Do you ever wonder what the most popular "Dracula: the Series" episodes are, or which characters have the most fans? As Lucard would say, "Any scientific explanation would only scratch the surface of so great a mystery," but here's an attempt at that scratch, anyway. (Last updated 3/3/97.)

The results are expressed as the percent of respondents who answered the question in a certain way.

Who is your favourite regular character on "Dracula: the Series"?

Lucard/Dracula	85.48%	No favourite	04.84%
Sophie	06.45%	Uncle Gustav	03.23%

Who is your favourite vampire on the series, other than Lucard?

Klaus	59.68%	Dr. Varney	04.84%
the Contessa	09.68%	Lane Zorro	03.23%
Nosferatu	08.06%	Sophie	01.61%
I don't know	06.45%	Lawrence Lei/Alfred	01.61%
Jonas Carey	04.84%

Who is your favourite female guest character?

I don't know	33.33%	Mrs. Pfenning	05.00%
the Contessa	13.33%	Lana Zorro	05.00%
Margo Burton	13.33%	Dr. Gloria Cross	03.33%
Eileen Townsend	11.67%	Anna Dyson	01.67%
Amber Santana	11.67%	Alexa Singleton	01.67%

Who is your favourite male guest character?

Klaus	54.24%	Lance Burton	03.39%
Nosferatu	15.25%	Lawrence Lei	01.69%
I don't know	10.17%	Mycroft Tickler	01.69%
Dr. Varney	06.78%	Ted Singleton	01.69%
St. John-Smythe	03.39%	Herr Blusen	01.69%

What are your favourite episodes? Choose up to five.
This is expressed as the total number of votes each episode received.

My Dinner With Lucard	27
Klaus Encounters of the Interred Kind	26
Bad Blood	24
Sophie, Queen of the Night	23
I Love Lucard	22
Children of the Night	21
Decline of the Romanian Vampire	18
A Little Nightmare Music	12
My Fair Vampire	11
My Girlfriend's Back...	10
Double Cross	9
Mind Over Matter	8
The Vampire Solution	8
Bats in the Attic	7
Black Sheep	6
Double Darkness	4
Get a Job	3
The Boffin	3
Damsel in Distress	3
What a Pleasant Surprise!	2
The Great Tickler	1

If you had to choose an absolute favourite, which would it be?
This is expressed as the percent that individual episodes received of the overall vote. Episodes' former rankings (some were tied) are indicated in red, to the left of the title.

(4) Sophie, Queen of the Night	19.57%
(1) My Dinner With Lucard	17.39%
(2) I Love Lucard	17.39%
(4) Bad Blood	15.22%
(3) Decline of the Romanian Vampire	08.70%
(3) Klaus Encounters of the Interred Kind	06.52%
The Vampire Solution	02.17%
Mind Over Matter	02.17%
Double Darkness	02.17%
Black Sheep	02.17%
Bats in the Attic	02.17%
My Girlfriend's Back...	02.17%
Double Cross	02.17%

Background Information about Respondents:

How did you discover "Dracula: the Series"?

A full 56.45% of all respondents said that they discovered "Dracula: the Series" by just happening to catch it on television. A large proportion of recent respondents found it through TV listings or an advertisement (14.52%), while many earlier respondents found out about the show via Lucard's Home Page itself (6.45%). Other popular means of discovery were the "Forever Knight" mailing lists and having it recommended by a friend (3.23% each). The "Forever Knight" newsgroup and "don't remember" were each chosen by 1.61% of the respondents, and the remaining 12.90% discovered the series through other unspecified means.

The most common response (24.59%) was still "I love it; it is my favourite TV show," followed closely by "I am very fond of it" (22.95%). "I am interested only in Lucard and/or Geordie Johnson" also still ranked high with 13.11% of the votes, but "I am interested only because Geraint Wyn Davies is in it," with which it was formerly tied, fell dramatically to 4.92%. "I used to watch it and like to reminisce," on the other hand, rose from the bottom of the rankings to fifth place (8.20%), right behind "other" (9.84%). "I am interested only because it's related to vampires" remained at 6.56%, and was joined by "It entertains me" (also at 6.56%). The remaining respondents said they are interested only because it's about Dracula, or that they've never seen it but it sounds interesting (1.64% each).

This is a fill-in-the-blank question, so there were quite a variety of responses. I've tried to group them logically. Respondents who saw "Dracula" back during the original airing (answers such as "1990," "1991," or "when it first aired") still edge out newer discoverers of the series, with 56.68% of answers. I also included one respondent who worked on the series in this category, although he may have actually seen the series before it aired. The Sci-Fi channel has introduced at least 23.34% of respondents to the show, as 11.67% named sometime during 1995 as their first time viewing the series, and 11.67% named sometime during 1996 or 1997. The earlier showing on Canadian YTV introduced 3.33% of respondents to the show. Other responses were 1992, 1993, 1992 or 1994, and 1994 (1.67% each). 3.33% hadn't seen the show at all, and 6.67% didn't remember when they first saw it.

All of them	33.87%
Most of them	32.26%
Only a few	17.74%
About half	11.29%
None	03.23%
Only the Klaus episodes	01.61%

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