Count Duckula

- Season 1

(1988)

One day, after nearly being killed by Nanny delivering a breakfast of "cocoa and choccie biccies", Duckula threatens to give up his title and escape to South America, leading Igor to take him through the picture gallery of the castle to remind of his ancestry. While being lectured about the pictures, Duckula asks Igor about his great-uncle's great-uncle, The Archduck McGanza and his discovery of the "mystic saxophone", an instrument known to give any who play the saxophone power over life and death, and over all the forces of the universe. Duckula hopes to use it to ...

Count Duckula and his family retainers are coping with the rainy days and Duckula wishes to leave the rain and gloom behind, so Igor suggests that they head to Spain, and visit Don Diego, Duckula's pyromaniac cousin. And so when the castle moves off to Spain, Duckula receives a rude awakening in the form of his castle catching fire, Nanny mistakenly puts out the fire, and this act doesn't sit well with the local villagers, who have them all imprisoned, until they find Don Diego, who wishes to chop the villagers up and invite some other vampires as guests to join in, ...

On a dark and stormy night, Count Duckula is being read a scary story and soon abandons this little happening to try and fetch himself a snack, while, unbeknown to him, Von Goosewing is in another wing of the castle and is making a monster which he hopes will wipe out Duckula. The lightning used for Goosewing's experiment, however, redirects itself into the crypt-like basement of the castle, where it finds a stone Duckula and reanimates it, creating a new, evil Duckula which wishes to find people to brutalize. All around the castle, then, everything is a mess, Duckula...

Count Duckula and his servants have decided to visit the funfair and soon visit a ride on a roller-coaster which can take them back and forward in time, where they see things such as the first vampire, a future ruled by vegetables, the French Revolution, and trouble hits in the most garish of ways when the conductor of the roller-coaster says that he will leave Duckula and Igor back in time to marry Nanny.

Count Duckula is unhappy with the state of his castle, so he hires an interior decorator called Mr. Roberto to fix it up for him. And by fix it up, he means completely changing it, much to the dismay of Igor and Nanny. This leads to three problems: Mr. Roberto's workmen are incompetent and lazy, Igor and Nanny have gone on strike and Dr. Von Goosewing is up to his usual antics.

Count Duckula has lost the castle somewhere in the Arctic seas and enlists the aid of some piratical penguins with the twisted plot to leave Duckula and his retainers out in the Arctic seas so that they might search for treasure. It works, and the trio is abandoned out on a desolate icy island where Nanny produces piping hot tea which awakens several vikings from being frozen in ice. These vikings further aid Duckula and company their queen is thawed out as well courtesy of Nanny's tea. With time, the castle is found through a fight out in Arctic seas, more treachery ...

Doctor Von Goosewing has created an invisibility machine, and plans to infiltrate Castle Duckula, and finish of The Count.

Intending to take Nanny to a psychologist in Austria, The Castle gets it wrong and lands in Australia, where the travellers encounter local Bill Platypus.

Count Duckula decides to go to foggy London to become a famous detective. Unfortunately for him, Goosewing is already there, and even worse are a couple of jewel thieves and detectives Hemlock Soames and Dr. Potson. When all of the elements of the plot collide, things become very surreal...

Count Duckula decides to open Castle Duckula to the public for some extra cash after encountering some financial difficulties.

Count Duckula gets his castle refurbished and tuned up since it is in need of repair. So, Igor, Nanny, and Count Duckula use the car to travel to the Glen Sparrows Hotel in Scotland. What Duckula does not know is that they are not heading to the Glen Sparrows Hotel, but to Castle McDuckula to visit his uncle Rory McDuckula. Igor is taking him there so that his master would become a real vampire, without letting his master know about the secret. While at Castle McDuckula there is a ghost that lives there.

Igor finally gets to revive the "bad, old days" when a young American couple are stranded in the storm & must stay in Castle Duckula. But watch the drawbacks when Duckula's a vegetarian, Nanny helps, & this couple is NOT put in danger.

Count Duckula wishes to break the land speed record, there's just one snag, he doesn't own a car.

Count Duckula wishes to be a superhero much like his space-faring idol, Tremendous Terrance, so he stocks up on cereal tokens to earn a helmet like the one Tremendous Terrance wears. Von Goosewing, meanwhile, schemes to blow the castle up into orbit. It works, and the castle is sent off into space, where it is bombarded with troubles, first oncoming asteroids, then it is attacked by Oids, creatures in the Tremendous Terrance comic book. Tremedous Terrance soon arrives on the scene to save Duckula and company from the aliens, and at Duckula's request is sent off to the...

Count Duckula decides to go on a holiday to a hotel called Hardluck Hotel, though when he arrives, nothing is even close to his liking. The hotel itself is in terrible disrepair, the service is bad, and everything is rank and fetid. To end this torment, Duckula goes straight to the hotel manager to check out, but as luck would have it, it has only just been revealed in the papers that Transylvanian drachmas (Duckula's currency) are now deemed worthless in the current market. Faced with this dilemma of not having one red cent to pay for his considerably short stay, ...

Count Duckula, Igor, & Nanny are in Paris where their artistic misadventures draw the attention of the thieves Gaston & Pierre, Inspector Migraine, & Quasimodo, Hunchbudgie of Notre Dame.

Count Duckula is writing in his diary and suspects nothing out of the ordinary, when Igor comes along and tells him that Duckula's diary reminded him of the previous Count and the fact that he himself, kept a diary. This lifts Duckula's interests for a moment or so long enough to decide to take this book straight to the presses to have printed out. As luck would have it, Dr. Von Goosewing, up to his usual vampire-snagging tricks, decides to see whether or not he can disguise himself as a publicist so as to infiltrate Castle Duckula. As he looks for a reporter's ...

After realizing that his castle is understaffed, Count Duckula goes to Rent-A-Butler Inc. to look for some new employees for his castle. However, since it transpires that butler and nannies are in high demand and earn very high wages, Duckula decides to sell his last two loyal employees, Igor and Nanny, to the agency instead. Without anybody to cook for him or look after him, Duckula accepts an invitation to a dinner hosted by the 'Nouveau Riche' family where Igor and Nanny are now serving. Duckula decides to go disguised as his second cousin, the honorable Lobilia, ...

Duckula acquires a collection of The Encyclopedia Transylvania, which prompts a trip to The Jungle to find a lost treasure.

The Crow Brothers are short on money so they decide to try out a new scheme. They sell Castle Duckula to an American couple, who wish for it to be transported to their home country. This leads to a new problem: how to get it there. They decide to transport it a brick at a time, hoping that the inhabitants of the castle, Duckula Igor and Nanny, don't notice...

Duckula, Igor and Nanny attend the Opera, Igor bumps into an old friend, who's in the employ of 'The Phantom,' who's set to commit a dastardly deed during the performance.

Von Goosewing is, as usual, hovering over Castle Duckula trying to find some way to obliterate Duckula and broods on his inability to do so, but as he is about to take a sip of some coffee, actually drinks from his patented carpet stain remover. This has a surprising effect on the drinker; it will turn them into the reverse of what they are for a short time. Von Goosewing then comes to the conclusion that he can get Duckula to take this chemical so as to neutralize him long enough to eliminate him, and he plans to put it in Duckula's milk. Needless to say, chaos soon ...

The entire village of Transylvania are desperate in winning the village of the year award. But, there is one problem, they needed the castle to be remodeled in order to win. So, after a game of drawing straws, two villagers decide to go to the castle to persuade Count Duckula to fix up the place. After listening to their persuasion, the Count believes that it is a great idea, much to Igor's dismay. Since Count Duckula is penniless to repair the castle, the villagers convince him to take a grant from the Town Hall. After their arrival at the Town Hall, they start a ...

Duckula, Igor and Nanny join the Circus Straciatella, but the ex employees of The tight fisted Ringmaster have other ideas.

Von Goosewing accidentally creates a potion that sends plants shooting off into the sky, Duckula, Igor and Nanny fall foul of his dastardly plan.

Count Duckula is worried when his relatives arrive at The Castle, and fears they may learn he's a vegetarian.