Young Dracula

For the American short film, see Young Dracula (film).

Young Dracula
Young Dracula Series 1–2 Title Card
Genre	Teen drama Supernatural drama Horror Sitcom (series 1-2)
Created by	Danny Robins Dan Tetsell
Starring	Keith-Lee Castle Gerran Howell Clare Thomas Simon Ludders Andy Bradshaw
Composer(s)	John Rea (series 1) Nick Lloyd (series 2–3) Simon Rogers (Series 4) Michael J McEvoy (series 5)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	66 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Josephine Ward
Producer(s)	Mia Jupp (series 1–2) Lis Steele (series 3–4) Melanie Halsall (Series 3) Candida Julian-Jones (series 5)
Location(s)	Glamorgan (series 1–2) Liverpool (series 3–5)
Editor(s)	Christian Blood Emyr Jenkins Robert Douglas-Reeves Nick Holes Jane Murrell Pedr James Angharad Owen Bleddyn Rhys
Camera setup	Videotape (filmized) (series 1–2) RED (series 3–5) Multi-camera
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	BBC Cymru Wales
Distributor	Fireworks Entertainment (2006-2011) Content Media Corporation PLC (2011–2014)
Release
Original network	CBBC Channel
Picture format	SDTV (576i) (series 1–2) HDTV (1080i) (series 3–5)
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	Original Series: 21 September 2006 (2006-09-21) – 31 March 2014 (2014-03-31)

Young Dracula is a British teenage horror drama television series which aired on CBBC, loosely based on Young Dracula and Young Monsters, a children's book by Michael Lawrence. The final episode aired on 31 March 2014.

The first two series follow the Dracula family, a family of vampires: Vladimir (Vlad), his father Count Dracula, and sister Ingrid. Having lived in Transylvania, they move to Stokely, a small town in Wales after various incidents involving angry peasant mobs. It was filmed in various locations around Wales, including Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, Caerphilly Castle, Tretower Court and parts of Llantrisant. Directed by Joss Agnew, the first series was broadcast in 2006, and the second series, which started in late 2007, concluded in early 2008. { The third series, commissioned three years after the second, sees Vlad and the Count flee both vampires and slayers, while the Count is determined that Vlad should fulfil his destiny to become "the Chosen One". This series was filmed in Liverpool during 2011, in various locations including the disused Margaret Bevan School, Croxteth Hall and Stanley Docks.^[1]^[2]^[3] It began airing on 31 October 2011. The fourth series follows on from season three's predicament and was helmed by a new director, and began airing on 29 October 2012. Young Dracula was renewed for a fifth and final series in 2013, with filming beginning in April.^[4] The hour long finale, "The Darkest Hour", aired 31 March 2014.

Young Dracula was nominated for Best Children's Drama in the 2008 BAFTA Awards and has been nominated for several other awards. An additional series, the Young Dracula Files, began broadcasting on 24 October 2012, in which the main characters tell their stories of the past. It was primarily hosted by the character Bertrand Du Fortunesa, played by Cesare Taurasi.

Characters

Main article: List of Young Dracula characters

Character	Portrayed by	Series
Character	Portrayed by	1	2	3	4	5
Vladimir Dracula	Gerran Howell
Count Dracula	Keith Lee Castle
Ingrid Dracula	Clare Thomas
Renfield	Simon Ludders
Zoltan	Andy Bradshaw
Robin Branagh	Craig Roberts
Chloe Branagh	Lucy Borja-Edwards
Eric Van Helsing	Terence Maynard
Jonathan Van Helsing	Terry Haywood
Mina Van Helsing	Jo-Anne Knowles
Wolfie Westernra	Lorenzo Rodriguez
Alex McCauley	Letty Butler
Bertrand du Fortunesa	Cesare Taurasi
Erin Noble	Sydney Rae White
Malik Vaccaria	Richard Southgate
Sally Giles	Laura Howard
George Giles	*Bella Band
Asan Ramanga	Quinton Nyirenda
Talitha	Eleanor Gecks

Episodes

Main article: List of Young Dracula episodes

Series		Episodes	Originally aired
Series		Episodes	Series premiere	Series finale
	1	14	21 September 2006 (21 September 2006)	21 December 2006 (21 December 2006)
	2	13	2 November 2007 (2 November 2007)	8 February 2008 (8 February 2008)
	3	13	31 October 2011 (31 October 2011)	12 December 2011 (12 December 2011)
	4	13	29 October 2012 (29 October 2012)	18 December 2012 (18 December 2012)
	5	13	13 January 2014	31 March 2014

Ratings

Series	Episode No.	Airdate	Total Viewers	CBBC Weekly Ranking
1
	1	21 September 2006	N/A	N/A
	2	28 September 2006	N/A	N/A
	3	5 October 2006	N/A	N/A
	4	12 October 2006	N/A	N/A
	5	19 October 2006	N/A	N/A
	6	26 October 2006	N/A	N/A
	7	2 November 2006	N/A	N/A
	8	9 November 2006	N/A	N/A
	9	16 November 2006	N/A	N/A
	10	23 November 2006	N/A	N/A
	11	30 November 2006	N/A	N/A
	12	7 December 2006	N/A	N/A
	13	14 December 2006	195,000	2
	14	21 December 2006	194,000	6
2
	1	2 November 2007	313,000	2
	2	9 November 2007	210,000	N/A
	3	16 November 2007	269,000	6
	4	23 November 2007	312,000	5
	5	30 November 2007	270,000	6
	6	7 December 2007	274,000	3
	7	14 December 2007	335,000	2
	8	21 December 2007	242,000	9
	9	11 January 2008	307,000	4
	10	18 January 2008	270,000	4
	11	25 January 2008	201,000	N/A
	12	1 February 2008	137,000	N/A
	13	8 February 2008	291,000	8
3
	1	31 October 2011	454,000	2
	2	1 November 2011	539,000	1
	3	7 November 2011	524,000	1
	4	8 November 2011	437,000	3
	5	14 November 2011	562,000	1
	6	15 November 2011	508,000	2
	7	21 November 2011	557,000	2
	8	22 November 2011	573,000	1
	9	28 November 2011	587,000	1
	10	29 November 2011	520,000	4
	11	5 December 2011	497,000	1
	12	6 December 2011	389,000	5
	13	12 December 2011	457,000	4
4
	1	29 October 2012	407,000	8
	2	5 November 2012	306,000	10
	3	12 November 2012	332,000	9
	4	19 November 2012	334,000	N/A
	5	26 November 2012	272,000	N/A
	6	27 November 2012	253,000	N/A
	7	3 December 2012	326,000	N/A
	8	4 December 2012	341,000	N/A
	9	10 December 2012	269,000	N/A
	10	11 December 2012	312,000	N/A
	11	17 December 2012	326,000	6
	12	18 December 2012	314,000	8
	13	18 December 2012	328,000	5

Awards

In 2007 Young Dracula won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Children's Drama, and the Welsh BAFTA for Best Children's Drama.
In 2008 Young Dracula was nominated for the BAFTA Children's Drama Award.
In 2012 "Young Dracula" was nominated for three awards at the Royal Television Society North West awards including Best Programme and for a Kids Vote BAFTA^[5]

Release

A DVD of the first series of Young Dracula was released on 15 October 2012.

A DVD of the second and third series of Young Dracula was released in 2013.

A DVD of the Series Four released 9 October 2014

A DVD of the Series Five released 5th Nov 2014

References

↑ "Waterloo Road heads to Scotland". How-Do. 23 August 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
↑ "CBBC Programmes - Young Dracula, Series 3, Hide and Seek". BBC. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
↑ "Behind the scenes at Young Dracula". BBC. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
↑ https://twitter.com/clarelucythomas/status/281743927630000129
↑ "2008 Children's Awards - Children's - Awards - The BAFTA site". Bafta.org. Retrieved 1 November 2011.

External links

Young Dracula at the Internet Movie Database
Young Dracula at TV.com

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

Characters

Original novel	Count Dracula Abraham Van Helsing Jonathan Harker Mina Harker Lucy Westenra Arthur Holmwood Dr. John Seward Quincey Morris Renfield Brides

Other works	Adri Nital Alucard Count Alucard Count Orlok Count von Count Doctor Sun Eva Hamilton Slade Janus Postmortem Turac

Historical	Vlad Călugărul Vlad the Impaler Vlad II Dracul

Films

Universal series	Dracula (1931 English-language) Drácula (1931 Spanish-language) Dracula's Daughter (1936) Son of Dracula (1943) House of Frankenstein (1944) House of Dracula (1945) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Hammer series	Dracula (1958) The Brides of Dracula (1960) Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) Scars of Dracula (1970) Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)

Dracula 2000	Dracula 2000 (2000) Dracula II: Ascension (2003) Dracula III: Legacy (2005)

Parodies	Mad Monster Party? (1967) Batman Fights Dracula (1967) Blacula (1972) Mad Mad Mad Monsters (1972) Blood for Dracula (1974) Vampira (1974) Son of Dracula (1974) Dracula in the Provinces (1975) Dracula and Son (1976) Love at First Bite (1979) The Halloween That Almost Wasn't (1979) Fracchia contro Dracula (1985) The Monster Squad (1987) Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988) Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) Monster Mash (1995) Monster Mash (2000) Zora the Vampire (2000) Hotel Transylvania (2012) Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

Other	Dracula's Death (1921) Nosferatu (1922) The Return of the Vampire (1943) Drakula İstanbul'da (1953) Blood of Dracula (1957) The Return of Dracula (1958) Batman Dracula (1964) Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966) Dracula (1968) Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969) Count Dracula (1970) Los Monstruos del Terror (1970) Cuadecuc, vampir (1971) Vampyros Lesbos (1971) Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1973) Count Dracula's Great Love (1974) Count Dracula (1977) Dracula's Dog (1978) Doctor Dracula (1978) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Dracula (1979) Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula (1979) Dracula's Widow (1988) To Die For (1989) Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Nadja (1994) Shadow of the Vampire (2000) Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000) Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002) Dracula (2002) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) Van Helsing (2004) Van Helsing: The London Assignment (2004) Dracula 3000 (2004) The Vulture's Eye (2004) Blade: Trinity (2004) The Batman vs. Dracula (2005) Bram Stoker's Dracula's Curse (2006) Dracula (2006) Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest (2008) The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice (2008) House of the Wolf Man (2009) Young Dracula (2011) Dracula Reborn (2012) Dracula 3D (2012) Saint Dracula 3D (2012) Dracula 2012 (2013) Dracula: The Dark Prince (2013) Dracula Untold (2014)

Television

Series	Draculas ring (1978) Cliffhangers (1979) Drak Pack (1980) Count Duckula (1988–1993) Dracula: The Series (1990–1991) Little Dracula (1991–1999) Ace Kilroy (2011-2012) Young Dracula (2006-2014) characters episodes Dracula (2013-2014) Penny Dreadful (2014-2016)

Episodes	"Treehouse of Horror IV" (1993) "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (2010) "Buffy vs. Dracula" (2000)