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Remembering the Animated "Count Duckula" Series

11/14/2017

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​A few months’ time will mark the 25th anniversary of the end of one of my favorite childhood TV series, Count Duckula, which ran on ITV and Nickelodeon from 1989 to 1993. The Cosgrove Hall production was a spinoff of the popular Danger Mouse series, but for me it was the funnier and more informative series. It was my first exposure to British humor, and also to many of the tropes of imperialist science fiction, fantasy, and Gothic horror, setting the stage for many of my later interests. It also featured a magnificent art style that was also highly influential on my own art style
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Count Duckula is the only cartoon series from my youth that I loved enough to buy the whole series on DVD. The complete series is only available in Britain, but fortunately I have an all-region DVD player. DVD regions are so stupid in an age when content can be ripped and streamed worldwide. But more importantly, it’s also the only childhood favorite I actually own a piece of. Back when eBay was still new, animation cels from the series went up for auction, and I acquired one for $9 when no one bid on it. Today, cels from the series occasionally appear for sale for five or ten times the price. It is one of my prized possessions. My cel comes from the second episode, in which Duckula visits Spain.
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My animation cel from episode S01E02 "Vampire Vacation." The background is a copy, not an original.
I was only eight years old when Nickelodeon commissioned Count Duckula as a companion piece to reruns of Danger Mouse, which had been a major hit for the network since the channel imported the show in 1984. Duckula was its first Anglo-American coproduction, and it featured a predominantly British cast and writing team, a Spanish animation team, and one American-accented character, the Count himself (though portrayed by English action David Jason), to appeal to American audiences. Reportedly, a Nickelodeon executive had seen a drawing of Duckula from his appearance on Danger Mouse and decided then and there that he would be the star of their new show.

On Danger Mouse, Duckula was a vampire duck with delusions of grandeur, foiled in his attempt to become a movie star by the fact that vampires can’t be caught on film. His appearance was brief and memorable, but not the kind of character that could carry a series meant for kids. In the course of adapting him for his own series, the production team softened him considerably, turning him into a vegetarian vampire, the result of a faulty mad science experiment that led to a flawed resurrection when his faithful retainers Igor and Nanny accidentally substituted ketchup for blood.
 
Count Duckula drew on a wide range of mostly public domain influences, and most of these revolved around Victorian fantasy, adventure, mystery, and horror tropes. Episodes featured parodies of Tarzan and the Frankenstein monster, the Phantom of Opera and, above all, Dracula. While Duckula himself represented the impetuous American teenager, vain and consumed with materialism and entertainment, he was matched by family retainer Igor (voiced by Jack May), who represented the Gothic tradition in all its horrific glory. When I was a kid, I of course identified with Duckula, but as I have grown older, I find that I am more inclined to side with the tradition-bound, world-weary Igor (minus the bloodletting and torture, of course).
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​The series’ first episode set the stage for what would follow, sending Duckula and his crew to Egypt, where they enter a pyramid in search of an ancient and mystical saxophone that Duckula thinks will make him famous. The very British humor of the episode offers an Anglophile version of the famous “Who’s on First” bit with Duckula and some immortal Egyptian retainers confusing one another as “Hu-Mite” and “U-Bee” try to find out “Who might you be?” Notable, though, is the use the episode made of the tropes of Victorian adventure fiction and early twentieth century mummy movies, with the elaborate maze of rooms within the pyramid, the death traps therein, and the curse of the pharaohs. These are the elements of Victorian fantasy, not reality.
 
Count Duckula also taught me about the familiar elements of Victorian adventure, notably the imperial assumption that civilization, as represented by British men, and Empire span the world and sit uneasily atop the wild and the native. I encountered very proper gentlemen taking tea in pith helmets in some outrageous African jungle, and aristocrats with stately homes in the far reaches of the Arctic. Libraries, opera houses, European capitals—all the hallmarks of a certain type of masculine adventure that fell out of fashion a century ago. The old British Empire was played for laughs, but it is testament to the enduring influence of Victorian fiction that its tropes are at once so familiar and so powerful, even in jest. By the time I was old enough to read the original stories, they were already familiar from the jokey version, as filtered through a distinctly British set of influences, namely the Hammer Horror films that inform many of the plot themes throughout the series.
 
But just as importantly, Count Duckula also introduced me to the tropes of science fiction, with episodes dedicated to Atlantis, time travel, space exploration, and mad science. It served as a primer for the various genre works I would soon read in their original form, from Mary Shelley to Jules Verne, and from Tarzan of the Apes to The Prisoner of Zenda. Add to that cryptozoology including the Loch Ness monster and the Yeti, and basically it covered pretty much everything you find on modern cable “documentaries,” but in a way that made clear that these were elements of a fantasy universe, one where ducks talk and there are places with weird names like Cluj. I kid. I only learned as an adult that Cluj is an actual city in Transylvania, the former Austro-Hungarian Klausenburg / Kolozsvár.
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Background drawing of Castle Duckula stairs made for Count Duckula.
​Probably the one thing that really attracted me to Count Duckula was the art style. The show came at the tail end of the traditional hand-drawn animation style, before computers took over, and it is a standout for its era because the art is sumptuous in its detail and painted with deep and rich colors, at a time when extreme stylization and pastel everything dominated animation. Compare the sharp lines, Victorian-influenced realistic backgrounds, and heavy detail with, say, the rounded, simplified forms of its contemporary, Duck Tales, or the hyper-stylized forms of the 1990s “Nicktoons.” Stylization has the benefit of being cheaper, but it isn’t necessarily more beautiful. The exception, of course, is when stylization is done in service of art, as when the classic period Looney Tunes used midcentury modern designs and colors to striking effect. Duckula shares more than a little in common with Edward Gorey and Charles Addams, though it borrows more directly from the same Victorian and Edwardian artistic traditions that those artists drew upon.
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The show’s artistic masterpiece is Castle Duckula, the Count’s monumental ancestral seat, equal parts English stately home and Universal Horror vampire castle. The entrance hall is modeled on Universal’s Dracula, but the décor in much of the rest of the ramshackle castle is bizarrely Georgian, with Victorian accents. It heavily influenced my idea of what a castle should look like, and sadly it has meant that most other castles fail to measure up. In the cartoon, the castle could teleport around the world for 24 hours at a time, providing the impetus for the show’s globe-spanning adventures.
 
I could go on about my favorite Duckula episodes and jokes and gags, but to do so would ruin the fun of watching them, and what astonished me in watching the show again as an adult is how sophisticated it was for a kid’s show on what was then an obscure cable channel. It holds up remarkably well, a few outdated ’80s references and a marked decline in the last batch of episodes aside. It is genuinely good as a cartoon for adults, and not just good in the way parents tolerate halfway decent kiddie fare.
 
Count Duckula was canceled after its third series, but it never had a series finale. Instead, the story of Duckula continued in a short-lived comic book series, and, for strange reasons of scheduling the dénouement occurred not on Duckula but on its own spinoff series, Victor & Hugo four months before the parent series ended. Because the spinoff never aired in America, I was blissfully unaware of sad, miserable ending the Cosgrove Hall team concocted for Duckula. In a pair of episodes, Victor & Hugo revealed that Igor had grown sick of the Count’s globe-trotting adventures and refused to participate any longer, while in a second episode revealed that Duckula had sold Castle Duckula and abandoned his lifelong nanny, Nanny, to live out a miserable existence in the castle attic. The only saving grace is that the castle teleported itself back to Transylvania to restore the status quo, though following the rules laid out in Count Duckula, the plot made no logical sense.
 
Duckula, or a version of him, returned in the recent Netflix Danger Mouse revival, but I have not seen it.
26 Comments
juan
11/14/2017 10:55:12 am

I enjoyed Duckula. Always thought it, like Rocky and Bullwinkle, was made for adults.

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bear47
11/15/2017 09:34:59 pm

Jay Ward, the man behind Rocky and Bullwinkle did not talk down to us kids. For me, the best part of 7th and 8th grade was after school, Rocky was on and then followed by Soupy Sales. Another greta kids show that did not talk down to the kids of that time.

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Supermeerkat
11/14/2017 11:14:58 am

Cosgrove Hall studios used to be not so far from where I live - they closed down several years ago and have since been bulldozed and replaced with Retirement Flats for the elderly.

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Only Me
11/14/2017 11:20:22 am

I never got to see Count Duckula. My favorites were always Space Ghost and The Herculoids. Of course, I remember all kinds of cartoons that probably aren't available on DVD that I got to watch early in the morning before school: George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, etc.

Ah, the good old days. ;)

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Tony
11/14/2017 12:02:27 pm

You have excellent taste in late sities & early seventies cartoons. Remember "Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor"?

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Only Me
11/14/2017 12:27:47 pm

Oh, yeah. I also remember Dino Boy in the Lost Valley, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, Shazzan, The Impossibles, The Galaxy Trio and Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch.

Damn. I'm starting to feel old.

juan
11/14/2017 12:55:05 pm

Old is remembering Crusader Rabbit and Clutch Cargo.

Bob Jase
11/15/2017 01:51:54 pm

Is there anyone else out there who remembers the Super Six?

Bob Jase
11/15/2017 01:51:02 pm

Might as well wish for Ruff & Reddy, Crusader Rabbit too.

Somehow Clutch Cargo IS available.

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bear47
11/15/2017 09:36:52 pm

Crusader Rabbit was one of the very first cartoons I really liked way, way back in my younger days. Clutch Cargo was OK, but not even close to Crusader Rabbit.

BigNick
11/14/2017 02:01:26 pm

I loved count duckula as a kid, but there are some cartoons on now that just blow "the classics" out of the water. Phineas and ferb, Gravity Falls, and the last Scooby Doo cartoon were some of the best written shows on television. Milo Murphy's law and the star wars cartoons are really good too.

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Jason Colavito link
11/14/2017 02:14:47 pm

Oh, sure there are a lot of good ones now! Today, they don't have to worry so much about appealing to the lowest common denominator, so you have some really great ones that adults can enjoy as much as kids, and a whole lot of dreck. Frankly, most of the "classics" from the 1980s and early 1990s are "classic" mostly because they were all that was on. I doubt most of them would even make it to air today.

But the rise of computer animation has one big drawback: You can't hang pixels and an algorithm on your wall the way you can a hand-painted cel.

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BigNick
11/14/2017 06:57:53 pm

Just because you can't hang it on a wall doesn't mean it's not still art.

Wim Van der Straeten
11/15/2017 07:51:48 am

"(though portrayed by English action David Jason)": I assume that must be "actor".

David Bradbury
11/14/2017 04:59:19 pm

Nah. Noggin the Nog still rules.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jisqle37uWI

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Shane Sullivan
11/14/2017 07:26:41 pm

I actually didn't much care for the heavily serialized turn Gravity Falls took toward the end of the series. Not that there was really anything wrong with it, but because I only watched the show when my niece and nephew were around, so I saw the episodes out of sequence in reruns and had trouble following the story arc. I still never saw part 3 of Weirdmageddon, which is a shame, because otherwise I found the series quite funny and enjoyable.

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BigNick
11/15/2017 08:46:36 am

It wad appointment viewing for LittleNick and I. We never missed an episode. I appreciate that more cartoons are serialized now. Gives the kids some credit.

Orang
11/14/2017 05:38:34 pm

Reading the comments makes me really feel old. I remember Lucky Pup; Kuda Bux-the Man with the X-Ray Eyes; Captain Video; Super Circus; Tom Corbett-Space Cadet; Rocky Jones-Space Ranger; Howdy Doody; Kukla, Fran and Ollie; and others, all of which preceded the commented shows. Of course, Flash Gordon, too. Depressing.

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PaulN. link
11/14/2017 10:31:34 pm

Don't forget Beanie and Cecil (both the puppet and animated shows), Tom Terrific and Manfred the Wonder Dog, Thunderbolt the Wondercolt, Rootie Kazootie, Ruff & Ready, and Gerald Mc Boing Boing. And for the more religiously oriented, there was always Davy and Goliath.

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orang
11/15/2017 10:30:38 am

There were a lot of test patterns televised most of the day back then.

Bob Jase
11/15/2017 01:53:51 pm

From my own remembered shows and the ones other folks have mentioned I think we can say that ancient aliens are a complete myth. Otherwise we'd have personally met them.

Karita
11/14/2017 05:49:46 pm

I too love the series. It did not loose its fascination as I got older. And I 've never stopped watching cartoons, even as a grown up. There is some really great stuff out there.

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Jim
11/14/2017 07:29:11 pm

Some of you young whipper snappers were lucky having all these cartoons. We only had one channel and I was often stuck watching Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men. They weren't even really cartoons, no animation, just stinking string puppets !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozp8uwUWtBY

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David Bradbury
11/15/2017 03:27:55 am

BBC TV did, famously, show at least one Disney cartoon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_K2qt4SO-8

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Andrew Morrice link
11/20/2017 04:32:21 pm

It's a rare treat to come across as well-written and informative a post about one of my favourite cartoons as this. The highlights you've made of Victorian adventure and horror tropes are all stuff which inspired my reading and viewing matter as a child and to this day. Sherlock Holmes, Phantom of the Opera and my love of a good horror tale: I probably owe a lot to this show for getting me into that sort of thing, along with Knightmare, The Trap Door and Real Ghostbusters which were all ITV favourites of this Scottish child growing up in 80s/90s UK.

My appreciation of the show has definitely grown with me. There are still bits of artwork or little jokes, subtle acting etc. that I'm constantly discovering upon repeat viewings. I get something out of the show every time I revisit it. Of course, I could apply this to much of Cosgrove-Hall's output too, but if anyone who knew me were to link me to a cartoon, it'd probably be this one.

The show may be a little too pessimistic for some audiences, but I love it for that. UK humour and sitcoms in general have a vein of 'everything that can go wrong, probably will' and I hold Duckula right up there as a prime example.

I'd take issue with you on a couple of points though - the marked decline you mention in the latter episodes I don't quite see myself, given that season 3 contains a number of my favourites, mostly the ones penned by Brian Trueman as a general rule. As for series denouement, that might have been nice, but I lean towards the theory that these episodes were made as stand-alones so that they could be viewed in any order without regard for continuity. This applies the "Victor and Hugo" crossovers too, which also make sense to me. Duckula has sold the castle a couple of times already and/or failed to make it back home in time for it to take off for Transylvania. I also don't think it was 'cancelled' as much as it fulfilled the required 65 episodes for syndication and the creators simply moved on - I'm pretty sure that was how Cosgrove-Hall rolled. The Count also has an American-ish accent in his appearances on "Danger Mouse" - albeit far more spluttering and wacky. I suspect this was done to offset Danger Mouse's very reserved English accent and demeanor.

Of course, I can only speak from a UK perspective and I only ever saw it on ITV growing up, but ITV was a major channel, so the Count was a major player for me.

Your dissection of the high humour and art style is on point - I'll hold my hand up to being influenced by the writing, character and background designs myself and I even managed to track down at least three cels from separate episodes - one of the Count, one of his 2 staff and one of the Phantom.

I do a reviews blog of my own, examining every episode, one by one, so I'm glad to come across a new post here that echoes my views so well and the knowledge that I'm not the only one!

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Marcus
11/29/2017 04:19:40 am

"Who?"
"Ra!"
"And Upshe rises!"

*best line ever*

(I also have such fond memories. Another favourite, though stop-motion based, was "The Trapdoor". "'ullo Boney!" "Hello, Berk.")

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