Wishman is a genetic experiment condemned to spend its life in the lab. Two employees decide it deserves freedom, so they escape with it.
Practical Effects
Wishman himself: a glorious puppet-gremlin hybrid with googly eyes.
Acting
Linda Hamilton commits harder than this 48-minute TV movie deserves.
Production
Somehow packs a full sci-fi arc into under an hour.
Director
James Frawley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mark Dodson, who voiced Wishman, also voiced the Mogwai in Gremlins the same year—typecast as small chaotic creatures.
This aired on ABC during the early '80s sci-fi boom but vanished almost immediately; it's now a cult curio for Hamilton completists.
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