59 Fun Facts About Teen Wolf

Who plays Scott Howard, the high-schooler who discovers he is a werewolf, in the 1985 film Teen Wolf?

Michael J. Fox stars as Scott Howard; the film was shot in late 1984 and held back until August 23, 1985, to ride the fame of his blockbuster that summer.

In the 1985 film, which sport does Scott Howard's werewolf strength turn him into a star at?

Scott's werewolf speed and strength turn the hapless Beacon Town basketball team into winners, though he plays the final game in human form.

How does Scott Howard first learn the truth about himself in the 1985 film?

His father Harold, also a werewolf, then explains it as a family curse.

Who directed the original 1985 Teen Wolf?

Rod Daniel directed Teen Wolf, his feature debut; he went on to make Like Father Like Son (1987) with Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron, and K-9 (1989).

Who plays Scott's werewolf father Harold in the 1985 film and Uncle Harold in the sequel?

James Hampton plays Harold Howard, the mild-mannered hardware-store owner who is himself a werewolf; he returned as Uncle Harold in Teen Wolf Too.

The 1987 sequel Teen Wolf Too swapped the original's sport for which one?

Teen Wolf Too sends Scott's cousin Todd to Hamilton University, where his werewolf form makes him a boxing star; critics savaged the film.

Which future Arrested Development star made his feature-film debut as Todd Howard in Teen Wolf Too?

Jason Bateman, already a TV regular on Silver Spoons, made his feature-film debut as Todd Howard; he later played Michael Bluth in Arrested Development.

The 1986 animated Teen Wolf series moved Scott and his werewolf family to a town called what?

The cartoon relocates the Howards to Wolverton; it ran for 21 episodes on CBS and added a little sister, Lupe, and werewolf grandparents absent from the film.

Who voiced Scott Howard in the 1986 animated series?

Townsend Coleman voiced Scott Howard in the cartoon and went on to voice Michelangelo in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series from 1987.

Who developed the 2011 MTV Teen Wolf series?

Davis, who had created Criminal Minds, wanted 'a darker, sexier and edgier version' of the 1985 film.

The MTV series premiered on June 5, 2011, immediately after what broadcast?

Teen Wolf premiered right after the 2011 MTV Movie Awards on June 5, 2011, drawing about 2.17 million viewers.

How many episodes did MTV's Teen Wolf run for across its six seasons?

Teen Wolf ran for exactly 100 episodes over six seasons on MTV, beginning in June 2011; the hundredth was the series finale, 'The Wolves of War'.

In the MTV series, Scott McCall plays which sport for his high school?

Scott plays lacrosse for his high school; his new werewolf abilities lift him from the bench to first line under Coach Finstock, played by comedian Orny Adams.

The MTV series is set in which fictional California town?

The series is set in Beacon Hills, a fictional California town whose Nemeton, a sacred druid tree stump, draws supernatural creatures to it.

Where were the first two seasons of the MTV series filmed before production moved to Los Angeles?

Seasons one and two were shot in Atlanta, Georgia; the production moved to Los Angeles for season three after winning a California film and TV tax credit.

Who directed the pilot of the MTV series and later returned to direct Teen Wolf: The Movie?

Mulcahy is best known for Highlander and a stack of 1980s music videos, including 'Video Killed the Radio Star.'

Who plays Scott McCall in the MTV series?

Tyler Posey plays Scott McCall across all 100 episodes and the 2023 movie; he was 19 when the series premiered.

Dylan O'Brien plays Scott's best friend Stiles, whose real first name is revealed in season 6 to be what?

Stiles's real name is Mieczyslaw; as a toddler he could only manage 'Mischief', which became his mother Claudia's nickname for him.

Who bites Scott McCall in the woods in the pilot, turning him into a werewolf?

Peter, Derek's uncle, is the season-one Alpha, lying apparently comatose in the hospital between attacks.

What makes Scott a 'True Alpha', a status he reaches in the third season?

It is treated as happening only once in a hundred years, and it is why the Alpha Pack wants him.

Derek Hale's family died when their house was burned down by whom?

Kate seduced a teenage Derek to get inside; she is later killed by Peter, then resurrected as a werejaguar.

At the end of season 1, how does Derek Hale become an Alpha?

The season also ends with Jackson asking Derek for the bite, which sets up the kanima storyline.

What supernatural creature does Lydia Martin turn out to be?

Her screams announce approaching death; in season 4 another banshee, Meredith Walker, turns out to be the Benefactor behind the dead pool.

The Argent family in the MTV series comes from a long line of what?

The Argents are werewolf hunters; their name is French for silver, and the family code is 'we hunt those who hunt us'.

In season 2 Jackson Whittemore's bite goes wrong and he becomes what reptilian shapeshifter?

Jackson becomes a kanima, a lizard-like creature that seeks a master; Matt Daehler and then Gerard Argent control him until Lydia's love turns him into a werewolf.

How does Scott foil the elder Argent's plan to cure his cancer by taking the bite?

The bite rejects him spectacularly, and Gerard oozes black blood before escaping to return in later seasons.

Which three teens does Derek bite to build his pack in season 2?

Erica and Boyd do not survive the Alpha Pack; Isaac, played by Daniel Sharman, leaves for France with Chris Argent.

The first half of the third season pits the pack against the Alpha Pack, led by which blind 'Demon Wolf'?

Deucalion, the self-styled 'Demon Wolf', leads the Alpha Pack; blinded by Gerard Argent years earlier, he has his sight restored by the Darach at the end of 3A.

The Darach, season three's druid killing in threes, is which high-school teacher?

Jennifer Blake, the new English teacher played by Haley Webb, is the Darach; she dates Derek while sacrificing victims in threes to gain power.

What Japanese spirit possesses Stiles in the back half of the third season?

A nogitsune, a dark trickster fox spirit that feeds on chaos and pain, possesses Stiles; it returns as the villain of Teen Wolf: The Movie in 2023.

Why was Scott's hunter girlfriend killed off in the third season?

Reed said she wanted 'to explore other avenues of film and TV'; she came back for the 2023 movie, in which Allison is resurrected with amnesia.

Kira Yukimura, Scott's love interest from the third season onward, is what kind of supernatural being?

Kira is a thunder kitsune, a fox spirit who can channel electricity and wields a katana; her mother Noshiko is a 900-year-old kitsune.

Which actress plays the werecoyote Malia Tate in the MTV series?

Shelley Hennig plays Malia Tate, joining in 3B and becoming a series regular from season four; she had earlier starred in The Secret Circle and Days of Our Lives.

Who does Scott bite in the fourth season, making him his first true beta?

He does it to stop Liam falling from a hospital roof; Dylan Sprayberry was promoted to series regular the next season.

Who turns out to be season four's mysterious 'Benefactor' paying assassins to work through a supernatural hit list?

Meredith Walker, the banshee from Eichen House, turns out to be the Benefactor, having absorbed the comatose Peter Hale's murderous thoughts to create the Dead Pool.

What happens to Derek Hale over the course of the fourth season?

The full-wolf form was a nod to the movie werewolves; Tyler Hoechlin left the main cast after that season.

The steampunk-masked villains of the fifth season who create chimeras are called what?

Their greatest creation was the resurrected Beast of Gévaudan, whose human host turned out to be Mason.

Which character is revealed in the fifth season to be the unwitting host of the Beast of Gévaudan?

Mason Hewitt, Liam's best friend, is the Beast's unwitting host; Lydia's banshee scream frees him before the Beast's true form, 18th-century Sebastien Valet, is finally destroyed.

Deputy Jordan Parrish, who keeps surviving things that should kill him, is revealed in season five to be what?

Jordan Parrish, played by Ryan Kelley, is a hellhound, a guardian of the supernatural that carries bodies to the Nemeton in a trance and is immune to fire.

Theo Raeken, the returning childhood friend of the fifth season, is secretly what?

Theo, played by Cody Christian, is a chimera made by the Dread Doctors, a werewolf-werecoyote hybrid; his dead sister Tara, whose heart he took, later drags him underground.

In the sixth season, Stiles is erased from everyone's memory by which villains?

The Ghost Riders of the Wild Hunt take Stiles and erase him from memory; the storyline worked around Dylan O'Brien's injury on the Maze Runner set in 2016.

Sixth-season villain Garrett Douglas, the new physics teacher, is revealed to be what?

Garrett Douglas is a Nazi Alpha werewolf, 'Der Soldat', preserved since WWII in a Dread Doctors tank; as a Löwenmensch, a lion-wolf hybrid, he wants to command the Wild Hunt as his army.

The final villain of the series, the Anuk-ite, feeds on what?

The Anuk-ite, a shapeshifter that feeds on fear, turns Beacon Hills against the supernatural with help from counsellor-turned-hunter Tamora Monroe and a returning Gerard Argent.

On what date did the Teen Wolf series finale, 'The Wolves of War', air?

'The Wolves of War' aired on September 24, 2017, as the hundredth episode; Derek, Jackson and Kate Argent all returned for the final battle against Gerard's hunters.

Teen Wolf: The Movie premiered on January 26, 2023 on which streaming service?

Teen Wolf: The Movie premiered on Paramount+ on January 26, 2023, the same day as the spin-off series Wolf Pack, also created by Jeff Davis.

Which two main cast members did NOT return for Teen Wolf: The Movie?

Cho declined after reportedly being offered less than her co-stars; O'Brien said the timing did not feel right.

Which long-dead character is resurrected, with amnesia, in Teen Wolf: The Movie?

Crystal Reed's return was the film's big selling point; the resurrected Allison initially hunts the werewolves she once loved.

Which actor plays the hunter Chris Argent in the MTV series?

JR Bourne plays Chris Argent across all six seasons and the 2023 movie; the Canadian actor was previously best known as Martouf in Stargate SG-1.

Which actor plays Dr. Alan Deaton, the veterinarian who guides Scott?

Seth Gilliam plays Dr. Alan Deaton, the Beacon Hills vet and druid emissary; Gilliam also played Father Gabriel on The Walking Dead from 2014.

Who composed the music for the MTV series?

Dino Meneghin composed the score for all six seasons of the MTV series and returned to score Teen Wolf: The Movie in 2023.

How many episodes did the unusually long third season of the MTV series have?

Season three had 24 episodes, aired as two 12-episode halves: 3A in summer 2013 and 3B from January 2014, a split the show kept for seasons five and six.

When Jackson Whittemore returned in the series finale, who was he dating?

Ethan, one of the Alpha Pack twins, survived his brother Aiden's death at the hands of the Oni.

In the 1985 film, Scott Howard's high-school basketball team is known by which name?

The beaver mascot logo used in the film was Oregon State University's logo at the time; the rival Dragons bully Scott on the court.

In which US state is the 1985 Teen Wolf film set?

The film is set in the small town of Beacon Town, Nebraska, though it was shot in and around Los Angeles in late 1984.

Which film kept Teen Wolf at No. 2 on its opening weekend in August 1985?

Back to the Future, also starring Michael J. Fox, held No. 1 that weekend; Fox had shot Teen Wolf during a Family Ties break caused by co-star Meredith Baxter-Birney's pregnancy.

Who co-wrote the 1985 Teen Wolf screenplay, one of his first scripts?

Loeb, later a celebrated comics writer, was hired because the studio wanted a cheap, quick comedy after the surprise success of Valley Girl.

A planned second Teen Wolf sequel, never filmed, was to star which actress?

Alyssa Milano, then on Who's the Boss?, was attached to a planned third Teen Wolf film that never got made; a separate female-werewolf concept was reworked into 1989's Teen Witch.

In the MTV series, what is Scott McCall's mother Melissa's job?

Melissa McCall, played by Melissa Ponzio, is a nurse at Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital and becomes an invaluable ally once she learns Scott's secret.

What is the first name of Stiles's father, the Beacon Hills sheriff?

Sheriff Stilinski's first name, Noah, is only revealed in season six; Linden Ashby plays him, initially skeptical but later brought in on the boys' secret.