Dracula: The Series

1990, regia di Joe Dea e altri*

Scheda: Nazione: USA - Produzione: Cinexus/Famous Players, Homescreen Entertainment, RHI Entertainment - Distribuzione: Blair Entertainment - Soggetto: Phil Bedard, Larry Lalonde, Peter Meech - Fotografia: C.W. Fallin - Montaggio: Brian Q. Kelley - Musiche: Christopher Dedrick - Effetti speciali: Gajdecki Visual Effects - Formato: Color, serie tv - Durata: 30' (22') ogni episodio.

Cast: Geordie Johnson, Jacob Tierney, Joe Roncetti, Mia Kirshner, Bernard Behrens, Lynne Cormack, Geraint Wyn Davies.

Trama e commenti: magazine.foxtv.it: «...E anche Dracula: The Series (1990) traeva ispirazione da un lavoro precedente. Anzi: da diversi lavori precedenti, fra cui spicca il film Ragazzi perduti. La storia è quella di due ragazzini, che si lanciano in una caccia al Conte Dracula insieme allo zio Gustav (Bernard Behrens, Venerdì 13), “ammazzavampiri professionista” che, guarda caso, di cognome fa “Helsing”. Dracula si nasconde sotto le vesti di un importante uomo d’affari (Alexander Lucard, interpretato da Geordie Johnson, Forever Knight), ma Gustav e i suoi giovani e volenterosi collaboratori sanno come attaccarlo... Nel cast della serie, prodotta per una sola stagione, figura anche una giovanissima Mia Kirshner...».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - allmovie.com - en.wikipedia.org - vampires.com - vampyreverse.com - dpcc.com - tv.com - geordiejohnson.com - epguides.com - garnsguides.com - scifan.pazsaz.com - retrojunk.com - sharetv.org - taliesinttlg.blogspot.com: «Directors listed on IMDb are: Allan Eastman, René Bonnière, Allan King, Randy Bradshaw, Allan Kroeker, Jess Woolnough, Joe Dea. The series spans 21 episodes and the whole thing comes in at around 460 minutes. This is a kid’s TV series and carries the problems, for an adult, inherent in that very fact but we will look at those later. The story centers around a family unit. Max (Jacob Tierney, who would go on to play Snake in the Hunger vampire episode Nunc Dimitis) and Chris (Joe Roncetti) are kids from Philadelphia. Their mother, Eileen (Lynne Cormack), works for a bank and is often in Europe and so moves the kids to Europe so she can be nearer to them, placing them in the care of their Uncle Gustav Helsing (Bernard Behrens) who also looks after a young lady called Sophie (Mia Kirshner). Max is, in the first episode, obsessed with vampires and decides that Gustav is a vampire and so seeks help from the billionaire businessman whom he met at a reception with his mother, Alexander Lucard (Geordie Johnson). Of course Max has got it about face and Lucard is actually Count Dracula. They keep the pretence of A. Lucard not being an obvious anagram for the first episode only. The anagram is cracked, so to speak, when Sophie – trapped by the vampire – declares, “You're Dracula”. Dracula gets some great lines and Johnson relishes them, in this case his retort is, “No, I’m Milli Vanilli… Of course I’m Dracula!” The series then sees the children and Gustav pitting their wits against Dracula, from episode to episode with recurring characters appearing from time to time. One of these is Klaus (Geriant Wyn Davies, who went on to play Nick Knight in the series Forever Knight), a particularly vicious vampire who is also Gustav Helsing’s son...».

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