is set. Release The initial CBS-TV broadcast in October 1973 was pre-empted for an address by Richard Nixon on the resignation of Spiro Agnew. Instead it was broadcast in February 1974. CBS took advantage of the successful release of director Francis Ford Coppola's identically titled adaptation, Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), to rebroadcast the film on 28 November 1992 (two weeks after Coppola's film opened). Legacy The film was released on VHS and Laserdisc. In the 1990s, Columbia Pictures and Coppola, who wanted to emphasize that his cinematic adaptation of Dracula would be unlike any that had come before, purchased the rights to the title Bram Stoker's Dracula. Nearly all subsequent home video releases of the earlier film have been under the title Dan Curtis' Dracula, or simply Dracula. In addition to the title of Curtis' movie, Coppola also utilized its two key elements which distinguish it from previous adaptations: the depiction of Dracula and Vlad the Impaler– the historical Dracula– as being the same person, and the relationship between Dracula and his reincarnated wife (Lucy in the 1974 movie, and Mina in the 1992 film). According to a featurette on a DVD release of the film, Palance was asked to reprise the role of Dracula several times, but he always declined. The Marvel Comics series The Tomb of Dracula features a Dracula whose appearance was based on Jack Palance. The series debuted in 1972, before Palance had actually played the role of Dracula. Artist Gene Colan was inspired by Palance's performance in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968), Curtis and Palance's previous television movie. See also Vampire film References External links Transcribed script online 1974 television films 1974 horror films 1974 films British horror television films British vampire films Dracula films Dracula television shows Films about reincarnation Films set in Transylvania Films set in 1897 CBS network films Films directed by Dan Curtis Films with screenplays by Richard Matheson Polygamy in fiction Cultural depictions of Vlad the Impaler Films set in castles 1970s English-language films 1970s British films