Dracula is back again as the Hammer series continues

Moving on in my re-viewing of all the Hammer Films Dracula movies in chronological order, we're all the way up to 1970's Scars of Dracula .
Scars opens with the strangest continuity gaff of the series, so blatant they had to have just said, "What the hell, let's just go for it." When last we saw the count, he was a pile of red dust in an abandoned church in London at the end of Taste the Blood of Dracula . Cut to Scars, where we see the pile of red dust lying atop Dracula's cape, just as in th...