The Werewolf Buster

The Werewolf Buster
Network	CBS
Premiere date	September 27, 1986
Music composed by	David Kitay Richard Kosinski Wells Christie John Lewis Parker James Donnellan
Writer(s)	Rowby Goren
Director(s)	Gordon Kent
Animation director(s)	Jon McClenahan Darrell Van Citters
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"The Werewolf Buster" is the third episode of Teen Wolf season one. It aired on September 27, 1986 on CBS. It was written by Rowby Goren, and produced and directed by Gordon Kent.

An infamous werewolf hunter from the Howard family's past has returned.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Scott Howard	Townsend Coleman
Lupe Howard	Unavailable
Grandpa Howard	Stacy Keach, Sr.
Grandma Howard	June Foray
Valor	Frank Welker
Mrs. Seslick	June Foray
Boof Marconi	Jeannie Elias
Stiles Stilinski	Donald Most
Mayor Marconi	Ken Mars
Reginald Von Ziplan	Unavailable
Harold Howard	James Hampton

Organizations

• Wolverton Times

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Wolverton
      • Howard residence
      • Marconi residence
      • Wolverton Woods
  • Transylvania (mentioned)
• The Moon

Objects

• Sonic Werewolf Alarm
• Wolverton Times newspaper

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: September 27, 1986 on CBS

Behind the scenes

• Ken Mars only played Mayor Marconi for this episode, as he was replaced by Frank Welker in all further appearances.

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.