History Series / InspectorRex

* TheDollEpisode: Der Puppenmörder/ The Doll Murderer from Season 3.

* ShootOut: The baby carriage falling down the stairs in "Ein mörderischer Plan" is an obvious one to Battleship Potemkin.

** The first time we see Alex, his colleagues are expressing mild annoyance at the fact that more junior officers are letting a piece of evidence drift away in a river. Before even introducing himself, Alex takes off his jacket and jumps into the river to retrieve the evidence, whereas Moser would probably have screamed at the agents until somebody took care of the issue. As you might have guessed, Alex is very dedicated, corageous, sporty and, most notably, lacks Moser's temper.

* FatAndSkinny: The sidekicks. First, Stockinger is the skinny and Hollerer is the fat. The former is replaced with Böch when he goes and some time after, the latter is replaced with Kunz. When Nikki comes, it is averted. When Monterosso comes to replace Morini in Rome, he is the fat while the three commisars he knows do the skinny role.

* OldHeroNewPals: After Rex moves to Rome, he works under a different team. He and Lorenzo do a travel to Vienna and meet Kunz and Dr. Graf. It happens again when Rex and his master Marco Terzani are transferred; Monterosso goes with them and Gori does two visits to the new base, but Rex and Terzani have a new cast of colleages.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Erika Hedl was not visible in the Austrian series, but she can talk about cases she solved alongside Richard Moser, the first commisar in the series.

* WireDilemma: Subverted in an episode where [[spoiler:the character facing the dilemma takes too long to decide and runs out of time -- but his colleague had pulled the detonator out of the explosives]]. Later played straight with Fabbri, who sucessfully cuts the right wire to deactivate the bomb.

* BadassBeard: Marco Terzani eventually grows a short beard, although he has always had facial hair. Some police officers in both Vienna and Rome sport beards.

* DeadlyRemotecontrolToy: An author whose story about a criminal toymaker was rejected by a publishing company uses toys to hunt down and destroy the editors who rejected his work, one by one. Much use is made of radio-guided vehicles/aircraft, with simple plunger-triggered bombs on board.