15 Facts About Fred Basset

Fred Basset is a comic strip about a male basset hound.

Fred Basset has been published in the United Kingdom newspaper Daily Mail, and latterly The Mail on Sunday, from 1963 to the present.

Fred Basset is currently syndicated in newspapers using the current Michael Martin strips and is available by email subscription or online direct from GoComics.

Fred Basset's owners are a middle-aged husband and wife, who are not given names in the strip.

Fred Basset enjoys socialising at his local pubs, The Swan and The Chequers and The Rose and Crown.

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Fred Basset is shown often as being temperamental and spends much free time reading the newspaper, walking Fred, and playing golf.

Fred Basset is shown several times as being a bad driver with many accidents with the family car.

Storylines with Fred Basset staying at Jock's house or Uncle Albert staying a few days are among the only times the a story extended beyond the single strip format.

Fred Basset himself seems to have been born during 1959 from comments in the earliest cartoons, and in true cartoon style, seems not to age.

Fred Basset has a certain amount of snobbishness and appreciates the finer qualities of life, as shown clearly in the Alex Graham era strips, with attitudes of the time.

Fred Basset is equally at home misbehaving, being selfish, chasing other dogs and being a coward when more aggressive dogs are around.

Fred Basset likes chasing cats but freely admits he would not know what to do with one if he caught it.

One Fred Basset book appeared in USA during 1969, Meet Fred Basset published as a 'Fawcett Gold Medal Book'.

Special 50th anniversary annual, Fred Basset Celebrating 50 Years was published in 2013 by Summersdale Publishers.

Fred Basset, despite being a comic strip character, was read on radio regularly by Hamish Blake throughout Australia on the Today Network's Hamish and Andy Show on Friday afternoons.