Manimal was a short lived television series shown on NBC. It was about a shape-shifting man who could turn himself into any animal. William Conrad summed up the story in the opening narration: / Opening narration / “Dr. Jonathan Chase is a wealthy, young, and handsome man with the brightest of futures with a very dark past. From Africa's deepest recesses, to the rarest peaks of Tibet, heir to his father's legacy, and the world's darkest mysteries is Jonathan Chase, master of the secrets that divide man from animal, animal from man, Manimal.” / Currently 9.5/10