Some of the same dashing romantic quality in Dracula can be seen in the British BBC TV adaptation Count Dracula (1977), which cast Louis Jourdan as Dracula, but in other respects the version is very closely based on the incidents and characterisations of the novel and gained considerable critical acclaim and a large audience. In contrast to many literary adaptations of the time however, the 155- minute production used state-of-the-art film and video effects to present the story as hallucinatory and nightmarish rather than static and naturalistic. In 1979, ABC television in the USA presented a made-for-TV movie version of Stoker's novel called The Vampyre, co-written by Stephen Bochco, better known in recent years for series such as Hill Street