Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
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| Directed by | Joseph McGrath |
| Produced by | Walter Shenson Executive producer Irwin Margulies |
| Written by | Charles Isaacs Ted Key (novel) Michael Pertwee |
| Narrated by | Ted Key |
| Starring | Jim Dale Spike Milligan |
| Music by | Edwin Astley |
| Cinematography | Harry Waxman |
| Editing by | Jim Connock |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | 1973 |
| Running time | 88 min |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World is the titular character and a 1973 British children's film starring Jim Dale, and directed by Joseph McGrath. A large supporting cast of British movie stalwarts includes Spike Milligan, Angela Douglas, Norman Rossington, Milo O'Shea, Dinsdale Landen and Victor Spinetti. Other notable crew include composer Edwin Astley and cinematographer Harry Waxman.
The story is about an Old English Sheepdog who accidentally drinks a liquid growth formula (a form of experimental fertilizer), and expands to gigantic proportions. Two criminals then steal Digby, and sell him to a circus. Digby, however, escapes by breaking his chains, and running at will across the countryside of the United Kingdom. The boy who owns Digby, as well as the scientist who worked on the growth formula, both realize that Digby is constantly increasing in size, and will soon cause massive damage unless something is done immediately. The scientist finds out he has created a chemical that might reverse the growth formula. The British military, however, is attempting to solve the problem of the oversized sheepdog in their own way: by use of bombs and artillery.
It was the third programme shown on Central Television, after its takeover from ATV, and the second programme from TVS Television, after its takeover from Southern Television.
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