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Synopsis[]
Attack of the Vampire is an episode of Challenge of the Super Friends. It originally aired over ABC on 14 October 1978.
Dracula returns from the grave and tries to turn everyone on the planet into vampires. As the SuperFriends rush to stop him, Superman and the Wonder Twins are turned into Vampires. The rest of the SuperFriends must find a cure for them and find a way to stop Dracula
Count Dracula in Attack of the Vampire
Plot summary[]
In the remote heights of Transylvania's mountains, Dracula awakes after a 100-year sleep. Dracula starts havoc by releasing a strange glowing powder over an airplane in flight over Transylvania; the powder turns all the flight crew and the passengers into vampires who turn into bats and fly to Dracula's castle. Meanwhile, Batman & Robin receive a distress call and speeds off to Transylvania. They search Dracula's castle only to get captured by Dracula himself. Later Wonder Woman and Aquaman arrive in Transylvania after the Wonder Twins report it was taken over by bats only to be attacked by dozens of mindless vampires. Another report of vampire attacks comes into the Hall of Justice; Superman answers the call and goes to Vienna to stop them. While in Vienna, Superman runs into Dracula, who was continuing to make more vampires, and gets turned into a vampire. Seeing Superman is under Dracula’s control, the Wonder Twins attempt to stop the vampire Man of Steel only to be turned into vampires by Superman. Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Batman, and Robin all escape the face of danger only to find that Superman and the Wonder Twins have been turned into vampires and are turning everyone they encounter into vampires. The four Super Friends regroup at the Biological Research Center in Switzerland to find a way to reverse the effects the vampires have on people. They now must find a strange breed of South American bat in the Andes Mountains whose cave has gases that could reverse the vampire effect. It’s now up to the Super Friends to transform the vampires back to normal and figure out a way to stop Dracula.
Continuity[]
This episode marks the third time in the SuperFriends universe that the team has met one of the original Universal monsters. The other episodes are:
- The Mummy of Nazca: The Mummy
- The Superfreinds Meet Frankenstein: Frankenstein's monster
The process of turning people into vampires via beams is later reused in the episode The Voodoo Vampire though the beams come from the Vampiress fangs rather than her eyes.
Continuity in Other Media[]
Obviously this show is meant for children so showing vampire bites was impossible for this time period. Therefore, the way that Dracula and his henchmen turn people into vampires is via eye beams or vampire dust.
Cast[]
- Superman – voiced by Danny Dark
- Batman – voiced by Olan Soule
- Robin – voiced by Casey Kasem
- Aquaman – voiced by William Callaway
- Wonder Woman – voiced by Shannon Farnon
- Wonder Twin, Jayna – voiced by Louise Williams
- Wonder Twin, Zan – voiced by Michael Bell
- Gleek – voiced by Michael Bell
Villians:
- Count Dracula-- voiced by n/a
Episode Title[]
Coming Soon!
Notes[]
This episode was unusual in that it puts Batman into a very "gothic horror" type of setting, very reminiscent of the comic books at the time, but never touched upon much in the cartoon.
- Despite being heavily censored, this was an unusually dark episode for the series. It depicted the Super Friends as vampires, which hadn't been done at that point in any cartoon. Also, the setting was reminiscent of old gothic horror stories like Dracula himself would have appeared in. This was much like the darker Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams Batman comics of the era.
- In this episode Batman recognizes Dracula's castle as the home of the evil vampire. He later repeats the same shocking realization when he recognizes Frankenstein's castle in "The Superfriends Meet Frankenstein".
- Superman's vampire face is similar to the one that appears in a later episode entitled "Universe of Evil".
- References:Artesian well; Austria; Baltic Sea; bat climbing gear; bat-finger file; bat-makeup; blue whale (largest animal on Earth); capital city; Carpathian Mountains; cave gas antidote; distress call; Deep Cave in the Andes Mountains; Giant Cave Spider; Gleekula; Justice League Emergency Relay (Hall of Justice Emergency Relay); marine telepathy; Scandinavia; Scandinavian Harbor; smoke bomb; South American bat; Swiss Biologic Research Center; Switzerland; Transylvanian Airport; Transylvanian Alps; Trouble Alert; vampires; vampire bat; Vienna
Quotes[]
"Meanwhile at the Hall of Justice." Narrator
"Welcome to the castle of Count Dracula." Dracula
"Soon Earth will be a planet of the Living Dead!" Dracula
"Holy vanishing vacationers Batman!" Robin
External links[]
Coming Soon!
References[]
| Previous Episode: Trial of the Superfriends |
Next Episode: Monolith of Evil |
| Season 3a: new SuperFriends (1978) Season 3b: Challenge of the SuperFriends (1978) | |