Hotel Transylvania: The Series Explained

Genre:	Comedy horror^[1]
Developer:	Mark Steinberg
Director:	Robin Budd^[2]
Language:	English
Num Seasons:	2
Num Episodes:	52 (97 segments)
List Episodes:	List of Hotel Transylvania: The Series episodes
Producer:	Jane Crawford (season 1) Suzie Gallo (season 2) Rachel Bepple (season 2)
Runtime:	22 minutes (2 11–minute segments)
Network:	Disney Channel (U.S.) Teletoon (Canada)

Hotel Transylvania: The Series is an animated comedy television series produced by Sony Pictures Animation and Nelvana in association with Corus Entertainment. It is based on and serves as a prequel to the film Hotel Transylvania (2012), taking place before the events of the first film, focusing on the activities of 114/115-year-old Mavis and her best friends at the Hotel Transylvania while Dracula is away at the Vampire Council.^[3]

The 26-episode first season premiered on June 25, 2017, on Disney Channel in the United States, with the first episode released earlier on June 20, 2017, on the WATCH Disney Channel app, YouTube, and VOD. The last eight episodes of the first season were first streamed onto Netflix in the United States on June 25, 2018, prior to their television air dates. In Canada, the series premiered October 2, 2017, on Teletoon.

On September 12, 2018, a second season was announced.^[4] The second and final season premiered on October 8, 2019 and ran through October 29, 2020.^[5]

Premise

The series takes place four years before the events of the original CGI film and follows Mavis and her best friends as they have fun adventures at the hotel while Dracula is away on business with the Vampire Council.^[1]

Characters

See main article: List of Hotel Transylvania characters.

Main

• Mavis Dracula (voiced by Bryn McAuley) is the carefree 114-year-old daughter of the late Martha and Dracula, who wants to have fun with her best friends. Her boundless curiosity and carefree spirit frequently leads her into trouble with her aunt Lydia. She turns 115 in the Season 1 finale "Fangcenera" and earns her own family cape. She is a lot paler than in the movies.
• Wendy Blob (voiced by Evany Rosen) is a green blob of goo that is the daughter of Blobby and is one of Mavis' friends.^[6]
• Hank N. Stein (voiced by Gage Munroe) is the teen aged son of Frankenstein and Eunice and is one of Mavis' best friends. In "Thumb and Thumber" it is revealed that he has Dracula ancestry, making him and Mavis paternal distant cousins.
• Pedro (voiced by Joseph Motiki) is a fat teenage mummy who resembles Murray and is one of Mavis' friends.^[6] Pedro enjoys eating, sleeping, and rapping. His hero is the Sandman. He finally learns how to lay curses properly in "Purse of the Mummy."
• Aunt Lydia Dracula (voiced by Dan Chameroy) is Dracula's older sister, the late Martha's sister-in-law, and Mavis' paternal aunt, who pushes more order and tradition at the hotel when Mavis and her friends want to have any kind of fun. Her true name is revealed in "The Naming of the Shew."
• Diane (voiced by Richard Binsley) is Aunt Lydia's pet chicken who used to be a human woman. She acts as Lydia's eyes and ears throughout the hotel. She is never seen in her mortal form nor is it acknowledged what she looked like.

Recurring

• Count "Drac" Dracula (voiced by David Berni in season one, Ivan Sherry in season two) is Mavis' widowed overprotective father and is away on "official vampire business"^[6] at the Vampire Council. He is replaced by his elder sister Lydia as the head staff of the hotel until his return. His cape is tinted purple instead of blood-red. In the Season 2 finale "What Lycidias Beneath", he decides to stay at the Hotel for good as he senses there are more dangers going in the Underworld.
• Frank N. Stein (voiced by Paul Braunstein) is the father of Hank N. Stein and husband of Eunice.
• Eunice is the mother of Hank N. Stein and wife of Frank.
• Quasimodo (voiced by Christopher Jacot) is Hotel Tranyslvania's residential chef.
• Uncle Gene Dracula (voiced by Patrick McKenna) is Mavis' great-uncle and Dracula and Lydia's uncle who enjoys playing video games. He stays in a chariot-like wheelchair.
• Dr. John Gillman is a gill-man who is Hotel Transylvania's residential physician.
• Donald (voiced by Ryan Belleville) and Kitty Cartwright (voiced by Linda Kash) are a couple of humans who live with their toddler daughter near Hotel Transylvania. Donald is the fun and dim-witted father and Kitty is the overprotective mother who does anything to keep monsters away from her house, including installing the house with a high tech security system.
• Cerberus is a three-headed guard dog that mostly resides in Hotel Transylvania's Cerberus Pit.
• Klaus (voiced by Carter Hayden) is Mavis' first cousin who is always trying to beat and best her in everything else except turning into a bat, a natural ability he finally develops in "Drop the Needle". His name is pronounced "Klow-shh." He is least liked by his uncle and other vampires who consider him annoying and dim-witted.

Supporting

• Countess Martha was Count Dracula's beloved wife who was a vampire as well. She does not actually appear, having been killed by an angry mob a century before the events of the show and movies, but is referenced in "Fangcenera" when her husband gives Mavis her blood-red gown as a one hundred-and-fifteenth birthday present.

Production

Hotel Transylvania: The Series voice cast is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with the Dayton/Walters casting agency being responsible for the casting. None of the original cast returned for the show.

Episodes

See main article: List of Hotel Transylvania: The Series episodes.

Broadcast

Sony Pictures Animation licensed Hotel Transylvania: The Series for platforms in Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe (excluding Germany), Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States.^[3] Sony Pictures Television is the distributor in the United States, while Nelvana Enterprises, successor of Nelvana International, is the distributor of the Hotel Transylvania: The Series internationally. The series debuted on Teletoon in Fall 2017 in Canada.^[7] In India, the series premiered on December 18, 2017, on Disney Channel India. The series was shown in Germany by Super RTL in 2018 and also on CITV in the UK the same year. Repeats of the series started airing on Disney XD in the United States as of October 2019. The last eight episodes of the first season were shown on Netflix in the United States on June 25, 2018, a year after the show premiered.

External links

• Official website at Corus Entertainment
• Official website at Sony Pictures Animation

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nelvana and Sony Pictures Animation Check in Together on Hotel Transylvania Animated TV Series. July 14, 2015. Corus Entertainment. October 5, 2016. January 15, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170115200800/http://www.corusent.com/news/nelvana-and-sony-pictures-animation-check-in-together-on-hotel-transylvania-animated-tv-series. dead.
2. http://daytonwalters.com/DAYTONWALTERS/TV_files/web%20tv%20resume%20November%20%202016.pdf{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
3. Web site: 'Hotel Transylvania' TV Series Headed to Disney Channels Worldwide. June 20, 2016. The Hollywood Reporter. October 5, 2016.
4. Web site: Hotel Transylvania series bites into second season.
5. Web site: Hotel Transylvania: The Series Season 2 Episode Guide. Zap2it.
6. Web site: Hotel Transylvania: The Television Series. Corus Entertainment. October 5, 2016. October 8, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171008065939/http://www.corusent.com/properties/hotel-transylvania-television-series/. dead.
7. News: 2017-06-05 . CORUS ENTERTAINMENT PROUDLY BOLSTERS ITS DIVERSE 2017/18 PROGRAMMING SLATE WITH NEW AND RETURNING CANADIAN ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS . . 2017-06-09.