60 Fun Facts About Teen Wolf

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

The film came out on August 23, 1985, just weeks after Back to the Future had made him the biggest star of the summer.

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

His team, the Beavers, borrowed its mascot logo from Oregon State University.

The 1985 Teen Wolf was made for about $4M. Roughly how much did it gross worldwide?

It took $33 million in the US alone, and the distributor had spent as much on advertising as on the film itself.

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?

It was written by Jeph Loeb and Matthew Weisman, who also created the 1986 cartoon; Loeb went on to run Marvel Television.

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

Jerry Levine played Stiles, and Jay Tarses was Coach Finstock; both character names were carried into the MTV series.

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

It was Jason Bateman's feature-film debut, playing Scott's cousin Todd at Hamilton University; it holds an 8 percent Rotten Tomatoes score.

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

Siskel and Ebert gave it two emphatic thumbs down; it made just $7.9 million.

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

It ran for 21 episodes on CBS and gave Scott a little sister, Lupe, and werewolf grandparents who never appeared in the film.

Who voiced Scott Howard in the 1986 animated series?

Coleman was simultaneously voicing Michelangelo in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon.

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?

The premiere drew 2.17 million viewers, and the show ended up averaging up to eight million online streams an episode.

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

The finale aired on September 24, 2017; the split third season alone accounted for 24 of them.

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

Coach Finstock, played by comedian Orny Adams, runs the team.

The MTV series is set in which fictional California town?

Real filming moved from Atlanta to Los Angeles for the third season.

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

The move west came after the show won conditional approval for 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?

Posey has said he wrote a sequel script to the 2023 movie and wants to keep the franchise going.

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

Nobody could pronounce it, so his mother's nickname stuck. His father is Sheriff Noah Stilinski, played by Linden Ashby.

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, whose name is French for silver, comes from a long line of what?

Chris Argent is the reluctant hunter dad; his father Gerard and sister Kate are the ones who go bad.

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

He is controlled first by classmate Matt Daehler, then by Gerard Argent, before 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'?

He returns in season 5, still blind, to help take down the Beast of Gévaudan.

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

Haley Webb played the English teacher who was also dating Derek at the time.

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

The dark kitsune, born of chaos, returns as the villain of the 2023 movie.

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?

Arden Cho left after season 5 when Kira departed with the Skinwalkers, and did not return for the movie.

Malia Tate, who becomes Stiles's girlfriend, is a werecoyote and the secret daughter of which character?

Her mother is the assassin known as the Desert Wolf, who hunts her through season 5.

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?

The season ends at La Iglesia in Mexico, with Berserkers and a de-aged, then fully wolf-evolved Derek.

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?

The Beast's true form was the 18th-century Sebastien Valet; the pack kills it with a legendary spear.

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

Ryan Kelley's deputy carries the dead to the Nemeton in a trance and can walk through fire.

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

Cody Christian's character was later dragged to hell by his dead sister, then reluctantly redeemed in season 6.

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

Jeff Davis pitched the half-season as a ghost story; Dylan O'Brien's reduced role was partly due to an injury on the Maze Runner set.

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

He is a Löwenmensch, a lion-wolf hybrid, and wants to command the Ghost Riders as an army.

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

It turns Beacon Hills against the supernatural, aided by guidance counsellor turned hunter Tamora Monroe and a returning Gerard.

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

Derek, Jackson, Ethan and Kate all returned for the last fight; the finale drew 0.68 million viewers, down from 2.17 million for the pilot.

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

It became the most-watched original film on the platform on its debut day, despite a 32 percent Rotten Tomatoes score.

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.

How many Saturn Awards for Best Youth-Oriented Television Series did the MTV show win?

It also collected thirteen Teen Choice Awards, most of them for Tyler Posey and Dylan O'Brien.

Which season of the MTV series drew its highest average ratings, at 1.97 million viewers?

The 24-episode season also has the show's best Rotten Tomatoes score, 88 percent.

Who composed the music for the MTV series?

The synth-heavy theme played over the show's black-and-red title card for all 100 episodes.

The third season of the MTV series was unusually long. How many episodes did it have?

It aired as two 12-episode halves, 3A in summer 2013 and 3B from January 2014, a structure the show kept for seasons 5 and 6.

Jackson (Colton Haynes) left after season two. In the finale, he returned dating whom?

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?

Scott Howard is a 17-year-old in a small town; the film was shot over just two months in late 1984.

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

Both films starred Michael J. Fox, who squeezed Teen Wolf into a gap in Family Ties filming when co-star Meredith Baxter-Birney became pregnant.

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?

Another female-led Teen Wolf idea was reworked and eventually became 1989's Teen Witch.

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

Working at Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital, she becomes an invaluable ally once brought in on the supernatural secret, played by Melissa Ponzio.

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

Linden Ashby played Sheriff Stilinski, initially reluctant to help the boys but later brought in on their secret.