 Eccleston was approached to provide new characters for the BBC series "Live & Kicking", once again teaming up with Don Austen and Darryl Worbey to create two puppet leprechauns, Mr Sage and Mr Onion.The characters appeared from 1995 to 2001, outliving three sets of presenters.Eccleston, Austen and Worbey teamed up again to create the hyenas Scratch and Sniff (with Eccleston playing Sniff) on "The Ministry of Mayhem", later renamed "Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown".