• Air date: 02 Nov '07 13 episodes
      Young Dracula is a British teenage horror drama television series airing on CBBC, loosely based on Young Dracula AND Young Monsters, a children's book by Michael Lawrence. Directed by Joss Agnew, the first series was broadcast in 2006, and the second series, which started in late 2007, concluded in early 2008. A third series was commissioned three years later and began airing on 31 October 2011, and a fourth began airing on 29 October 2012. The first two series follow the Dracula family, a family of vampires: Vladimir, his father Count Dracula, and older sister Ingrid. Having lived in Transylvania, they move to Stokely, a small town in Wales after various incidents involving angry peasant mobs. It was filmed in various locations around Wales, including Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, Caerphilly Castle, Tretower Court and parts of Llantrisant. The third series, commissioned three years after the second, sees Vlad and the Count flee both vampires and slayers, while the Count is determined that Vlad...
  • List of Episodes (13)
    • 1. Kidnipped

      02 Nov '07
      Now that the Count and Van Helsing are aware of each other, it's war. For the first skirmish, they kidnap each other's children.
    • 2. The Yanks Are Coming

      09 Nov '07
      The Count is excited, because his even more bloodthirsty younger brother Ivan is coming to stay. But life in America has changed Ivan - he now wants to be known as Harvey, and has adopted a "blood-free diet"! Meanwhile, Vlad meets his weedy 15-year-old cousin Boris, who is about to undergo the "transformation."
    • 3. Mirror Mirror

      16 Nov '07
      Vlad's cousin Boris is approaching his 16th birthday, when he will make the transition to adult vampire, but his increasingly frequent moments of bloodlust, coupled with his developing vampiric powers, make life difficult for everyone around him.
    • 4. Bad Reflection

      23 Nov '07
      It's time for Vlad's cousin Boris to make the transformation to adulthood, but he doesn't want to become a fully-functional vampire any more than Vlad does. Can anything be done to stop it?
    • 5. Dad's Back

      30 Nov '07
      When experiments with alchemy by Vlad and Robin accidentally lead to the resurrection of Renfield's father, will the elder Renfield be a help to Vlad's quest for a cure to vampirism, or does he have a quest of his own?
    • 6. Baby Dracula

      07 Dec '07
      Vlad's mother Magda returns to the castle with a shocking announcement, and Van Helsing is talking about giving up vampire-slaying.
    • 7. Insomnia

      14 Dec '07
      Falling asleep in the daytime causes young Vlad to enter the vampire dream world, where he must defeat the dream slayers or he will never wake up.
    • 8. Love Bites

      21 Dec '07
      On Valentine's Day, a new girl named Delila distracts Vlad's attention from stopping his father's quest for a new victim.
    • 9. Bodyswap

      11 Jan '08
      When the Stokely Museum acquires a relic called the Staff of Carpathia, Vlad thinks that he can use it to escape his vampiric destiny, but instead an accident causes an identity problem for the Count and Van Helsing.
    • 10. Sweet Sixteen

      18 Jan '08
      As the castle bell tolls for Ingrid's 16th birthday, it's time for her "coming of rage" transformation into an adult vampire, but she balks on considering what this will mean for her human boyfriend, Will. Meanwhile, Mr. Van Helsing is being forced by his wife to destroy all his vampire-fighting gear.
    • 11. Eclipse

      25 Jan '08
      Suspecting that his father is responsible for a recent disappearance in Stokely, Vlad tries to remove all the telltale signs of a vampire from the castle when the police come looking, but is foiled by a solar eclipse.
    • 12. When Vampires Go Bad

      01 Feb '08
      The Grand High Vampire shows up unexpectedly in Stokely and condemns the Count to death, then just as unexpectedly is killed. Is the Count responsible?
    • 13. The Chosen One

      08 Feb '08
      A new war against vampires begins, and a slayer named Kurt threatens Vlad's entire family.