Rex the Runt

Rex the Runt
The main characters. (Left to right) Vince, Wendy, Bad Bob and Rex
Genre	Live action Stop motion animation Clay animation Pixilation Comedy Adult animated
Created by	Richard Goleszowski
Developed by	Aardman Animations
Written by	Richard Goleszowski Alan Gilbey Kevin Wrench Andrew Franks David Max Freedman Andrew Viner Peter Holmes Ben Caudell
Directed by	Richard Goleszowski Dan Capozzi Peter Peake Christopher Sadler Sam Fell
Creative director(s)	Peter Holmes Richard Goleszowski
Voices of	Andrew Franks Colin Rote Kevin Wrench Andy Jeffers Elisabeth Hadley Paul Merton Steve Box Arthur Smith
Theme music composer	Kevin Wrench Andrew Franks
Opening theme	"Rex the Runt" by Kevin Wrench Andrew Franks
Ending theme	"Rex the Runt" by Kevin Wrench Andrew Franks
Composer(s)	Stuart Gordon Ben Jones
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	26 2 (Only for Short Films)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Executive Producers for Aardman: Michael Rose Peter Lord David Sproxton Executive Producer for BBC: Colin Rose Executive Producers for Egmont Imagination: Paul Kofod Tom Van Waveren Mikael Shields Steve Walsh Ulla Brockenhuus-Schack
Producer(s)	Michael Rose Jacqueline White
Location(s)	England
Cinematography	Frank Passingham Fred Reed
Editor(s)	Ben Jones James Mather
Running time	10 minutes
Production company(s)	Aardman Animations BBC Bristol Egmont Imagination EVA Entertainment
Distributor	BBC Worldwide, Inc. Aardman Animations
Release
Original network	BBC Two
Picture format	SDTV (480p) (Series 1) HDTV (1080p) (Series 2)
Original release	21 December 1998 – 16 December 2001
External links
Website

Rex the Runt is a British live action stop motion animated claymation pixilation comedy franchise, 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.

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, Simon Day, Bob Monkhouse, Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton, Arthur Smith, June Whitfield, Kathy Burke, Pam Ayres and Eddie Izzard.