In this episode, “The Vampire’s Apprentice,” the Ghost Buster triumvirate -- Spenser (Larry Storch), Tracy (Bob Burns) and Kong (Forrest Tucker) -- challenges
Countess Dracula (Dena Dietrich) and Count Dracula (Billy Holmes).
In this case, Dracula is portrayed as a senile old bat. At one point in the episode, his fangs even get corked. Also, his sonar-like hearing is apparently really bad. And when he goes to bed in his coffin, Dracula can't go to sleep because he's "afraid of the light," and needs to be told a story.
In this case, Dracula is portrayed as a senile old bat. At one point in the episode, his fangs even get corked. Also, his sonar-like hearing is apparently really bad. And when he goes to bed in his coffin, Dracula can't go to sleep because he's "afraid of the light," and needs to be told a story.
This
evil duo masquerades as the Count and Countess of Luxembourg, but the Ghost
Busters see through the façade, and confront them at their castle, which -- as always -- is conveniently
located next to a creepy (cardboard) grave yard.
The
humor in this episode of The Ghost Busters, also as in all
episodes, feels as antique as Old Dracula himself.
This story labors on the obvious, like “stake (as in wooden…) vs. “steak” (as in to
eat) misunderstandings. At one point,
the Countess of Dracula (Dena Deitrich) quips “be subtle.” Unfortunately, that’s advice the episode and
the series never take.
One of the story oddities featured in this episode:
One bite by a vampire makes you undead. A second bite, however, returns you to a
human state.
That’s confusing, even to
vampires, no? Now let me see, did I bite
you three times or four?
Next week: "Jekyll and Hyde: Together For the First Time."
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