Rex the Runt

All Episodes 1998 - 2001

  • Ended
  • #<Network:0x00007f90939f76c8>
  • 1998-12-21T00:00:00Z
  • 10m
  • 4h 20m (26 episodes)
  • Richard Starzak
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Aardman Animations
  • Animation, Comedy
Rex the Runt is an animated claymation television show produced by Aardman Animations for BBC Bristol in association with EVA Entertainment and Egmont Imagination. Its main characters are four plasticine dogs: Rex, Wendy, Bad Bob and Vince. The series began with a short, Ident, in 1989 directed by Richard Goleszowski. After a long gestation period this developed into two unaired shorts and then thirteen ten-minute episodes that first aired over two weeks on BBC2 from December 1998. A second thirteen episode series aired from September 2001 on the same channel. As well as the core cast guest voices included Paul Merton, Morwenna Banks, Judith Chalmers, Antoine de Caunes, Bob Holness, Bob Monkhouse, Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton, Arthur Smith, June Whitfield, Kathy Burke, Pam Ayres and Eddie Izzard.

26 episodes

Series Premiere

1998-12-21T00:00:00Z

1x01 Holiday in Vince

Series Premiere

1x01 Holiday in Vince

  • 1998-12-21T00:00:00Z10m

The gang miniaturise a submarine and go on a fantastic journey through Vince's brain.

1x02 Stinky's Search for a Star

  • 1998-12-21T00:00:00Z10m

Short of cash again, the gang form a band and enter Stinky Basil's "Search for a Star" competition.

1998-12-22T00:00:00Z

1x03 Easter Island

1x03 Easter Island

  • 1998-12-22T00:00:00Z10m

Attempting to reach New Zealand by helicopter, the gang crash on a tiny island. Rex is abducted by aliens.

1998-12-22T00:00:00Z

1x04 Too Many Dogs

1x04 Too Many Dogs

  • 1998-12-22T00:00:00Z10m

The gang's house has disappeared. They attempt to recover it using Bad Bob's "Go-Back-In-Time-O-Tron".

1998-12-23T00:00:00Z

1x05 The City Shrinkers

1x05 The City Shrinkers

  • 1998-12-23T00:00:00Z10m

The gang wins the National Lottery but the prize - the City of Birmingham - is not at all what they expected.

1998-12-23T00:00:00Z

1x06 Adventures on Telly 1

1x06 Adventures on Telly 1

  • 1998-12-23T00:00:00Z10m

After Bad Bob shoots the TV set, the gang are ordered to go on exciting adventures by the man who runs Television.

1998-12-24T00:00:00Z

1x07 Adventures on Telly 2

1x07 Adventures on Telly 2

  • 1998-12-24T00:00:00Z10m

The gang journey to the North Pole, and drill a hole to find out what's at the centre of the Earth.

1998-12-25T00:00:00Z

1x08 Adventures on Telly 3

1x08 Adventures on Telly 3

  • 1998-12-25T00:00:00Z10m

Lost in space, the gang stumble on a branch of 'Poultry Pantry', the interstellar fast-food chain.

1998-12-27T00:00:00Z

1x09 The Trials of Wendy

1x09 The Trials of Wendy

  • 1998-12-27T00:00:00Z10m

Wendy is put on trial for shooting Vince (who is unharmed except for a large bullet hole). She is acquitted and becomes a huge TV star.

1998-12-30T00:00:00Z

1x10 Under the Duvet

1x10 Under the Duvet

  • 1998-12-30T00:00:00Z10m

Rex, Wendy and Bob spend a weekend at Aunty Brenda's University of Love learning about "the mysteries of the bedroom".

Bob discovers he has a genius for curing hiccups and the gang temporarily become very rich.

1998-12-31T00:00:00Z

1x12 Johnny Saveloy's Undoing

1x12 Johnny Saveloy's Undoing

  • 1998-12-31T00:00:00Z10m

Wendy is brainwashed by TV evangelist heart-throb Johnny Saveloy, leader of the "chemicalology" cult.

Season Finale

1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

1x13 Carbonara

Season Finale

1x13 Carbonara

  • 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z10m

While looking around in Bob's shed, Rex accidentally gets run through a meat grinder. Bob runs off to ask Dr. Dog's opinion, but Rex has an even bigger problem, when Vince mistakes the ground-up Rex for spaghetti.

Season Premiere

2001-09-22T23:00:00Z

2x01 Mouse in Me Kitchen

Season Premiere

2x01 Mouse in Me Kitchen

  • 2001-09-22T23:00:00Z10m

Rex arrives home to find that there's a mouse in the kitchen. But this is no ordinary mouse, he is preternaturally strong, extremely aggressive and refuses to be kicked out. The Gang even resort to getting Tiddles the Cat round to sort him out. Then the mouse reveals that he was once Rex's pet mouse, Morris, who Rex sold to Dr Dogg for animal experimentation. A tearful reunion ensues.

2001-09-29T23:00:00Z

2x02 Wendy's Hot Date

2x02 Wendy's Hot Date

  • 2001-09-29T23:00:00Z10m

Wendy's on heat and the Gang's house is besieged by amorous hounds. The Gang draw down the blinds and prepare to repel borders, but one dog, Handsome Rex catches Wendy's eye and she agrees to go out on a date with him. Vince and Rex insist on chaperoning her. By the end of the evening Rex has made a new friend, Vince has fallen in love with a lobster, Arthur Dustcart's had his underpants cleaned and Wendy's in a very bad mood.

2001-10-06T23:00:00Z

2x03 Patio

2x03 Patio

  • 2001-10-06T23:00:00Z10m

Rex and his friends are in the process of fixing up the patio behind the house. But a group of ants who live in the backyard are not about to go without a fight.

2001-10-13T23:00:00Z

2x04 A Crap Day Out

2x04 A Crap Day Out

  • 2001-10-13T23:00:00Z10m

After a row about whether to spend the bank holiday at the beach, the Gang end up at Gordons Garden Centre where Vince is taken hostage by a talking carnivorous plant. Things go from bad to worse when the whole place turns out to be a giant spaceship controlled by a deranged alien plant-pot called Gordon, bent on kidnapping all earthlings named Gordon.

2001-10-20T23:00:00Z

2x05 Slim Bob

2x05 Slim Bob

  • 2001-10-20T23:00:00Z10m

Bob's eating is growing out of control. Rex suggests that Bob needs to watch what he eats and exercise, but Bob has a better plan: plastic surgery courtesy of Dr Dog.

2001-10-27T23:00:00Z

2x06 Private Wendy

2x06 Private Wendy

  • 2001-10-27T23:00:00Z10m

Bored with her humdrum life, Wendy decides to enlist in the Army. Rex, Bob & Vince join her as well, but Bob and Rex are rejected. Vince on the other hand, has the mental capacities to quickly climb up in the ranks, and is put in charge of monitoring the button that could launch World War III.

2001-11-04T00:00:00Z

2x07 Rocket Raymond

2x07 Rocket Raymond

  • 2001-11-04T00:00:00Z10m

Rex finds his birthday present that Bad Bob has been working on: a working rocket pack like his childhood hero's, "Rocket Raymond." Rex eagerly tries it out, and gets sent on quite an adventure into space.

2001-11-11T00:00:00Z

2x08 Plasticene Gene

2x08 Plasticene Gene

  • 2001-11-11T00:00:00Z10m

Rex goes to Dr Dog, and returns home missing an ear. The gang returns to Dr Dog's to investigate, and find that the physician has now begun to shift his focus to genetic engineering.

2001-11-18T00:00:00Z

2x09 Wendy's New Hair Do

2x09 Wendy's New Hair Do

  • 2001-11-18T00:00:00Z10m

Wendy has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Science for the truth serum she's been working on in the spare room. The dress code on the invitation to the award ceremony says Scientific yet sexy: no white coats and Wendy decides to get her hair done. While she's out Bob and Rex consume the serum, which makes for a revealing afternoon particularly when Wendy returns and they tell her she's bald.

2001-11-25T00:00:00Z

2x10 The Art of Cooking

2x10 The Art of Cooking

  • 2001-11-25T00:00:00Z10m

Rex has been taking culinary lessons, but all his foodstuffs are largely inedible. While Rex goes off to pursue his career of becoming a gourmet chef, Arthur and Bob decide to try and pass off Rex's foodstuffs as new age art sculptures.

2001-12-02T00:00:00Z

2x11 Bob Joins a Gang

2x11 Bob Joins a Gang

  • 2001-12-02T00:00:00Z10m

In this homage to Rebel Without a Cause Bob joins a gang of delinquent youths. He takes to wearing a single glove and one of Wendy's earrings. Wendy, Rex and Vince are worried by the change in Bob's character. When he gets arrested they hope he will see the error of his ways, but it only makes a life of delinquency seem more glamorous to him.

2001-12-09T00:00:00Z

2x12 Wayne the Zebra

2x12 Wayne the Zebra

  • 2001-12-09T00:00:00Z10m

Rex takes a much-needed holiday, and leaves Bad Bob in charge of the adventure for this week. The story involves 'The Beast of Granite Moor,' to which Bob, Wendy and Vince cast a 'rather wooden' Zebra for the role of the Beast. Luckily for them, the Zebra had played the role of 'The Beast of Granite Moor' in a previous production.

Season Finale

2001-12-16T00:00:00Z

2x13 Hole in the Garden

Season Finale

2x13 Hole in the Garden

  • 2001-12-16T00:00:00Z10m

The Gang discover a prototype hover mower whilst clearing out Bob's shed. The major design fault is obvious when it burrows into the ground, creating a tunnel that leads all the way from the back garden to Australia. A shouting match with some dingos follows, at the end of which an enraged Bob accidentally throws Vince down the hole, precipitating an adventure of global proportions.

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