It was written by Richard Matheson and directed by Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis, with Jack Palance in the title role.

[1] "Bistritz, Hungary May 1897": natives in Transylvania seem afraid when they learn solicitor Jonathan Harker is going to Castle Dracula.

After preventing his brides from devouring Harker, he forces the young solicitor to write a letter saying he will be staying in Transylvania for a month.

Dracula arrives at the house in Hillingham and uses remote hypnosis to make the occupants fall asleep, he then turns his attention to Lucy.

Entranced, Lucy awakes in a highly aroused state and aware of Draculas presence, immediately makes her way outside to him.

Mina tells Van Helsing about the news story about the Demeter, the boxes of earth, and Jonathan going to meet Dracula to sell him a house.

From these clues, Van Helsing and Holmwood go about finding all but one of Dracula's "boxes of earth" (containing his native soil, in which a vampire must rest).

Arthur produces a cross, temporarily keeping Dracula at bay, but the vampire throws a table at them, knocking it away.

Stuntman Eddie Powell makes an uncredited appearance as the man killed by Dracula at the Whitby inn.

Dan Curtis decided to film Bram Stoker's Dracula in two locations: Yugoslavia, where there were old castles and quiet land, and England, where the remainder of the story is set.

[2] The initial CBS-TV broadcast in October 1973 was pre-empted for an address by Richard Nixon on the resignation of Spiro Agnew.

[5] 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.