Dracula is back

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Television series
German title Dracula is back
Original title Dracula: The Series
Country of production United States , Canada
original language English
Year (s) 1990-1991
length 22 minutes
Episodes 21 in 1 season
genre Drama , horror
Director Allan Eastman
production René Bonnière , Allan King , Randy Bradshaw, Allan Kroeker, Jeff Woolnough, Michael Sloan, Joe Dea
music Frank Morrone
First broadcast September 29, 1990 on Syndicated
German-language
first broadcast		 May 1993 on TV Munich
occupation

Dracula is Back (Original Title: Dracula: The Series ) is a 21-part US television series from 1990. It was broadcast on September 29, 1990 on Syndicated television. In Germany, the series ran from May 1993 on TV Munich and from 2002 to 2003 on Junior .

action

Eileen Townsend and her two sons Max and Chris visit their uncle Gustav in Europe. Max and Chris soon discover strange things in the house, such as a wooden stake. Max immediately believes in vampires. He is fascinated by them and thinks that a powerful vampire lives in the town's castle. Chris, on the other hand, immediately falls in love with Sophie Metternich, who lives with Gustav to go to school in town.

Some time later, Eileen meets the successful banker Alexander Lucard. She takes Max and Chris to this meeting. Alexander Lucard makes a particularly good impression on Max and Chris. He likes rap music and MTV and offers Chris to play computer games with him. However, Alexander Lucard is none other than Dracula himself. Max and Chris don't know this at first. Max suspects his uncle Gustav to be a vampire. Therefore he fled to Alexander Lucard. Sophie and Chris run after him. They discover that Alexander Lucard is a vampire and flee together with their uncle Gustav who has hired them. This turns out to be the vampire hunter Gustav Helsing. Gustav, Sophie, Max and Chris try to thwart Dracula's plans together. They also protect the people Dracula would like to destroy.

Characters

Alexander Lucard (Dracula)

Alexander Lucard is a successful banker and one of the richest men in the world. In public he is extremely elegant and always friendly. However, he is also a little arrogant and very self-absorbed. He also hides the fact that he is a vampire. Therefore, he never tries to kill so many people that the police notice him. Alexander tries to destroy Gustav, Sophie, Chris and Max, but sometimes works with them. When Alexander Lucard fights against his archenemy Nosferatu, Max supports Alexander in the fight against him and in return is spared by Alexander Lucard. He also protects Gustav when a vampire hunter tries to kill him. Alexander Lucard had a relationship with Margo Burton. She is now married. Alexander still loves Margo. He feels more human in her presence. Margo left him after she found out he was a vampire, although Alexander protested that he could never hurt her. When Alexander meets Margo again, he wants to make her his companion, so he forces Margo to come to him. Only then does he want to spare her husband. When he realizes that Margo is fond of him, but is happier with her husband, he lets her go first. However, he ensures that the plane crashes with Margo and her husband. He believes that a life without love is the price he has to pay to be a powerful and rich vampire.

Gustav Helsing

Gustav Helsing comes from a generation of vampire hunters. He destroys vampires. At the same time, however, he is also a scientist and previously taught at the university. Gustav has a son named Klaus. This is a vampire. When a vampire hunter tries to destroy Klaus, Gustav warns Klaus. He later holds Klaus prisoner to find a way to make him human again. Gustav is the uncle of Chris and Max. Gustav is still in love with his childhood sweetheart Anna Dyson. However, she married a friend of his.

Sophie Metternich

Sophie Metternich lives with Gustav Helsing. She visits the local school and goes on a hunt for vampires with Gustav. Sophie falls in love with Chris, with whom she later has a love affair.

Chris Townsend

Chris Townsend is Max's big brother. He loves computer games and rap music. He also plays the electric guitar, enjoys singing and writing songs. Chris falls in love with Sophie and has a love affair with her, which he prefers to keep secret from his little brother.

Max Townsend

Max Townsend is Chris' little brother. He loves vampires and everything supernatural. He is initially fascinated by Dracula and wants an autograph from him. At the same time, however, he is afraid of him and tries to protect himself and his family from Dracula as much as possible.

Eileen Townsend

Eileen Townsend is the single mother of Chris and Max. She is a businesswoman and always on the go to get new jobs. So she asks her brother Gustav to take care of Chris and Max. However, she keeps visiting her children. Eileen is the only one in the family who doesn't know that vampires exist and is therefore always in danger.

Klaus Helsing

Klaus Helsing is the son of Gustav. He became a vampire 13 years ago and is a subordinate of Alexander Lucard. With his transformation into a vampire, Klaus has changed completely. The once very lovable, friendly son became a bloodthirsty vampire. Klaus has killed countless people, so even Alexander Lucard orders him to limit his hunt for people so that the police do not become aware of vampires. Since Klaus continues to kill on a large scale, Lucard wants to destroy this. However, Klaus is caught by his father. He wants to make Klaus human again.

Vampire picture

Just like in the Dracula novel , vampires can walk into sunlight. However, they do not have their powers in sunlight. If vampires want to enter a house, they have to be invited. If a person is bitten only once by a vampire, he becomes a kind of mindless zombie. The vampire who has bitten the people can communicate with them in their thoughts. This succeeds even when the person is very far away. If the bite site is touched with holy water, the transformation into a vampire is stopped. Once the transformation into a vampire is complete, this is no longer possible. After a transformation, the vampire curse can only be broken through an act of deep love for another person. Vampires cannot be captured in photo and video recordings. Some very powerful vampires, such as B. Nosferatu can change shape and take on the appearance of any person. Vampires can fly, but they must turn into bats to do so. Crosses protect against vampires and keep them away. If a vampire is stabbed through the heart with a stake, he dies. If a vampire is killed, it dissolves into nothing. All vampires kill and drink blood. However, there are some who cannot cope with their life as a vampire and their thirst for blood. They don't try to kill or drink blood. This endeavor almost always ends in the vampire's suicide.

Episode list

No.
( total ) 		No.
( St. ) 		German title Original title First broadcast in the USA German language first broadcast (yes) Director
1 1 Children of the night Children Of The Night September 29, 1990 May 1993 Allan Eastman
2 2 The Cross of the Magyars Double cross October 6, 1990 1993 Allan Eastman
3 3 The anti-vampire tincture The Vampire Solution October 13, 1990 1993 Allan Eastman
4th 4th Better than crucifix and garlic The Boffin October 20, 1990 1993 Allan Eastman
5 5 Greetings from Nosferatu Double darkness October 27, 1990 1993 Randy Bradshaw
6th 6th The black sheep Black Sheep 3rd November 1990 1993 Allan Eastman
7th 7th The cinema of horror What A Pleasant Surprise! November 10, 1990 1993 Allan Eastman
8th 8th The terrible mother Damsel In Distress 17th November 1990 1993 René Bonnière
9 9 The clairvoyant Mind over matter November 24, 1990 1993 Allan Eastman
10 10 A Little Night Music A Little Nightmare Music December 1, 1990 1993 René Bonnière
11 11 An art lover with a bite Get a job December 8, 1990 1993 Allan King
12 12 The singers curse The Great Tickler December 15, 1990 1993 Allan King
13 13 Blood poisoning Bad blood January 19, 1991 1993 Randy Bradshaw
14th 14th The queen of the night Sophie, Queen Of The Night January 26, 1991 1993 Allan King
15th 15th Gambled too high My Girlfriend's Back And There's Gonna Be Trouble February 2, 1991 1993 Jeff Woolnough
16 16 The vampire slayer My Fair Vampires February 9, 1991 1993 Michael Sloan
17th 17th The trap The Decline Of The Romanian Vampire February 16, 1991 1993 Jeff Woolnough
18th 18th In love with a vampire I love Lucard February 23, 1991 1993 Allan Kroeker
19th 19th The time hole Klaus Encounters Of The Interred Kind April 11, 1991 1993 René Bonnière
20th 20th Vampire to inflate Bats In The Attic April 27, 1991 1993 René Bonnière
21st 21st Count Dracula invites you to table My Dinner With Lucard May 4th 1991 1993 Allan Kroeker

backgrounds

Dracula is back was shot in Luxembourg. Geordie Johnson took on the lead role of Alexander Lucards (Dracula). In Dracula Is Back , several well-known television actors appeared in supporting roles. These included Kim Coates (from Prison Break ) and Geraint Wyn Davies . The latter played in the vampire series Forever Knight - The Vampircop the vampire Nick Knight . The series was broadcast on the US television station Syndicated from 1990 to 1991. Dracula is back has been released on DVD in North America. The series was also broadcast on Asian, English and South African television. In Germany it ran from May 1993 on TV Munich and from 2002 to 2003 on Junior . Dracula is back is more aimed at a youthful audience. The series has a total length of 406 minutes and ends with a cliffhanger.

season 2

The second season was never filmed as the series was previously canceled. However, drafts for the first four episodes of the second season were written and published. The show was supposed to go in a darker direction, but keep its humor. The audience should also learn more about Alexander Lucard and Gustav Helsing's past.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Gerhards, Wilfred (2001): Handbook of fantastic television series. Hamburg: Edition Gryphon. P. 84
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