The Wretched Dog

The Wretched Dog is a character from Victor and Hugo.

He plays a very important role in most episodes at various points, often when the plot appears to be flagging, the dog will run up one of Victor's trouser legs, remove his boxer shorts and run off with them down his other leg. This running gag also appears at the end of most episodes (prefaced by the statement by a glum Victor that "At least in here, nothing else can possibly go wrong!") - and Hugo particularly enjoyed the dog's appearances, often muttering "good doggie!". In production material from the now-demolished Cosgrove Hall studio, the dog's name is given as Baskerville (as in the Sherlock Holmes tale The Hound of the Baskervilles), although, he was never referred to as such on screen; one episode that he is known never to appear in is the eighth one, "The Case of the Vose Vase".