Count Dracula BBC Drama 1977 Ep.1 part 1

[ashemaria16]

Just started watcning this as i heard it was the closest to the book. But Mina and Lucy are sisters?

[ashemaria16]

Yes yes yes! can't wait to watch this. I hear it's a great version

[Medusa7700Siren]

I think the guy playing Johnathan is the same one who played Edward in my favorite version of Sense and Sensibility! ;D

[TheClassics4]

It's strange, Jonathan Harker is living in the 1800s, but his hair seems to be living in the 1970s

[ThePiscean60]

fantastic film, thanks so much for posting- Jourdan is the perfect Count Dracula, I've loved this since first seeing it on public television back when it was released in the 70's-many thanks1

[EvilTwin2469]

SSSOOOOO much better than Twilight!!!!!!

[Fartacus1]

Nice. I like the way the "music" to the opening credits is nothing more than hard wind and thunder.

[AlliyaandRaza]

copolla's version was a joke. this is much better

[sheilarph]

This is the best treatment of Bram Stoker's Dracula I have ever seen.

[crownprincetaffe]

wish they had Dracula as an old man with white hair as he is at the start of the Stoker novel but apart from that it's not the worst adoptation i've seen.

[AnaiBendai]

I saw this on PBS when I was a kid - and naturally it scared the hell out of me. I have never forgotten that haunting music... (i.e. like at the very beginning of this episode) It has stuck with me for decades as the most chilling music I've ever heard. There's something so bittersweet about it - full of such longing and hope - all tinged with the fetid reek of rot and decay; attar - the rotting of funeral flowers...

[TheTitanic4]

Does anyone else think BBC could do an awesome version of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera? and make it very true to the novel.

[stardaddyo9]

fantastic version

[44excalibur]

Thank you so much for posting this! This is the only version of Bram Stoker's Dracula that comes closest to the novel, and it finally gets Jonathan and Mina's relationship right! :)

And I hate the Coppola version, by the way........

[RPenta]

@44excalibur Jordan, si-Langella, no-Oldman-you have to be kidding.

[RPenta]

@RPenta What I said was: Yes to Louis Jordan, No to Frank Langella and Gary Oldman was basically a cartoon-as was Anthony Hopkins as Van Helsing.

I strongly agree with you.

[44excalibur]

@RPenta Ohhhhhhh! Sorry! I didn't quite get what you meant. Yeah, now I understand. Sorry about that. And I strongly agree with you.

[cromben]

Thank you so so so much for this!

[MrOutofthis]

i stayed in bram stokers apartment in whitby,very creepy,strange unnerving feeling inside .

[eastend59]

I remember seeing this on TV too years ago and agree that it is nearest to the novel by Bram Stoker.

[avaliya27]

THANK YOU FOR THIS AVAILABLE.

[jimsed1964]

Thanks for uploading this. My favorite version of Dracula! In my book it is the best version of Dracula ever filmed. It really captures the atmosphere of Stoker's book. It is so deliciously creepy!!!!

[sheilatx]

so very many thanks for this

[Pasifaessa1]

@sheilatx my pleasure ;-)

[cehussey]

By far my all-time favorite version of the Dracula narrative.

[navsikand]

One of th ebetter and mroe faithful adaptations , and happy my favorite charchter of Lucy is developed more and given more screen time than usual.

[mari66101]

Wow, thanks so much for posting this...i saw this program on a PBS station back when I was a teenager.

[gettingpissedoff]

I liked this version too, I saw in the 90's. I thought it was a movie though because when I saw they showed it all at once like a movie, not in episodes like a show.

[daxis12]

Fantastic. Been looking for this for ages. Thanks for posting!

[PhflyDan1]

BRILLIANT! Thanks for posting....

[vonkvetch]

I remember watching this as a kid when it was first shown by the bbc. My cousins and I had to beg my aunt and uncle to let us stay up because they were sure we would all have nightmares! We didn't fortunately but we still found it very scary! Thank you so much for posting the series!

[itzjoeymac]

Awesomeness.

[jec1ny]

Hands down the best of the many film adaptations. Thanks so much for uploading.

[mrsskullduggery]

I watched this as a 12-year old and was petrified

[TheWhistler3]

The most faithful version of Dracula I have seen. Doesn't hurt that Louis Jordan is Dracula.

[kikyosan543]

dracula rules

[NonDramaZone]

I always Jourdan was the best Dracula.

[MissAliGrace]

Haha, May the fourth be with you.

Thanks for the upload. I'm excited to watch it.

[Pasifaessa1]

No problem. I'm happy that someone loves that version as much as i do...

[RPenta]

Thx for posting this: the best version of Dracula ever made; Lugosi, Lee, and Jourdan were the greatest ever to don the cape with respect to Lon Chaney, Jr. and Jack Palance.

[itzjoeymac]

@RPenta If only Lugosi had been able to play the part as written here!