Count Duckula video (the first was not televised until 1991, neither was the latter until 1993). "Count Duckula" episodes were also released on special VHS compilations with episodes of other series. In 1989, the episode "Down under Duckula" was released on Thames' VHS title "More Children's Summer Stories", with episodes from "Danger Mouse" and "The Wind in the Willows". In 2001, in the twilight years of VHS, the episodes "The Ghost of Castle McDuckula" and "Venice a Duck, Not a Duck!" were featured on two cult kids' collection tapes, with episodes of "Rainbow, Chorlton & the Wheelies", "Button Moon" and "Jamie &
Count Duckula another Cosgrove-Hall animated series, "Victor and Hugo". A ruthless crew of piratical penguins originally hired by Count Duckula, this crew of seafarers turn on Count Duckula when his antics crash their ship. All of the penguins are typical pirate stereotypes, one of which is known as Mr. Mate and shouts that he will "bite their heads off!" The narrator (Barry Clayton) opens and closes every episode. Episodes usually began with him describing Castle Duckula and its gloomy atmosphere, and close with him saying a phrase popularised in the 1950s and 1960s by American TV horror host John Zacherle, "Goodnight out