

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.


Dec 21, 1998 - 10m
The gang miniaturise a submarine and go on a fantastic journey through Vince's brain.

Dec 21, 1998 - 10m
Short of cash again, the gang form a band and enter Stinky Basil's "Search for a Star" competition.

Dec 22, 1998 - 10m
Attempting to reach New Zealand by helicopter, the gang crash on a tiny island. Rex is abducted by aliens.

Dec 22, 1998 - 10m
The gang's house has disappeared. They attempt to recover it using Bad Bob's "Go-Back-In-Time-O-Tron".

Dec 23, 1998 - 10m
The gang wins the National Lottery but the prize - the City of Birmingham - is not at all what they expected.

Dec 23, 1998 - 10m
After Bad Bob shoots the TV set, the gang are ordered to go on exciting adventures by the man who runs Television.

Dec 24, 1998 - 10m
The gang journey to the North Pole, and drill a hole to find out what's at the centre of the Earth.

Dec 25, 1998 - 10m
Lost in space, the gang stumble on a branch of 'Poultry Pantry', the interstellar fast-food chain.

Dec 27, 1998 - 10m
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.

Dec 30, 1998 - 10m
Rex, Wendy and Bob spend a weekend at Aunty Brenda's University of Love learning about "the mysteries of the bedroom".

Dec 31, 1998 - 10m
Bob discovers he has a genius for curing hiccups and the gang temporarily become very rich.

Dec 31, 1998 - 10m
Wendy is brainwashed by TV evangelist heart-throb Johnny Saveloy, leader of the "chemicalology" cult.

Jan 1, 1999 - 10m
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.