Bruce W. Wolf -  Werewolf character featured on the children's program THE MONSTER SQUAD/NBC/1976-77 The series told the story of wax museum monsters who were brought to life by Walter (Fred Grandy), a young criminology student while tinkering with his crime computer in the museum's dungeon-like basement. Under Walter's guidance, the legendary monsters joined forces as "The Monster Squad" to battle crime and solve mysteries. Its members included the tuxedo-wearing Dracula (Henry Polic, II), the fur-faced Werewolf, a.k.a. Bruce W. Wolf (Buck Kartalian), and the hulking Frank N. Stein (Michael Lane).

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Opening Narration

"My name is Walt. I work as night watchman here at Fred's Wax Museum to put myself through criminology college. It used to be very lonely until recently when I plugged in my crime computer, suddenly oscillating vibrations brought to life three legendary monsters...Dracula, The Werewolf and Frankenstein. Creatures hated and feared for centuries, now determined to make up for their past misbehavings by fighting crime wherever they find it. Together, we're THE MONSTER SQUAD"

Walter and members of "The Monster Squad"
Frank N. Stein	Bruce W. Wolf	Dracula

TRIVIA NOTE: In 1977, Milton Bradley Company produced a board game based on the TV series. Fred Grandy who played Walter, the night watchman later appeared on the romantic comedy THE LOVE BOAT/ABC/1977-86 as Yeoman-Purser Burl "Gopher" Smith. From  1987 to 1995, he held office as a US Congressman for the state of Iowa. In 1987, a movie entitled The Monster Squad featured legendary monsters Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman who sought an amulet that would give them the power to rule the world. Their plans, of course

           

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