For each five-minute episode, the creator, illustrator, and camera operator, Flann Ó Riain, produced a static comic strip which was shown one frame at a time.
[1] A single narrator, Pádraic Ó Gaora, described the action and spoke the dialogue.
As well as the central character, the series featured Maidhc the dog and Puisín the cat.
By the time the final episode appeared in July 1969, Dáithí Lacha had become a weekly show.
Today, Ireland's first home-grown television cartoon star is remembered by viewers of that generation for his frequent cries of "Aililiú!"