33 Facts About Count Duckula

Count Duckula is a British children's animated comedy horror television series created by British studio Cosgrove Hall Films and produced by Thames Television as a spin-off from Danger Mouse, a series in which an early version of the Count Duckula character was a recurring villain.

Count Duckula aired from 6 September 1988 to 16 February 1993 across four series; in all, 65 episodes were made, each about 22 minutes long.

New version of Count Duckula appeared in the 2015 reboot series of Danger Mouse.

Count Duckula was created by British studio Cosgrove Hall Films as a spin-off from Danger Mouse.

Count Duckula is more interested in juicy carrots than hunting for victims.

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Series of annuals and monthly comics further detailing the adventures of Count Duckula and associated characters were released throughout the time that the series originally aired and for a short time afterwards.

Count Duckula is a short green duck with black parted hair and the traditional vampire evening wear, and speaks with a thick Brooklyn accent, despite being voiced by a British actor.

Count Duckula has no fangs, and his favourite food, as a vegetarian, is broccoli sandwiches.

Count Duckula has a very modern outlook, and often despairs over the traditional vampire image he is expected to embody.

Count Duckula hates living in a dark, gloomy castle, and finds the behaviour of his servants to be depressing.

Count Duckula often goes outside in the daytime without suffering any ill effects, but this is likely because of his not being a full "traditional" vampire, which do not do so as a result of the 1922 film Nosferatu, which introduced the idea that sunlight destroyed vampires into modern interpretations of vampires and vampirism in general.

Count Duckula's personality is good-natured and caring, always trying to help the villagers in need, often with mixed results.

The original depiction of Count Duckula has far greater magical powers and makes more common use of them.

Count Duckula has a thick accent consisting of lisping, stuttering and occasional squawks.

The Danger Mouse Count Duckula was destroyed and fell to ashes, resurrected during the 8th astronomical house of Aquarius.

Marvel Comics produced a comic series based on Count Duckula, and introduced an additional difference between this incarnation of Duckula which separated him from his predecessors.

Count Duckula gained a romantic interest in the Star Comics run; Vanna Von Goosewing, who turned out to be the niece of his long time adversary Dr Von Goosewing.

Igor, the Count Duckula's butler, is a traditional horror servant based on the stock character Igor, and adds a decidedly dark streak to some of the show's humour.

Count Duckula is a hunched, balding, cultured vulture with a deep, slow voice and delights in the macabre.

Count Duckula is an extremely large and clumsy hen with a very strong Bristolian accent and her right arm inexplicably always in a sling, possessing incredible strength and inevitably messing up whatever task she is set to do.

Count Duckula is supremely unintelligent, completely unreliable, but utterly devoted to her "Ducky-boos, " as she calls Duckula, and has a deep maternal affection for him, although her clumsiness often inadvertently causes him harm.

Count Duckula is very ditzy and motherly, sometimes hugging Duckula so tightly she nearly suffocates him.

Count Duckula's home is an archetypal Transylvanian castle with all the trimmings: dungeon, torture chamber, library of macabre texts, laboratory, and more.

The teleportation is activated when Count Duckula enters an upright coffin while he states where he wants it to take him.

Count Duckula is a goose that speaks in a German accent, and wears an outfit not unlike that of Sherlock Holmes.

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Count Duckula pursues Count Duckula relentlessly, never able to comprehend that Duckula is actually completely harmless.

Count Duckula is a terrible scientist, often getting maimed by his own crackpot inventions, he is supremely unobservant, and often bumps into Duckula and converses with him for several minutes without realizing to whom he is speaking.

Count Duckula has numerous vampiric relatives all over the world, who are more classic vampires than Count Duckula, possessing fangs, red eyes and evil personalities.

Town situated below Castle Duckula is home to many peasants who live in constant fear of the count, despite his harmless current incarnation.

Count Duckula episodes were released on special VHS compilations with episodes of other series.

In 1989, the episode "Down under Count Duckula" was released on Thames' VHS title More Children's Summer Stories, with episodes from Danger Mouse and The Wind in the Willows.

Count Duckula appeared in North American comics under Star Comics and introduced an additional difference between this incarnation of Duckula which separated him from his predecessors.

Count Duckula gained a romantic interest in the Star Comics run; Vanna Von Goosewing, who turned out to be the niece of his long time adversary Dr Von Goosewing.