Rex the Runt (1998)

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.

2 seasons
26 episodes
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Seasons

Season 1
13 episodes
Season 2
13 episodes

Cast and crew

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Elisabeth Hadley Wendy (voice) 26 episodes
Steve Box Vince (voice) 26 episodes
Andrew Franks Rex (voice) 13 episodes
Colin Rote Rex (voice) 13 episodes
Kevin Wrench Bad Bob (voice) 13 episodes
Andrew Jeffers Bad Bob (voice) 13 episodes
Beverley Cressman Teacher, Princess (voice) / Lobster (voice) / Shed Announcer (voice) / Additional voices (voice) / Alfonso Pig (voice) / News Reporter (voice) / Rat (voice) 7 episodes
Paul Merton Dr. Dogg (voice) 6 episodes
Arthur Smith Arthur Dustcart (voice) 4 episodes
Antoine de Caunes Stinky Basil (voice) / Euro MP (voice) 3 episodes
Simon Day Constable Funnyname (voice) / Taxi Driver (voice) 3 episodes
Frank Passingham Man in Binbag (voice) / Patient (voice) / Mr. Chittock (voice) 3 episodes
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