Rex the Runt (1998)
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Where to Watch.
Currently Rex the Runt is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Amazon Video
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Cast & Crew.
Elisabeth Hadley
Wendy (voice)
Andrew Franks
Rex (voice) / Writer
Colin Rote
Rex (voice)
Steve Box
Vince (voice)
Richard Starzak
Creator / Director / Writer
Kevin Wrench
Bad Bob (voice) / Writer
Andrew Jeffers
Bad Bob (voice)
Sean Connolly
Brian the Welsh Two-Headed Sheep
Chris Sadler
Director
Sam Fell
Director
Andrew Viner
Writer
David Max Freedman
Writer
Alan Gilbey
Writer
Seamus Malone
Centipede of the Dance (voice)
Morwenna Banks
PVC Presenter (voice) / Mrs Bloomers (voice)
Tom Espiner
Lottery Presenter (voice)
Eddie Izzard
Melting Blob Man (voice) / Easter Island Head (voice)
Bob Holness
Mr. Formal (voice)
Kathy Burke
Mrs. Mandelbrotska (voice)
Antoine de Caunes
Stinky Basil (voice) / Euro MP (voice)
Peter Atkin
Court Usher (voice)
Simon Day
Constable Funnyname (voice) / Taxi Driver (voice)
Judith Chalmers
Judith Poodle (voice)
Peter Peake
Gary Nudog (voice) / Director
Frank Passingham
Man in Binbag (voice) / Mr. Chittock (voice) / Patient (voice)
June Whitfield
Judge Pikelet (voice)
Pam Ayres
Aunty Brenda (voice)
Abigail Youngman
Student (voice) / Script Editor
Bob Monkhouse
Johnny Saveloy (voice)
Stanley Unwin
Mr. Wangle (voice)
Sarah Walden
Nurse (voice)
Tommy Cannon
Tiddles (voice)
Phill Jupitus
Sergeant Major (voice) / Morris the One Gloved Mouse (voice) / The Ants (voice)
Graham Norton
Osvalde Halitosis (voice) / The Plants (voice)
Jonathan Ross
Awards Announcer (voice) / Handsome Rex (voice)
Paul Merton
Dr. Dogg (voice)
Bobby Ball
Wayne the Zebra (voice)
Loyd Grossman
Self (voice)
Danny Capozzi
Doc (voice) / Director
Ben Caudell
Terry (voice) / Writer
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Rex the Runt is a British live-action stop-motion adult animated claymation pixilation comedy series, primarily consisting of a television show and two short films 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.Rex was first introduced as a minor character in Ident (1989), a short film directed by Richard Starzak for the Lip Synch series. During the seven years of development of the characters, Starzak produced three pilots, subtitled How Dinosaurs Became Extinct (1991), Dreams (1991) and North by North Pole (1996). The 1991 pilots were unknown to the Aardman crew at the time, as Starzak created them during his free time. Because of this, the series wasn't pitched until the discovery of these shorts a year later, as the team found potential to turn these shorts into a full-fledged series.Thirteen ten-minute episodes of the series aired over two weeks on BBC Two 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, Simon Day, Bob Monkhouse, Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton, Arthur Smith, June Whitfield, Kathy Burke, Pam Ayres and Eddie Izzard.
The animation is unusual in that the models are almost two-dimensional and are animated to exaggerate this - they are flattened in appearance and animated on a sheet of glass with the backgrounds behind the sheet. This would be altered in the second series, as the models would become more three-dimensional.