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TV-miniseries produced by

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and shown only once, with daily episodes from October 15 to October 21, 1978. The series consists of seven 15-minute episodes, written and directed by Flemming la Cour and Edmondt Jensen, with theme music by Willy Grevelund. The plot concerns three young Danes spending a vacation in

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, where they find a coffin sealed with the ring of

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. They take the ring back home to

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, but Dracula rises from his coffin and follows them to reclaim it. Bent Børgesen starred as Dracula, and local celebrities Anniqa,

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and

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had cameo roles as vampire victims. ''Draculas ring'' was the world's first

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-based television series (

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'' (1977) has been aired in two parts on separate dates, thus changing its format from TV-movie to mini-series, but originally premiered complete in one evening with a ten minute intermissionhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl97/1977/12/22 Program for BBC2 Thursday 22 December 1977).

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Episode guide and creditsDraculas Ring RevisitedFinal scene on YouTube
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