Digby is a dog. He is also - or was - a police detective: opinionated, cynical, funny and a bit of a philanderer. While pursuing car thieves on a wild chase, he was involved in a terrible accident and somehow his brain, voice and personality were transferred into his dog. Spot.
So Digby Underwood lives - kinda, in Spot's body. His late brother's family is given Spot, and now Helen and her three kids, Richie, Annabeile and Timmy are the new owners of a St. Bernard who is really their uncle. A dog that talks. Digby helps each member of the family through a series of hair-raising adventures.
Review
This series never made it to the UK, so I only got to see it for the first time a couple of years ago and then I've only seen four episodes but it still makes me smile. The whole premise alone is worth my time and to my surprise, I genuinely found this entertaining, and feel I should apologise but I did, so there. The dog is funny and gets all the best lines, but the plots are your normal family comedy fodder.
Jaimz is great playing the central character, and the stories tend to go through him which is always a good thing, and he plays the hapless kid dealing with discovering his uncle is now a dog very well, as you would expect (and I say that with a straight face, I do not know how!). I would love to see more of this show if ever I find more of it on tape/dvd, its harmless enough and shows off the comic talents of Jaimz very well, something we've seen very little of since sadly but this was, as far as I can tell the break Jaimz needed and it wasn't a bad start to kick off his career, but I don't think the dog faired so well.