Rex (Police dog)
| Inspector Rex | |
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| Also known as | Kommissar Rex Il commissario Rex |
| Genre | Police drama, police procedural, dramedy |
| Created by | Peter Hajek Peter Moser |
| Starring | see Characters |
| Opening theme | A Good Friend (season 1-10) My Friend Rex (season 11-13) My Name is Rex (season 14-18) |
| Ending theme |
My Name is Rex (season 11-18) |
| Country of origin |
Austria (1994-2004) Italy (2008-2015) |
| Original language(s) |
Viennese German (1994-2004) Italian (2008-2015) |
| No. of episodes | 119 (original) 90 (revived) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Peter Hajek Peter Moser |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network |
ORF (1994-2004) RAI (2008-2015) |
| Picture format | 625-line PAL (1994–2004) 576i 16:9 DTV (2008-2015) |
| Original release | November 10, 1994 – October 19, 2004 (original series) January 29, 2008 - June 19, 2015 (revived series) |
Kommissar Rex (English title: Inspector Rex, Italian title: Il commissario Rex) is an Austrian police procedural drama that aired from 1994 to 2004 on ORF 1. In 2008 the series was revived under Austro-Italian production on Rai 1, and has since 2009 been made fully in Italy, with occasional episodes set in Austria. RAI cancelled the Austro-Italian production in June 2015, after eight Italian seasons.
The show follows the German Shepherd police dog Rex, his partners, and the rest of the team at the Vienna Kriminalpolizei homicide unit, as they work together to solve crimes. Since 2008, the show has been set in Rome.
A spin-off series, , that focuses on Ernst Stockinger, one of the original members of the homicide division, came to TV in 1996. Spinoffs include Polish Komisarz Alex (English title: Inspector Alex), which takes place in Łódź, (2012), Russian spinoff, Muhtar's return (2004-2015, broadcast on Russia-1 and NTV (Russia)) and Slovak series Rex, set in Bratislava, from 2017.
The original series is set in Vienna and focuses on the three-man staff of an office of the Kriminalpolizei - the Austrian Criminal Police - specifically a Mordkommission (homicide unit). In addition to the three policemen, the office is staffed by a German Shepherd called Rex, the main star of the show, who functions variously as a cadaver dog, a sniffer dog (for both contraband and narcotics) and as another pair of eyes and ears for his team.
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