Hotel Transylvania: The Series

Hotel Transylvania: The Series is a Canadian-American 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 four years before the events of the first film, focusing on the activities of 114/117-year-old Mavis and her best friends at the Hotel Transylvania while Dracula is away at the Vampire Council.

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. Season 2 premiered on October 8, 2019.

The series has currently not been released on DVD or any home media format.

## Premise

The series takes place four years before 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.

## Characters

### Main

* Mavis Dracula (voiced by Bryn McAuley) is the carefree 114-year-old 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 Mr. Blob and is one of Mavis' friends.
* Hank N. Stein (voiced by Gage Munroe) is the teen aged son of Frankenstein and Eunice and is one of Mavis' best friends. In "Thub and Thumber" it is revealed that has Dracula ancestry, making him and Mavis distant cousins.
* Pedro (voiced by Joseph Motiki) is a fat mummy who resembles Murray and is one of Mavis' friends. 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 (voiced by Dan Chameroy) is Dracula's and Gene'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."
* Diana is Aunt Lydia's pet chicken who used to be a human. She acts as Lydia's eyes and ears throughout the hotel.

### Supporting

* Count "Drac" Dracula (voiced by David Berni (season one) and Ivan Sherry (season two)) is Mavis' widowed overprotective father and is away on "official vampire business" 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 (voiced by Paul Braunstein) is the father of Hank N. Stein.
* Eunice is the mother of Hank N. Stein.
* Quasimodo (voiced by Scott McCord) is Hotel Tranyslvania's residential chef.
* Uncle Gene (voiced by Patrick McKenna) is Mavis' uncle and Dracula's and Lydia's younger brother, 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 and Kitty Cartwright 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 out 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.
* Lycidias Dracula was the most infamous and strongest of the Dracula vampires that had ever lived. He was most famous for successfully pulling off the dangerous "Vamp Stamp" move at the ridiculously young age of 137. His ancient crypt is revealed to have been hidden deep beneath the Hotel itself in order for Dracula and others to watch over his evil essence to defend all monsterkind from its wrath. Due to Mavis' curiosity, his spirit takes possession of her and intends to obliterate everything and everyone so he can "start over." Dracula manages to imprison his essence inside Klaus' smoothie cup. Unfortunately, he is unknowingly set free thanks to Wendy's carelessness.

## 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.

## 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. 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. 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 US 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. Then The Series Premired On Toon Disney in the US On September 25, 2020.

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