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"Manimal" Manimal (1983)
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Original Air Date:
30 September 1983
(Season 1, Episode 1)
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Jonathan Chase is a British college professor at New York University who has the unusual ability to transform into any kind of animal he wants...
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Monkey Man
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(Episode Credited cast)| Simon MacCorkindale | ... | Dr. Jonathan Chase | |
| Melody Anderson | ... | Brooke MacKenzie | |
| Reni Santoni | ... | Lt. Nick Rivera | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Ursula Andress | ... | Karen Jade | |
| Gerald Berns | ... | Lieutenant Griggs | |
| Lloyd Bochner | ... | Jordon | |
| Robert Carricart | ... | Old man | |
| Avner Garbi | ... | Sheik | |
| Michael Gregory | ... | Kramer | |
| Del Hinkley | |||
| Ed Hooks | |||
| Wynn Irwin | |||
| Elias Jacob | ... | Sheik | |
| Terry Kiser | |||
| Don Knight | |||
| Ed Lauter | ... | Colonel Hunt | |
| Floyd Levine | ... | Murdock | |
| George Loros | ... | Hollister | |
| James Lough | ... | Guard | |
| Cynthia Mayberry | ... | Mrs. Thatcher | |
| Richard Minchenberg | ... | Jerry Harker | |
| Lara Parker | |||
| John Quade | |||
| Hadi Sadjadi | ... | Interpreter | |
| Talbot Perry Simons | ... | Taxi driver / bomber | |
| Le Tuan | ... | Viet-Cong Officer | |
| Glynn Turman | ... | Ty Earl | |
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90 min
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Factual errors: Whenever Jonathan turned into a bird his hands became talons. His feet should have turned into talons and his hands and arms to wings.
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Manimal was Indiana Jones meets James Bond meets Monkey Man. It was a totally ridiculous show about some British Professor teaching at New York University while stopping crime and espionage by turning into a monkey, babboon, eagle, wolf, leopard, etc. It was incredibly silly, and it had an interesting cast that made you wonder why they were on such a silly show. It might have succeeded as some kind of Rowan Atkinson comedy. As a serious Science Fiction TV show it was goofy at best, back when special effects on TV were really bad. On the other hand, if someone did it today, with a topical subject (such as British Professor cover for an anti-terrorist secret agent-mutant); it would be worth watching! But back in 1983, crime-fighting monkeys & leopards were too far ahead of their time??