[2] Each episode lasted 5 minutes and it was regularly given the pre-six o'clock time slot that brought children's programmes to a close.
Affable, but sometimes pompous, Hector the dog (named Toutou, literally meaning "doggie", in the original French version)[5] lives in a house with a beautiful garden.
The motherly, but mischievous, Zsazsa the cat (named Zouzou in the original) lives with him.
Kiki and Zsazsa also often play tricks on him, but he always takes this in good humour and ends each episode breaking the fourth wall to address the camera with his catchphrase: "I'm a great big [whatever he was] old Hector.
The humour employed is indebted to the French film comedies of Jacques Tati who often portrayed a man strangely at odds with his surroundings.