Count Duckula episode review blog

Season 3 Episode 3  (episode 48 overall)   Original broadcast date: 5th November 1990 Writer: Brian Trueman Additional voices: Caterpiller/Von Goosewing/                              Dmitri:  Jimmy Hibbert                           Sviatoslav: Brian Trueman                           Zizi L'Amour: Ruby Wax                         Travel location: Nice, Moscow, Hollywood Castle transport visual used. Duckula decides to fly the castle to Hollywood to see if he can sell it. I suppose it's oddly fitting for me to end this reviews blog with the very first episode. Well, sort of. This was in fact the first episode put into production as a sort of test pilot and viewing it, you can see this. A lot of the animation is kind of weird and oddly crude at times and much of the first half is spent on exposition. Von Goosewing even seems to be surprised to read in the newspaper (in the undeaths section!) that Duckula is back from the dead. At some stage they obviously decided to work this into

Season 3 Episode 13  (episode 58 overall)   Original broadcast date: 21st January 1991 Writer: Jimmy Hibbert Additional voices: Game Show Host/Captain                                Farley/Sviatoslav:                            Jimmy Hibbert                           Sandy: Ruby Wax                        Dmitri/Number One: Brian Trueman                         Travel location: Unspecified ocean (it's a mystery cruise after all!) Castle transport visual not used. Nanny wins a mystery cruise on a ocean liner whilst taking part in a game show. Duckula and (reluctantly) Igor come along for the ride. This episode features no traditional horror trappings other than what we'd usually expect as standard (a scene in the castle, Igor insisting on rampart-stalking) and instead is mostly pure sitcom with a bit of game show/nouveau-riche mocking thrown in. Although, unusually, it does feature a bit of an education spot (from Igor naturally) about the Mary Celeste A real life event which ca