My Crazy Youth: Dracula Battles The Defenders of the Earth!

This would have been perfect for October!
I just didn't know that it existed until last week.

The Defenders of the Earth was an '80s Show with a Super Friends-like premise, but with different characters.  One Company owned a bunch of random Characters and put them together.  You got...

Flash Gordon- Ace Pilot.  Earth Hero.  Featured in best/worst Sci-Fi Film ever in 1980.
The Phantom- Master of the Jungle.  'Immortal' Hero.  Featured in the best/worst Superhero Film in 1996.
Mandrake the Magician- Master of Magic.  Lord of Illusion.  Featured in...very old Film Serials.
Lothar- Strong as 10 men!  Man-Servant to Mandrake in the Comic Strip.  Once described in 1935 as his "giant black slave."

...so anyways, can these guys switch seamlessly from fighting Ming the Merciless and other Aliens to the Undead?  Let's find out...

We begin with Jonathan Harker going to kill Count...Vlad?

Yeah, they just call him that, despite the Title of the Episode.  I don't know why.

...anyhow, this Dracula pops out and...transfers his body into Harker's via pink energy, taking over.

Some time later, Dr. Van Helsing asks Mandrake and company to check on Harker.

They show up, see all of the creepy stuff and decide to hang around.
Vlad/Harker/Dracula has a thing for The Phantom's clearly underage Daughter, even giving her a dress as part of his courting ritual.

Ew.

The title comes from what they all- save Phantom- drink at Dinner.  It turns them all into Animals!

Yes, Dracula's plan is to turn them into talking animals and sell them.  Flash's Son becomes a 'giant white owl.'

...for about 10 seconds before changing into a brown-white one.

Thanks, rushed animation!

They need a cure for this, which is made by their super-computer (in a mountain) and sent to them via rocket.  This is apparently set in/around 2015 by the way.

Extra fun: said super-computer is powered by a crystal containing Flash's wife Dale's soul!  F---king '80s Shows could get away with alot!

Before taking the cure, the now all-animal group decide to hoist Dracula with his own petard, defeating his wolves!

They turn human and take him out with their truck's spotlights (sure!) and he returns to being Harker.
He wants to make the place a Museum/Bed and Breakfast!  The End.

A weird use of everyone involved!  Where do you begin with this?  A Space Ace, a Magician, a Bruiser and a Jungle Lord team up to battle Dracula.  Dracula doesn't ever once try to bite anyone.  Dracula's plan involves turning people into talking animals.  Dracula kind of gets his ass kicked by everyone, especially Flash and his son in the body of two birds.  Random things are introduced- like a Villager being turned into Dracula's unwilling servant- but little comes of it (he just provides more bodies to become wolves).  The big climax involves the group- as animals- fighting a pack of wolves.  In addition, Dracula's willing henchman fights The Phantom and is tossed from the wall onto a carriage.  So yeah, he's dead!  The whole thing is just plain bizarre and I kind of love it.  I still think that The Centurions fighting Dracula is weirder and a bit more interesting, since it feels more natural.  This has a real WTF quality to it, sort of mixing Dracula and Dr. Moreau for no good reason.  One last update on Flash's Son.  He went from a 'giant, white owl' to a brown one to...a normal-sized one.  No, they don't address this change one bit...

A strange, silly Episode.  Where else can you see Dracula, a giant snake fighting wolves and The Phantom press-slamming wolves like he's Andre the Giant?!?