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DawgEatah
August 24, 2006

Opening From Narrator "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, H...

Opening From Narrator

"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."
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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 and horse, the actual transformations occurred off-screen.)

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.
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Cast * Simon MacCorkindale as Jonathan Chase * Melody Anderson, Brooke Mackenzie * Michael D. Roberts, Tyrone "Ty" C. Earl * Reni Santoni, Lt. Nick Rivera * William Conrad, Narrator

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Episode list
Episode # Date aired Title
1 9/30/1983 Manimal
2 10/14/1983 Illusion
3 10/21/1983 Night of the Scorpion
4 10/28/1983 Female of the Species
5 11/4/1983 High Stakes
6 12/3/1983 Scrimshaw
7 12/10/1983 Breath of the Dragon
8 12/17/1983 Night of the Beast
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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.

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KarthikSoun (1 week ago) Show Hide

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The 80s will always be the best!! We have nothing like this these days!! Desperate house wife is all these shity kids get..lol..

iamaladycanyousaveme (1 week ago) Show Hide

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Lol. The 80's were amazing.

mellerbeck (1 month ago) Show Hide

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can't believe it was only 8 episodes, I thought it was amazing

BazWaz1975 (1 month ago) Show Hide

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wonder if he wears sex panther by odeon?

furyianfyre (1 month ago) Show Hide

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This would be cool with the technology that is available now. The premise was a good one and it was good for what it was.

mwillblade (2 months ago) Show Hide

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This show was so bad I circumcised myself with a chainsaw !

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wahahahhahaha

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If your talkin about that jazz guy whose a superhero, that was a comic book. I remeber the character was a guest on an animated series that was a comic book as well I forgot what it was

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I loved it and thought the whole thing was cool!

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