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The Incredible Hulk

  • TV Series
  • 1977–1982
  • TV-PG
  • 1h
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Lou Ferrigno and Bill Bixby in The Incredible Hulk (1977)
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A fugitive scientist has the curse of becoming a powerful green monster under extreme emotional stress.A fugitive scientist has the curse of becoming a powerful green monster under extreme emotional stress.A fugitive scientist has the curse of becoming a powerful green monster under extreme emotional stress.

  • Creator
    • Kenneth Johnson
  • Stars
    • Bill Bixby
    • Lou Ferrigno
    • Jack Colvin
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    17K
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    POPULARITY
    1,670
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    • Creator
      • Kenneth Johnson
    • Stars
      • Bill Bixby
      • Lou Ferrigno
      • Jack Colvin
    • 75User reviews
    • 41Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 3 wins & 5 nominations total

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    Bill Bixby
    Bill Bixby
    • Dr. David Banner…
    • 1977–1982
    Lou Ferrigno
    Lou Ferrigno
    • The Incredible Hulk…
    • 1977–1982
    Jack Colvin
    Jack Colvin
    • Jack McGee
    • 1977–1982
    Charles Napier
    Charles Napier
    • Hulk…
    • 1979–1982
    Michael Santiago
    • Voice…
    • 1979–1981
    Gerald McRaney
    Gerald McRaney
    • Chief Frank Rhodes…
    • 1977–1980
    Charlie Picerni
    Charlie Picerni
    • Charlie…
    • 1978–1981
    Laurie Prange
    Laurie Prange
    • Katie Maxwell…
    • 1977–1980
    Marc Alaimo
    Marc Alaimo
    • Captain Holt…
    • 1978–1980
    Walter Brooke
    Walter Brooke
    • Mark Roberts
    • 1980–1981
    Mickey Jones
    Mickey Jones
    • Doc…
    • 1978–1981
    Bruce Wright
    Bruce Wright
    • Ben…
    • 1979–1981
    Billy Green Bush
    Billy Green Bush
    • Sheriff Carl Decker…
    • 1979–1981
    Don Marshall
    Don Marshall
    • Doctor…
    • 1978–1980
    Victoria Carroll
    Victoria Carroll
    • Rose…
    • 1979–1981
    Skip Riley
    • Pilot…
    • 1979
    John Colton
    John Colton
    • 1st Man…
    • 1978–1979
    Denny Miller
    Denny Miller
    • John Tobey…
    • 1978–1981
    • Creator
      • Kenneth Johnson
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    Mulliga

    Peter from "Family Guy": Hey, Brian! Play that sad, sad walking away music from "The Incredible Hulk!"

    The famous "Lonely Man" theme from "The Incredible Hulk" is one of the saddest things I've ever listened to. Seeing Bill Bixby hitchhike away from another town the Hulk smashed was always dramatic.

    Okay, sure this show is like "The Fugitive", but I don't see Richard Kimble turning into a green monster every week. Bill Bixby turns in the performance of a lifetime, and even Jack McGee (the reporter who's after him) is shown in a few episodes to be a decent guy at heart.

    Every week, David Banner would search desperately for a cure, and every week he'd help some person in need (similar to other traveling angel shows like "Quantum Leap" and "The Pretender"). Lou Ferrigno is a great Hulk.
    8ODDBear

    A good TV show made with passion and great actors

    My comments refer to the first season of The Incredible Hulk since it's the only one readily available as of yet.

    Although the shows are fairly simple and monotonous they're very entertaining. Dr. Banner travels cross country hoping to some day finding a cure for his condition but along the way he gets into all sorts of trouble that forces the Hulk to surface and square matters. Every episode ends with David leaving before relentless reporter Jack McGee tracks him down.

    The shows are made with passion, that's evident. Good quality writing for the most part, well done action sequences (compared to a 70's TV show anyway), compelling story lines in most episodes, nice location crew work and fantastic actors. As said, the premise is fairly simple as David transforms about 20-25 min. into each episode and during the climax. Also, he somehow manages to get into a whole lot of trouble by just being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

    The first season shows are not all great and do showcase the limitations budget wise. The episode "Never give a trucker an even break" shamelessly borrows footage from Steven Spielberg's Duel, even the classic ending is fitted into the storyline. "Earhquakes happen" borrows quite a lot from Earthquake, the 70's disaster flick, but that's not as blatant as the previous example. Also there is a lot of stock footage used every now and then. Sometimes it's little snippets of Hulk action and sometimes it's David on the road hitchhiking.

    But these quirks aside, there is a lot of professionalism on board here and a big effort put into making each episode. Series that are constantly on the road are expensive as there are no sets that can be used often and studio work is minimal. Instead viewers get a show that's always bringing new scenery in late 1970's America and the "on the road" feel has a big charm about it.

    The Las Vegas episode "The Hulk breaks Las Vegas" is a personal favorite. Has some knockout Hulk action and a well written and suspenseful near confrontation between McGee and Banner. "747, The Waterfront story, Terror in Times Square and Life and Death" are all well written and produced episodes that should give a good example as to why the series has such a good afterlife.

    And finally the cast is perfect. I doubt seriously that viewers would be as interested in David's quest had he not been played by Bill Bixby. Not only was Bixby a real quality actor with good range but also an irresistibly appealing guy who you find easy to sympathize with. Jack Colvin is also excellent as McGee, a convincing and charming actor who had a great presence on the episodes he was featured in. And Lou Ferrigno was the best possible choice to play the green giant. Managing to be both menacing and sincere is his depiction of David's primal side, he's simply great on the shows.
    4-Kane

    An excellent, well-written sci-fi/drama

    I've been a fan of THE INCREDBLE HULK since 1979 (when I was only seven years old), and it is one of only two TV shows that matter the most to me (the other is UNSOLVED MYSTERIES).

    Of all the comic book characters who have made the transition to television, THE HULK is one of the most effective ones. I don't remember what made start watching this excellent sci-fi/ drama, but I surmise that it may be due to the writing because it has many well-written episodes.

    "Prometheus" is one of my favorites because of its science fiction approach. That's the two-hour episode where the Hulk is mistaken for an alien. The problem came after he was exposed to a meteor that crashed to the Earth. He is affected by its radiation, which enables him to revert only partially to David Banner. In other words, our hero gets stuck in mid-transformation!

    My other favorite episodes include: "The First," "Married," "Mystery Man," "The Snare," "The Psychic," "Equinox," "The Harder They Fall," and "Interview With The Hulk." In addition, The 1977 pre-series pilot (simply titled "The Incredible Hulk") was a perfect way to start off the saga.

    Another significant episode is "Proof Positive" because the Hulk's nemesis, newspaper reporter Jack McGee, is the primary focus. Plus, Dr. David Banner (played by the late Bill Bixby) is hardly even in this episode. And the only shots of him are distant to the point where you can't quite make out his face (meaning that a stunt double portrayed him in this episode). But the Hulk (Lou Ferrigno) still appears in this story. (I mean, what's a HULK episode without the Hulk in it at all?)

    A big gripe that many fans have about the HULK series is that a wrap-up episode was never made (because of the show's sudden cancellation). Still, it is a great show. And what pleases me is that THE INCREDIBLE HULK is now generating new fans, especially those who born after the series ended its primetime run.
    8kurisu-717-137128

    Great acting, needs a little more action, but otherwise top notch

    I faithfully watched this show as a kid and I've come to appreciate it more as an adult.

    Bill Bixby plays the role of David/Bruce Banner perfectly. As a kid I always wanted to be like him and as an adult I really admire his acting.

    The only real complaint I have is the action. The Hulk is far from super human in most scenes (he mostly grows and throws chairs, which just about anybody could do). And they use the worst trick in the 70's TV play book; slow motion. The Six Million Dollar Man started it, and The Incredible Hulk copied it, having the Hulk do everything in slow motion. It's less than impressive and actually makes the action scenes less interesting than the conflicts that David/Bruce gets into.

    But the plots were well written, and the show had a lot of lasting drama that has remained with me years later. Great show.
    Big Movie Fan

    Don't Make Me Angry...Or Else!

    I did a review for the original pilot episode of this drama and I put down my thoughts about the Hulk and Banner as characters and how the themes in the original movie gave us things to think about. The series was the same.

    The Hulk was a good family show. The late Bill Bixby did a wonderful job as Dr. Banner. Throughout the entire series I felt myself feeling really sorry for Banner like he was a close friend. Banner was a character who the audience could empathize with. He was a good man who travelled across the United States trying to avoid conflict for he knew that when he became the Hulk he was uncontrollable. He was pursued by ambitious reporter Jack McGee who wanted to capture the Hulk in order to become a star reporter.

    Throughout the series Banner would encounter various characters who were having trouble in their lives. He would do his best to help but it would always fall to the Hulk to save the day. In a way I think this series was telling us that reason and diplomacy will only take us so far and that in the end it's down to strength to save the day.

    Lou Ferrigno did a good job as the Hulk. There was an important lesson in this series;never judge anyone by what they look like. The Hulk was a good guy who always saved the day but as far as the likes of McGee were concerned the Hulk was a bad guy. In fact, McGee believed that the Hulk had killed Elaina Marks and David Banner in the original movie. So Banner did his best to avoid McGee for confrontation with him would reveal his secret.

    The Hulk was in fact a good role model. He had the strength to do real damage to anyone or anything but he never killed throughout the series. On occasion he even saved the lives of bad guys who were trying to kill him. But still he was judged as a monster to be destroyed.

    Philosophical thinking aside, the Hulk was a great action show. The Hulk did some amazing things throughout such as surviving a fall from a plane or tangling with a huge grizzly bear. He could not be hurt apart from the odd bullet he took.

    The entire series was great. My personal favourite episodes were "The Hulk Breaks Las Vegas", "The Beast Within", "The Psychic", "The Snare" and "747."

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    • Trivia
      The opening credits show the Hulk picking up a car and rolling it down the hill. This was not a special effect. When they were filming the scene, the steel cable that was supposed to help Lou Ferrigno lift the car broke. It was 4 AM, cold, wet and Ferrigno had been working 18 hour days to refilm all the Hulk scenes for the pilot (the role had originally been played by Richard Kiel). Ferrigno was so frustrated that he decided to lift the car himself rather than wait for the special effects team to try to reset the cable.
    • Goofs
      When the Hulk breaks through a brick wall, (typically at the end of the show) the clothing that he wears changes between his approach to the wall, and to the view of him running down the alley, and this is repeated in several different episodes, which clearly looks like the same stock footage being re-used.
    • Quotes

      [opening sequence to the episode: "A Death in the Family"]

      Narrator: Dr. David Banner, Physician/Scientist, searching for a way to tap into the hidden strengths that all humans have. Then an accidental overdose of gamma radiation interacts with his unique body chemistry. And now, when David Banner grows angry or outraged, a startling metamorphosis occurs.

      [while trying to change a tire during a thunderstorm, David changes into the Hulk]

      Narrator: The creature is driven by rage and pursued by an investigative reporter.

      David Banner: Mr. McGee, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

      [McGee witnesses an explosion from a building]

      Narrator: An accidental explosion took the life of a fellow scientist and supposedly David Banner as well. The reporter thinks the creature was responsible.

      Jack McGee: [voice-over] I gave a description to all the law enforcement agencies. They got a warrant for murder out of it.

      Narrator: A murder which David Banner can never prove he or the creature didn't commit. So he must let the world go on thinking that he too is dead, until he can find a way to control the raging spirit that dwells within him.

    • Crazy credits
      In the opening sequence, the lit up gamma ray display can be seen with the word "anger" on it, which is zoomed out to show the full word is "danger".
    • Alternate versions
      _Incredible Hulk, The (1977) (TV)_ (The pilot), _Incredible Hulk: Death in the Family, The (1977) (TV)_ and _Incredible Hulk: Married, The (1978) (TV)_, which all originally aired as two-hour TV-movies, are edited for syndication, allowing each installment to be seen as two-part episodes.
    • Connections
      Featured in The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979)

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    • Release date
      • November 4, 1977 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Der unglaubliche Hulk
    • Filming locations
      • Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Universal Television
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    • Runtime
      1 hour
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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