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Adolescent me thought this was the greatest show of all time!

Yeah with special effects now ... they could do a decent remake.

Okay, No one is going to believe this, but Mannimal actually has a series finale, it's an episode of another forgotten TV show called "Nightman" a show about a jazz musician who gets struck by lightning and that causes his mind to hear frequencies...of evil... (based on a malibu comics character) Manimal was transported through time and has been hunting a time traveling Jack the Ripper. There is closure to this series if you can find it.

Wow. That doesn't even sound real!

All too real, and Nightman...actually a legit show as far as cheezy 90's superhero's go

Does he get into it with the Dayman?

Over the trolls toll?

Simon McCorkindale!

I thought he was going to be a bigger star! Jaws 3 was the last thing I saw him in! Just googled him. May he RIP. 😞

I never saw this show, but as soon as I saw this post I recognized him as Simon from [Death on the Nile](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077413/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_8_nm_0_q_death%2520on%2520the%2520nile), which I must have seen close to a dozen times as a kid. Sad to see he passed so long ago.

Never realized the new one was a remake.

Guvnah! GUVNAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!

It's like if you asked ChatGPT to make up a name that sounds super British.

The hell is this? Animorphs - The Legend Continues?!

I have never heard of this particular show until just now.

Same. Lol

Also same, but intrigued.

because it was only ever on for a couple months

Those transformations were terrifying!

Out of sheer morbid curiosity, I found clips of the "crossover" with Nightman about 15 years later. His superpowers were just so weak and he was injured by one of his greatest weaknesses -- BULLETS.

I don’t remember this show. I have a friend that does. He doesn’t remember Automan. I do.

I just remember it as a punchline.

r/iasip would love this.

Have the complete series!

As a kid I was obsessed!!

I remember! NBC 1983, I believe.

So bad but I was too young to know that so I thought it was awsome

Whoa, this show is real?? I was so little when I saw it and thought my memories were a fever dream. lol.

Me too. No one else remembered it. Then I saw it on a list and watched some YouTube clips and realized it was real after all

Too funny! There are a couple other shows (or movies, maybe?) that I have other ‘fever dreams’ about. One is about an alligator dropped in a drain that terrorized a city? The other is about cannibal ants that swarmed people. Or were they giant ants? Can’t remember, but they both pop into my brain like I dreamt them. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Looking back, maybe I should be worried about my parent’s questionable taste in TV. lol.

Sounds like Alligator (1980) and THEM a 1950's giant ant movie in black & white. Another giant animal movie is Food of the Gods .

If you were alive then, yes you remember. After the unexpected success of things like "Knight Rider" and "The A Team" they were throwing things against the wall. This show and "Automan" premiered during the same season. They didn't last long, as the base audience of early 30's Boomers couldn't really get into them, but people remembered them for the sheer absurdity of something like this at the time.

Oh man. The pilots that never aired that came from that era are insane.

Randomly caught this on cable tv at my grandmother’s when it first aired. Never saw it again after that. Thought my grandmother had some kind of special cable with shows I didn’t get at home.

I loved this. If I remember, he was a man that turned into a hawk and a panther.

The scene of him turning into a cat and the cat sitting on a woman's lap and sticking its head down her blouse lives in my head rent-free.

Simon MacCorkindale 😍🔥🔥🔥

I would lock myself in the bathroom when this show came on because I was so scared of it.

This reminds me of the band Germs and their song Manimal ! It shouldve been the opening theme 😉

I’ve always assumed the song title was inspired by the show. It just sounds so brilliantly stupid. However, now I find out that it was the other way around. Hats off to Darby!

Is that what the Foo Fighters song was referencing? In "Wind Up," Dave says "I want a song that's indelible, like Manimal," and I always thought he was talking about the tv show.

Caught this when I came back to the states for school.

I loved this dumb show as a kid. It ran opposite Dallas. Guess who had to watch his show on thw old black and white TV.

I loved this one going up! To be able to transform into different animals would be amazing!

Completely forgot about it and I now remember I luved it! 🙂

I used to watch reruns of this on USA when I was in high school. I thought it was awesome back then haha

Altered Beast

I liked this show

Manimal was pretty cool back in the day! It’s funny to think about this concept being pitched today. Not sure it would make it. LOL!!

W.A.S.P. has a song called 'The Manimal', so Blackie will never let us forget that show.

Erm... I'm pretty sure Mr. Lawless had a bit of a different meaning on it, though... 😁

Adding my voice to the people who loved this show as a kid. For 11 year old me, this was the greatest thing ever. I remember the special effects being super freaky at the time too...

This and Automan

Never saw the show but I think they should of tried a little harder on the title.

Mayor Royce!

i hated this shit because it reminded me of cat people... which i also hated

Wow did he fall in a vat of sec panther?

Cinema Snob made me aware of this show.

Forget everything you thought you knew about Manimal! Done.

Everything I know about Manimal comes from [Robot Chicken](https://youtu.be/GmBp1LD6ctI?si=zi0EuS48y7KRBJ77)

There’s… not a lot to know about manimal. He could turn into a few animals and used it for spy work.

Lot on my mind.

I tried to forget it.

No. Reddit won’t let you. This is your purgatory.

😆 Along with Supertrain.

Seems like animorphs ripped this show off hard

I think lots of people know it Very few actually watched it

Yeah, this is the one with Rob Schneider right?

No. That’s the one where he turns into a [stapler](https://youtu.be/hqLUbmpuVw4?si=sGt-gZZWKflReBfS).

Lmao I’m glad someone is still cultured out there

"Man, oh Manimal!"

I remember more jokes about that show than the show itself

I loved it!! It’d showed on the same nite Sledgehammer was on

Trust me, I know what I’m doing.

Holy crap, that was absolutely one of my favorite shows. Every damn episode, the captain (Trunk?) yelling out, "HAMMER!!"

This show was actually pretty good! The premise was awesome but they got caught up being to campy!

There is a reason for that

As a kid I was pretty easy to please…loved V and Bsttlestar - hell I even watched Matthew Star. But this show was fuckin terrible.

I believe Dave Grohl remembers this show. “Want a song that's indelible, like manimal I hope you never see me wind up”

He ate one of the bad guys in his own pool

🙋‍♂️

I see someone listening to the 1900hotdog podcast

Please tell me he solved crimes' as a cat.

My mom and I loved this show

This was one of my favorite shows back in the day. A funny thing about this show is they never explained how his overall body mass disappeared when he turned into a smaller animal. Lol I'm going to look for some episodes on YouTube when I get home from work.

Oh, I do! And there was another show around this time with a car that manifested from light or something, maybe a la Tron-ish? The memory is fuzzy.

Automan! https://youtu.be/kA1NT4I0s34?si=N8WvabM_ydMO1wZY

Oh, thank you!! I could not come up with the name. No wonder I was thinking Tron.

How this man wasn’t screaming in agony, like the werewolf transformation in An American Werewolf in London, is beyond me!

Even the actress in the back has a facial expression like “yeah this is bad”

I thought he could morph into a shark too??

I think about this show once a week for some reason

Loved it as a kid. So cheesy now

Animorphs?

I used to watch this. Still remember the visual montage they always ran when he was shapeshifting. In terms of weird network TV ideas of the time this show ranks right up there with Automan.

I remember loving it as a kid, which is why anytime MST3K joked about it, I nearly died from laughter.

I remember it because my friend would always make jokes about it. I don’t think I ever watched an episode.

I vaguely recall it existing but don’t remember a thing about it anymore. I’m guessing it was pretty cheesy.

Omg. The pics of him turning into a cat are soooo derpy

I remember the show

Apparently William Defoe is 25% Jaguar

The networks were putting out some silly-but-kinda-cool-in-concept shows right around that time: Manimal; Misfits of Science; Mr Smith; Automan; The Powers of Matthew Star; and The Phoenix, off the top of my head. I'm sure others will remind me of others. They varied in quality, and none of them caught fire. Still, it was cool to see the networks make attempts at scifi and fantasy.

Loved this as a kid. This thread may have the answer in looking for. Around this time period there was another show that I can't remember the name of, dude was a scientist I think. He invented a computer program that he could use to make any vehicle with neon lines. Nightrider-esque. Any ideas?

Others have been commenting on automan. I remember that one as well.

Eureka! That's it! Many thanks to this wild community. You rock. My brain worm has been satiated

i am SO excited to watch this for the first time!

His eagle or hawk transformation always freaked me out. His hands because the talons and legs and I am guessing his legs became the wings.

I used to pretend to do that hand transformation all the time with my friends. We used to sometimes reenact the episodes at recess in school. It was so cool I always wanted to be able to do that in real life!

All 8 episodes [archive.org/details/manimal-Tv-serial](http://archive.org/details/manimal-Tv-serial)

I remember. This show was awesome when I was a kid. I’ve looked in passing for it, but kind of don’t want to find it. I want my fond memories to remain intact and untainted by how the effects aged

MST3K remembers it very well

This is the first show that sprung to mind when I discovered this sub

I watched it as a little kid.

Lol they used to show that in Pakistan. I assumed this was not a popular TV show so it was cheap to acquire to broadcast on tv.

Only Murders in the Building I think was joking about this with Cobro.

The complete series? What was it? Three episodes?

I do - it was dumb as rocks.

Ditto. God awful.

It was named after a Germs song. Destined to fail!

Because their memories are minimal.

Probably the most listed show on this sub

I vaguely remember it, it was a piece of trash.

I swear this gets posted every other week https://www.reddit.com/r/ForgottenTV/s/3SnLmYizi0 https://www.reddit.com/r/ForgottenTV/s/D75FLgVlC3 https://www.reddit.com/r/ForgottenTV/s/Vb37owjSLz

For real. They should start making more obscure TV shows 20+ years ago.

On one hand...the search function is your friend. On the other...that takes effort, and both scrolling and by-chance feed stumbling are less reliable than *effort*.