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LessAspin

(1,407 posts) Sat Jul 9, 2022, 11:20 PM Jul 2022

Manimal

Was he a man? Maybe an animal?

Nobody knows .. that's why the show was so gr...

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Manimal (Original Post) LessAspin Jul 2022 OP

I remember that show agingdem Jul 2022 #1

That one didn't make it out of the 80's Shermann Jul 2022 #2

Manimal the Movie LessAspin Jul 2022 #3

agingdem

(8,541 posts)

1. I remember that show

Reply to LessAspin (Original post)

Sat Jul 9, 2022, 11:28 PM

Jul 2022

it was bad beyond bad...and unintentionally hilarious

Shermann

(8,641 posts)

2. That one didn't make it out of the 80's

Reply to LessAspin (Original post)

Sun Jul 10, 2022, 07:36 AM

Jul 2022

Hell, it didn't even survive 1983.

LessAspin

(1,407 posts)

3. Manimal the Movie

Reply to LessAspin (Original post)

Sun Jul 10, 2022, 04:40 PM

Jul 2022

Glen Larson mentions in the dvd commentary that he was hoping to still get the short-lived series Manimal made into a movie. In spite of the recent untimely passing of series star Simon MacCorkindale.

I thought he might have just been throwing stuff out there hoping to speak it into existence. Although the video below seems to confirm that Glen was in talks with Will Ferrall about the time he made the dvd commentary. So he apparently did have something in the works prior to his death. Then he died and the project never went anywhere after that.

16-minutes into the video below the Manimal Movie comes up:

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