Having been chased out of Transylvania by revolting peasants the Dracula family are forced to leave and start a new life in Stokely. Once they’ve arrived at the castle the Count lays down the law to his two children Vlad and Ingrid – there is to be no mixing with the locals. His law is soon broken when a boy from the village, Robin, breaks into the castle & discovers that his neighbours are vampires.

The Count insists that his children will not go to school. Vlad is gutted, all he wants to do is go to school and be normal but his father is adamant – that is until the Headmistress turns up and insists that they go to school or the Count will be in serious trouble. Vlad is thrilled but the Count is determined to find out who dobbed him in. At the school we meet the Van Helsing’s – Van H is immediately suspicious of Robin who he’s convinced is a vampire. By the end of the episode however his attention is turned to Vlad...and so it begins.

Vlad & Ingrid’s evil mother Magda turns up at the castle after her relationship with Patrick the werewolf hits the rocks. Vlad isn’t pleased to see her as he knows she’s just going to leave them and break his heart – again. Van H breaks into the castle – but Vlad and his trusted friends ensure that the Count is safe from the local slayer. Shame they can’t protect him from Magda as well.

When the Count buys a TV he becomes obsessed with daytime TV & decides to make his own TV programme in the castle. Robin thinks that he was swapped with Vlad at birth & after a diet of ridiculous daytime TV plotlines the Count believes him. With Chloe’s help Vlad has to find a way to convince the Count that he’s his true son.

Vlad and Robin get suspended after taking the blame for one of Ingrid’s evil pranks. The Count has to tutor the boys from the castle and a hypnotism lesson goes horribly wrong when Vlad gets carried away and changes his dad into Count Normal and the Branaghs into blood thirsty vampires.

Vlad thinks his fangs are coming through and is in a foul mood – this means that he really is turning into a vampire. When the Count tries to marry Ingrid off on her 15th birthday Robin pretends to be her vampire boyfriend to save her being sent off to live with a spotty vampire husband in Trans-siberia. Vlad thinks he has bitten Chloe when she stays the night and Chloe thinks she has turned into a vampire.