Fred Basset on VHS. Fred Basset Fred Basset is a comic strip about a male basset hound. The cartoon was created by Scottish cartoonist Alex Graham and published first in the "Daily Mail" on 8 July 1963. It has since been syndicated around the world. Fred's cartoon strips are renamed as "Wurzel" in Germany, "Lillo il Cane Saggio" (Lillo the wise dog) in Italy, "Lorang" in Norway, "Laban" in Sweden and "Retu", "Pitko" or "Koiraskoira" in Finland. "Fred Basset" has been published in the United Kingdom newspaper "Daily Mail", and latterly "The Mail On Sunday", from 1963 to the present. Alex Graham
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