1 9 7 6 (UK)
20 x 5 minute episodes
First appearing in print in 1963, it took another 14 years for Fred Basset and his pals Jock and Yorky to make the transition to television.
Fred leapt off the pages of the Daily Mail and on to the TV screen courtesy of BBC1 in 1976, voiced by Lionel Jeffries.
Fred Basset
Lionel Jeffries