Television Vampires



Dracula: the Series


This series was run on CBS for one season back around 1990, and I am told that the Sci-Fi channel plays reruns at some point in time. (I can never find them, however.) Check out the pictures. Some of the pictures also hold sound bites from the show, if you click on the image.


AlexanderThe title character of the show, Alexander Lucard, was played by Geordie Johnson. (I don't know if the accent was real or not, but it was great, and when he wasn't vamped out, he wasn't too bad to look at either.) A. Lucard (Dracula spelled backwards) was a tycoon who ran his own international business called Lucard Industries. He walked about in the daylight, ate food like the rest of us and drank lots of blood. Only a select few knew he was a vampire, but he was a very visible man in the financial world.






The effects on the show were a little overdramatic and the plot a little campy, but it was a fun show with some great characters and some interesting takes on vampirism.

Dracula


Highlighted as characters were some fellow vampires (such as seen below).


Dr. Gabor VarneyNosferatuKlausSophie as a vampire



Here we see Dr. Gabor Varney - vampire bone doctor, one of Lucard's foulest enemies Nosferatu, his traitorous sidekick Klaus and Sophie (one of the vampire hunters on the wrong side of the stake). Klaus is the son of Gustav Van Helsing (Lucard's arch enemy). Lucard fed on him one night in revenge upon Gustav. Klaus provides a rash, impulsive foil to Dracula's thoughtful character, and they have one great episode where they exchange quotes from Shakespeare. Click on the picture of Dracula and Klaus below to hear one such quote (my favorite from Romeo and Juliet).


Oh, and yes, Klaus is played by the same man who later became Nick Knight, star of "Forever Knight" - Geraint Wyn-Davies.


The Helsing FamilyGustavChrisSophieMax
Of course, we have to give you a look at the vampire hunters, Gustav VanHelsing, Maximillion, Max's older brother Chris and Sophie. Somewhere along the way of fighting Dracula, they all end up becoming friends - almost a "if we kill Dracula, what will do then, so let's let him live another day."




Links


I've included a couple of pictures here, but for more information, the best site I've found so far is Lucard's Home Page






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