49 Fun Facts About Fear the Walking Dead

Who created Fear the Walking Dead with Robert Kirkman?

Dave Erickson came from Sons of Anarchy and ran the show for three seasons; when he left, it was rebuilt around a character brought over from the parent series.

In which city does Fear the Walking Dead begin?

Los Angeles falls fast on screen: by the third episode a riot is raging in the streets and soldiers have sealed off the family's neighbourhood.

Who plays Madison Clark in Fear the Walking Dead?

Kim Dickens led the cast until Madison was apparently killed saving the others at the stadium in season four, then returned three seasons later to see the show out.

What was Madison Clark's job before the apocalypse in Fear the Walking Dead?

Guidance counselor Madison, a widowed mother of two, had just found love with the English teacher down the hall when her job of preparing students for the future lost its point.

Who plays Travis Manawa in Fear the Walking Dead?

Cliff Curtis, a New Zealander of Maori descent, was first announced in the part under another name, Sean Cabrera, before the teacher became Travis Manawa.

Which problem is Nick Clark battling when Fear the Walking Dead begins?

Heroin addiction is why nobody believes him: Nick wakes in a drug den, sees a friend feeding on a corpse, and the doctors put it down to a hallucination.

Which Fear the Walking Dead original cast member also played Commander Lexa in The 100?

Alycia Debnam-Carey was working on both shows at once, which is why The 100 wrote Lexa out in 2016; she stayed with Fear for seven seasons, longer than any other original lead.

Who plays Victor Strand in Fear the Walking Dead?

Colman Domingo arrived as a guest near the end of the first season and stayed to the very end.

Before the outbreak, what kind of shop does Rubén Blades's Daniel Salazar run in Fear the Walking Dead?

A barbershop hides his past: regulars have sat in his chair for years without knowing that the quiet refugee from El Salvador was once a feared interrogator.

How did Fear the Walking Dead relate to The Walking Dead when it began?

As a prequel, it showed the first days of the outbreak that the original had skipped; from its fourth season it caught up and ran alongside the parent show instead.

Which former Savior from The Walking Dead, played by Austin Amelio, joins Fear the Walking Dead in season five?

Dwight was spared by Daryl and told to find his wife, and her trail of notes led him all the way to Texas, where he finally caught up with her a season later.

What was John Dorie's job before the apocalypse in Fear the Walking Dead?

Police officer was his old job, but John is best known as the show's gentle gunslinger: a crack shot with twin revolvers who would rather not fire them.

Which character does Jenna Elfman play in Fear the Walking Dead?

June Dorie, a nurse, hides behind other names at first: she is Naomi at the stadium and Laura to the man who falls for her, and only later owns up to June.

What was the profession of Althea, Maggie Grace's character in Fear the Walking Dead?

Journalist to the end, Al drives a SWAT truck and films an interview with every survivor she meets, opening each one with the same question: "What's your story?"

Where did Grace Mukherjee work before the apocalypse in Fear the Walking Dead?

A nuclear power plant, whose meltdown she blames on herself: when the group meets her she is hunting down its irradiated dead, though every kill risks another dose.

In Fear the Walking Dead's fourth season, which group does young Charlie spy for?

The Vultures planted her inside the stadium; she went on to shoot Nick Clark in revenge for one of their dead, then joined the very survivors she had wronged.

Who leads the group that besieges the stadium in Fear the Walking Dead's fourth season?

Melvin's method is to wait: he parks his convoy outside the gates, unfolds a lawn chair and sits back until the community inside starts to fail.

In Fear the Walking Dead, Colby Minifie's Virginia leads which network of communities?

The Pioneers win out at the end of season five: Virginia splits Morgan's group among her settlements, then shoots Morgan and leaves him for dead.

In Fear the Walking Dead's sixth season, John Glover's villain Teddy Maddox is what?

A doomsday cult leader who preaches that the end is the beginning, Teddy gets his wish in the season finale by firing a nuclear missile whose warheads fall on Texas.

What is the name of the nuclear submarine in Fear the Walking Dead's sixth season?

USS Pennsylvania lies beached with its missiles still aboard, and the fate of its crew, cut off below the surface as the outbreak began, got a spin-off of its own, Dead in the Water.

What is PADRE in the final season of Fear the Walking Dead?

An island group raising children it has taken from their parents: PADRE's leaders believe a generation brought up apart from family can build something better.

Which Fear the Walking Dead character returns in the final season after seeming to die in season three?

Troy Otto had been struck down with a hammer by Madison and left for dead; five seasons on he is back, carrying a grudge and a hammer of his own.

What is the name of the Otto family's stronghold in Fear the Walking Dead's third season?

Broke Jaw Ranch was stocked and armed long before the outbreak by a border militiaman who had spent years expecting society to collapse, just not at the hands of the dead.

Which community does Luciana Galvez come from in Fear the Walking Dead?

La Colonia in Tijuana follows a pharmacist who claims a bite could not kill him, and Luciana keeps the faith until her prophet is exposed as a fraud.

What was the project's working title before it became Fear the Walking Dead?

Cobalt was not wasted: inside the show it became the army's code word for abandoning the city and the civilians in its care, and the title of the first season's fifth episode.

In Fear the Walking Dead, Strand's 'Abigail' turns out to be what?

Yacht, not a person: the Abigail lies off his seaside mansion and is named after the man he loves, Thomas Abigail, and the group escapes to it as the army firebombs the city.

Who turns up alive at the end of Fear the Walking Dead?

Alicia Clark walks in alive at the end of the 113th and last episode, and mother and daughter close the series by setting off for the city where it all began.

Who took over as showrunners of Fear the Walking Dead from its fourth season?

Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg came over from the fairy-tale drama Once Upon a Time and promptly reinvented the show around a new lead brought over from the parent series.

After a pilot shot on location, where was the rest of Fear the Walking Dead's first season filmed?

Vancouver stood in for sunny southern California, an unlikely double the producers dropped after one season, when filming moved to studios in Mexico.

In which Mexican state was Fear the Walking Dead's second season filmed?

Baja California is where the story goes too: Strand promises the group a refuge there, and the crew filmed at the Rosarito studios built for the film Titanic.

Which minor-league ballpark near Austin houses the survivors' community in Fear the Walking Dead's fourth season?

Dell Diamond sits in Round Rock, just outside the show's new base in Austin, and it gave the move to Texas away: photos of the set leaked online before the production had confirmed it.

Where did Fear the Walking Dead's production move for its eighth and final season?

Savannah, Georgia brought the spin-off to the parent show's home state at last: The Walking Dead's longtime base was Senoia, about four hours' drive away.

Which Fear the Walking Dead star played the teenage Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?

Frank Dillane, the show's Nick Clark, asked to be written out early in season four: the British actor said he was homesick for Europe after years of American television.

Which Oscar-winning composer wrote Fear the Walking Dead's original title theme?

Atticus Ross's eerie theme opened the show for three seasons, then went out with the rest of the old look when season four rebooted it with a new title sequence and new music.

Roughly how many US viewers watched Fear the Walking Dead's 2015 premiere, a cable record?

10 million is close: 10.1 million watched, the biggest series premiere cable had seen and nearly double the 5.35 million who tuned in for the first episode of the original show five years earlier.

Where is the Fear the Walking Dead web series Flight 462 set?

On a commercial airplane, where the passengers discover that one of them is infected and there is nowhere to run; the story unfolds in 16 parts of under a minute each.

Where did Fear the Walking Dead's Flight 462 survivors reappear?

Season two: AMC had announced that one passenger would join the main show, and in the end two turn up there, Alex and the badly injured Jake.

Which Fear the Walking Dead web series follows a survivor named Sierra helping an injured woman named Gabi?

Passage pairs a hardened survivor with a wounded stranger who buys her help with the promise of a safe haven; its 16 parts ran in ad breaks during The Walking Dead's seventh season.

What was Fear the Walking Dead's second season accused of in a 2018 lawsuit?

Copying a comic book: Mel Smith said the season lifted the premise of his zombie series Dead Ahead, a judge refused to throw the case out, and AMC settled weeks later on terms that were never made public.

Which Walking Dead star appears in the crossover that opens Fear the Walking Dead's fourth season?

Andrew Lincoln's visit is the last of three failed attempts to keep Morgan from leaving, after Tom Payne's Jesus and Melissa McBride's Carol; Morgan sets off on foot regardless, all the way to Texas.

The Hollywood Reporter called season four of Fear the Walking Dead what, 'very much by design'?

A Western with zombies was the brief: the new showrunners asked their directors to frame the season like a John Ford or Sergio Leone film, with wide shots and slow cutting.

Which job did Victor Strand's actor add on Fear the Walking Dead in season four?

Director: after shadowing one of the show's directors the season before, he was handed the twelfth episode, 'Weak', his first time directing television, and went on to direct two more.

In Fear the Walking Dead's final season, PADRE's people go by code names taken from what?

Birds: Madison is Lark, June is Blue Jay, and Morgan, who set out as PADRE's enemy, ends up answering to Nightingale after years as one of its agents.

What name does Morgan and Grace's adopted daughter go by in Fear the Walking Dead?

Mo is short for Morgan, a name she had before he was her father: her birth parents chose it in his honour, and he and Grace went on to raise her as their own.

Which trucker's call sign does Luciana adopt in Fear the Walking Dead's final season, carrying on his supply drops for strangers?

Polar Bear was Clayton, who left boxes of supplies by the road under the sign "Take what you need, leave what you don't"; Luciana revives the name for a network of way stations across several states.

Whom does Morgan set out to find when he leaves Fear the Walking Dead?

Rick Grimes once promised to radio Morgan every day; leaving with his daughter, Morgan turns the promise round, sending his old friend a message each dawn as he goes looking for him.

Which weapon does Morgan Jones carry when he crosses over to Fear the Walking Dead?

A wooden staff, which his mentor Eastman taught him to use along with the creed that all life is precious; Morgan later sharpened one end into a spear when he went back to killing.

In Fear the Walking Dead's final season, Victor Strand lives as 'Anton' among stranded tourists from which country?

Germany: a tour group stranded by the outbreak turned its hotel into a refuge, where the old con man now has a husband and a son, and a past he hides from both.

Which storytelling device launches Fear the Walking Dead's final season?

Time jump: the premiere skips seven years ahead to find a baby grown into an eight-year-old and one of the leads locked in a cell.