The Beast Within

The Beast Within
The werewolf Howards have an unexplained and uncontrollable howl.
Network	CBS
Premiere date	October 11, 1986
Music composed by	David Kitay Richard Kosinski Wells Christie John Lewis Parker James Donnellan
Writer(s)	Michael Reeves
Director(s)	Gordon Kent
Animation director(s)	Jon McClenahan Darrell Van Citters
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"The Beast Within" is the fifth episode of Teen Wolf season one. It aired on October 11, 1986 on CBS. It was written by Michael Reeves, and produced and directed by Gordon Kent.

The Howard family's werewolf genes become uncontrollable.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Lupe Howard	Unavailable
Lupe's friend	Unavailable
Harold Howard	James Hampton
Grandma Howard	June Foray
Grandpa Howard	Stacy Keach, Sr.
Frieda	Sheryl Bernstein
Scott Howard	Townsend Coleman
Daisy	Frank Welker
Pamela Wells	Ellen Gerstell
Stiles Stilinski	Donald Most
Mr. Donovan	Unavailable
Mick McAllister	Craig Sheffer
Newscaster	Frank Welker
Mayor Marconi	Frank Welker

Organizations

• Wolverton Times

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Wolverton
      • School
      • Howard's Hardware
      • Howard residence
      • Wolf Burgers
      • Shirly's Shoes
      • Lisa's Cafe
      • Wolverton City Animal Shelter
• The Moon

Objects

• Wolverton Times newspaper

Vehicles

• Howlmobile

Production

Development

Buzz Dixon was the story editor.

Music

The music was composed by David Kitay and Richard Kosinski, Wells Christie, John Lewis Parker, and James Donnellan. Music was supervised by Steve Tyrell. The music design was performed by Tyrell/Mann.

The opening music was written by Parker and Barry Mann, and sung by Tyrell. While the closing music was written by Ashley Hall and Stefanie Tyrell, and sung by Hall.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: October 4, 1986 on CBS

Behind the scenes

• Ken Mars, the previous voice of Mayor Marconi in "The Werewolf Buster," is replaced with Frank Welker.

Errors

• It's unclear if Wolverton High School is supposed to be holding Lupe's science fair, or the set piece is being reused for her own school.
• The Wolverton City Animal Shelter is different from "Grampa's in the Doghouse", which is now simply referred to as "Dog Pound" on the entrance.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In Australia:
  • April 18, 2008: ??? releases Teen Wolf: The Complete Animated Series on DVD.
• In the United States:
  • On June 6, 2017, Shout! Factory announced a September 5 release for the complete series on DVD in the United States, but was revealed to have been delayed on June 29, due to unforeseen legal issues.