Young Dracula
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Young Dracula is a British children's television series which was created by CBBC and is directed by Joss Agnew in 2006.This program is currently shown on CBBC on BBC1 every thurday at 5pm.
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[edit] The plot
The Dracula family (Vlad, his dad The Count and his sister Ingrid) once lived in Iran (where Vlad and Ingrid where born) and later emmigrated to Transylvania after Ingrid bit onto a schoolboy in her nursery in Tehran. Then they all moved to a normal small town in Britain. It is considered to be set in Wales, due to the Welsh accents given to the actors. It is also filmed in Glantaf High School in Cardiff.
[edit] Cast
- Keith-Lee Castle - Count Dracula
- Clare Thomas - Ingrid Dracula
- Geran Howell - Vladimir Dracula
- Donna Grant - Magda Westenra
- Lucy Borja-Edwards - Chloe
- Craig Roberts - Robin Branaugh
- Terence Maynard - Mr. Van Helsing
- Aneirin Hughes - Graham Branaugh
- Simon Ludders - Renfield
[edit] Rare casts
- Hilda Braid - Mag
[edit] Characters
[edit] The Draculas
- Count Dracula
Count Dracula is a 600 year old vampire who has immigrated to Britain to escape his sealed fate in Transylvania. He is extremely sexist (which may be a reason why his wife ran off with a werewolf. he favours his son Vlad and is constantly ignoring and making his daughter's (Ingrid's) life a pain. (even though Ingrid has the characteristics that he expects of his "perfect child". He even tried to marry her off in an episode. He is often mistaken for a rockstar because of his style of clothing outside the castle.
- Vladamir 'Vlad' Dracula
Vladamir Dracula (born 1996 in Tehran, Iran). Vladamir 'Vlad' Dracula- Unlike his sister, Ingrid, Vlad would much rather prefer to be a normal kid, rather than a spirit of darkness. He finds friendship with outcasts Robin and Chloe Brannagh, as well as his sarcastic pet wolf, Zoltang. He is very emotional of his mother's betrayal to his father as well as exasperated but his father's complete ignorance of human life.
- Ingrid Dracula
Ingrid Dracula (born 1992 in Tehran, Iran), is the daughter of Count Dracula. Being arrogant and cruel but extremely sexy, Ingrid spends most of her time taunting people or arguing with her sexist father to get her rights in the house, but ironically she is proud to have Count Dracula as a father and in a sort of a way she hero-worships him. She also avoids the wooing of two school boys who follow her around all day.
- Renfield
Dracula's servant/dogsbody, Renfield is a disgusting specimen who likes nothing more than eating maggots and nothing less than humans.
- Zoltang
Vlad's pet wolf, Zoltang is annoyingly sarcastic and flippant and is always against Vlad's ridiculous plans.
- Magda
Dracula's ex-wife, Magda 'ran off with a werewolf'.
- Mag
Vald and Ingrid's grandmother and the mother of Magda. Mag appears quite rarely and only makes three appearances throughout the series.
[edit] The Brannaghs
- Robin Branaugh
Vlad's unintelligent best mate with a fixation on vampires, (even wearing a cape to school) Robin is one of the more unintelligent characters of the show. Despite this, he is shown as being an incredible chessmaster, apparently beating 'the greatest chess player in history' repetively.
- Chloe Branaugh
A year younger than the more unintelligent Robbin and Vlad, Chloe is a voice of reason amongst the trio and a sort of an arch-enemy to Ingrid.
- 'The Twins'
A couple of sporting over-achievers, the twins both have a large crush on Ingrid. Though originally simply annoyed by their presence, Ingrid eventually grows into a sort of friendship between the two. They are amongst the only characters who are unaware of the Draculas' secret. They both refused Ingrid's proposition to marriage (she offered them to marry her to escape her fathers sexist rule over her).
- Mr and Mrs Branaugh
Plumber and housewife, the annoyingly cheery Mr and Mrs Brannagh are a constant pain in the neck for Dracula, and for Robin. Although the count does develop a friendship with Mrs Branaugh in an episode and Mr Branaugh gets slightly close to Count Dracula's ex-wife Madga
[edit] The Van Helsings
- Mr Van Helsing
Incompotent vampire slayer, Mr Van Helsing originally believes Robin to be one of the undead but then turns his attentions to Vlad. While not a huge threat to the much stronger Dracula, he is a constant annoyance to the family, who, under no circumstances can unleash their secret on the world.
- Jonathan Van Helsing
The 'Ingrid and Vlad' of the Van Helsings, Jonathan is often exasparated by his father's tendency to see vampires everywhere. He is, however, rather unintelligent being unable to spot that Vlad, Ingrid (on whom he has a huge crush on but she ignores him completely) and Count Dracula are in fact vampires. He is frequently hypnotised by Ingrid, once into peforming ballet in a classroom and another into giving himself a mad haircut. His father continuosly ignores his needs because of his vampire obssession and jonathan tries to tell him that's the reason why his mother ran away.
