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Series One (1988-1989)[]

Number Episode Title Original Airdate Written By Plot Notes
1 No Sax Please, We're Egyptian! 6 September 1988 Brian Trueman In the very first episode, Count Duckula, Igor and Nanny travel to ancient Egypt in an attempt to recover an ancient artifact known as The Mystic Saxophone but the Crow Brothers try to foil their plans. Script Editor:

Jimmy Hibbert

2 Vampire Vacation 13 September 1988 Peter Richard Reeves Von Goosewing makes his debut as Duckula travels to Spain to meet his arsonist cousin and fights the deadliest bull in Spain. Script Editor:

Jimmy Hibbert

3 One Stormy Night 20 September 1988 Peter Richard Reeves Chaos looms in the castle, as Goosewing's Frankenstein monster awakens, Nanny hides in the attic, Duckula seeks a snack, Igor gets lost and a stone replicore of Duckula's ancestor is resurrected, on One Stormy Night! Script Editor:

Jimmy Hibbert

4 Transylvanian Homesick Blues 27 September 1988 Peter Richard Reeves Duckula, Igor and Nanny (along with Dr Tyme) take a rollercoaster ride through time...Literally! Script Editor:

Jimmy Hibbert Additional Dialogue:

Chris Randall

5 Restoration Comedy 4 October 1988 Jimmy Hibbert Bored with the look of the castle, Duckula hires a designer to redecorate the castle with Goosewing not too far behind...
6 Mutinous Penguins 11 October 1988 Peter Richard Reeves Lost in the Arctic seas, Duckula, Igor and Nanny must survive bloodthirsty pirates, defrosted Vikings and Dr Von Goosewing in order to find their home. Story and Additional Dialogue:Chris Randall
7 Dr. Von Goosewing's Invisible Ray 18 October 1988 Brian Trueman Dr Von Goosewing, along with his new invisible ray, invades the castle in another attempt to kill Duckula with hysterical results! Script Editor:

Jimmy Hibbert

8 Down Under Duckula 25 October 1988 Jimmy Hibbert While in Australia, Duckula accidentally sells the clock to a wallaby owner and must retrieve it before dawn rises in Transylvania.
9 All In A Fog 1 November 1988 Peter Richard Reeves Inspired to be a detective, Duckula travels to England to solve a mystery, filled with old criminals (literally!) a homage to Sherlock Holmes and Goosewing's Fog Machine. Script Editor:

Jimmy Hibbert Additional Dialogue:

Chris Randall

10 Castle Duckula: Open to the Public 8 November 1988 Peter Richard Reeves Duckula decides to hold an open day at Castle Duckula and Goosewing tries out his latest invention in his easiest attempt to kill Duckula but it ends in disaster as usual and Duckula's tea party ends with a foodfight and Igor getting hit by a custard pie filled with cornetto Ice cream inside. Script Editor:

Jimmy Hibbert

11 The Ghost of McCastle McDuckula 15 November 1988 Brian Trueman Duckula, Igor and Nanny, on holiday in Scotland hope to stay at the Glen Sparrows Hotel but Igor has other ideas like visiting Rory McDuckula at his haunted castle and chaos ensures with Nanny hitting Igor instead of the ball on the Golf course and Goosewing trying to blast McDuckula with his bagpipe vampire blaster. Script Editor:

Jimmy Hibbert

12 Igor's Busy Day 22 November 1988 Jimmy Hibbert An engaged couple spent the night in Castle Duckula, allowing Igor to relive his good old days. Story by:Chris Randall
13 Autoduck 29 November 1988 Brian Trueman Duckula tries (with many failed attempts) to create a world record for the world's fastest car. The Crow Brothers make their second appearance. Script Editor:

Jimmy Hibbert

14 The Vampire Strikes Back 6 December 1988 Jimmy Hibbert

& Peter Richard Reeves

Duckula collects enough Crunchie Nut tokens to collect a Space explorers helmet and in space, he meets his hero, Tremendous Terence.
15 Hardluck Hotel 13 December 1988 John Broadhead, Joyce McAleer & Brian Trueman Duckula goes to stay at a worn out and run down hotel for the weekend but he has cash problems and ends up doing all the work for the manager (inspired by the character Basil Fawlty in 'Fawlty Towers') unaware that Igor and Nanny are also staying there.
16 The Hunchbudgie of Notre Dame 20 December 198 Jimmy Hibbert

& Peter Richard Reeves

Duckula, Igor and Nanny are involved in a series of art thefts in Paris mainly because of Gaston & Pierre who have the deeds to the castle. It's up to Duckula & Igor and the Police to solve the mystery.
17 Dear Diary 3 January 1989 Jimmy Hibbert Duckula and Goosewing discover their grandfathers' diaries, and history is sure to repeat itself!
18 Rent a Butler 10 January 1989 Brian Trueman Duckula sells Igor and Nanny to an agency to make some money. All goes well, until he is invited to dinner to the house where Igor and Nanny are serving. What will happen?!
19 Jungle Duck 24 January 1989 Jimmy Hibbert Duckula wins a set of encyclopedias and he, Igor and Nanny travel to the jungles of darkest Africa to find the Lost Temple. When Duckula finds what he thinks is the temple, he gets a nasty shock when he discovers he has ended up back at Castle Duckula and knows he'll never find it when the castle goes into return mode. When the castle returns to Transylvania, Duckula said: 'I hate you! I hate you!' to the castle.
20 Mobile Home 31 January 1989 Jimmy Hibbert Thinking he is rebuliding the castle, Duckula accidentally sells it to The Crow Brothers in disguise, brick by brick!
21 A Fright at the Opera 7 February 1989 John Sayle A homage to The Phantom of the Opera, as Nanny is kidnapped by The Phantom and Duckula must save her. But where is Igor...? Script Editor:

Jimmy Hibbert

22 Dr. Goosewing and Mr. Duck 14 February 198 Jimmy Hibbert Goosewing creates a formula where when drunk, the victim becomes the complete opposite of their original selves. Duckula and Goosewing=Vampires, Igor=kind and caring and Nanny-intelligent.
23 Town Hall Terrors 21 February 1989 Peter Richard Reeves Duckula goes to the Town Hall to get a grant for his crumbling castle but he ends up having a railway running through the castle.
24 Sawdust Ring 28 February 1989 Jimmy Hibbert Duckula, Igor and Nanny join the circus, only (in the end) to bring the house down (literally!) with their acts and two evil ex-performers, Maurice and Charlie.
25 Duck and the Broccoli Stalk 7 March 1989 Jimmy Hibbert Thanks to Goosewing's vegetable grower, Duckula, Igor and Nanny find themselves up a broccoli-stalk and into a giant's castle.
26 Family Reunion 21 March 1989 Jimmy Hibbert

Duckula is chosen to host the family reunion but he does not like it one bit as he knows that his relatives will kill him if they discover that he's not a real vampire. He disguises himself and visits Von Goosewing to order to get rid of his rotten relatives. Unfortunately, the plan fails after several attempts to enter the castle and on the sixth attempt, Igor sees them and after Goosewing finds out that Duckula was with him he said to Duckula 'You fiend! You monster!!' before stabbing Nanny with his stake. Goosewing then ran out of the castle and fell off the cliff. Duckula was pleased when Igor told him his relatives had gone but blew up after Igor told him that they were coming back after seven days.

Series Two (1989-1990)[]

Number Episode Title Original Airdate Written By Plot
1 Ghostly Gold 12 September 1989 Peter Richard Reeves Duckula travels to the black mountains in the Yukon to find treasure and gold, only later to find out from Igor that everyone in Abergoldwye were all ghosts. After Nanny carelessly bangs the doors too hard, the Castle later collapses and falls down sending everything in the castle right to the bottom of the hill. This was because Von Goosewing (unseen by Duckula) was drilling through the hill to find Duckula unseen.
2 Ducknapped 19 September 1989 Jimmy Hibbert A ransom note is sent to Castle Duckula saying that Count Duckula has been kidnapped, even though he's still in the castle. The two young men who sent it try to revert their mistakes but kidnap Dr Von Goosewing by mistake. Duckula then lets them 'kidnap' him, but they soon regret it, and Nanny and Igor spend all of the ransom money.
3 The Lost Valley 26 September 1989 Jimmy Hibbert Duckula, Igor and Nanny go to watch a film called 'The Lost Valley'.
4 The Incredible Shrinking Duck 3 October 1989 Jimmy Hibbert Von Goosewing tries shinking the Castle to put in a glass snowglobe model but chaos ensures.
5 Hi-Duck 10 October 1989 Jimmy Hibbert Duckula, Igor and Nanny take an airplane to Nice, which gets hi-jacked by the bumbling French crooks, Gaston and Pierre. Duckula foils them inadvertently, but has to return to Transylvania to serve as a witness in a trial against the French duo.
6 Prime-Time Duck 17 October 1989 Peter Richard Reeves Transylvanian Television arrive at the castle to feature it in a Television programme much to Igor's misery. Duckula is excited about it until the producer and presenter choose Igor to play the count and Nanny as a countess. Duckula is chosen to play all the servants. This causes trouble for Duckula later as he is booted out of his own castle. Duckula said to Nanny and Igor: 'I've only got one thing to say to you and that is "arrraaggh!!"'.
7 Bloodsucking Fruit Bats of the Lower Amazon 24 October 1989 Brian Trueman After Fang the Bat's (or as Nanny and Duckula call him, 'Fluffykins') training by Igor as a blood-sucking bat is ruined by a preferred taste for choccy-biccies, Igor tricks Duckula into sending the castle to the Lower Amazon in order to find another bat to train into a vampire bat. With helicopter pilot Elvyra Bonboodle in tow, they find themselves in the grasp of a female Amazonian tribe, the 'Tana-pana-nuna-wana-khanahs', who all bear a striking resemblance to Nanny!
8 The Count and the Pauper 31 October 1989 Jan Needle & Jimmy Hibbert Duckula is sick of life at the castle and plans to leave Beckindale, only to bump into Sid Quack, an old pal of his, a farmer. The two swap jobs for a few months but both soon tire of their new roles and plan on returning to their old jobs but unfortunately for Duckula, his plan to get back in the castle backfires after the secret entrance is blocked off and Igor thinks he is an imposter and tells him to go away. Sid then says: 'LET ME OUT,LET ME OUT!!', Duckula then says: 'LET ME IN,LET ME IN!!', Duckula then screams over Beckindale.
9 Arctic Circles 7 November 1989 Brian Trueman Duckula travels to the North Pole and fires Igor for a penguin butler called Jyves. Igor, meanwhile hires Von Goosewing to shoot Jyves and his eight other cousins to rid Duckula of these new found workers.
10 Transylvanian Take-Away 14 November 1989 Jimmy Hibbert Gaston and Pierre and Von Goosewing, in disguise over the phone, at a local takeaway food shop in Beckindale, break into Castle Duckula to steal two vases which are later revealed as fakes but Igor sees them and throws the three of them out by kicking them through the castle doors really hard. The three of them challenge Duckula, Igor and Nanny by beating them to a museum to find the real ones later that day but end up getting arrested by the Irish Police, the Garda.
11 Whodunnit? 21 November 1989 Brian Trueman A letter arrives at Castle Duckula sent by Chatham, Cheetam and Runn, lawyers in London, announcing the sad passing of the seventh Duke Of Mallardborough, murdered in unusual circumstances. Duckula, Igor and Nanny fly the castle to Henheim Palace where the contents of the Duke's Will will be read. Among others attending the reading are Miss Marbles and Hercules Parrot (obvious parodies of Agatha Christie's characters!), Aunt Rose Madders, Willoughby Stane and screen starlet Lyvinia Lavender. At the reading, to the horror of everyone, it is revealed that the Duke's murder was committed by someone in the room! With the palace gates locked, everyone suspects everyone who may have been responsible for the Duke's murder. Ultimately, Duckula fails to recall his whereabouts on the night of the murder and confessing to the Duke's murder finds himself in the dock! (or should be say 'duck'?!)
12 No Yaks Please, We're Tibetan 28 November 1989 Jimmy Hibbert The Trio trsvel to Tibet.
13 Beau Duckula 5 December 1989 Jimmy Hibbert Duckula joins the French foreign Legion in Leicester.
14 Mississippi Duck 12 December 1989 Jimmy Hibbert Count Duckula and his servants travel onto a steamboat in the River Mississippi, where he tries to become a jazz trumpet player. However, this wasn't what everyone else on the boat had in mind...
15 Amnesiac Duck 19 December 1989 Jimmy Hibbert Duckula falls down a hole in the castle's cellar.
16 The Mysteries of the Wax Museum 2 January 1990 Jimmy Hibbert Whilst visiting London, Duckula, Igor and Nanny bypass the famous Madame Tussauds in favour of visiting Dr. Matrix's Wax Museum. Upon meeting the famous threesome, Dr. Matrix seizes the opportunity to produce animatronic models of Duckula, Igor and Nanny for exhibiting to the public, and as usual, Igor is not cool with the idea. In fact, Dr. Matrix is pure evil, as he intends to programme the robots to rob the Bank Of England. With the robots brought to life, the inevitable confusion between the real and fake Duckula, Igor and Nanny ensues, especially to the eyes of the famous detective Hawkeye Solmes and his assistant Dr. Potson, who are assigned to investigate the robbery. Duckula, Igor and Nanny got stranded in London when the castle went without them. Duckula said: 'The stupid, idiotic, crumbking, useless, arrrrrraaagghhh!!'
17 Return of the Curse of the Secret of the Mummy's Tomb Meets Franken Duckula's Monster ... 9 January 1990 Jimmy Hibbert Duckula is chased by an alien cabbage, a werewolf, a mummy, Frakenstein's monster, Von Goosewing, and some angry villagers. He flies the castle away from Transylvania to escape his pursuers to an island near Scotland but he gets eaten for a monsters breakfast.
18 The Lost City of Atlantis 16 January 1990 Jimmy Hibbert Count Duckula and co. are stuck on a tiny island, which transforms into a pod that takes them deep down the ocean into the lost City of Atlantis and they're not very well welcomed by its people or its apathetic King.
19 Bad Luck Duck 23 January 1990 Jimmy Hibbert Duckula experiences some real bad luck on Friday the 13th. The next day Duckula read the Newspaper at breakfast and Friday the 13th had come round again after the printers put the wrong date on the paper. Duckula lost his temper with Igor and fell out with him.

Series Three (1990-1991)[]

Number Episode Title Original Airdate Plot
1 Private Beak 22 October 1990 Duckula becomes a private detective in Chicago.
2 Astro Duck 29 October 1990 Duckula's new computer causes problems for TRASH and ends up landing the castle on the moon. Barry Clayton provided a funny closing narration at the end with 'as we say Goodnight Outthere, whatever you are, ha, ha, ha!!' with all the planets and moons surrounded by the darkness.
3 Unreal Estate 5 November 1990 Duckula is fed up with the Castle crumbling around him so he decides to sell it much to Igor's horror in Hollywood. But he unfortunately is stalked by Von Goosewing and his plan to start a new life away from the Castle is foiled by the castle returning to Transylvania at Dawn automatically. Duckula was really angry and upset when the castle returned to the hill.
4 Bombay Duck 12 November 1990
5 There are Werewolves at the Bottom of Our Garden 19 November 1990
6 Duck Ahoy 26 November 1990
7 The Great Ducktective 3 December 1990 Goosewing tries to frame Duckula for a relative's murder with the help of Detectives Soames & Potson.
8 Dead Eye Duck 10 December 1990
9 The Show Must Go On 17 December 1990
10 A Christmas Quacker 24 December 1990 Duckula is visited by both Father Christmas and Von Goosewing at the Castle on Christmas Day.
11 The Rest is History 7 January 1991 Duckula travels back in time to stop the first Count Duckula from becoming a vampire.
12 O.O. Duck 14 January 1991 The Egg decides to steal Castle Duckula to take over the world.
13 Mystery Cruise 21 January 1991 Duckula is sat alone in the castle waiting for Nanny's favourite TV show "Super duper double drachma deal" to start. Igor moans that Duckula would rather watch TV with Nanny than stalk the castle ramparts, however Nanny doesn't appear and it turns out that she is on the show. Somehow Nanny blunders through winning a cruise for three aboard the luxury liner "The Transylvania Tania". She would like to take her sister and her niece Primrose, but ends up with Duckula and Igor accompanying her. After various mishaps involving Duckula opening the cabin porthole and Nanny taking a turn at steering the ship (Oh heck), the party come down for breakfast the next day and find the ship apparently deserted. Igor comments on the similarities with the Mary Celeste mystery and they set out to search the ship not realizing that they are being followed by the captain and the passengers all of whom have gone into hiding to get away from Nanny. Failing to find anyone else aboard, Duckula announces that they'll take a lifeboat and row to the shore. With Nanny on the oars, they power along only to hear cheering and see fireworks coming from the liner which promptly makes for the open sea. Duckula Igor and Nanny remain adrift leading into "The lost city of atlantis".

Series Four (1993)[]

Thames Television ceased broadcasting on New Year's Eve 1992 to be replaced by Carlton Television. After 1992, Thames became an independent producer, and are now Talkback Thames owned by Fremantle Media and Pearson and Talkback Studios. When the third DVD boxset was released in the UK by Fremantle Media, the seven episodes which make up Series 4, were added to Series 3, to complete the series.

Number Episode Title Original Airdate Plot
1 Around the World in a Total Daze 5 January 1993 Von Goosewing, with the help of world famous explorer Sibellious Smogg, challenges Duckula to a race around the world. Goosewing cheats and Duckula wins after stranding Goosewing and Smogg at the North Pole after Nanny untied the rope to Goosewing's balloon which was attached to the castle. (This episode saw the last appearance of Von Goosewing.)
2 Manhattan Duck 12 January 1993 Castle Duckula mistakedly lands in the middle of New York, on top of all places, a department store, and Count Duckula makes a bit of money by selling the contents of the house. The only problem is getting back; the clock, an important part of the castle's travelling mechanism, has been sold too!
3 Alps-A-Daisy 19 January 1993 Duckula tries to impress the nanny fan club by winning all the winter sports.
4 Prince Duckula 26 January 1993 After an accidental television appearance, Count Duckula is approached to perform as a prince in a Hollywood film.
5 Venice a Duck Not a Duck 2 February 1993 In Venice, the Egg plans to get his revenge on Duckula by asking all his adversaries from the past barring Von Goosewing, to plan a nasty end for the count, only it doesn't work. The crow brothers end up being thrown back to London after being thrown over St Paul's Cathedral.
6 A Mountie Always Gets His Duck 9 February 1993 Duckula travels to Canada to become a Mountie and to help an old friend, Geoffrey to arrest and lock up a French villain on the run. But it as usual ends in disaster.
7 The Zombie Awakes 16 February 1993 Dr Quackbrain (voiced by Barry Clayton, the narrator) lures Duckula to his dream machine for his greatest experiment. (Final episode).
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