• Air date: 12 Oct '11 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. Hide and Seek

      12 Oct '11
      The family are reunited when Erin saves a sick Ingrid from the slayers and Vlad comes to their aid. Vlad invites Erin to stay with them, not realising that she is an imposter.
    • 2. The Enemy Within

      01 Nov '11
      Erin has her newly-bitten brother in the boot of her car and plans to slay the Draculas.
    • 3. Faustian Slip

      07 Nov '11
      Magda returns, and plans to emotionally manipulate Vlad into giving her the Regency.
    • 4. Fangs for the Memories

      08 Nov '11
      Vlad comforts an upset Erin who has been having nightmares about failing to save her brother Ryan, and they talk about his past and how he tried not to become a vampire. Vlad confides his plans for humans and breathers to live side-by-side, and Erin agrees to help him. Unknown to them, Bertrand overhears and disapproves.
    • 5. Carpathian Feast

      14 Nov '01
      Vlad and the count are clashing. Ingrid is nearly better and stirring things up between Vlad and his dad. The count demands Vlad show him some respect by throwing a Carpathian feast, which involves a vampire being thrown to the flames - and Erin is the intended victim.
    • 6. Blood Thief

      15 Nov '11
      Vlad is distracted by thoughts of Erin when he should be training to open the book. The count is furious that the book is no nearer to being opened. He plots with Bertrand to get rid of Erin and they frame Ingrid in the process. Vlad puts himself in danger to rescue Erin.
    • 7. Bad to the Bone

      21 Nov '11
      With Vlad trapped inside the blood mirror, Ramanga is insulted by his absence.
    • 8. Bad Vlad

      21 Nov '11
      Vlad is on the rampage and causes destruction throughout the school on the day of an inspection.
    • 9. Therapy

      28 Nov '11
      Ingrid has hit rock bottom since her near-death experience, and decides to visit a therapist.
    • 10. The Return

      29 Nov '11
      Vlad returns to the school and is changed - he has matured and grown into a leader. The slayers Jonno and Mina Van Helsing arrive at the school, but it appears they are unaware of the existence of vampires and that their mind wipes from four years ago are still in place. Vlad sets out to test them.
    • 11. Hit Chicks

      05 Dec '11
      Post-therapy, Ingrid is pretending she is sweetness and light when really she plans to take charge. She turns a visiting team of netball players into vampires and tells them their mission is to wipe out Vlad. Erin now trusts Vlad and shows him the text in the Praedictum Impaver. It is a foreign language which Vlad cannot read, but Bertrand or his dad may understand it.
    • 12. Blood Loyalties

      06 Dec '11
      Erin goes to the Van Helsings to find out about the super weapon, but to prove herself she must kill a vampire - her brother, Ryan.
    • 13. All for One

      12 Dec '11
      Bertrand believes that if he reads the last words of the Praedictum Impaver, all the power within the book will go to him.