Count Duckula occurs as fictional character, a vegetarian vampire duck, in the animated TV series of the same title created by British studio Cosgrove Hall, and the spin-byproduct from either Dangermouse, the indicate where an evil version of the Count Duckula character was a revenant villain. A series number one aired in September 6, 1988. All told, 65 episodes were processed, every astir Twenty-two proceedings yearn.

the indicate was a free parody of the story of Count Dracula. Placed around Transylvania, Duckulthe lived in a nervous castle, alongside his servant Igor, & his Nanny (universally known as "Nanny" & perpetually inside an arm sling). All the characters in the indicate were (anthropomorphised) birds.

A story (equally shown in the title sequence from each one episode) was that Duckula move as a lamia for centuries. He may lone exist as destroyed by exposure to sunlight or by a wooden stake thrust through his heart. Duckula got within fact died many deaths. However he universally returned across a religious mystic ritual, performed whilst the century, "when the moon is in the eighth house of Aquarius". Yet the theme explored across many episodes was that for each one resurrection created a freshly incarnation with little to no memory of its past. So each incarnation was loose to get its have personality & pursue its personalized interests. So a lamia was take a breath to pose as a dynasty of Numbers of Duckula. A various next generations involved knights, sorcerers, scientists, artists and even agency gamblers. Tons of the two besides secretly existence "vicious vampire ducks".

However when a title sequence put it, "the latest reincarnation did not run according to plan." A successful guide of the ritual called upon blood, the source of nutrients for any lamia. However his servants inadvertently substituted it using tomato sauce. Consequently the newly version was non a blood-sucking vampire but the vegetarian 1. He was sir thomas more concerned inside juicy carrots rather than hunting for those. Igor naturally felt dismayed. Possibly worse, his "new" master was obsessed by using pursuing wealth and fame as an entertainer.

A indicate typically centred as much as Duckula's risky venture within seek of wealth & fame, assisted per castle's ability to teleport around the world. the second regular a portion of the story was Igor & his tries to turn Duckula into a proper lamia. A few episodes featured Duckula's nemesis Doctor Von Goosewing (obviously according to Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, the nemesis of Dracula), a lamia hunter world health organization blindly refuses to suppose a todays incarnation of Duckula is harmless. However others featured a wholly array of flaky, typically supernatural foes, from either zombies to mechanical werewolves.

Voices
Count Duckula: David Jason Igor: Jack May Nanny: Brian Trueman Dr Von Goosewing: Jimmy Hibbert Storyteller: Barry Clayton Various: Ruby Wax

Characters
Count Duckula: Count Duckulthe himself was a studied send-put-on of numerous traditional lamia traits. Besides his vegetarianism & aspirations of fame, he was the super nice & typically cowardly character. A Duckula Personal Motto was: "Per Ardua ad Sanguina" which intended "Work hard for blood". He got a super modern outlook, & typically despaired above the traditional lamia image he was required to be. He despised dwelling around the dark, gloomy castle, and discovered a behaviour of his servants to exist as depressing. Although he retained vampiric powers like teleportation, he rarely utilized the babies. He typically went outside in the daylight forgoing suffering any sick results, & these are unknhave whether this is because of his own individual oddities, of whenever lamia only aren't every bit affected by sunlight as is often claimed. 1 episode featured the prehistoric "first vampire duck" world health organization went call at daylight, & just returned to his coffin because Igor advised him to. Duckulthe has been seen now and then wearing pyjamas using a Danger Mouse logotype, a information to the character's origin. Duckula was a short green duck by using melanize hair & the traditional lamia evening wear complete with cape. He experienced there is no fangs, although his more old-old-hat relatives did. His favorite food was broccoli sandwiches.

Igor: Igor was the traditional horror servant, & added the definitely dark streak to a bit of of the indicate's humour. He greatly disliked his master's behaviour, & typically encouraged him to work inside the far supplementary ghastly manner. He remained positive that in case he can lone talk Duckula into biting, maiming, torturing and otherwise brutalising people it would exist as the link to to the "good old days". He was the stooped balding bird by using the depressed & slow voice. He got served under many last incarnations of Count Duckula, making his age uncertain. Seeing when he might simply exist as brought back "once a century" & Igor experienced performed a project multiple days inside his life, he was clearly super old & even perpetual.

Nanny: Nanny is, when her title would indicate, Duckula's nanny, when well as housekeeper. She was an extremely big & clumsy hen, inevitably messing up whatever project she was placed to run. Particularly she got the blind spot regarding doors, and would typically crash across the door while forgoing opening it number one, or hike correct through the wall. When this behaviour suggests, she was the supremely stupid character, & all undependable. She was astonishingly devoted to her "Ducky-Boos", when she known as Duckulthe, & got a deep enatic warmheartedness for him, though her clumsiness typically unwittingly induced him harm. The revenant gag was her inability to read what humans around her were talking just about, typically mixing higher words & ingesting insult at conversations non directed at her. Rather Igor, her age wwhen uncertain, as she experienced apparently been using Duckula for many of his incarnations. Her correct arm was perpetually around the sling, though the reasons for this come undisclosed. A sling itself seemed to use at times limitless carrying capacity, when she was a cappella to make any total of things from either it, Harpo Marx style.

Dr Von Goosewing: Von Goosewing was the mad scientist and vampire hunter, who was the travesty of Abraham Van Helsing. He was never suspire to comprehend that Count Duckulthe was a threat to cipher, & stalked him unrelentingly. He was the terrible man of science, typically generating wounded by his have crack-crank inventions. He was as well supremely unseeing, & capable of bumping into Duckula & conversing sustaining him for many minutes forgoing realising world health organization he was talking to. Von Goosewing spoke around the German accent, and experienced an imaginary friend, "Heinrich", whom he often spoke to & blamed for his mistakes. A comic book version of the characters by Marvel Comics revealed that Heinrich was actually his former help world health organization was universally complaining for his moo wage. Von Goosewing mentioned that Heinrich threatened to resign but was still by owning him. Apparently Heinrich did quit however his previous employer failed to realise it. Whenever nin inventing occasionally newly machine to hunt lamia by owning, he would rely on an old fashioned rifle which was loaded with the wooden stake (although curiously it actually fired laser beams). A Marvel comic books based in the indicate besides added the supporting character to him: his niece Vanna world health organization Duckula experienced a crush on. Von Goosewing typically flew the dirigible with 'VG' written on it.

Storyteller: a storyteller opened & closed each episode, talking rather a traditional horror carrier, & trying to produce it seem when in case the contents of the indicate were genuinely atrocious. Episodes commonly began by having him describing Castle Duckula & its gloomy atmosphere. It closed sustaining a him expression "Goodnight out there...WHATever you are!"

Castle Duckula: An old fashioned Transylvanian castle with all the trimmings: dungeon, torture chamber, library of macabre texts, laboratory, etc. A castle may teleport to in any area olympian games (& beyond) however returned automatically at dawn. It was activated when Duckula entered an erect casket while saying in which he wanted it to require him. A controls to this device were in an old fashioned cuckoo clock that hung on the wall. Within a clock lived deuce mechanical bats, Dmitri & Sviatoslav, world health organization would punctuate apiece episode by coming out & redeeming stale jokes to every more. These jokes were therefore bad that it actually drove a character world health organization got been given the clock harebrained. A fact that a characters experienced heavy Russian accents, and that Sviatoslav typically didn't see a punchlines didn't serve matters. A castle experienced an typically referred to however never seen werewolf named Towser living in it.

Relatives: Duckula experienced any total of vampiric relatives completely above the world. These were other classic lamia than Duckula, possessing fangs, red eyes & evil personalities. It come from either numbers of different countries, like Spain, Scotland and Australia, and inevitably represented a culture it were from either.

Other credits
Writers: Brian Trueman, Jemmy Hibbert, Peter Richard Reeves, Jan Needle, John Sayle Animation directors: Carlos Alfonso, Jean Flynn Project: Chris Randall, Dan Whitworth, Margaret Riley, Paul Salmon, Vincent James, Edmund Williams Music: Mike Harding Theme Song Sung by: Mike Harding, Doreen Edwards Director / associate producer: Chris Randall Producers: Brian Cosgrove, Mark Hall Executive Producer: John Hambley