The BEST episodes written by Peter Moser

#1 - Doping

Inspector Rex - Season 10 - Episode 4

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?

#2 - The Will

Inspector Rex - Season 5 - Episode 10

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 - Murder In Prison

Inspector Rex - Season 9 - Episode 7

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...

#4 - Stolen Happiness

Inspector Rex - Season 4 - Episode 9

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.

#5 - Revenge

Inspector Rex - Season 4 - Episode 10

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.

#6 - The New Guy

Inspector Rex - Season 4 - Episode 5

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.

#7 - Death in the Museum

Inspector Rex - Season 3 - Episode 3

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.

#8 - Three Seconds To Death

Inspector Rex - Season 2 - Episode 13

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...

#9 - Anna's Secret

Inspector Rex - Season 3 - Episode 5

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

#10 - Don't Kiss The Policeman

Inspector Rex - Season 8 - Episode 1

After the elimination of Commissioner Brandtner and Böck, there is a vacuum in the office. Rex feels abandoned. Meanwhile the sportswoman Niki Herzog teaches some pickpockets to be afraid, while Marc Hoffmann has to prove to the staff and customers of a supermarket that he is a policeman and that his revolver is a weapon of function...

#11 - Tricks at the counter

Inspector Rex - Season 8 - Episode 2

A burglary goes wrong: Bernard Bauman is killed by a thief he caught at home. Bauman's sister, Sonia Fuchs, is his only heiress. Marc and Nicky suspect her of a frame-up...

#12 - Deadly Passion

Inspector Rex - Season 4 - Episode 8

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.

#13 - The Voyeur

Inspector Rex - Season 4 - Episode 11

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.

#14 - Nina At Midnight

Inspector Rex - Season 9 - Episode 8

#15 - Email From The Murderer

Inspector Rex - Season 10 - Episode 1

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 - Silent Screams

Inspector Rex - Season 2 - Episode 1

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...

#17 - Last Stop Vienna

Inspector Rex - Season 1 - Episode 1

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...

#18 - Sign of Satan

Inspector Rex - Season 2 - Episode 9

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...

#19 - First Prize

Inspector Rex - Season 1 - Episode 10

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...

#20 - Diagnosis Murder

Inspector Rex - Season 1 - Episode 7

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...

#21 - Bring Me Beethoven's Head

Inspector Rex - Season 1 - Episode 12

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...

#22 - Angel On Four Paws

Inspector Rex - Season 3 - Episode 10

A boy is kidnapped. While Moser investigates, the kidnappers realise they took the wrong boy and return for their correct target.

#23 - Escape to Death

Inspector Rex - Season 1 - Episode 3

A particularly horrendous case of organ trafficking is believed to be the motive for a series of murders.

#24 - The Loser

Inspector Rex - Season 5 - Episode 4

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.

#25 - The Last Match

Inspector Rex - Season 4 - Episode 12

"White sport" boasts a halo of prestige, in leisure time it is enjoyed mainly by rich and successful people. However, all nobility is put aside when a cruel teammate named murder enters the court, as happened in a Viennese tennis club. In the dressing room, they discovered the corpse of a young player with a knife in his back. Shortly afterwards, the head of the hall dies in the same way, and another member of the club narrowly escapes death. What unites the victims of murderous attacks?

#26 - The Man With A Thousand Faces

Inspector Rex - Season 4 - Episode 6

Most people do well to disguise themselves from time to time and pretend to be someone else for a while. If they do it for the sake of a masquerade ball, they cannot be blamed, it is worse if the disguise serves to commit a crime. This is the conclusion that Viennese criminalists come to when investigating a series of robberies. The camouflage of the perpetrator is so perfect that it almost resembles a variety artist. From this reasoning unfolds a thoughtful investigation. And there's also Rex's great sense of smell. There are no disguises for a four-legged criminalist!

#27 - Dangerous Mission

Inspector Rex - Season 4 - Episode 13

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?

#28 - The Corpse Lived On

Inspector Rex - Season 9 - Episode 10

#29 - Why did Romeo die?

Inspector Rex - Season 3 - Episode 9

During the play "Romeo and Juliette" an actor dies, but it wasn't an accident.

#30 - The Doll Murderer

Inspector Rex - Season 3 - Episode 6

The owner of a doll shop is obsessed with women and dolls. When the body of a young woman is found, Homicide Department of Vienna takes over the case.

#31 - Scent of Death

Inspector Rex - Season 2 - Episode 10

A young, pretty woman is strangled in the bathroom. Rex is sensitive to the smell on the belt of the bathrobe. But apart from the perfume, the perpetrator has left no traces. Commissioner Moser and his colleagues find out that the woman met an attractive man before her death. Everything points to a marriage swindler. But does a marriage swindler kill his victims? Then the young Silvia Lorenz commits a spectacular suicide attempt. With a ruse, Moser comes to the connection between the murder and the suicide attempt. But the suspect has an alibi. The investigating magistrate cannot issue an arrest warrant due to lack of evidence. Only one can help: Rex...

#32 - Dance on the Volcano

Inspector Rex - Season 1 - Episode 5

A prisoner makes a violent escape. His accomplice is wounded and left behind. Fleeing from the police, the escaped prisoner holds a ballerina class hostage and demands the release of his friend.

#33 - Death of a Child

Inspector Rex - Season 2 - Episode 8

In the middle of winter, little Sabine is found dead in an outdoor pool. Coroner Dr. Graf confirms Moser's suspicion: It was not an accident, the location is not identical to the crime scene. The child was killed in another bath. In the changing rooms, Rex finds a trace: Sabine's wallet. With his help, Moser wants to lure the perpetrator into a trap. And indeed, after a long nightly wait, a man enters the swimming pool. But he has an alibi for the time of the crime. However, another suspect confesses to the murder shortly afterwards – the case seems closed. But Moser still has doubts and continues to investigate. Then Rex finds another child on the grounds of the swimming pool – buried, but still alive. Rex is on his own...

#34 - Poison Gas

Inspector Rex - Season 5 - Episode 8

The homeless Edi Salzer died at a loading station. It turns out that he died from the nerve agent sarin, which was transported in one of the train cars. Brandtner fears an attack with the deadly poison.

#35 - Why Must Children Suffer

Inspector Rex - Season 9 - Episode 2

#36 - The Death of the Old Lady

Inspector Rex - Season 1 - Episode 4

One by one, ladies living alone in the center of Vienna disappear. Moser suspects violent crime, but so far no bodies have been found...

#37 - City in Fear

Inspector Rex - Season 3 - Episode 2

This is Bóck 's first case with the group. A young woman and her brother are at the landslide. She dies in the middle of it, Dr Graf tells Moser and Bóck that her drink was poisoned, and her brother is the suspect. But soon similar a murder happens, he has drank same drink as she did and soon whole Vienna is in fear.

#38 - The Body at Schönbrunn

Inspector Rex - Season 1 - Episode 6

A woman is found dead in the park surrounding the Schönbrunn Palace. Moser is not convinced the man they suspect is the one they are looking for...

#39 - The Attempted Assassination Of Rex

Inspector Rex - Season 9 - Episode 1

#40 - Happy Birthday

Inspector Rex - Season 8 - Episode 10

Iris Konrad, a cunning employee, convinces two brothers to rob a jewelry store in her company. While one of the brothers waits in the car, the other two rob the trunk. Unnoticed, the jeweler activates a silent alarm connected to the police and tries to restrain the thugs, but the unfortunate man will be shot.

#41 - Vitamins For Dying

Inspector Rex - Season 9 - Episode 4

#42 - Traces of Blood

Inspector Rex - Season 2 - Episode 2

An unknown man apparently threw himself in front of a train and was run over. However, coroner Dr. Graf does not believe in suicide, and when Moser and Rex find suspicious traces near the railway embankment, it is clear: The man was already dead before the accident. Neither the wife of the dead Gerti nor his lover Irene can show an alibi. Only when Kunert, the mechanic of an illegal car repair shop, finds traces of blood on the expensive car of the young Alexander Prince does Moser track down the criminal. But the arrest is thwarted, the perpetrator can flee...

#43 - Deadly Seduction

Inspector Rex - Season 2 - Episode 4

A German tourist photographs young men in Vienna's city centre. One of them, the handsome Hubert Meixner, he invites to his hotel room in the evening. The next morning, the tourist is found dead – the photos are the only trace. When Hubert Meixner wants to pick up the pictures, he is followed by Commissioner Moser and Rex. But he has a watertight alibi for the time of the crime. Only one can help: Max Koch. While he investigates undercover with Rex, Moser and Stockinger examine the photos. The trail leads to the Volksgarten. With Rex's help, Moser comes to the connection between the photos and the motive for the crime. Also privately there is some excitement: Moser and Rex move into the new house and Moser makes an appointment with the veterinarian Dr. Koller. Rex doesn't like that at all...

#44 - Over The Rooftops Of Vienna

Inspector Rex - Season 2 - Episode 14

A car crashes over a slope, the driver burns beyond recognition. A fire expert alerts Commissioner Moser and his team: There are inconsistencies in the course of the accident. Rex finds clues that point to a crime – the woman was still alive when the car caught fire. Accident, suicide or murder? The trail leads to the red light district. While Moser and Dr. Graf reconstruct the face of the dead with the help of a computer program, Stockinger and Rex follow the trail of two missing prostitutes in relevant establishments... Because Stockinger is conspicuously scattered in the office, Moser and Höllerer confront him. He hesitantly reports that his wife Karin has inherited her father's dental practice in Salzburg. Stockinger asks for his transfer to the Salzkammergut...

#45 - A Perfect Murder

Inspector Rex - Season 1 - Episode 2

When Hans Felsner, owner of a resturant has an apparent heart attack, it is soon discovered that it was actually a murder. Moser is called in and then Hans Felsner's sister-in-law also turns up dead.

#46 - A Lethal Summer

Inspector Rex - Season 2 - Episode 3

In the middle of the nudist area of the Danube floodplains, a couple is murdered. On the chest of the dead is a bloody mark. Is it a crime of jealousy or a ritual murder? A similar murder a year earlier could never be solved – now the "love couple murderer" has apparently struck again. Stockinger investigates at the scene and finds a suspect, but cannot prove anything to him. Inspector Moser, together with his colleague Elisabeth Böhm, decides to set a trap for the murderer: On the nudist grounds, the two disguise themselves as lovers. Rex hides nearby to warn her in time. A hot night begins...

#47 - Hunt for a Corpse

Inspector Rex - Season 3 - Episode 8

A young women collapses on the street and dies in hospital. Before the autopsy a security guard is killed and women's body is stolen from the morgue. All evidence points to a dive school.

#48 - Dangerous Hunt

Inspector Rex - Season 2 - Episode 7

Ernst Fuchs and Fritz Groh attack a money transport. In the violent exchange of fire with the guards, Fritz and a money messenger are killed – Ernst flees with the money. Commissioner Moser and his team take up the persecution. During the hunt through a winding social building, Moser and Rex drive the fugitive into a corner: Fuchs goes crazy and takes a hostage. Commissioner and perpetrator know each other: There is still a score to settle between the two. When Fox flees into an old water tower, a dramatic shootout ensues, in which Rex unexpectedly intervenes...

#49 - Stocki's Last Case

Inspector Rex - Season 2 - Episode 15

The mood in the office is depressed because Stockinger's departure to Salzburg is imminent, when two women's corpses with their throats cut are discovered in quick succession: a judge and a doctor. The team is feverishly investigating because the perpetrator is likely to strike again. His motive: revenge. Then Rex finds another victim of the gunman. A dramatic chase begins and ends in a kindergarten. Meanwhile, Höllerer is preparing a small celebration in the office: with sausage rolls and farewell photo...

#50 - Masked Death

Inspector Rex - Season 2 - Episode 5

n the cabin of a beauty salon, a customer suffocates. An employee has previously observed how an unknown person has left the cabin of the dead. The best friend of the dead, sparkling wine manufacturer Karla Wilke, is in the neighboring cabin at the time of the crime. Coroner Dr. Graf confirms Richie's suspicions: The customer was murdered. While Moser interrogates Karla Wilke, Rex escapes an assassination attempt at the last second. Suddenly, lawyer Dr. Rudolf Baumann appears. The attractive Baumann is not only Mrs. Wilke's lover, but he also had an affair with the dead. His alibi for the time of the crime is not verifiable. Moser tracks down the perpetrator, he is sure: The murderer has made a serious mistake, he has confused his victim. Mrs. Wilke's life is in danger...