The BEST episodes of Inspector Rex
Every episode of Inspector Rex ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Inspector Rex!
A recently divorced cop adopts a police dog who lost his former companion, together they solve crimes in and around Vienna. Also known as "Inspector Rex" in Australia and "Rex: A Cop's Best Friend" in the UK.
#1 - 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.
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#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
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#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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...
#8 - 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?
#9 - 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...
#10 - Silent Screams
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/19/1995
Little Ines is found dead on the banks of the Danube. At the same time, girls disappear from an amusement park, but a few days later they are found again: abused and in such shock that they are unable to be interrogated. Inspector Moser suspects a connection between the murder and the kidnappings. The way to the perpetrators leads over the little Birgit. The child has been in a clinic since the kidnapping and is unresponsive. Rex stays in the hospital for days, trying to pull the child out of his apathy. While the dog slowly finds access to Birgit, Commissioner Moser and his team investigate unsuccessfully in the amusement park. Then Rex and Birgit disappear. In the stress of the investigation, Commissioner Moser also has to find a home for himself and Rex. He meets an attractive veterinarian...
#11 - 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.
#12 - Last Stop Vienna
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/10/1994
Shots are fired in a police chase f ollowing a bombing in the heart of Vienna, and the owner and trainer of the police dog, Rex, is killed. Inspector Moser saves Rex and decides on the spur of the moment to take him into his car - much to the dismay of his colleagues. Rex repays Moser by accompanying him on his investigations and proves himself an invaluable partner in Moser's fight against crime...
#13 - Sign of Satan
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/14/1995
On the outskirts of Vienna, four women's bodies are found – buried strictly geometrically at a distance of 666 meters from each other. Everything points to a ritual murder. For Rex and Moser, a race against time begins: Who will be the next victim? The trail leads to a remote castle, the headquarters of a sect. There, Moser and his colleagues initially search in vain for clues: the work is hindered by cult members. But Moser is able to cleverly evade his watchdogs and discovers Anne, a young woman who is to be consecrated to Satan. At the last minute, Anne escapes from the sacrificial ritual at Moser's house. But she knows too much: the persecutors don't let up. But not only Moser and Anne are trapped, Moser's girlfriend Sonja is also threatened. Then Rex intervenes – a life-and-death battle begins...
#14 - First Prize
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/12/1995
In a bush of the Praterauen you can find the body of a 12-year-old girl who had not come home after attending a piano matinee. A little later, little Christl Strobl, who had just won a prize at a piano competition, disappears. Moser and Stockinger find out that both girls had the same piano teacher. It turns out that the piano teacher Hoffmann has no alibi. When the two find Christl's body in the multi-storey basement of his house, the case seems solved: Hoffmann is arrested. To Moser's surprise, however, he suddenly presents an alibi. The search for the real culprit leads back into the underground cellars of Hoffmann's house...
#15 - Diagnosis Murder
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/22/1994
In the psychiatric clinic at the "Steinhof", a spacious Art Nouveau complex, mysterious deaths occur among the patients. The clinic pathologist confidently turns to his colleague Dr. Graf and asks him for help. All patients died in the same way: they drowned in a bathtub. Graf informs Moser, who wants to take up the investigation. But the prison management refuses a police investigation. Moser decides to be admitted to the institution as an "alcoholic". He entrusts Rex to his assistant Stockinger. But before he knows it, Rex flees and hides on the hospital grounds. As a result, he gets Moser into big trouble, because where should he hide Rex? Meanwhile, the situation escalates dramatically, Prohaska, the ward nurse, wants to eliminate Moser. With a daring jump through a closed window, Rex saves his master's life...
#16 - The Loser
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/18/1999
The highly indebted former drug addict Anton robs a bank. He shoots a man. Brandtner, Böck and Rex observe the events from the air as they are flying in a hot air balloon. After landing, Anton disappeared without a trace.
#17 - Bring Me Beethoven's Head
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/26/1995
The stonemason Franz Nemec, together with his accomplice Gruber, works as grave robbers at the Vienna Central Cemetery. He receives the order from the antique dealer Kronhauser to get Beethoven's head out of his crypt. Nemec carries out the order and is found beaten to death a short time later. Inspector Moser takes over the case and discovers how Nemec made his money. In order to get to the perpetrators, Moser lets it be known in the press that Beethoven's head has long since crumbled to dust. His trick seems to work: Kronhauser's client, a certain Strasser, demands his money back from the antique dealer. He suspects that Kronhauser cheated on him and sold him a false head...
#18 - 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...
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#19 - Angel On Four Paws
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/26/1996
A boy is kidnapped. While Moser investigates, the kidnappers realise they took the wrong boy and return for their correct target.
#20 - Dangerous Mission
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/26/1998
If the perpetrator is in firm denial and there is no evidence, there is nothing left but to set a trap for him. When it is necessary to convict a bomber in custody, Commissioner Brandtner poses as the arrestee and helps the person to escape during the transfer to another prison – but the person does not trust him very much. Other policemen – Böck and Hellerer – secretly join the action, but the dangerous criminal works principally as a soloist and soon gets rid of the unwanted guides. Will the criminalists catch him before he starts blowing up objects full of innocent people again?
#21 - Escape to Death
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/24/1994
A particularly horrendous case of organ trafficking is believed to be the motive for a series of murders.
#22 - 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...
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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...