Top ten popular pooches of stage and screen

1. Lassie
First of the superstar hounds. Star of countless films and television programmes.

2. Rolly
Only one thing let Dirty Den down when it came to his ‘hard man’ image: his dog Rolly. Rolly was a scene-stealing, topiary-clipped giant of a white poodle.

3. The Littlest Hobo
A self-centred, self-serving sponger who would pitch-up on some poor unsuspecting family, give them a cutesy dog-eared grin, eat all of their Pedigree Chum, and then head off into the sunset again.

4. You ain’t nothing but a ...
Strange but true name of Elvis Presley’s pet pooch.

5. The Blue Peter dogs
Since it first went on air in the mid-60’s, every generation has its very own Blue Peter dog. Petra, Shep, Goldie, Bonnie. Which one was your favourite?

6. 101 Dalmations
How do you tell them apart? They all look the same.

7. Rex of the yard
Rex was the star of the 1940’s BBC series ‘Rex of the Yard’. A three-legged bloodhound (he lost his fourth leg in a combine harvester accident), Rex and his master, Sergeant Bob Flintriff, solved crimes for Scotland Yard.

8. Scooby Doo
‘Yikes!’, ‘Ruby-dooby-doo’, ‘Raggy’ and ‘Ruby-snacks’. The voice of a generation and a mascot to ‘meddling kids’ the world over.

9. Mutley
Snickering side-kick to Dick Dastardly, he lives for kicks and medals. Fasernrassenrassen.

10. K-9
When Tom Baker played BBC's Doctor Who in the 70s, he was accompanied on his cosmic travels by a robot dog called K9 who just happened to have a deadly laser gun growing out of his nose.