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Dracula: The Series

TV·1990–1991·1 season, 21 episodes·Syndication·Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy·22m·Created by William Laurin, Glenn Davis

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Dracula: The Series is a short-lived syndicated children's horror television series developed by Glenn Davis and William Laurin, about Count Dracula (aka Alexander Lucard; A. Lucard, if you will) and his struggles with Gustav Helsing, Gustav's young nephews Max and Chris Townsend, and schoolgirl Sophie Metternich, with whom Chris develops romantic feelings. The series formula is relatively straightforward, with the four heroes learning of some nefarious plot by Dracula and setting out to foil it, with some success. In keeping with the novel, but not most media lore, vampires can travel in sunlight but lack their abilities. Anyone bitten just once by a vampire transform into a zombie-like servant; this process is preventable by applying holy water to the bite.

Cast

Episodes by season

Season0121Episodes1990–91AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Children of the NightSeptember 29, 1990American siblings Max and Chris Townsend are left behind in Europe with their eccentric uncle Gustav while their mother Eileen travels on bu
  2. S01E02Double CrossOctober 6, 1990Gustav's old friends Peter and Anna Dyson come for a short visit while Max takes the Cross of the Magyars—an artifact that prevents vampires
  3. S01E03The Vampire SolutionOctober 13, 1990Gustav and former student Arthur Bauer locate a rare herb and develop a formula in hopes of reversing the effects of a vampire's bite. To te
  4. S01E04The BoffinOctober 20, 1990Max brings home bungling vampire-hunting scientist Magnus St. John-Smythe, who insists that a new laser gun he's developed can destroy vampi
  5. S01E05Double DarknessOctober 27, 1990Archeologist Dr. Gloria Cross uncovers the resting place of Lucard's ancient and bitter rival, Nosferatu.
  6. S01E06Black SheepNovember 3, 1990Paul Yeager, an aggrieved husband, asks Gustav to kill Klaus, the vampire who has taken his wife... and Lucard's second-in-command. Gustav,
  7. S01E07What a Pleasant Surprise!November 10, 1990When Gustav learns that Lucard is buying an old local cinema, he investigates to find out what the vampire's true interest is in the place.
  8. S01E08Damsel in DistressNovember 17, 1990Eileen is doing business with Lucard; in fact, she's going to have dinner with him at the castle. Gustav and the kids learn of the dinner,
  9. S01E09Mind Over MatterNovember 24, 1990Gustav appears on a TV talk show to debunk zany psychic Lana Zorro, whose knowledge of Gustav's past grows increasingly terrifying. Meanwhil
  10. S01E10A Little Nightmare MusicDecember 1, 1990Encouraged by Gustav, Chris decides to take his rock music to a live audience. Meanwhile, Sophie becomes a guide to an influential Contessa
  11. S01E11Get a JobDecember 8, 1990Chris lands a job with a local art house, run by a lovely dealer named Julia, who happens to have dealings with Lucard.
  12. S01E12The Great TicklerDecember 15, 1990Lucard invites Mycroft Tickler, a lounge performer with delusions of grandeur, to give a recital at his castle. Gustav tries to warn Tickler
  13. S01E13Bad BloodJanuary 19, 1991Lucard bites a teenage thief, unaware that he has a rare antigen in his blood that can kill the vampire who ingests it. Famed vampire doctor
  14. S01E14Sophie, Queen of the NightJanuary 26, 1991Following her romance with Vincent, Sophie has been turned into a vampire, and is serving an apprenticeship with Lucard. Mrs. Pfenning, Luca
  15. S01E15My Girlfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be TroubleFebruary 2, 1991Having been rescued by Chris, Sophie is about to fall for him, but his ex-girlfriend Alexa Singleton turns up, whose obnoxious businessman f
  16. S01E16My Fair VampireFebruary 9, 1991Gustav's best friend, a fellow vampire hunter named Frederick Rilling, claims that citizens at his retirement home are being killed by a vam
  17. S01E17Dracula: The Series S01E17The Decline of the Romanian VampireFebruary 16, 1991Max inadvertently frees Klaus from the Helsing family crypt where Gustav had imprisoned him, and Gustav and Lucard try to escape his trap. T
  18. S01E18I Love LucardFebruary 23, 1991An old love from Lucard's past, Margo Burton, comes back into his life, only now she's married to a writer whose latest work is intended to
  19. S01E19Bats in the AtticApril 27, 1991Max meets Lawrence Lei, a creepy and neurotic bookseller who has a peculiar interest in the occult. Gustav doesn't trust him, and Lucard fin
  20. S01E20My Dinner with LucardMay 4, 1991Gustav, Max and Chris are invited to dinner at Lucard's for a reminiscing, but is there an ulterior motive to this sudden hospitality?
  21. S01E21Klaus Encounters of the Interred KindMay 11, 1991When Eileen arrives at the end of summer to pick up Max and Chris, they learn that she has a new business partner: Klaus. Gustav discovers a

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