Series synopsis
Big Wolf on Campus is a Canadian action & adventure sci-fi & fantasy drama comedy television series that premiered on YTV on April 2, 1999. It ended on May 4, 2002. It was created by Peter Knight, Chris Briggs. It stars Brandon Quinn, Danny Smith, Aimée Castle and Rachelle Lefevre.
Tommy is bitten by a werewolf during a camping trip a week before the start of his senior year. After becoming a werewolf, he fights against supernatural entities to keep his hometown of Pleasantville safe.
Premise
Tommy is bitten by a werewolf during a camping trip a week before the start of his senior year. After becoming a werewolf, he fights against supernatural entities to keep his hometown of Pleasantville safe.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Brandon Quinn as Tommy P. Dawkins
- Danny Smith as Merton J. Dingle
- Aimée Castle as Lori Baxter
- Rachelle Lefevre as Stacey Hanson
Guest cast
- Ilona Elkin as The Alien
- Peter Keleghan as B. Gordon Berry / Satan
- Tod Fennell as Kyle
- Jeff Roop as Eric McIntyre
- Corey Feldman as Corey Feldman
- Lawrence Bayne as Death
- Jessica Paré as Tanya
- Paul Hopkins as Chris Cutler
- Sarah Smyth as Jenny
- Jeff Douglas as Vince
- Patrick McKenna as Mr. Geiger
- Maggie Castle as Tori
Episodes
This series spans 3 seasons with 65 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 22 | April 2, 1999 | September 24, 1999 |
| Season 2 | 22 | March 18, 2000 | October 7, 2000 |
| Season 3 | 21 | October 27, 2001 | May 4, 2002 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Pilot Tommy Dawkins was in the woods celebrating the start of his senior year, when he was attacked by a werewolf. He became a Werewolf and seeks help from a unpopular student, Merton J. Dingle. |
April 2, 1999 |
| 2 |
The Bookmobile The Bookmobile rolls into town, and the librarian that runs this bookmobile strolls into cities, and turns patrons into books. |
April 9, 1999 |
| 3 |
Butch Comes to Shove While watching a boring and old educational film for detention, Tommy and Merton discovers that the bully from the movie, Butch got bored of his world and would like to enter the real world to capture a girl and take her back to the film, and the girl that he wanted was Stacey Hanson. |
April 16, 1999 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Hello Nasty The reason for the losing streak of 75 years for Pleasantville against a team is because of a curse from Branco Nastovich, a player who smashed his head into a goal post. When Tommy runs through Bronco and scored a goal, Nasty goes after Tommy. Plus Lori gets expelled for the damage to her school's trophie case and now goes to Tommy and Merton's school. |
March 18, 2000 |
| 2 |
Frank Stein Merton signs up for a quizbowl, ready to win the contest, but he does not have a partner so he decides to go with Tommy because all the other choices were already taken. When Merton does a great job at the rounds, a man comes to interview him but Merton did not know that man was trying to take his brain and put it into his monster creation, Frank Stein, to make him alive! |
March 25, 2000 |
| 3 |
Commie Dawkins Tommy and Merton uses a wormhole to travel back in time to take a look, but a Russian enters the wormhole to change history and take over the world. |
April 1, 2000 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Stone Free Tommy and Lori finds a way to get Merton out of his stone state, by purchasing potion from an underground group of people. Maxwell Fong wants $1000 for the potion, but Tommy and Lori does not have that much money, so Tommy traded in his Elway Rookie Card for the money. When they used the potion on Merton, it worked but Merton's senses were lost, so Tommy and Lori visit Fong again to get the antidote to the poison in his body. Fong offered it for $5000 but when he found out that Tommy was a Werewolf, he decided to have Tommy battle his champion in a no rules match, and if he wins, he receives the potion. Tommy did not know that he was up against a Cyclopes. |
October 27, 2001 |
| 2 |
Everybody Fang Chung Tonight While doing his late night radio show, Merton finally meets the woman of his dreams. There's just one problem - she turns out to be a vampire. This is no ordinary vampire, she drinks the blood of werewolves, and because these creatures are very rare, she was dying out along with her fellow vampire friend. So when they found out that Tommy Dawkins was a werewolf, they tricked Merton into becoming a vampire and now he must destroy Tommy to survive... |
November 3, 2001 |
| 3 |
I Dream of Becky Merton's sister Becky finds a genie in a bottle and wishes for Tommy to fall in love with her. Along with that wish, she was also granted a disappearance of a blemish and to make a forcefield that would not let Merton come 10 feet near her. And once all her wishes were granted, the genie escapes the bottle and Becky becomes stuck inside the bottle for the next couple hundred thousand years. Tommy and Merton must try to release Becky before the Genie runs too far away. |
November 10, 2001 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | YTV |
|---|---|
| First aired | April 2, 1999 |
| Last aired | May 4, 2002 |
| Runtime | 22 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Sunday at 18:00:00 |