Dracula: The Series
Dracula: The Series
TV ShowCanceled

Dracula: The Series

7.3 / 10
1990
1 season
21 episodes
Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyComedy

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.

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Trailer

Dracula: The Series (1990-1991) - Clip from 'Double Darkness' (Oct. 22, 1990)

Cast

Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Children of the Night

    29-09-199022m

    American siblings Max and Chris Townsend are left behind in Europe with their eccentric uncle Gustav while their mother Eileen travels on business. Max, an enthusiast of the supern...

  • Ep 2

    2.Double Cross

    06-10-199022m

    Gustav'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 from entering—from the house to be bles...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Vampire Solution

    13-10-199022m

    Gustav 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 test it, Gustav allows himself be captured...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Boffin

    20-10-199022m

    Max brings home bungling vampire-hunting scientist Magnus St. John-Smythe, who insists that a new laser gun he's developed can destroy vampires. Unfortunately, his 'anti-vampire gu...

  • Ep 5

    5.Double Darkness

    27-10-199022m

    Archeologist Dr. Gloria Cross uncovers the resting place of Lucard's ancient and bitter rival, Nosferatu.

  • Ep 6

    6.Black Sheep

    03-11-199022m

    Paul Yeager, an aggrieved husband, asks Gustav to kill Klaus, the vampire who has taken his wife... and Lucard's second-in-command. Gustav, however, has a different plan in mind fo...

  • Ep 7

    7.What a Pleasant Surprise!

    10-11-199022m

    When 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.

  • Ep 8

    8.Damsel in Distress

    17-11-199022m

    Eileen 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, but Gustav himself is vampirized by one...

  • Ep 9

    9.Mind Over Matter

    24-11-199022m

    Gustav appears on a TV talk show to debunk zany psychic Lana Zorro, whose knowledge of Gustav's past grows increasingly terrifying. Meanwhile, Max is sure he's discovered the resti...

  • Ep 10

    10.A Little Nightmare Music

    01-12-199022m

    Encouraged by Gustav, Chris decides to take his rock music to a live audience. Meanwhile, Sophie becomes a guide to an influential Contessa who has business dealings with Lucard.

  • Ep 11

    11.Get a Job

    08-12-199022m

    Chris lands a job with a local art house, run by a lovely dealer named Julia, who happens to have dealings with Lucard.

  • Ep 12

    12.The Great Tickler

    15-12-199022m

    Lucard invites Mycroft Tickler, a lounge performer with delusions of grandeur, to give a recital at his castle. Gustav tries to warn Tickler, but he's utterly oblivious to anything...

  • Ep 13

    13.Bad Blood

    19-01-199122m

    Lucard 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 Gabor Varney informs him that there is...

  • Ep 14

    14.Sophie, Queen of the Night

    26-01-199122m

    Following her romance with Vincent, Sophie has been turned into a vampire, and is serving an apprenticeship with Lucard. Mrs. Pfenning, Lucard's accountant, is plotting to overthro...

  • Ep 15

    15.My Girlfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be Trouble

    02-02-199122m

    Having been rescued by Chris, Sophie is about to fall for him, but his ex-girlfriend Alexa Singleton turns up, whose obnoxious businessman father is in business with Lucard and mak...

  • Ep 16

    16.My Fair Vampire

    09-02-199122m

    Gustav's best friend, a fellow vampire hunter named Frederick Rilling, claims that citizens at his retirement home are being killed by a vampire. He asks Gustav to help him destroy...

  • The Decline of the Romanian Vampire

    17.The Decline of the Romanian Vampire

    16-02-199122m

    Max inadvertently frees Klaus from the Helsing family crypt where Gustav had imprisoned him, and Gustav and Lucard try to escape his trap. The powerful Cross of Silesia and a plast...

  • Ep 18

    18.I Love Lucard

    23-02-199122m

    An 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 expose Lucard as a vampire and bring dow...

  • Ep 19

    19.Bats in the Attic

    27-04-199122m

    Max meets Lawrence Lei, a creepy and neurotic bookseller who has a peculiar interest in the occult. Gustav doesn't trust him, and Lucard finds him much too bizarre for his taste wh...

  • Ep 20

    20.My Dinner with Lucard

    04-05-199122m

    Gustav, Max and Chris are invited to dinner at Lucard's for a reminiscing, but is there an ulterior motive to this sudden hospitality?

  • Ep 21

    21.Klaus Encounters of the Interred Kind

    11-05-199122m

    When 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 time hole in the castle that keeps Luca...

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