The BEST episodes of Inspector Rex

#1 - Baby in Danger

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/8/2000

The baby of opera singer Nina Martin is kidnapped from a hotel room. The kidnappers shoot the nanny. They demand a large ransom sum from Mrs. Martin. The first handover of money fails. The kidnappers are becoming increasingly nervous.

#2 - The Will

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/1/1999

When examining the estate of the rich Mr. Stift, antiques dealer Zehrer finds an amendment to his will. The beneficiary is the nun Tanja. Zehrer blackmails the supposed sole heir, Stift's son Walter.

#3 - Doping

Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/2004

An ice hockey team trains hard, but not so much the game itself as the brawls. Since player Gebauer can withstand a lot of hard blows, his teammate suspects that he is doping himself to endure the pain. A short time later, he falls through the ventilation shaft of the air conditioning system and lies dead on the ice. The police have to clarify one thing above all: How does his end up in a landfill?

#4 - Man With No Memory

Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/2004

Dr. Graf from the Vienna Commissariat witnesses an assassination attempt in a wine tavern. A young guest survives the gunshot, but loses his memory. While investigator Hoffmann is still clarifying his identity, he escapes from the hospital. Rex searches for the man in Vienna, but the assassin is also after him.

#5 - Telephone Terror

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/15/2000

The Viennese homicide squad is looking for a dangerous telephone terrorist. With obscene calls and demands, he has caused the deaths of two women. With the help of the recorded voice, Brandtner has a perpetrator profile developed. Rex's help is indispensable.

#6 - Ice-Cold

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/22/2000

In the middle of training, hockey player Pokorny collapses dead. The autopsy reveals that the athlete was murdered in a sophisticated way. Inspector Brandtner wonders whether the crime was really aimed at Pokorny.

#7 - Obsessed

Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/9/2001

The student Gabriele Schranz lets an alleged craftsman into her apartment, who suddenly sexually harasses her. A fight ensues, which ends with a fatal fall of Gabriele. The perpetrator flees. Brandtner initially suspects Paul, the friend of the dead. But then he realizes that the attack could not have been aimed at Gabriele at all, but at her landlady Tina Hecht. Tina writes erotic bestsellers and keeps her address a secret since anonymous admirers have been stalking her more and more threateningly...

#8 - Murder In Prison

Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/29/2004

A certain Elvira Strasser writes a letter to Niki from prison asking for a visit - but this is no longer possible because the woman has taken her own life. Niki decides to go undercover to prison - she doesn't believe in the suicide theory. She finds out that the supposed suicide was clearly a murder...

#9 - Stolen Happiness

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/26/1998

A girl was found fatally wounded in a city park. Before she breathed her last, she revealed that she had been attacked by an unknown woman. Police investigators find that the girl was babysitting a three-month-old girl that day, who appeared to have fallen to the ground. In addition to murder, they are also dealing with child abduction.

#10 - Death By Internet

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/26/2000

Months after his violent death, the already heavily mummified body of the young professional surfer Peter Bachmann is found by sewer workers. In the search for clues, Inspector Brandtner finds what he is looking for in the victim's computer: Bachmann was apparently very busy chatting and offered himself as a playmate to couples in a sex chat room. Of course, his contacts have remained anonymous and have used online names. In order to expose them anyway, Kunz, Böck and Brandtner offer themselves as sex objects on the Internet. The reactions are varied, but before the investigators can record a success, another chatter is found murdered in his car. He was in contact with the same couple – codenamed "TwoForYou" – as Bachmann. Brandtner arranges a meeting with the couple...

#11 - Revenge

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/5/1998

Five years ago, the commissioner of the Vienna crime bureau, Alex Brandtner, was put behind bars by a bank robber, Rogner, who spent his entire time in prison thinking of how to take revenge on him. Now the criminal again walks the streets of Vienna and immediately sets about carrying out his plan. He does not hesitate to use the dog's love feelings - he gets a hot female wolfdog and with her help lures Rex away from the master.

#12 - The New Guy

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/1/1998

Rex for the first time with a new master – Commissioner Alex Brandtner The once idyllic Central European metropolis of Vienna has not been spared the ravages of criminal gangs. The new member of the homicide squad may have envisioned his arrival differently, but police officers don't pick and choose cases. Commissioner Alex Brandtner will have to confront the mafia's tentacles the first time. Human life is at stake, and Alex and Rex must demonstrate not only human and canine ingenuity, but also physical fitness. Fortunately, the sympathetic young man soon manages to win the favor of his colleagues and the four-legged detective. Fresh reinforcement can do everything - even a parachute jump.

#13 - Death in the Museum

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/7/1996

Female photographer finds diamonds hidden in stuffed bear in museum, after that Moser has to find killer of several people because of the lost diamonds.

#14 - At Last The Beast Is Dead

Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2004

Jürgen Zartmann really hasn't had a good day: his partner Dvorak accuses him of ruining their joint company with his daring dealings. His wife, Christine, files for divorce, and an anonymous caller blackmails him. A short time later, the police find his body in a Viennese park.

#15 - Email From The Murderer

Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2004

An eyewitness witnessing the murder of a young woman at night alerts the police. Although Marc Hoffmann and his team find hardly any traces at the crime scene, Rex knows where the perpetrator must have been last placed. An e-mail received by the police sheds light on the case. It comes from the murderer.

#16 - A Dead Man And A Baby

Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/11/2004

18-year-old Thomas and Lisa, who is still underage, have been secret lovers for quite some time and - without anyone knowing about it - are expecting their first child shortly. The two disappear without a trace after a party at a friend's house that ended with the murder of a young man named Manuel...

#17 - Nina At Midnight

Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/5/2004

#18 - Deadly Test

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/2/2001

Two violent crimes puzzle Brandtner and Rex. A manager and an usher are beaten to death without the slightest hint of a motive. Vague clues and clues lead into the student scene to Moritz, who has no alibi for the deeds and allegedly remembers nothing. While the suspect is still being interrogated, the next attack takes place - this time on a harmless passer-by. And again, the investigation leads to a young man who can't remember...

#19 - A Dead Certain Trap

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/25/2001

The pretty Marion finances her studies as a noble hooker. From a suitor, she learns about the company's internal affairs, which she wants to exploit profitably on the stock market. In her exuberance, Marion tells her regular customer Gottfried Neumann about it - a short time later she is dead. Puff mother Eva also knows the information by means of a listening system and wants to make her cut with the shares. A life-threatening plan...

#20 - The Girl and the Murderer

Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/16/2001

After his release from the mental hospital, the young Fred Kolar finds shelter with his parents. However, he does not find peace: his alcoholic father Hubert puts Fred under pressure again from the beginning, humiliates and mocks him. Fred, who was in the clinic for schizophrenic violent outbursts, freaks out: he kills his father and mother. 12-year-old Jennifer watches him as he disposes of the bodies - Fred takes the little witness under his control...

#21 - The Baby Dealers

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/4/2001

A dead baby is found in a church. During the autopsy, Dr. Graf finds a feather in his trachea that comes from an exotic bird. Through complicated research, Brandtner and his team come across a criminal ring that steals babies in Italy and sells them for large sums of money in Austria. During the investigation, the young Italian Sandra Fossati comes to Vienna, who searches for her stolen baby on her own and puts her life in danger. Events take a turn for the worse: Brandtner and Rex have to catch the criminals, find the cleverly hidden stolen babies and save the young Italian woman, who is being pursued by the gang.

#22 - Deadly Passion

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/19/1998

Golf is usually a peaceful gentleman's sport. This time, however, three seemingly serious men on an idyllic lawn have quite different concerns – they plan a murder together. The body is found somewhere else, but Rex's infallible nose soon leads investigators to the golf course at the heart of the mystery and a group of suspects.

#23 - The Voyeur

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/12/1998

Night watchman Mahler adored his beautiful neighbor Melitta and secretly took photos of her private life with a telephoto lens. One day he captured a shocking scene: the girl's death and the face of the murderer. Police investigators have set out on a false trail, leaving Mahler as the only one who knows the truth. He decided to remain silent and use the film for blackmail. He had no idea how naively he underestimated his opponent.

#24 - Three Seconds To Death

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/25/1996

When the owner of two vegetable shops at the Naschmarkt is shot, the investigation is obstructed by the market people. Shortly afterwards, a truck driver is killed in the same market: The dead man, Werner Gredl, is the husband of the Russian landlady Irina. Inspector Moser disguises himself as an unskilled worker and investigates undercover at the vegetable market. He realizes that Irina is afraid: she is being blackmailed. In his undercover investigations, Moser tracks down a dubious group. The encounter with the people becomes life-threatening for him and Irina. Only Rex can prevent disaster...

#25 - Anna's Secret

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/21/1996

A young girl dies from a heroine overdose. Moser discovers she was going to appear on TV.