Mina and the Count is an animated television series created by Rob Renzetti, which was never brought into development as a full-fledged series. Instead, animated shorts of this series aired on What a Cartoon! and Oh Yeah! Cartoons. Despite much demand by fans to get it shown as an official series, Frederator Studios president, Fred Seibert confirmed there is currently no development of this.

The original Mina and the Count short, "Interlude With a Vampire," premiered on Cartoon Network's What a Cartoon! in the mid-1990s, making it the only short to be featured on both creator-guided shorts projects guided by Fred Seibert

Fred Seibert

Frederick "Fred" Seibert is a television and film producer and entertainment entrepreneur who owns Frederator Studios, and who has held leading positions with MTV Networks, Hanna-Barbera, and Next New Networks; he owns Frederator Studios...

. The short was about a 7-year-old girl named Mina Harper (a play on Dracula

Dracula

Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor...

character Mina Harker

Mina Harker

Wilhelmina "Mina" Harker is a fictional character in Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel Dracula.- In the novel :She begins the story as Miss Mina Murray, a young school mistress who is engaged to Jonathan Harker, and best friends with Lucy Westenra...

) and her encounters with a vampire

Vampire

Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person...

 during a night

Night

Night or nighttime is the period of time when the sun is below the horizon. This occurs after dusk. The opposite of night is day...

 that she is sleep

Sleep

Sleep is a naturally recurring state characterized by reduced or absent consciousness, relatively suspended sensory activity, and inactivity of nearly all voluntary muscles. It is distinguished from quiet wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, and is more easily reversible than...

ing (the count had accidentally found her when he was looking for "Nina Parker", another reference to the Dracula character). It is rumored that these cartoons were the inspiration for the Cartoon Network animated television series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy often shortened as Billy and Mandy is an American animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network. It is also the spin-off of Grim & Evil. Having originally aired as part of Grim & Evil The show began in 2001, And went on to become one of Cartoon...

. Stories show a vampire named simply the Count, and a mortal girl named Mina, her sister Lucy, school bully Nick, Mina's father, a handful of monsters, and the Count's mean servant Igor. Everything is happening in a little town in North America where Mina's school and house is, including the Count's castle.

Voice actors and their characters

• Tara Strong
  Tara Strong
  Tara Lyn Strong is a Canadian actress, voice-over artist, singer, who is best known for her voice work in cartoons.-Early life and career:...
  
   (originally Ashley Johnson
  Ashley Johnson
  Ashley Suzanne Johnson is an American actress, best known for her two-season role as Chrissy Seaver in the TV show Growing Pains, and for her voice work in television series such as Teen Titans and Ben 10 Alien Force....
  
  ) - Mina Harper: A 7 year old human child with red long hair in a ponytail and red clothes. She likes to go to school and to play with her toys and she argues with her sister Lucy. She meets the Count one night and they become best friends. She dislikes her school bully, Nick, and Martha is probably her only human friend. Mina's mother is never seen in any of the episodes for no explained reason. Mina knows how to cook, but unfortunately for the Count, doesn't know that vampires find garlic hazardous.
• Robert Galey (originally Jeff Bennett
  Jeff Bennett
  Jeffrey Glenn "Jeff" Bennett is an American voice actor and musician, listed "among the top names in the voice-over field", best known as the voice of Johnny Bravo in the series of the same name...
  
  ) - Igor : Count's Quasimodo-like servant who wears sandals and green clothes and always has a maniacal laugh. He loathes Mina because she turned his master into a loving man. He hates kisses, hugs, love and everything near to it. In his free time, he likes to watch television.
• Mark Hamill
  Mark Hamill
  Mark Richard Hamill is an American actor, voice artist, producer, director, and writer, best known for his role as Luke Skywalker in the original trilogy of Star Wars. More recently, he has received acclaim for his voice work, in such roles as the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series, Firelord...
  
   - Vlad the Count: A 700-year-old immortal vampire with light blue skin and a blue vampire cape and a black suit. In his past, he probably made a living, drinking young ladies' blood but thanks to Mina Harper, he is now less evil. He has many powers, including the abilities to transform into a bat, and a cloud, to move objects remotely, and to hypnotize people and animals to do his bidding. He likes toys (again, thanks to Mina Harper) and is very intelligent. He believes that "mortal food" is disgusting.
• Michael Bell - Mr. Harper, Mina's father: He doesn't know that Count is a vampire. He just thinks he is a life size doll with offensive body odor. In another episode he believes the Count is Mina's violin teacher and has him over for dinner. He is polite, but bemused by the Count's behavior and calls him a "crazy European".

Episode list

(All these episodes were animated shorts that aired on Oh Yeah! Cartoons

Oh Yeah! Cartoons

Oh Yeah! Cartoons is an American animation showcase that appeared on the Nickelodeon cable channel. Oh Yeah! was an animation project guided by Fred Seibert, former Creative Director of MTV Networks and President of Hanna-Barbera...

 and the What A Cartoon! Shows)

1. Interlude With A Vampire
2. Franken Frog
3. My Best Friend
4. The Vampire Who Came to Dinner
5. The Ghoul's Tribunal
6. Playing a Hunch

External links

• Interlude With A Vampire Cast & Crew List