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Basil Brush and the Airbed (1976)

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Boom Boom! Basil Brush comes to the rescue of potential careless bathers in this COI (Central Office of Information) film, trading bad puns and banter with his erstwhile comic partner Roy North.

Basil was voiced and operated by Ivan Owen, a publicity-shy actor who remained anonymous during the puppets career and never gave interviews or allowed himself to be photographed. It has been reported that he modelled the voice on the comic actor Terry-Thomas. (Alex Davidson)

You can watch over 1500 other complete films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive free of charge at the BFI Mediatheque. There are Mediatheques at BFI Southbank, London, QUAD, Derby and the new Central Library, Cambridge:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/mediatheque
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http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/online/bfi_media.htm

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  • There's never been a posher puppet.

  • Classic stuff!

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  • I love Basil!

  • They do seem like a genuine double act, I wonder how much of this was ad libbed, the rapport seems very natural

  • I was smiling the entire time while watching this video... they are so cute... :)

  • Must be some footage if ivan doing it

  • i wish someone would load the Demis Roussoss clip off the DVD.

  • When I was a kid, I used to think B.B was voiced by Ronnie Corbett.

  • 1:14

    Greatest laugh ever.

  • The Basil Brush nowadays looks like a cheap copy made in China.

  • hahahhahahahahhaha

  • camp as hell boom boom

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