Dracula (film series)

Dracula was a film series in which Peter Cushing was "at home", much like Frankenstein. (PROSE: Lady Penelope Investigates the stars of the Sensational new film Dr. Who and the Daleks!) Indeed, the Doctor once referred to Cushing as "that splendid chap Van Helsing". (PROSE: A Visit to the Cinema)

One of the films in the franchise was Dracula is Dead and Well and Living in London. (PROSE: Greyhound)

Behind the scenes

• In real life, Peter Cushing was indeed a regular cast member in Hammer's Dracula film series starring Christopher Lee as the Count; Cushing played two consecutive versions of Van Helsing. However, in the real world, the film mentioned in The Brigadier's Memoirs was released as The Satanic Rites of Dracula, Dracula is Dead and Well and Living in London having been a working title to which Christopher Lee strenuously objected.
• Parts of the Faction Paradox short story A Bloody (And Public) Domaine, which featured allusions to many versions of the Dracula story, was set by authorial intent during the timeframe of the Hammer Dracula film The Brides of Dracula, suggesting that the Dracula series actually takes place within some version of the Doctor Who universe. The same notion is also implicit in the cameo of Van Helsing in the final scene of the novel From Wildthyme with Love in 1972, which appears to be an allusion to Hammer's Dracula 1972 A.D..