Children's ITV television programme ""Get Up and Go!"" He worked for Jim Henson, then the second series of ""The Young Ones"". Claridge would later operate and voice Brian the Dinosaur for BBC's ""Parallel 9""; create and direct ""Happy Monsters"", a preschool series for Channel 5; and shoot a CGI series ""Mozart's Dog"" for Paramount Comedy. Roland lives beneath King's Cross railway station in The Ratcave and also in Ratcave2 under"
"puppets, and says his most prized possession is his brush, this being the traditional name for a fox's tail. The original Basil Brush glove puppet was designed by Peter Firmin in 1963 for an ITV television series, and was voiced and performed by Ivan Owen until his death in October 2000. Ivan Owen took great care to ensure that he, personally, never received any publicity. Professionally, only Basil had a public persona, with Owen himself remaining entirely unknown. This helped give the character believability, making Basil appear to be real, since—unlike Harry Corbett and Sooty, for example—the audience never saw"
"Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Uruguay, Venezuela and the former Yugoslavia. The puppet made several appearances on UK TV on ITV's ""Sunday Night at the London Palladium"" in the 1960s and his wistful persona endeared him to British viewers of all ages. The character has starred in several feature films, including: Topo Gigio Topo Gigio () was the lead character of a children's puppet show on Italian television in the early 1960s. The character, created in 1958 by artist Maria Perego, debuted on Italian television in 1959"
"Nixon, Howard Keel, Sir Harry Secombe, Arthur English, Charlie Chester, Jimmy Perry, Arthur Haynes, Jimmy Wheeler, Bill Pertwee, Sir Norman Wisdom, Paul Daniels and Bert Weedon. Members of the order wear a small gold emblem shaped as a water rat on the left lapel of their jackets, and if one Water Rat meets another who is not wearing his emblem he is fined, with the money going to charity. Magician David Nixon wore his while appearing on television, explaining that as current King Rat he could be fined by any other member who saw him on screen without it. There"
"often being credited as the iconic Muppet, Rowlf was actually the first known Muppet ""star"" as a recurring character on ""The Jimmy Dean Show"", first appearing in a telecast on September 26, 1963. Rowlf was introduced in 1962 for Purina Dog Chow TV commercials aired in Canada, in which he appeared with Baskerville the Hound. Jim Henson designed Rowlf, and Don Sahlin built him; it was Sahlin's first Muppet construction. Rowlf rose to popularity as Jimmy Dean's sidekick on ""The Jimmy Dean Show"", performed by Henson and Frank Oz. He was the first Muppet with a regular spot on network"
"term for doll. Other famous puppets from Tillstrom's group included Ollie (Oliver J. Dragon), Beulah Witch, Goultar, Cecil Bill, David the Psychopath Arvedon, and Fletcher Rabbit. In 1939, Tillstrom was invited to present his Kuklapolitan Players at the New York World's Fair. The following year, RCA sent him to Bermuda to perform on the first ship-to-shore broadcast. From 1947 through 1957, Tillstrom was involved with the ""Kukla, Fran and Ollie"" show, which starred his puppets and Fran Allison. It is widely regarded as being the first children's show to appeal to both children and adults, and counted Orson Welles, John"
"as a stage magician, Nixon liked to use television technology for humour and entertainment. In the '70s, when the technology of chroma key became available, he developed a way to interact with a recording of himself apparently on the other side of a mirror. Not only was the conversation perfectly coordinated, he also used sleight-of-hand to appear to pass objects back and forth to himself. These segments became high points of his shows of that period. David Nixon has been recognised as an influence on future UK magicians as diverse as Wayne Dobson and Jerry Sadowitz. With a rich and"
"Gonzo (Muppet) Gonzo, also known as The Great Gonzo and Gonzo the Great, is a Muppet character known for his eccentric passion for stunt performance. Aside from his trademark enthusiasm for performance art, another defining trait of Gonzo is the ambiguity of his species, which has become a running gag in the franchise. Gonzo has been considered to be of various origins, including a Frackle, in his debut appearance on ""The Great Santa Claus Switch""; extraterrestrial in ""Muppets from Space""; or avian creature. Developed and performed by Dave Goelz, Gonzo made his first appearance in the 1970 special ""The Great"
"puppet characters also appeared on many TVOntario productions including Readalong and Telefrancais. Young featured in the second Care Bears television special, 1984's ""The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine"". She is also known for her caricature puppets of public figures such as former governor-general Adrienne Clarkson, CBC news anchor Peter Mansbridge and hockey commentator Don Cherry, and of prominent personalities from her hometown of Almonte, Ontario. She was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1995, for her work in children's television. Noreen Young Noreen Isabel Young, is a Canadian producer and puppeteer, and is still actively involved"
"game of croquet."" Apart from the simulations of human situations, he had also added examples of bizarrely deformed animals such as two-headed lambs and four-legged chickens. Potter's museum was so popular that an extension was built to the platform at Bramber railway station. Other Victorian taxidermists known for their iconic anthropomorphic taxidermy work are William Hart and his Son Edward Hart. They gained recognition with their famous series of dioramas featuring boxing squirrels. Both William and Edward created multiple sets of these dioramas. One 4-piece set of boxing squirrel dioramas (circa 1850) sold at auction in 2013 for record prices."
"Norwich Puppet Man David John Perry (9 April 1942), commonly known as the Norwich Puppet Man, is a street entertainer from Norwich, Norfolk, England, who now resides in Great Yarmouth, whose performance consists of dancing with a range of puppets while singing along to pop songs played on a portable karaoke machine. Attracting fans and hatred alike, he has been repeatedly featured in the local news media of East Anglia such as the ""Eastern Daily Press"" and the ""Norwich Evening News"". Lately he has also found fans on internet sites such as the video-sharing platform YouTube or the social network"
"Oz nominated Barclay to take over as chief puppeteer for Yoda. Barclay was then invited to become the first British puppet maker on a new adventurous project by Jim Henson and Frank Oz, ""The Dark Crystal"". In November 1979, he joined a handful of Henson's American puppet makers, to develop puppets that would finally become the entire cast of the movie. And so started the long term relationship and desire to push the envelope in animatronic performance art. David Barclay (puppeteer) David Alan Barclay is a British puppeteer who had worked on some projects of The Jim Henson Company. He"
"in 1933 by Punch and Judy puppet maker Fred Tickner for husband-and-wife puppeteers Jan Bussell (1909-1984) and Ann Hogarth to form part of a puppet circus for the Hogarth Puppet Theatre. The act was soon put away, and the puppet was not taken out again until 1946, when Bussell and Hogarth were working with presenter Annette Mills. She named the puppet mule ""Muffin"", and it first appeared on television in an edition of ""For the Children"" broadcast on 20 October 1946. The character proved popular, and ran on BBC television until 1955. Typically, Muffin danced on top of a piano"
"which became known collectively as Muppets. Initially, through the children's television show ""Sesame Street"", and later in ""The Muppet Show"" and on film, these inspired many imitators and are today are recognised almost everywhere. Wayland Flowers also made a major contribution to adult puppetry with his satirical puppet, Madame. Sid and Marty Krofft are two of Americas most well known puppeteers and were mainly known for their live action children's TV series in the 60s and 70s namely HR Puffinstuff and Lidsville Puppets also have been used in the ""Star Wars"" films, notably with the character of Yoda. His voice"
"Another episode had Mike Tyson confront his own puppet character. The show's use of puppets that mimicked popular culture and political figures was similar to the British series ""Spitting Image""; it was produced by Sid and Marty Krofft, well-known puppeteers in the United States who were responsible for popular children's television shows including ""H.R. Pufnstuf"" and ""Sigmund and the Sea Monsters"". The show was originally funded and syndicated nationally by New York-based Syndicast Services Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Australian-based Network Media Limited. A series of three ""Best of ""D. C. Follies"""" VHS tapes were released, with each volume"
"The Magic House (puppet show) The Magic House was a children's animation puppet show created by Joe Austen and made for Scottish Television. The series was adapted from a series of children's books written and illustrated by Austen in the early 1980s. The show's 55 10-minute episodes were aired across the ITV Network between 1994 and 1998. As well as the television episodes, a spin-off series of books was also produced, written and illustrated by Joe Austen. The show, which featured Uncle Teapot, Kitty Kettle, Barney Bin and other characters based on household items, proved a success with the characters"
"Pepper's ghost Pepper's ghost is an illusion technique used in the theatre, amusement parks, museums, television, and concerts. It is named after the English scientist John Henry Pepper (1821–1900) who popularized the effect in a demonstration in 1862. Examples of the illusion are the Girl-to-Gorilla trick found in old carnival sideshows and the appearance of ""Ghosts"" at the Haunted Mansion and the ""Blue Fairy"" in Pinocchio's Daring Journey at the Disneyland park in California. Teleprompters are a modern implementation of Pepper's ghost. The technique was used by Digital Domain for the appearance of Tupac Shakur onstage with Dr. Dre and"
"Ray Alan Ray Alan (18 September 1930 – 24 May 2010) was an English ventriloquist and television entertainer from the 1950s until the 1980s. He was associated primarily with the puppet ""Lord Charles"" and later also with the puppets ""Tich"" and ""Quackers"". Lord Charles was the first puppet to have his own personal microphone, which was first fitted by Sound professional Douglas Oakley whilst working with Lord Charles at Thames TV, and became a regular feature thereafter. Born in Greenwich, London, Alan was educated at Morden Terrace School, Lewisham. Alan was introduced to the world of entertainment at a young"
"overwhelming success. Between 1966 and 1971, Jim Henson performed some of his Muppet characters on the show. The characters made a total of 25 appearances. Henson's Muppets were introduced on ""The Ed Sullivan Show"" on September 18, 1966. Sullivan introduced the characters as ""Jim, uh ... Newsom's puppets."" The act featured a small ball of fur growing into the Rock and Roll Monster (performed by Jim Henson, Jerry Nelson, and Frank Oz) with three heads and six arms lip-syncing to the unreleased song ""Rock It to Me"" by The Bruthers. After the act was done, the Rock and Roll Monster"
"most notorious, but least remembered, puppet character on ""Adventure Island"". A brilliant McEwan creation, his intensely squawking voice, disruptive manner and constant teasing of Nancy Cato took the hilarious whining of Leonardo de Fun Bird (from ""The Magic Circle Club"") to a completely new level. When McEwan left the show, Gussie was replaced by a more cultured female galah, Gracie, who was slightly taller in stature. Samson was a large hand puppet, similar to a Muppet. All the other puppets were mechanical creations. The operator would pull down on a rod, either underneath or inside the body of the puppet,"
"the show's cancellation, Smigel continued developing more cartoon ideas the following summer and would begin airing them on ""Saturday Night Live"" under the ""TV Funhouse"" banner. Smigel would later claim, ""My whole career came out of the impulse to do cartoons on ""The Dana Carvey Show""."" Smigel's most famous creation, however, would be the foul-mouthed puppet Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, who mercilessly mocks celebrities and others in the style of a Borscht Belt comedian. This character debuted on ""Late Night with Conan O'Brien"" in February 1997 and would continue to make appearances on the show, as well as others,"