Count Duckula
The misadventures of a vegetarian vampire duck and his servants.
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Cast:Barry Clayton , Jack May , Brian Trueman , David Jason , Jimmy Hibbert , Ruby Wax
S1.E1 ∙ No Sax Please: We're Egyptian
One day, after nearly being killed by Nanny delivering a breakfast of "cocoa and choccie biccies", Duckula threatens to give up his title and escape to South America, leading Igor to take him through the picture gallery of the castle to remind of his ancestry. While being lectured about the pictures, Duckula asks Igor about his great-uncle's great-uncle, The Archduck McGanza and his discovery of the "mystic saxophone", an instrument known to give any who play the saxophone power over life and death, and over all the forces of the universe. Duckula hopes to use it to become a world famous musician while Igor hopes it will finally turn Duckula evil. And so Duckula, Nanny, and Igor set off to Egypt to find the saxophone, taking with them the Crow Brothers, a gang of four burglars who unwittingly tagged along when the castle teleports to Egypt. The two parties set off independently to find the saxophone before the others. But what happened to the Archduck, and who are the mysterious Hoomite and Ubee?
S1.E2 ∙ Vampire Vacation
Count Duckula and his family retainers are coping with the rainy days and Duckula wishes to leave the rain and gloom behind, so Igor suggests that they head to Spain, and visit Don Diego, Duckula's pyromaniac cousin. And so when the castle moves off to Spain, Duckula receives a rude awakening in the form of his castle catching fire, Nanny mistakenly puts out the fire, and this act doesn't sit well with the local villagers, who have them all imprisoned, until they find Don Diego, who wishes to chop the villagers up and invite some other vampires as guests to join in, so soon he makes a pact with Duckula: Duckula defeats the most evil-tempered bull and Don Diego promises to not harm a single one. But this may prove more difficult than seems.
S1.E3 ∙ One Stormy Night
On a dark and stormy night, Count Duckula is being read a scary story and soon abandons this little happening to try and fetch himself a snack, while, unbeknown to him, Von Goosewing is in another wing of the castle and is making a monster which he hopes will wipe out Duckula. The lightning used for Goosewing's experiment, however, redirects itself into the crypt-like basement of the castle, where it finds a stone Duckula and reanimates it, creating a new, evil Duckula which wishes to find people to brutalize. All around the castle, then, everything is a mess, Duckula is on the search for bread for his snack, the stone Duckula commands Igor to fetch him a shovel so as to kill and bury victims, Igor take orders from both real and stone Duckula, Nanny hides in the attic (from a non-existent monster from the story that was being read to Duckula), where only moments ago, Von Goosewing's creature awoke and made its sullen way to find a headache pill, Von Goosewing goes to find his experimental creature and bring it to eliminate Duckula.
S1.E4 ∙ Transylvanian Homesick Blues
Count Duckula and his servants have decided to visit the funfair and soon visit a ride on a roller-coaster which can take them back and forward in time, where they see things such as the first vampire, a future ruled by vegetables, the French Revolution, and trouble hits in the most garish of ways when the conductor of the roller-coaster says that he will leave Duckula and Igor back in time to marry Nanny.
S1.E5 ∙ Restoration Comedy
Count Duckula is unhappy with the state of his castle, so he hires an interior decorator called Mr. Roberto to fix it up for him. And by fix it up, he means completely changing it, much to the dismay of Igor and Nanny. This leads to three problems: Mr. Roberto's workmen are incompetent and lazy, Igor and Nanny have gone on strike and Dr. Von Goosewing is up to his usual antics.
S1.E6 ∙ The Mutinous Penguins
Count Duckula has lost the castle somewhere in the Arctic seas and enlists the aid of some piratical penguins with the twisted plot to leave Duckula and his retainers out in the Arctic seas so that they might search for treasure. It works, and the trio is abandoned out on a desolate icy island where Nanny produces piping hot tea which awakens several vikings from being frozen in ice. These vikings further aid Duckula and company their queen is thawed out as well courtesy of Nanny's tea. With time, the castle is found through a fight out in Arctic seas, more treachery and Von Goosewing's blunders.
S1.E7 ∙ Dr. Von Goosewing's Invisible Ray
Doctor Von Goosewing has created an invisibility machine, and plans to infiltrate Castle Duckula, and finish of The Count.
S1.E8 ∙ Down Under Duckula
Intending to take Nanny to a psychologist in Austria, The Castle gets it wrong and lands in Australia, where the travellers encounter local Bill Platypus.
S1.E9 ∙ All in a Fog
Count Duckula decides to go to foggy London to become a famous detective. Unfortunately for him, Goosewing is already there, and even worse are a couple of jewel thieves and detectives Hemlock Soames and Dr. Potson. When all of the elements of the plot collide, things become very surreal...
S1.E10 ∙ Castle Duckula: Open to the Public
Count Duckula decides to open Castle Duckula to the public for some extra cash after encountering some financial difficulties.
S1.E11 ∙ The Ghost of McCastle McDuckula
Count Duckula gets his castle refurbished and tuned up since it is in need of repair. So, Igor, Nanny, and Count Duckula use the car to travel to the Glen Sparrows Hotel in Scotland. What Duckula does not know is that they are not heading to the Glen Sparrows Hotel, but to Castle McDuckula to visit his uncle Rory McDuckula. Igor is taking him there so that his master would become a real vampire, without letting his master know about the secret. While at Castle McDuckula there is a ghost that lives there.
S1.E12 ∙ Igor's Busy Day
Igor finally gets to revive the "bad, old days" when a young American couple are stranded in the storm & must stay in Castle Duckula. But watch the drawbacks when Duckula's a vegetarian, Nanny helps, & this couple is NOT put in danger.
S1.E13 ∙ Autoduck
Count Duckula wishes to break the land speed record, there's just one snag, he doesn't own a car.
S1.E14 ∙ The Vampire Strikes Back
Count Duckula wishes to be a superhero much like his space-faring idol, Tremendous Terrance, so he stocks up on cereal tokens to earn a helmet like the one Tremendous Terrance wears. Von Goosewing, meanwhile, schemes to blow the castle up into orbit. It works, and the castle is sent off into space, where it is bombarded with troubles, first oncoming asteroids, then it is attacked by Oids, creatures in the Tremendous Terrance comic book. Tremedous Terrance soon arrives on the scene to save Duckula and company from the aliens, and at Duckula's request is sent off to the dreaded planet Cute to stave off the inhabitants, which prove to be nothing more than overtly cute rabbit-like creatures. Needless to say, after but a few moments' time, both Duckula and Igor are fed up with these creatures and wish to escape, but don't know how.
S1.E15 ∙ Hardluck Hotel
Count Duckula decides to go on a holiday to a hotel called Hardluck Hotel, though when he arrives, nothing is even close to his liking. The hotel itself is in terrible disrepair, the service is bad, and everything is rank and fetid. To end this torment, Duckula goes straight to the hotel manager to check out, but as luck would have it, it has only just been revealed in the papers that Transylvanian drachmas (Duckula's currency) are now deemed worthless in the current market. Faced with this dilemma of not having one red cent to pay for his considerably short stay, Duckula is then forced to work as a hotel employee to pay off his debt. To make matters the worst possible for this unfortunate Count, his servants, Nanny and Igor stop at this hotel for a vacation, and, not knowing that Duckula is himself and not the staff see fit to order the hapless young duck around and around. Change, however, may be on its way for the Count.
S1.E16 ∙ The Hunchbudgie of Notre Dame
Count Duckula, Igor, & Nanny are in Paris where their artistic misadventures draw the attention of the thieves Gaston & Pierre, Inspector Migraine, & Quasimodo, Hunchbudgie of Notre Dame.
S1.E17 ∙ Dear Diary
Count Duckula is writing in his diary and suspects nothing out of the ordinary, when Igor comes along and tells him that Duckula's diary reminded him of the previous Count and the fact that he himself, kept a diary. This lifts Duckula's interests for a moment or so long enough to decide to take this book straight to the presses to have printed out. As luck would have it, Dr. Von Goosewing, up to his usual vampire-snagging tricks, decides to see whether or not he can disguise himself as a publicist so as to infiltrate Castle Duckula. As he looks for a reporter's disguise in his trunk he stumbles upon the diary of his great-uncle, Dr. Von Gosling. Von Goosewing studies it well, for in this diary is a design on how to destroy a vampire with a device disguised as a camera, loaded with a wooden stake. As all of this happens, we see many a flashback from both the Count and Von Goosewing's parts. Duckula tries to get Nanny and Igor to tidy up the castle, and as this happens, Nanny and Igor both inform the Count that they, too, have diaries. This plays up to an important level later on for all three.
S1.E18 ∙ Rent a Butler
After realizing that his castle is understaffed, Count Duckula goes to Rent-A-Butler Inc. to look for some new employees for his castle. However, since it transpires that butler and nannies are in high demand and earn very high wages, Duckula decides to sell his last two loyal employees, Igor and Nanny, to the agency instead. Without anybody to cook for him or look after him, Duckula accepts an invitation to a dinner hosted by the 'Nouveau Riche' family where Igor and Nanny are now serving. Duckula decides to go disguised as his second cousin, the honorable Lobilia, to avoid being recognized but things do not go according to plan.
S1.E19 ∙ Jungle Duck
Duckula acquires a collection of The Encyclopedia Transylvania, which prompts a trip to The Jungle to find a lost treasure.
S1.E20 ∙ Mobile Home
The Crow Brothers are short on money so they decide to try out a new scheme. They sell Castle Duckula to an American couple, who wish for it to be transported to their home country. This leads to a new problem: how to get it there. They decide to transport it a brick at a time, hoping that the inhabitants of the castle, Duckula Igor and Nanny, don't notice...
S1.E21 ∙ A Fright at the Opera
Duckula, Igor and Nanny attend the Opera, Igor bumps into an old friend, who's in the employ of 'The Phantom,' who's set to commit a dastardly deed during the performance.
S1.E22 ∙ Dr. Goosewing and Mr. Duck
Von Goosewing is, as usual, hovering over Castle Duckula trying to find some way to obliterate Duckula and broods on his inability to do so, but as he is about to take a sip of some coffee, actually drinks from his patented carpet stain remover. This has a surprising effect on the drinker; it will turn them into the reverse of what they are for a short time. Von Goosewing then comes to the conclusion that he can get Duckula to take this chemical so as to neutralize him long enough to eliminate him, and he plans to put it in Duckula's milk. Needless to say, chaos soon ensues and virtually everyone in the castle takes this potion. Soon, in some form or other, everyone is the exact reverse of what they'd normally be: Duckula is a real vampire, Igor is perfectly benign, and Nanny is a genius.
S1.E23 ∙ Town Hall Terrors
The entire village of Transylvania are desperate in winning the village of the year award. But, there is one problem, they needed the castle to be remodeled in order to win. So, after a game of drawing straws, two villagers decide to go to the castle to persuade Count Duckula to fix up the place. After listening to their persuasion, the Count believes that it is a great idea, much to Igor's dismay. Since Count Duckula is penniless to repair the castle, the villagers convince him to take a grant from the Town Hall. After their arrival at the Town Hall, they start a series of madcaps.
S1.E24 ∙ Sawdust Ring
Duckula, Igor and Nanny join the Circus Straciatella, but the ex employees of The tight fisted Ringmaster have other ideas.
S1.E25 ∙ Duck and the Broccoli Stalk
Von Goosewing accidentally creates a potion that sends plants shooting off into the sky, Duckula, Igor and Nanny fall foul of his dastardly plan.
S1.E26 ∙ Family Reunion
Count Duckula is worried when his relatives arrive at The Castle, and fears they may learn he's a vegetarian.
S2.E1 ∙ Ghostly Gold
As Duckula and his family retainers are cleaning out the attic one night, they find a newspaper with the main article depicting a Gold Rush in the Yukon. As soon as Duckula grasps that the gold may be his for the taking, the castle is set off to the Yukon to seek gold, and the three gold-seekers stop in the prospecting town of Goldsville, though the residents are not revealed to the protagonists as what they truly are, ghosts.
S2.E2 ∙ Ducknapped
Count Duckula is eating his breakfast, expecting nothing out of the ordinary when he checks his mail, revealing a ransom note for him saying that the Count has been kidnapped and can be saved if the servants will amass fifty-thousand Transylvanian drachmas to give to the kidnappers. Nanny sees the letter and runs off in fear, bleating that Duckula is missing, though Duckula was not. It is then that the kidnappers are shown; they are two inept gentlemen living in Transylvania, one of who mistakenly sent off the letter before capturing the Count. To correct this, the kidnappers set off to the castle to try and capture him. To complicate matters even more than they already are, Von Goosewing shows up at the castle, crashing through the roof and landing in a bed, where the kidnappers find him, and think that it is the Count Duckula himself, so they make off with him. Nanny and Igor head off in search of the Count with the money in tow, dropping it off at the indicated place, and when Duckula is found, attempt to head off to the kidnappers' home and try to fix this egregious error, not knowing that now that the money has been received, the kidnappers wish to explain that they plan to return the money so as to start the whole kidnapping scam over again. Duckula accepts, realizing that they are fools, and soon makes things miserable for the kidnappers by playing music which they hate on his banjo.
S2.E3 ∙ The Lost Valley
Coutn Duckula, Nanny, and Igor all head out to the movie theater one night, seeing the film "The Lost Valley", which leaves Igor bothered (he wished to see a film on Bela Lugosi, and hates fiction) and Duckula starstruck, which means that he is then fantasizing about heading to the Lost Valley to find the treasures there. Count Duckula (by some paradoxical ploy) transports the castle to the fictitious world of the Lost Valley, where he meets the natives and attempts to find the treasures there. They are found, but Duckula is dissatisfied when he finds out that they are cheap props, and to make matters worse, the castle soon transports off without its inhabitants, leaving them stuck in the film, which soon ends, and leaves them in the screen
S2.E4 ∙ Incredible Shrinking Duck
Von Goosewing is shown brooding as usual that he cannot capture the Count Duckula as he wishes, but soon has an idea to capture him and end him for good: Von Goosewing plans to shrink the Castle Duckula so as to put its and its inhabitants in a snow-globe, where they will be no danger to anyone, (thought they were not to begin with) and with this new plot in mind, Von Goosewing works hard constantly (for years) building a machine that can shrink the castle itself to a snow-globe size, though he inevitably drops it off the edge of a cliff, where it rolls into a gift shop, and is put on the shelf with other globes. Von Goosewing does not know which one could contain the real Castle and so he left with the forced choice of having to buy them all so as to crack them all open. When Count Duckula realizes what has happened, he begins to panic; what will happen to him if he is tiny forever? And so he, Igor, and Nanny head off to the shrink ray to try and reverse the effect, though they are saved the trouble when they realize that they can simply find the ray and reverse it. Von Goosewing, however, being a dim bulb, realizes that now his quarry has escaped him, and thus shrinks himself down to size so as to look for Duckula, but as he is small, sees that the effect projected by the machine does not last long.
S2.E5 ∙ Hi-Duck
Count Duckula, Nanny and a reluctant Igor prepare to jet off on a castle-free holiday to Nice. However, they have not bargained on the same pair of hapless bandits they encountered in Paris a while ago. Chaos duly ensues.
S2.E6 ∙ Prime-Time Duck
Count Duckula wakes up one morning plagued by bright lights coming from outside, only to find out that the lights are coming from a filming crew, who has set out to make a documentary about the life of the Count Duckula, and Duckula jumps for joy at the prospect of this, and is sorely disappointed that the host of the show prefers Igor as the Count and Nanny as a Countess, leaving the true Count Duckula as the servants. This infuriates Duckula and causes troubles much later for him, as he is booted out of his own castle.
S2.E7 ∙ Bloodsucking Fruit Bats of the Lower Amazon
Igor is summoning his new pet, a "bloodsuckung fruit bat" and plots to use his pet to convert Count Duckula into the vampire that he truly is, but fails when he finds out that Nanny and Duckula have been treating the bat (known to Igor as "Fang" but to Nanny and Duckula as "Fluffykins") as a benevolent pet. Igor realizes that his plan has gone awry when this happens and so plots to head to South America to go and find another bat like Fang, or rather, like Fluffykins so as to restart the training of said bat to convert Duckula into a vampire. Igor thus tricks Duckula into sending the castle off to South America to find a bat, and the four of them all meet a zoologist there who is looking for such a bat, as well as a tribe of warrior women who not only resemble Nanny in exact appearance, but capture Duckula, Igor, and the zoologist, making Nanny their queen. Nanny convinces them to release Duckula and co. so as to let them continue hunting for the bat needed. But this proves to have rather a surprising event.
S2.E8 ∙ The Count and the Pauper (I Don't Wanna Work on Maggots Farm No More)
Count Duckula dreams of escaping his life for a much simpler one, by chance, Sid Quack, who's almost a double for The Count, a farm hand, feels exactly the same.
S2.E9 ∙ In Arctic Circles
Duckula is forced to put up with the summer heat in Transylvania and finally decides that he wants no more of the heat, so he and his servants set off in the castle to the Arctic. When the trio sets camp outside in the snow, they find a stately igloo, headed by a servile penguin known as Jives who claims that his master is gone, and due to his absence, Duckula may use the master bedroom. Hearing that Duckula is fed up with Igor's sepulchral manner, Jives offers to serve for Duckula, and in turn, Igor is dismissed, in favor of Jives and his distant cousins, which all work as maids, cooks, etc. With that in mind, Igor teams up with Dr. Von Goosewing to try and rid Duckula of these newfound servants, but Duckula may have his own problems with these new workers.
S2.E11 ∙ Who Dunnit?
Count Duckula has received a letter from a law firm in London saying that a relative (a Duke of Mallardborough) had died and left him (as well as others) something in his will. When Duckula makes it to London, the will reader tells Duckula and the other inheritors that since the Duke was murdered by a person within that room, that none may leave until one confesses. Duckula, being confused, suspects himself and must therefore testify his case in court.
S2.E12 ∙ No Yaks Please We're Tibetan
Duckula, Igor and Nanny go to the Himalayas.
S2.E13 ∙ Beau Duckula
Duckula has had enough of Igor giving him orders about vampirism and Nanny having accidents, to escape, he sets off for The Foreign Legion.
S2.E14 ∙ Mississippi Duck
Count Duckula has yet another venture of success and fame planned: to be a jazz musician. To do this, he, Igor, and Nanny have set out to the Mississippi to find the means for Duckula to be a musician. When he is kicked out of a local jazz club for sounding bad, he states out loud that he "killed them", which is to say, he was better. But a local steamboat captain takes these words to mean that he is actually a hit-man, and offers the Count a job aboard his ship. Duckula accepts, not knowing what is in store for him.
S2.E17 ∙ Return of the Curse of the Secret of the Mummy's Tomb Meets Franken Duckula's Monster...
Add a plot
S3.E3 ∙ Unreal Estate
Count Duckula decides to move his castle somewhere else and settles on Hollywood.
S3.E7 ∙ The Great Ducktective
Von Goosewing attempts to rid the world of Duckula by having two misled detectives try to implicate Duckula as a murderer. Duckula is innocent and does not realize that the person who was allegedly killed, as well as all the murder weapons found in the house, are planted by Von Goosewing as a form of trickery. The detectives do not realize what has truly happened and so try to defraud the Count as a murderer.
S3.E8 ∙ Dead Eye Duck
It's a cold and draft day at Castle Duckula, and the Count desires for a place that is warm and in the sun. He and his man-servants are now located in the state of Colorado where they meet sheriff Quiet Earp.
S3.E11 ∙ The Rest Is History
Duckula goes back through time to try and find the first vampire duck in his family
S4.E4 ∙ Prince Duckula
After an accidental television appearance, the Count is approached to perform as a prince in a Hollywood film.
