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The Best Episodes of Count Duckula

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Every episode of Count Duckula ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Count Duckula!

Count Duckula is a vegetarian vampire duck, coming into the world as an accident. Unlike his family and ancestors, he has no bloodlust, as when...
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  • Hardluck Hotel
    7.5/10(40)
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    #1 - Hardluck Hotel

    Season 1 Episode 15

    Aired 12/13/1988

    When the Transylvanian currency loses its value, Duckula decides to take a vacation out of the country. While looking for a place to stay the night, he runs into a hotel manager that is almost exactly like Basil Fawlty (from the show Fawlty Towers).

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Brian Trueman, John Broadhead, Joyce McAleer

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  • The Ghost of McCastle McDuckula
    7.4/10(38)
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    #2 - The Ghost of McCastle McDuckula

    Season 1 Episode 11

    Aired 11/15/1988

    While in Scotland looking for the Loch Ness Monster, Duckula meets another vampire duck and is taken to his haunted castle.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Brian Trueman

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  • A Fright at the Opera
    7.4/10(33)
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    #3 - A Fright at the Opera

    Season 1 Episode 21

    Aired 2/7/1989

    While visiting the Milan Opera House, Duckula, Nanny, and Igor run into the mysterious phantom. The phantom's servant turns out to be an old school chum of Igor. The action picks up as the Phantom kidnaps Nanny. In trying to rescue her, the opera house is destroyed and the Phantom goes to America to haunt the Grand Ole Opray.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: John Sayle

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  • Igor's Busy Day
    7.3/10(31)
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    #4 - Igor's Busy Day

    Season 1 Episode 12

    Aired 11/22/1988

    A couple who's car has broken down seek shelter in the castle, and causes Igor to think fondly about the good old evil days.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Jimmy Hibbert

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  • No Sax Please, We're Egyptian
    7.2/10(83)
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    #5 - No Sax Please, We're Egyptian

    Season 1 Episode 1

    Aired 9/6/1988

    Duckula travels to Egypt to look for an ancient saxophone that will help him to become a rock star.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Brian Trueman

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  • Castle Duckula: Open to the Public
    7.2/10(35)
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    #6 - Castle Duckula: Open to the Public

    Season 1 Episode 10

    Aired 11/8/1988

    Duckula decides to raise money by opening the castle to the public. This opportunity to enter the castle gives Von Goosewing the chance he has been looking for to finally capture Duckula. Meanwhile, Nanny gets a case of amnesia.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Peter Richard Reeves

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  • Autoduck
    7.2/10(29)
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    #7 - Autoduck

    Season 1 Episode 13

    Aired 11/22/1988

    in another money-making attempt, the count opens the castle as a bed and breakfast. When business is slow, he decides to attract more tourists by breaking the land speed record.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Brian Trueman

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  • Dear Diary
    7.2/10(34)
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    #8 - Dear Diary

    Season 1 Episode 17

    Aired 1/3/1989

    Duckula decides to have his ancestors' memoirs published.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Jimmy Hibbert

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  • Ghostly Gold
    7.2/10(32)
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    #9 - Ghostly Gold

    Season 2 Episode 1

    Aired 9/12/1989

    Duckula finds a newspaper declaring that gold has been found in the mountains. After traveling there, and finding nothing but a ghost town, he realizes that the newspaper was several years old.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Peter Richard Reeves

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  • Whodunnit?
    7.2/10(28)
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    #10 - Whodunnit?

    Season 2 Episode 11

    Aired 11/21/1989

    Duckula travels to England to hear the will of the Duke of Mallardborough. When it is revealed that the Duke was murdered, many different suspects are interrogated. The investigation begins to focus on Duckula, who is coerced into confessing. He is put on trial and, just before the verdict is announced, the Duke appears, alive, and states that his death was a hoax.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Brian Trueman

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  • The Mutinous Penguins
    7.1/10(38)
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    #11 - The Mutinous Penguins

    Season 1 Episode 6

    Aired 10/11/1988

    While looking for the castle, which has transported to the Antarctic, Duckula, Nanny, and Igor are trapped on an ice flow by mutinous penguins. There, they must deal not only with looking for the castle, but with the Vikings that are stuck there with them.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Peter Richard Reeves

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  • Down Under Duckula
    7.1/10(32)
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    #12 - Down Under Duckula

    Season 1 Episode 8

    Aired 10/25/1988

    Duckula decides that Nanny needs psychiatric help, so he transports the caste to Austria. Unfortunatly, the castle ends up in Australia instead. There, Duckula accidentaly gives away the castle's coo-coo clock, whick is a part of the mechanism that allows the castle to transport. He, Igor, and Nanny travel all over Australia to get it back.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Jimmy Hibbert

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  • Ducknapped
    7.1/10(27)
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    #13 - Ducknapped

    Season 2 Episode 2

    Aired 9/19/1989

    Duckula is kidnapped by two very inept kidnappers. Nanny and Igor later rescue him and spend all his ransom money without giving him a share.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Jimmy Hibbert

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  • All in a Fog
    7.0/10(32)
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    #14 - All in a Fog

    Season 1 Episode 9

    Aired 11/1/1988

    Duckula decides he wants to become a famous detective, like Sherlock Holmes, so he, Nanny, and Igor travel to London.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Jimmy Hibbert, Peter Richard Reeves

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  • The Rest is History
    7.0/10(23)
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    #15 - The Rest is History

    Season 3 Episode 11

    Aired 1/7/1991

    The Count goes back in time to stop the first Count Duckula from becomming a vampire.

    Director: Keith Scoble

    Writer: Brian Trueman

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  • Venice a Duck Not a Duck
    7.0/10(26)
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    #16 - Venice a Duck Not a Duck

    Season 4 Episode 5

    Aired 2/2/1993

    The Egg, the Crow brothers, Maurice the Strongman, Charlie the Clown, the Mutinous Penguins, Gaston, Pierre, Cruel, and the Phantom of the Opera all combine forces to get revenge on Duckula.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Jimmy Hibbert

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  • Mobile Home
    6.9/10(24)
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    #17 - Mobile Home

    Season 1 Episode 20

    Aired 1/31/1989

    Some wealthy American tourists visit castle Duckula and decide they want to buy it. Not knowing that it has a transport mechanism, they accept the Crow Brothers' offer to transport the castle to America in pieces.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Jimmy Hibbert

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  • Beau Duckula
    6.9/10(23)
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    #18 - Beau Duckula

    Season 2 Episode 13

    Aired 12/5/1989

    Sick of life at the castle, Duckula runs off and joins the French Foreign Legion.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Jimmy Hibbert

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  • Private Beak
    6.9/10(27)
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    #19 - Private Beak

    Season 3 Episode 1

    Aired 10/22/1990

    The Count becomes a private eye after reading a bunch of detective stories.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Brian Trueman

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  • Prince Duckula
    6.9/10(25)
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    #20 - Prince Duckula

    Season 4 Episode 4

    Aired 1/26/1993

    After a TV appearance, a group of revolutionaries hire Duckula to impersonate a prince.

    Director: Keith Scoble

    Writer: Jimmy Hibbert

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  • Vampire Vacation
    6.8/10(58)
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    #21 - Vampire Vacation

    Season 1 Episode 2

    Aired 9/13/1988

    Duckula goes on a vacation to Spain to visit his cousin.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Peter Richard Reeves

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  • One Stormy Night
    6.8/10(56)
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    #22 - One Stormy Night

    Season 1 Episode 3

    Aired 9/20/1988

    Von Goosewing has created a creature to kill Duckula, but in order to get it to work he must enlist the help of one of Duckula's resurrected ancestors.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Peter Richard Reeves

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  • Rent a Butler
    6.8/10(26)
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    #23 - Rent a Butler

    Season 1 Episode 18

    Aired 1/10/1989

    Duckula decides to make some money by renting out Igor and Nanny to other people as servants. He ends up regretting this when he finds himself alone in the castle.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Brian Trueman

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  • Jungle Duck
    6.8/10(32)
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    #24 - Jungle Duck

    Season 1 Episode 19

    Aired 1/24/1989

    Duckula travels to Africa to find the treasure of an ancient hidden city.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Jimmy Hibbert

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  • The Lost Valley
    6.8/10(26)
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    #25 - The Lost Valley

    Season 2 Episode 3

    Aired 9/26/1989

    While trying to search for treasure, the castle and its inhabitants are transported into a movie.

    Director: Chris Randall

    Writer: Jimmy Hibbert

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Best Episodes Summary

"Hardluck Hotel" is the best rated episode of "Count Duckula". It scored 7.5/10 based on 40 votes. Directed by Chris Randall and written by Brian Trueman, John Broadhead, Joyce McAleer, it aired on 12/13/1988. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Ghost of McCastle McDuckula".