Saturday Night Showcase> Drak Pack

Not sure how long this one will be available. On the one hand, it’s part of the Warner Brothers Discovery megahuge animation library. On the other, they don’t seem to care about their megahuge animation library unless it’s Looney Tunes.

Airing for one season on CBS Saturday Mornings, thus making it part of my childhood, Drak Pack is a superhero comedy about the descendants of Universal movie monsters. Drak Junior the vampire leads the trio of crimefighters along with the wolfman Howler and the Frankenstein monster Frankie…which raises the type of questions Saturday mornings will never ask about patchwork corpses. They’re aren’t the most competent, but frankly neither is their opponent, the The Organization of Generally Rotten Enterprises, or OGRE for short. Hans Conrad provides the voice of OGRE’s leader, Doctor Dred, while the Pack get their marching orders from Dracula himself, voiced by Alan Oppenheimer. Other main cast members include Jerry Dexter, William Callaway in a number of roles,  Don Messick, Chuck McCann, and Julie McWhirter.

In the first episode, Dred decides to steal the color from everything, including our heroes. Sadly this does not lead to a Rainbow Brite crossover. Enjoy.