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Warning: Episodes are in the wrong order



I was watching the Dracula the series DVD set and I realized there is a pretty big mistake and this mistake dates back to the series' original air dates.

The final episode of the series is Klaus Encounters of the Interned Kind. This ends with the semi-cliff hanger of Gustav Helsing following Lucard (Dracula) and Klaus through a portal in Dracula's castle. And the boys Christopher and Max preparing to return to America with all of Gustav's notes. Yet someone made the mistake of airing the episode My Dinner with Lucard after Klaus Encounters of the Interned Kind.

My Dinner with Lucard is a clips episode of all the previous episodes (leading up to Klaus Encounters of the Interned Kind) and turned out to be a dream of Gustav Helsing. This is clearly set BEFORE he followed Lucard through the portal. I do not know why it was aired in the wrong order or why the DVD set maintains this misorder.

Otherwise it's a great DVD set of a fun TV series in the vein (if you pardon the pun) of shows like Goosebumps. The show focuses on the adventures of sixteen-year-old Christopher Townsend and his ten-year-old brother Max Townsend. They take up residence with their Uncle Gustav Helsing who lives with a local student, Sophie. Chris and Max soon learn that their uncle is actually a vampire hunter from a long line of vampire hunters and their biggest thread is Alexander Lucard, a highly successful and corrupt corporate mogul (sort of like David Xanatos of Gargoyles) who turns out to be Dracula himself. It's a fun show but jut be wary of the mistake in the episode order.





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The only reason that they did that last episode was due to the fact they were told it was to be cancelled after they filmed the cliffhanger episode...
I was baffled too until I read it on a website many years ago!

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Was it to imply the cliffhanger was also a dream? It felt like it belonged before the cliffhanger.

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Don't really know for sure.....I guess the episode was supposed to be for the second season.

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I got the impression the clips show was meant to be before the two parter because it ends with Gustov Helsing waking up after some bad Schnitzel. So the clips show was all a dream. But it's after the cliffhanger episode on the DVD which ended with Gustov going through a portal after Dracula and Klaus, and our remaining heroes heading back to America. According to several episode lists the clips episode is meant to come before this cliffhanger to prepare you for the cliffhanger. There is no sane reason it comes afterward. It doesn't make sense afterward.


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