Manimal
Genre	Action/Adventure Sci-fi Crime
Created by	Glen A. Larson, Donald R. Boyle
Starring	See Cast below
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	8 episodes
Production
Running time	90 minutes (pilot), 60 minutes (others episodes)
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC (1983)
Original run	September 30, 1983 – December 17, 1983
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IMDb profile

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Opening narration

“Dr. Jonathan Chase is a wealthy, young, and handsome man with the brightest of futures with a very dark past. From Africa’s deepest recesses, to the rarest peaks of Tibet, heir to his father’s legacy, and the world’s darkest mysteries is Jonathan Chase, master of the secrets that divide man from animal, animal from man, Manimal.”

Overview

By modern standards its special effects, though plentiful, were relatively low-quality, not surprising given the time period and other constraints. While Dr. Chase was meant to have the ability to change himself into any animal, in practice his onscreen transformations were almost always into a hawk or black panther, with the exact same backdrops each time, presumably to save on the budget, though he did become a snake once. (In the episodes when Dr. Chase turned into a bull, shark, and horse, the actual transformations occurred off-screen.) Hawks redirects here. ... A melanistic black jaguar, or black panther The black panther is the common name for a black specimen (a melanistic variant) of any of several species of cats. ...

The show was cancelled after only eight episodes. David Letterman may have had a role in its swift cancellation by mercilessly hammering the show in his typical ironic style. In the years since, its name is often invoked by science fiction fans when asked to name the worst series ever made for American television (which is not to say that it has no fans at all). Glen Larson, the creator, would eventually resurrect Chase briefly for a crossover with his 1990s underground classic Nightman. David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an award-winning American television personality, late night talk show host, television producer, philanthropist, and Indy race car owner. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Glen A. Larson (born 1937) is a television writer and producer. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... Night Man (or NightMan) was an American television program running from September 1997 to May 1999, loosely based on a comic book published by Malibu Comics and created by Steve Englehart (the original comic title was The Night Man) and developed for television by Glen A. Larson. ...

Cast

Simon McCorkindale as Jonathon, the “Manimal,” and co-star, Melody Anderson, as Brooke Mackenzie.

• Simon MacCorkindale as Jonathan Chase
• Melody Anderson, Brooke Mackenzie
• Michael D. Roberts, Tyrone “Ty” C. Earl
• Reni Santoni, Lt. Nick Rivera
• William Conrad, Narrator
• Jack Greer, Young Jonathan Chase/Young Manimal

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Episode list

Trivia

• In the episode “Breath of the Dragon,” Walter Nebicher from Automan can be seen walking outside the Chinese restaurant. Both Manimal and Automan were filmed back to back with the same scene (at a different angle) appearing in the episode of Automan.
• In the pilot episode, Chase's sidekick Tyrone “Ty” C. Earl was played not by Michael D. Roberts, but by Glynn Turman.
• The show is referenced in the song "Wind Up" by Foo Fighters on their 1997 album The Colour and the Shape.
• In the 2006 film Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, John C. Reilly's character Cal Naughton, Jr. makes a brief reference to Manimal.
• In the first commercial promotion of Manimal, a great white shark's dorsal fin (Manimal) attacks J.R. Ewing (the show premiered opposite Dallas). Previously, McCorkindale starred in Jaws 3 and was killed by the shark.

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External links

• Manimal at the Internet Movie Database
• Action TV