Rex the Runt

1998 2 Seasons 7.6Series

AnimationComedy

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.

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Richard Starzak

Creator, Director, Writer

Danny Capozzi

Director

Chris Sadler

Director

Peter Peake

Director

Sam Fell

Director

Ben Caudell

Writer

Andrew Viner

Writer

Peter Holmes

Writer

Top Cast

Elisabeth Hadley

Wendy (voice) · 26 eps

Steve Box

Vince (voice) · 26 eps

Andrew Franks

Rex (voice) · 13 eps

Colin Rote

Rex (voice) · 13 eps

Kevin Wrench

Bad Bob (voice) · 13 eps

Andrew Jeffers

Bad Bob (voice) · 13 eps

Beverley Cressman

News Reporter (voice) / Additional voices (voice) / Teacher, Princess (voice) / Shed Announcer (voice) / Alfonso Pig (voice) / Lobster (voice) / Rat (voice) · 7 eps