Manimal

TV Series
1983
TV-PG
1h

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6.5/10

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Adventure Crime Fantasy

A suave and elegant university professor, who can shape-shift into any animal, fights crime along with a female New York detective and his right-hand man.A suave and elegant university professor, who can shape-shift into any animal, fights crime along with a female New York detective and his right-hand man.A suave and elegant university professor, who can shape-shift into any animal, fights crime along with a female New York detective and his right-hand man.

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

2.3K

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See production info at IMDbPro

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Whenever the script called for an animal transition, the production designer, director, set decorator, stunt supervisor, animal wrangler and actor had to carefully coordinate every move. Shooting on a sound stage allowed more animal control; location shoots were very difficult. When one script required a cobra, the entire set's perimeter floor and walls had to be sealed to prevent the animal from escaping. A low wall was placed at the open end of the set to seal the stage. To set up filming action scenes with the snake, the camera crew had to lift their equipment into walled-off stage area. The snake wrangler supervised the animal's movements.

Goofs
A bit strange for a cop, Brooke had a purse seemingly "permanently fused" to her shoulder. Whenever she was running around after bad guys, her purse was inconveniently dangling at her shoulder. She kept her gun in her purse, contrary to other lady cops, who carried it in a holster.

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Featured in NBC 75th Anniversary Special (2002)

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Pretty Good Larson effort.

A lot of people rag on Manimal for the premise but compared to all the other efforts at the same time (Automan, Knight Rider, Street Hawk, etc)it was better than the rest by a fair margin. A crimefighter fighting against the bad guys using a special skill (first line in the Glen Larson template)--in this case shapeshifting anthropomorph--destroys crime. Yeah, it's more of the usual but always interesting on some level. Simon MacCorkindale gives it a bit more energy as a regal sort and the show's worth watching on a purely fun level.

Even more interesting that Manimal was brought back to life fifteen years later in yet another Larson effort, NightMan. Still, a fantastic show to enjoy and sadly short-lived.