MALIBU COMICS: Manimal (s1 ep 4 Female of the Species)

MALIBU COMICS: Nightman

Dr Jonathan Chase... wealthy, young, handsome. A man with the brightest of futures. A man with the darkest of pasts. From Africa's deepest recesses, to the rarefied peaks of Tibet, heir to his father's legacy and the world's darkest mysteries. Jonathan Chase, master of the secrets that divide man from animal, animal from man... Manimal!

SUMMARY:
A girl was found in India apparently raised by wolves and brought to the U.S. and is being kept at a university while she is being studied. Jonathan attends a lecture and it's during the lecture her habitat is set on fire. Jonathan tries to save her but she runs away. When she sees Jonatahn transform she trusts him. Jonathan takes her to his home and tries to communicate with her. The scientist who found demands she be returned to him but Jonathan thinks she's in danger. Jonathan has Ty check her out and thinks she's the daughter of a businessman who happened to be in the area where she was found years ago and while her entire family was found dead she went missing. Brooke goes to talk to her father's partner and when she meets him, she thinks she saw him somewhere. She checks the video of the lecture and sees he was there. Later someone takes the girl.

MONITOR'S NOTES:
The premise was later used in the 1986 TV series "The Wizard", episode "Endangered Species", and some scenes were remade with the original Manimal script reused almost word for word. The Wizard s1 ep 11 "Endangered Species"Simon, Alex, and Tillie see a zoologist who has captured a feral child raised by wolves in India(Priscilla Weems) and are disgusted with how the zoologist considers her to be like one of the animals he studies. Things take a turn for the worse when a ruthless businessman tries to kill the wild girl, but she escapes into the unfamiliar environment of an American city. Simon believes that the businessman used to be a mercenary who murdered a family who were friends of Simon's, and the wild girl may be connected to the massacre.