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Abby is right -- in episode #23, "Dark Gone Lightly", he turned into an arthropod. It receives an average 3 out of 5 from the contributors to Fanimal: sounds disappointing.
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I've been using the Internet to find out more about Manimal. It can be a great resource if searched appropriately (try msn.co.uk's search engine for reliable results.)
Omlete.com reveals this wry pastiche of "Chewbacca" in a frame from one of Manimal's many simian transformations. DVD technology made this "still" visible to retro TV fans.
This animated "gift" file shows the dramatic effects of the title sequence, highly acclaimed by 1983 standards.
This episode featured a "bad" Manimal (right), with the same powers but evil motives -- the idea spinning off from the Knight Rider episodes starring KATT.
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I mocked 'Manimal' when it was new. And I believe the clarity of hindsight has proven that my 12-year-old self was wise beyond my years.
But then again, there wasn't much offered by American television during that time which wasn't painfully mockable. So perhaps I was just really good at pointing out the obvious. Not unlike today.
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He didn't turn into a shark. He turned into a dolphin to ward off a shark with his bottlenose. I remember that episode well. Used to turn into a hawk a lot as well as the panther. Did he turn into a snake as well? Maybe I'm just projecting that last one.
All the nonsense about his dad's viet vet POW breathing excercises was great, a flashback that looked like it was filmed on the set of It Ain't 'Alf Hot Mum.
Better than Automan (With Chuck Wagner and Dezzie Arnes Jr) anyday.
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In an episode that was pulled a week before it went out, he turned into a white supremicist oppresor. The plan to change the shows title to The Man-imal was also dropped.
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I am unable to continue reading Wild Animus, and anyone who wishes to give it a go is very welcome. It seems it was also being given away for free at a Jazz festival in Chicago (in fact everyone seems to have got it free).
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In their terrifying Funcrusher Plus album Company Flow characterise their hip-hop as being like a contest of "Auto-Man versus Manimal", which is certainly something I'd have liked to see, aged 10.
Nice trivia, Kovacs, about the Cat People/Ambersons set. For any fans of the macabre I can also recommend Tourner's Night of the Demon which is loosely based on MR James chrimbo ghost classic Casting the Runes.
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Havinig read up on Street Hawk, it doesn't actually sound very exciting. Check out this gripping synopsis for episode 5 of the series.
quote: Dog Eat Dog W: Nicholas Corea & Bruce Cervi - D: Daniel Haller 1/Feb/85 James A Whitmore, Jr., Daphne Ashbrook, Kai Wulff Jesse attempts convincing a rock star to appear in a public service ad.
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Havinig read up on Street Hawk, it doesn't actually sound very exciting. Check out this gripping synopsis for episode 5 of the series.
quote: Dog Eat Dog W: Nicholas Corea & Bruce Cervi - D: Daniel Haller 1/Feb/85 James A Whitmore, Jr., Daphne Ashbrook, Kai Wulff Jesse attempts convincing a rock star to appear in a public service ad.
Feel the drama!
I wonder if that episode was specially written though, so that a famous rock star of the day could appear in Street Hawk. Like when Boy George was in The A Team.
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Boy George was never in the A-Team. Was he? I'm away to google Boy George and A-Team now and if I find out you've been telling pork pies I will be very cross indeed.
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quote:Originally posted by Astromariner: Boy George was never in the A-Team. Was he? I'm away to google Boy George and A-Team now and if I find out you've been telling pork pies I will be very cross indeed.
I'm afraid so. Quite why he plays to a group of Texan Truckers though is quite beyond belief.
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Remarkable - that same series also featured deranged murder-charge superfreak Rick James as a "rock star" assisted by ver Team.
An episode guide to that season mentions one episode in which Murdock (sic) wins the jackpot on Wheel of Fortune and is then kidnapped and imprisonned in a Soviet gulag?
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Hearteningly, the very first series sounds as bleak and hardcore as I remember it:
quote:01/30/83 Children of Jamestown wr. Stephen J. Cannell; dir. Christian I. Nyby, Jr. Martin James: John Saxon. Tim: Ron Hayes. Brother Stephen: Gerrit Graham. Sheila Rodgers: Carol Jones. Carolyn: Sherilyn Wolter. Brother John: Fred Lerner. After the team rescues a girl from a crazed cult leader, Hannibal, BA, Face (Dirk Benedict) and Amy are captured by the man's followers and made the quarry for a death hunt.
02/08/83 Pros and Cons* wr. Stephen J. Cannell; dir. Ron Satlof. Warden Beal: Clifton James. Jose Tataro: William Smith. Joey Tataro: Meeno Peluce. Sneed: Paul Koslo. BA's friend is held in a prison where the warden conducts fight-to- the-death boxing matches whose winner receives short-lived freedom. One-time heavyweight champ Ken Norton plays Jackhammer.
02/15/83 A Small And Deadly War* (wr. Frank Lupo; dir. Ron Satlof) Stark: Jack Ging. Collins: Dean Stockwell. Maloney: Norman Allen. Meadows: Al White. Shaeffer: Fil Formicola. Hannibal plays cat and mouse with a renegade SWAT team that's committing murder for hire.
03/15/83 Holiday in the Hills* (wr. Babs Greyhosky; dir. Arnold Laven). Barnes: Edward Winter. Clint: Bill McKinney. Louanne: Denise Galik. Eldridge: Philip Sterling. The team crash-lands in the backwoods where they battle mountain men to save a man from being burned at the stake.
Fucking hell! I reckon Thorn must have had some involvement in the scripts back then - except he'd have been about four.
quote:01/30/83 Karma Guerilla wr. Stephen J. Benway; dir. Jarvis Cocker. Boy George: Himself Boy George learns tactical warfare from a crack group of deserters. Despite being the average age of n-n-n-n-nineteen, they still show the foppish gaybo how to drug your fellow black man to fly ryan-air, chop a man unconcious on the shoulder, blow up a helicopter to smithereens but only render the crew unconcious and build a fully working tank out of some bog rolls and sellotape. Fools have never been so pitied.
quote:Dipping into the past, Culture Club makes a "fantastic!" appearance on the hit television series "The A-Team." Stepping to the stage, the group performs "God Thank You Woman" and their hit single, "Move Away." The storyline is kind of typical of the programs that were being shown back then, but it's great seeing George in front of the camera doing some light acting. As the show draws to a close the group performs "Karma Chameleon." George looks "fabulous!"
But sadly, no photographic evidence.
ETA: Er, to bring the thread back on topic, I would like to suggest that Snoreton reviews this book.
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this is a follow-up to the 'are birds animals' confusion. as in, if most female mammals bleed, does that include whales? if so, ewwww.
I think, and I am a little hazy on this, that many mamals have an arrangement whereby the female only becomes fertile once a year, or however often, and then pretty much always gets pregnant during that time. By virtue of majic pheromones or something. So you dont get un-fertilised eggs and bleeding in the same way as humans.
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Wouldn't it be totally nuts for whales, or any marine creatures to bleed? What about all the marine predators that have a highly developed sense of smell and go crazy at the first whiff of blood. As soon as a whale had her first period, she'd be torn to shreds. Total bloodbath.
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Perhaps we could issue sheep with scuba gear to act as tampons, as a precautionary measure to act as a protection so that the enviroment dosn't sway in favour minge tinged blood-lust sharks.
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: Perhaps we could issue sheep with scuba gear to act as tampons, as a precautionary measure to act as a protection so that the enviroment dosn't sway in favour minge tinged blood-lust sharks.
But then when blood-soaked sheep were extracted, they would be instant shark food And less able to defend themselves than whales!
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quote:Originally posted by rooster: blood-soaked sheep ... instant shark food
Yes, because we all know sharks commonly roam Scotland in search of food.
Froopy have you been paying attention at all? We're talking about sheep that are being used as tampons for whales, for Christ's sake. Not regular sheep. Unless you think whales that use tampons commonly roam the highlands? I dunno. Fucking yanks. You probably think that Scotland and whales are the same place.
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A regular menstrual cycle as described only occurs in the higher primates. Females of other mammalian species go through certain episodes called "estrus" or "heat" in each breeding season. During these times, ovulation occurs and females are receptive to mating, a fact advertised to males in some way. If no fertilization takes place, the endometrium is reabsorbed by the uterus and no menstrual bleeding occurs.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Froopy have you been paying attention at all?
I have, but I'm not sure it's helped. I got lost right about the time you all were discussing how Boy George played a sheep on an episode of the A Team. It all went a bit hazy after that.
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