Hideout Hotel

Hideout Hotel

October 25, 1980 TV Episode Drak Pack

Studio
Hanna-Barbera Studios
Animation studio
Hanna-Barbera Pty. Ltd, Australia

Synopsis

This adventure begins with a beach scene in Florida. Suddenly, a sea monster appears and scares everyone off. The monster is Vampira. Meanwhile, it's winter in the Drak Pack's city. Big D is in Florida for a monster concention, as he is the President of t

Characters

Count Dracula, Drak, Jr., Howler, Frankie.
O.G.R.E.: Dr. Dred, Toad, The Fly, Mummy Man, Vampira

Credits

Directing

Director
Chris Cuddington

Producing

Producer
Doug Paterson
Executive Producers
William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

Voices

Voice
Bill Callaway (Howler, Frankie), Hans Conrad (Dr. Dred), Jerry Dexter (Drak, Jr.), Chuck McCann (Mummy Man), Don Messick (Toad, The Fly), Alan Oppenheimer (Dracula), Julie McWhirter (Vampira)

Music

Music
Hoyt Curtin
Musical Supervisor
Paul DeKorte

Editing

Editor
Gil Iverson
Supervising Film Editor
Larry C. Cowan

Crew

Story Supervisor
Ray Parker
Story Editors
Larz Bourne, Cliff Roberts
Story Direction
Jan Green, Don Sheppard, George Singer, Tom Yakutis
Recording Director
Art Scott
Graphics
Iraj Paran, Tom Wogatzke
Title Design
Bill Perez
Character Design
Chris Cuddington
Layout Supervisor
Steve Lumley
Layout
Shane Porteous, Joe Shearer, Andrew Szermenyei, Deane Taylor
Background Supervision
Richard Zaloudek
Backgrounds
Jerry Liew, Judy Nicholson, Ken Wright, Milan Zahorsky, Sr.
Checking and Scene Planning
Jan Cregan
Xerography
Jack Pietruska
Ink and Paint Supervision
Jenny Schowe
Sound Direction
Richard Olson, Joe Citarella
Camera
Mark D'Arcy-Irvine, Liz Lane, Shaun Bell, Carole Laird, Julie Saben
Dubbing Supervisor
Pat Foley
Editor
Robert Ciaglia
Music Editors
Terry Moore, Joe Sandusky
Effects Editor
Michael Bradley, Karla McGregor, Catherine MacKenzie
Negative Consultant
William E. DeBoer
Post Production Supervisor
Joed Eaton
Production Control
Vicki Joyce
Production Co-Ordinator
Judy Cross
Executive in Charge of Production
Doug Paterson

Companies and other credits

  • PRODUCED BY HANNA-BARBERA PTY. LTD
  • © 1980 HANNA-BARBERA PTY. LTD

Production notes

Drak Pack was made up of the teen-age descendants of Hollywood's most popular monsters. Drak Jr. (a vampire), Frankie (a Frankenstein's monster) and Howler (a wolfman) formed a crimefighting squad in order to atone for their forefathers' misdeeds against humanity. To show that the teens had the blessing of the previous monsters, they usually received their assignments from Drak's great-grandfather, Dracula himself (known as Big D to the Pack).

The gang's nemesis was the evil Dr. Dred, who from his flying "Dredgible" would hatch many an evil scheme. Together with assistants Vampira, Mummy Man, Toad, and Fly, Dred ran a syndicate known as O.G.R.E., the Organization of Generally Rotten Enterprises. In order to defeat O.G.R.E., the Drak Packers would clasp their hands together and shout, "Wacko!," a secret word which gave the teens the super powers necessary to defeat even the rottenest foe.

Drak Pack owed much of its creation to The Munsters and The Monster Squad, but it had a certain hipness that caught the eyes of some viewers. Because the monsters were teens, young horror fans were able to identify with the characters who had been scaring them their whole lives. Unfortunately, due to stiff competition from the other networks, Drak Pack was canceled after one season.