Top 10 TV Draculas
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10. The Halloween That Almost Wasn't
In this 1979 cult-classic TV movie, Judd Hirsch's disco-dancing Dracula was having "one of those days I wish I was dead — and stayed dead." How come? Monsters, having exploited their monsterhood, were on the verge of losing their national holiday.
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9. The Munsters
With a mad scientist's lab in the basement and a DRAG-U-LA in the driveway, the 1960s sitcom's Grandpa had it all — except bite. Perhaps because he was always going for arms instead of necks.
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8. Supernatural
Though the shape-shifting cinephile who morphed into Dracula in 2008's "Monster Movie" was, as Dean put it, a "pumpkin-pie-eye crazy son of a bitch," Todd Stashwick camped it up like his life was at, um, stake.
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7. Superboy
Lloyd Bochner was so delightfully over the top in his 1989 appearance as the titular "Old Vampire" that the Young Man of Steel didn't just expose him to daylight, he flew his nemesis into space to show him the sunrise up close!
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6. Cliffhangers
"Death is something I will never know," insisted Michael Nouri's thickly-accented count in The Curse of Dracula segments of this small-screen take on big-screen serials. The show itself, however, got acquainted with the Grim Reaper after only 10 episodes.
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5. Dracula: The Series
The fangs on Geordie Johnson's Alexander Lucard (spell "A. Lucard" backwards) were sharper than the writing on this 1991 thriller, most notable for giving Mia Kirschner (Bloodline) her first series-regular role.
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4. Bram Stoker's Dracula
In this 1974 TV movie, Jack Palance was theoretically playing the character that the title suggests. But, for all his vamping, he was really just a stand-in for director Dan Curtis' toothsome soap opera anti-hero, Dark Shadows' Barnabas Collins.
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3. Dracula
Though Jonathan Rhys Meyers was arguably the sexiest TV count — OK, maybe not so much in this photo — his 2013 series was more Vlad Tepid than Tepes, and wound up having a stake driven through its heart after only a single season.
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2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Before dusting Rudolf Martin's charismatic count in the WB series' fifth season premiere, Sunnydale's savior had to be certain that he was the real deal. "You're sure this isn't some fanboy thing?" she asked. It wasn't (though it surely inspired a few!).
1. Penny Dreadful
Even before we learned that Camargo's sweet Alexander was, in fact, the prince of darkness, Dracula's spine-tingling, voice-only introduction in the Season 3 premiere had convinced us that he deserved to be called Master.