Summer in Transylvania is a live action

Live action

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 children's television programme currently showing on Nickelodeon (UK & Ireland)

Nickelodeon (UK & Ireland)

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. The programme, originally called Freaky Farleys, was renamed Summer in Transylvania and was filmed in Hendon, London. It is Nickelodeon UK's first original TV series since Genie in the House

Genie In The House

Genie in the House is a British situation comedy broadcast on Nickelodeon about a widowed father with two teenage daughters who find a dusty old golden lamp while exploring the loft of their new home. A quick rub of the lamp releases Adil, a trainee genie from Balamkadaar who has been confined to...

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Plot

Teenager Summer Farley (Sophie Stuckey

Sophie Stuckey

Sophie Stuckey is an English actress. She plays the lead role of Summer in Summer in Transylvania.Stuckey, who was born in Camden, also played Dora Southerly in Midsomer Murders, and is set to play Stella Kipps in the 2012 remake of The Woman in Black...

) moves to Transylvania

Transylvania

Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical...

 with her father and brother. She then starts at her new high school

High school

High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....

, Stoker High, which is filled with zombie

Zombie

Zombie is a term used to denote an animated corpse brought back to life by mystical means such as witchcraft. The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli...

s, werewolves, 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...

s, mummies and many other sorts of monsters.
She tries to get through school with help from her friends, Heidi the zombie (Amy Wren) and Bobby the werewolf (Kane Ricca) Bobby seems to gain strong feelings for Summer in the first episode.

Humans

Sophie Stuckey

Sophie Stuckey

Sophie Stuckey is an English actress. She plays the lead role of Summer in Summer in Transylvania.Stuckey, who was born in Camden, also played Dora Southerly in Midsomer Murders, and is set to play Stella Kipps in the 2012 remake of The Woman in Black...

 as Summer Farley - The main character.- smart, cute and witty. Summer is really nice and one of the two humans attending her school. She has two best friends, Heidi(Zombie)and Bobby(werewolf)and recently found out that Bobby likes her. However, she likes him as a friend at the moment. She is trying to fit in, she has had lots of dates like Antonio the slam-jistu trainer.

Eros Vlahos

Eros Vlahos

Eros Vlahos is an English actor and comedian best known for playing Cyril Gray in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang and Jake Farley in Summer in Transylvania. Vlahos has written and performed his own material at the Edinburgh Festival. He also had a comedy show on Radio London. Vlahos was born in...

 as Jake Farley - Summer's younger brother.

Richard Lumsden

Richard Lumsden

Richard James Lumsden is a British actor, writer, composer and musician. He played Nathan in Channel 4's drama Sugar Rush and on radio he plays Ray in Clare in the Community.-Career:...

 as Dr Mike Farley - Summer's dad.

Zombies

Amy Wren as Heidi-Summers Girl best friend. She's nice but isn't afraid to say what she thinks. She wears wacky neon clothes a lot of the time. She has proven to be a good friend but a bit of a show off like when she tried to take Antonio off of Summer (Human).

Werewolves

• Kane Ricca as Bobby - Sweet, Funny and strangely cute. He has a huge crush on Summer and is her boy best friend. He doesn't like it when Summer likes other guys and started liking her from the very first episode.
• Dan Black as Rolf (Serena's boyfriend)-hot but unusually quiet. His breath apparently stinks.

Vampires

• Charlie Evans as Serena (Summer's enemy)- she is beautiful, mysterious but very mean. She makes sure to make Summers life a misery, however she has been a tad kind to Summer in episode Banned so Summer could help her. She seems to be friendly at times; yet she gets jealous of other girls around Rolf.
• Andrew Harrison as Dr Tempest - Principal of Darkness and Head of English (a teacher at Stoker High)
• Eugene Simon as Max

Others

• Bolt - a Frankenstein monster [Jake's best friend]
• Magda - Summer and her dad Mike Farley's housekeeper, apparently human but there are suggestions there is more to her than meets the eye. She has a crush on Mike Farley