7.4/1038 votesLoading...#1 - 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
7.4/1033 votesLoading...#2 - 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
7.3/1031 votesLoading...#3 - 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
7.3/1040 votesLoading...#4 - 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
7.2/1035 votesLoading...#5 - 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
7.2/1029 votesLoading...#6 - 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
7.1/1083 votesLoading...#7 - 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
7.1/1032 votesLoading...#8 - 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
7.0/1032 votesLoading...#9 - 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
6.9/1034 votesLoading...#10 - Dear Diary
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/3/1989
Duckula decides to have his ancestors' memoirs published.
Director: Chris Randall
Writer: Jimmy Hibbert
6.9/1024 votesLoading...#11 - 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
6.9/1032 votesLoading...#12 - 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
6.9/1023 votesLoading...#13 - 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
6.9/1027 votesLoading...#14 - 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
6.9/1025 votesLoading...#15 - 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
6.8/1038 votesLoading...#16 - 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
6.8/1031 votesLoading...#17 - 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
6.8/1028 votesLoading...#18 - 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
6.8/1021 votesLoading...#19 - Astro Duck
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/29/1990
Duckula's new supercomputer accidentally launches a rocket into space.
Director: Chris Randall
Writer: Jimmy Hibbert
6.8/1022 votesLoading...#20 - 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
6.7/1025 votesLoading...#21 - 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
6.7/1027 votesLoading...#22 - 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
6.7/1020 votesLoading...#23 - Bad Luck Duck
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/23/1990
Duckula tries to prove to Nanny how stupid her superstitions about friday the 13th are. In the process, Duckula experiences a streak of incredibly bad luck.
Director: Keith Scoble
Writer: Jimmy Hibbert
6.6/1058 votesLoading...#24 - 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
6.6/1056 votesLoading...#25 - 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
The Best Episodes of Count Duckula
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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Best Episodes Summary
"The Ghost of McCastle McDuckula" is the best rated episode of "Count Duckula". It scored 7.4/10 based on 38 votes. Directed by Chris Randall and written by Brian Trueman, it aired on 11/15/1988. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Fright at the Opera".