The series is about an intelligent dog, Towser, and his friends The King, The Wizard, Dr. Smelly and Sadie; and a variety of adversaries such as the Terrible Thing, the Water Rats, and Goblin Gobble.
Towser later aired on Channel 4 in 1990 and was shown as part of their block of classic children's television series Take 5 in 1994 along with other children's programmes that had previously aired on other networks such as Paddington, Mio Mao, The Magic Roundabout, Willo the Wisp, Tales of the Riverbank, Mr Men, Fred Basset, Ivor the Engine and Roobarb.
It has also been broadcast on cable television on The Children's Channel and was shown there numerous of times from 1985 to 1996.
The theme song was sung by jazz and blues singer George Melly.
Towser also aired in several different countries such as ABC TV in Australia (it first aired on the ABC in early 1984 several months before its UK television debut), TV One and TV2 in New Zealand, TV2, TV3 and M-Net in South Africa, XEIPN-TV 11 in Mexico, Channel 5 in Singapore (as part of Play It Again), NTA in Nigeria and Nickelodeon (being shown on the Nick Jr. series Eureeka's Castle) and Cartoon Network (being shown on the children's anthology series Small World) in the US.