Extra Credit 006 - Manimal: Scrimshaw

What inhuman monsters dislike these episodes?!

Candelabras are to treasure as baguettes are to groceries.

Dan Pratt

I forgot about this! But I just listened and now 2023 is off to a much better start.

Steve

I thought you guys did all of Kolchak already, or was it jsut the tv movie/pilot. If not, then I second/third whatever doing all of the eps and even the X-Files eps in which Arthur Dales continues Kolchak's work. All excellent tv horror.

Kolchak would be a ton of fun. May I also suggest perhaps some Lovecraftian comics? Early, 1940s, Dr. Fate was clearly a Lovecraft pastiche. Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson did a Lovecraft tribute in Swamp Thing #8. Wrightson did a direct adaptation of Cool Air. Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham could be fun. I'm sure there are a ton more suggestions.

It took me the whole episode to figure out that the old guy was a sailor named Seadog, not a rapper named C-Dawg.

Ethan Cordray

Meeno Peluce co-starred in the time-travel show, “Voyagers!” With the late Jon-Erik Hexum. Hexum would tragically die on the set of his show, “Cover-Up” by an accidental self-inflicted blank cartridge gunshot to the head.

And it starred Flash Gordon instead of Dale Arden

As terrible as the idea of running out of future Manimal! episodes for you fine gentlemen to cover, might I humbly suggest looking into the spiritual sibling of Manimal, another Glen Larson show called The Highwayman about a secret Law Enforcement agency who drove weird, futuristic Tractor Trailers. It was bizarre and inexplicable, the kind of TV that only really managed to exist in the 80s. It also featured a weird Australian who was credited as Jacko, who was most notable for being a shouty, spike-haired guy from an energizer advertisement. I think it would make for a fine successor for the sad day when the Manimal well runs dry. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Highwayman_(TV_series)

Victor Badger

Manimal! This was appointment viewing in my household as a child, as indeed anything resembling a superhero was (The Powers of Matthew Star, anyone?). Naturally I had no concept of "mid-season replacement" or anything, so I was completely puzzled as to why, when the next Fall rolled around, there was no more Manimal. This mini-series is certainly filling in the gaps. This show was clearly <i>terrible</i>.