Rex the Runt
TV ShowTitle | Rex the Runt |
User score | 7 |
Release date | Dec 21, 1998 |
Release date of last episode | Dec 16, 2001 |
Genre | Animation, Comedy |
Director | Richard Starzak |
Production country | United Kingdom |
Production companies | Aardman |
Series status | Ended |
Seasons count | 2 (List of episodes) |
Episodes count | 26 |
Run time | 10 min. |
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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Actors
See moreElisabeth Hadley
Wendy (voice)
Steve Box
Vince (voice)
Andrew Franks
Rex (voice)
Colin Rote
Rex (voice)
Kevin Wrench
Bad Bob (voice)
Andrew Jeffers
Bad Bob (voice)
Beverley Cressman
News Reporter (voice), Rat (voice), Additional voices (voice), Lobster (voice), Alfonso Pig (voice), Teacher, Princess (voice), Shed Announcer (voice)
Paul Merton
Dr. Dogg (voice)
Arthur Smith
Arthur Dustcart (voice)
Antoine de Caunes
Stinky Basil (voice), Euro MP (voice)
Simon Day
Constable Funnyname (voice), Taxi Driver (voice)
Frank Passingham
Patient (voice), Man in Binbag (voice), Mr. Chittock (voice)