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Dracula: The Series Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
21 Episodes 1990 - 1991
Episode 1
Children of the Night
Sat, Sep 29, 199022 mins
In this series opener, two American brothers, Max and Chris, are left behind in Europe with their eccentric uncle Gustav while their mother travels on business. While Chris spends his time pining for American television and attempting to romance a young music student also living with Gustav, the younger brother, Max, who happens to be a supernatural enthusiast, is positive that his uncle is a vampire and goes to see multi-millionaire Alexander Lucard for help. Little does he know that the rich businessman is hiding a secret of his own.
Episode 2
Double Cross
Sat, Oct 6, 199022 mins
Gustav's old friends, Peter and Anna Dyson, visit for a short time while Max takes the Cross of the Magyars (an artifact which prevents vampires from entering) from the house to be blessed. When Lucard finds out the cross has been removed, it is a race to see whether the cross can be replaced before Lucard pays the household a visit; but how did he find out that it was gone...?
Episode 3
The Vampire Solution
Sat, Oct 13, 199022 mins
Gustav and a former student of his concoct a mixture, a solution called quinidrine, which should reverse all effects of an early vampire bite. Gustav allows himself to be captured and bitten by Lucard with the intention of testing it, however, Max has inadvertently switched the solution with a protein drink he made for himself. Upon realizing the mix-up, Gustav and his former student, who has also been bitten, must wait for the children to save them in time to create more of the solution in order to save themselves.
Episode 4
The Boffin
Sat, Oct 20, 199022 mins
While Sophie and Chris skirt around the relationship issue between them and finally end up on a date together, Max meets a clumsy, but brilliant, scientist who has made it his life's work to invent items for battling the undead. Unfortunately, one of the items he is working on, an Anti-Vampire Gun (which fires amplified sunlight), is being sponsored by none other than Alexander Lucard. When the gun doesn't work as planned, Lucard decides to rid himself of the bungling scientist, leaving Max and Gustav to attempt a rescue before it is too late.
Episode 5
Double Darkness
Sat, Oct 27, 199022 mins
An old enemy is out to take down Lucard, though his actions cause unusual problems for a member of the Helsing family.
Episode 6
Black Sheep
Sat, Nov 3, 199022 mins
When a man named Paul Yeager loses his wife to Lucard's second-in-command, Klaus (Geraint Wyn Davies), he attempts to enlist Gustav to help him kill the vampire. Gustav, however, is strangely unwilling to give aid in this, even going so far as to warn Klaus that Yeager is after him. While the children are led on a treasure hunt by a scheming Lucard, we eventually learn why Gustav is so evasive regarding Klaus and also why he is so uncooperative in bringing about his death, choosing instead to trap him in his crypt with help from an unlikely ally.
Episode 7
What a Pleasant Surprise!
Sat, Nov 10, 199022 mins
When Helsing learns that Lucard is buying an old theater in town, he investigates to find out what the vampire's true interest is in the place.
Episode 8
Damsel in Distress
Sat, Nov 17, 199022 mins
After a loved one falls under the sway of Lucard, the Helsing family must fight to save her before it's too late.
Episode 9
Mind Over Matter
Sat, Nov 24, 199022 mins
Gustav appears on "Cleo Talk" to debunk a professional psychic, Lana Zorro, but she astounds him when she is able to read his mind. Meanwhile, the kids find Dracula's tomb.
Episode 10
A Little Nightmare Music
Sat, Dec 1, 199022 mins
The rich and famous Contessa de Suarez has chosen Sophie to be her guide while she's in town. When Sophie learns that the Contessa is staying with Lucard, she grabs Uncle Gustav's vampire hunting equipment and rushes to the castle.
Episode 11
Get a Job
Sat, Dec 8, 199022 mins
Chris lands a job with a local art house, run by a lovely art dealer named Julia, who also happens to have dealings with Alexander Lucard. When Sophie discovers that Julia is selling stolen paintings, she and Chris visit the art house to determine whether Julia is aware of the thefts and end up discovering that Julia is not only aware but also selling copies of the stolen paintings. When Lucard invites Julia to the castle for a private unveiling of the painting he purchased, Gustav and the children follow in a rescue attempt, but Lucard has plans of his own for his guests.
Episode 12
The Great Tickler
Sat, Dec 15, 199022 mins
Helsing invites lounge performer Mycroft Tickler home for dinner, only to discover that he is brother to Magnus St John Smythe, the bungling inventor of the anti-vampire laser gun, and that Lucard has invited him to dine at the castle.
Episode 13
Bad Blood
Sat, Jan 19, 199122 mins
Lucard gets sick after drinking blood from a young thief and sends for Dr Gabor Varney. The cure is a compound found only in the waters of Paquette spring. Helsing and Max follow the dying Lucard to the springs to destroy him.
Episode 14
Sophie, Queen of the Night
Sat, Jan 26, 199122 mins
Sophie gets turned into a vampire. Can the family cure her before she fully succumbs to the curse?
Episode 15
My Girlfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be Trouble
Sat, Feb 2, 199122 mins
Sophie's love interest turns out to have a girlfriend, who arrives from America for a visit.
Episode 16
My Fair Vampire
Sat, Feb 9, 199122 mins
Inspired by Pygmalion, which the musical My Fair Lady was based on, Lucard decides to turn a ditsy woman who works for him into a true lady. Meanwhile, Gustav's old senile friend claims that vampires are preying on his old folks' home.
Episode 17
The Decline of the Romanian Vampire
Sat, Feb 16, 199122 mins
Max releases Klaus by accident so he traps both Lucard and Gustav in a room with a time bomb.
Episode 18
I Love Lucard
Sat, Feb 23, 199122 mins
Max gets the offer to publish his first novel only to realize that it got switched with the one from Gustav's friend about true identities of vampires hiding among humans. Meanwhile, Lucard invites the author and his wife to dinner.
Episode 19
Bats in the Attic
Sat, Apr 27, 199122 mins
Gustav investigates why the schnitzel he ordered from a restaurant never arrived. Meanwhile, Lucard discovers that someone is creating subpar ghouls. Also, Max and Sophie start an experimental band which, surprisingly, gets big in Europe.
Episode 20
My Dinner with Lucard
Sat, May 4, 199122 mins
A clip show in which Lucard invites everyone to dinner and they remember the misadventures they had together throughout the season. However, Gustav remains suspicious.
Episode 21
Klaus Encounters of the Interred Kind
Sat, May 11, 199122 mins
When the boys' mother arrives at the end of summer to pick them up and take them home, they learn that she has a new business partner - Klaus. Gustav discovers a time hole in Lucard's castle that keeps Lucard young.