4 years after the live-action Monster Squad failed to click with NBC audiences, Hanna-Barbera decided to take a chance on "reforming" classic monsters Dracula, the Wolf Man, & the Monster of Frankenstein, this time using teenage descendants of the originals, to form the super-team known as the Drak Pack. Here's the opening, courtesy of YouTube:
Drac, Jr. (Jerry Dexter) was a bumbler in the grand tradition of Maxwell Smart (Get Smart), and Dexter paid a little homage to Smart himself, Don Adams, by doing a Adams-esque voice for Drac, Jr.. Of course, the absurdity of it all is the mere fact that Dracula (Hans Conreid) was even capable of siring a child. Same thing for the Monster, and, as it turned out, viewers weren't buying it, either. Drak Pack was cancelled after just 1 season, same as Monster Squad before it.
In 1980, CBS had built their Saturday lineup around classic characters such as Bugs Bunny, Popeye, Tarzan, and returning stars Tom & Jerry and the Lone Ranger. It'd be fair to say that the Drak Pack was the bad apple that spoiled the whole lot.
Rating: C.
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