The Incredible Hulk
Driven by rage. Pursued by an investigative reporter. Wanted for a murder he didn't commit. No one ever said it was easy being green.
During an experiment gone bad, radiation turns a scientist into a raging green behemoth whenever he becomes agitated. Unable to control his transformations, David Banner searches for a cure as he crosses the country, fugitive-style, with a dogged tabloid reporter on his trail.
Seasons
1. The Incredible Hulk
Air Date: 1977-11-04
A troubled scientist's accidental overexposure to gamma radiation curses him with the tendency to change into a bestial green brute under extreme emotional stress.
2. The Return of the Incredible Hulk
Air Date: 1977-11-27
David meets a young woman who can't walk. He gets work on her family's ranch and discovers her doctor is slowly poisoning her. After he reports his suspicions to the girl's mother he finds himself the target of a vicious manhunt.
3. Final Round
Air Date: 1978-03-10
David 'Benson' is saved from a couple of muggers by a boxer nicknamed 'Rocky' and becomes his friend and corner-man. Unfortunately the young man suffers from high blood pressure and is being used to ferry drugs by an unscrupulous manager.
4. The Beast Within
Air Date: 1978-03-17
David 'Bradburn' is researching control methods for animal aggression with a female doctor at a zoo. She gets into trouble when new animals keep dying from a mysterious illness.
5. Of Guilt, Models and Murder
Air Date: 1978-03-24
David 'Blaine' takes a job as a valet to investigate the murder of a model that the Hulk is being blamed for. We get to see different accounts of the murder in flashback. But which one really happened?
6. Terror in Times Square
Air Date: 1978-03-31
David "Blake" is working at an arcade in Times Square, where everybody pays off "Uncle Jason". David finds out two elderly men are planning to take matters into their own hands.
7. 747
Air Date: 1978-04-07
David 'Brown' is flying from San Francisco to Chicago only to find out some of the crew are plotting to steal the Egyptian artifacts on board.
8. The Hulk Breaks Las Vegas
Air Date: 1978-04-21
David is working as a card shill in Vegas when he learns his Casino owning boss is crooked. To complicate matters, the people holding the evidence are acquaintances of Jack McGee.
9. Never Give a Trucker an Even Break
Air Date: 1978-04-28
While hitchhiking, Banner is picked up by a young woman desperate to get her rig back from the men who stole it from her.
10. Life and Death
Air Date: 1978-05-12
David 'Barnard' subjects himself to an experimental DNA test but finds out his doctor's accomplices are gathering newborn babies for similar research.
11. Earthquakes Happen
Air Date: 1978-05-19
Banner uses forged documents to take the place of safety inspector Robert Patterson in order to get access to Gamma ray inversion equipment at a power plant when an earthquake hits.
12. The Waterfront Story
Air Date: 1978-05-31
David 'Barton' works in the kitchen of a tavern on the waterfront and helps the young widow who owns it to fight pushy union men.
1. Married
Air Date: 1978-09-22
David 'Benton' travels to Hawaii to meet Dr. Carolyn Fields, a psychologist whose technique might help control the Hulk. However, Dr. Fields is in the terminal stages of a disease that the Hulk could help cure.
2. The Antowuk Horror
Air Date: 1978-09-29
As the people of Antowuk resort community take advantage of a Hulk sighting, David 'Barton's' hotheaded boss goes as far as to dress up as a creature.
3. Ricky
Air Date: 1978-10-06
Banner works as a mechanic at a racetrack and befriends a young man, the brother of the local champ, who is taken advantage of by some rival race-drivers.
4. Rainbow's End
Air Date: 1978-10-13
David 'Bishop' contacts native American Thomas Logan, who has developed a herbal compound to calm down high strung racing horses, hoping it might cure his condition.
5. A Child in Need
Air Date: 1978-10-20
Working as a groundskeeper at an elementary school, David 'Baxter' suspects one schoolboy of being a victim of child abuse.
6. Another Path
Air Date: 1978-10-27
David 'Braemer' meets an old Chinese master on the road who is on his way back to the school he founded in San Francisco. There they find one of his students running his old neighborhood with fear and corruption.
7. Alice in Disco Land
Air Date: 1978-11-03
David works as a barman at the Pandemonium Disco when he recognizes a teenage girl, Alice, whom he used to know years before. He finds out she has a serious drinking problem, but he doesn't tell her his true identity.
8. Killer Instinct
Air Date: 1978-11-10
David 'Burnett', working as a ankle wrapper at the Colloseum, is interested in Dr. Stewart's hypnotic therapy, but his treatment of a star football player only seems to make the man's aggressive tendencies get worse.
9. Stop the Presses
Air Date: 1978-11-24
David is washing dishes at Bruno's Restaurant, whose owners are being targeted by a sleazy journalist from The National Register. When Banner's picture is taken, he has to break into the building where Jack McGee works to get it back.
10. Escape from Los Santos
Air Date: 1978-12-01
David 'Brown' and a young widow he has never met before are framed for the murder of her husband by a corrupt sheriff and his men. Handcuffed together, the two of them make their escape.
11. Wildfire
Air Date: 1979-01-17
As 'David Blakeman', Banner is trying to earn some money working on an oil rig. The owner's daughter takes a liking to him, but fierce competitors will do anything to sabotage their work.
12. A Solitary Place
Air Date: 1979-01-24
In Mexico, David 'Baily' has secluded himself from other people to keep his rage in check. But Gail Collins, another doctor on the run stumbles upon his hiding place. Now McGee and others are looking for both of them.
13. Like a Brother
Air Date: 1979-01-31
David 'Butler' works at a car-wash in a black neighborhood run by a drug dealer with a black panther. He tries to help two orphans, the youngest of which is a diabetic.
14. Haunted
Air Date: 1979-02-07
David helps a young woman move back into her childhood home and stays to work as her gardener when it turns out she is haunted by her past, namely her deceased twin sister.
15. Mystery Man (1)
Air Date: 1979-03-02
Banner has lost his memory after a car crash. With his face wrapped in bandages, he accepts Jack McGee's proposition to see a specialist. Unfortunately, their plane goes down in the woods and Jack injures his legs. Now it is up to David to get them out of there.
16. Mystery Man (2)
Air Date: 1979-03-09
'John Doe' and McGee bond while keeping ahead of the forest fire and a pack of wolves. After transforming into the Hulk, Banner regains his memory and when McGee witnesses a second transformation, he finally realizes the Hulk is not a green creature full time.
17. The Disciple
Air Date: 1979-03-16
David returns to master Li Sung, who has become ill and wants a promising student to take over his work. Unfortunately, the young man is torn between the school and his work as a policeman.
18. No Escape
Air Date: 1979-03-30
David 'Baron' is arrested as a vagrant but manages to escape along side a mental patient who thinks he's Ernest Hemmingway. Feeling guilty, David has to track the man down before he hurts himself or his loved ones.
19. Kindred Spirits
Air Date: 1979-04-06
David 'Barton' joins an expedition that has found evidence of a pre-historic Hulk and is recognized by a young doctor who was inspired by him. Together they try to find out if the earlier Hulk might have found a cure.
20. The Confession
Air Date: 1979-05-04
McGee reluctantly takes on an intern as his assistant, who takes an interest in a lonely little man claiming to be the Hulk. David 'Beeman' worries if the man might actually know his secret identity.
21. The Quiet Room
Air Date: 1979-05-11
David 'Balin' is working as an orderly at Valley View Sanatorium. After discovering that a surgeon is using experimental mind control, he unwillingly becomes a patient himself.
22. Vendetta Road
Air Date: 1979-05-25
David 'Brennan' inadvertently joins up with a modern day 'Bonnie & Clyde' who blow up gas stations in a bid to avenge the death of the male's father.
1. Metamorphosis
Air Date: 1979-09-21
A rock star who sings for a Kiss-like group becomes suicidal after one of her fans is injured during a concert performance.
2. Blind Rage
Air Date: 1979-09-28
An accident at a chemical warfare research station causes blindness for both David and a friend.
3. Brain Child
Air Date: 1979-10-05
A gifted teenager runs away from a scientific institute, and approaches David for help in locating her mother.
4. The Slam
Air Date: 1979-10-19
David is arrested for vagrancy, and is sent to a prison camp run by a cruel warden. But when the appearance of Jack McGee prevents David from exposing the conditions of the camp to the press, his fellow inmates turn against him.
5. My Favorite Magician
Air Date: 1979-10-26
David works as the assistant of a magician, only to get mixed up in a situation involving the magician's estranged daughter and an ex-girlfriend with a questionable fiance.
6. Jake
Air Date: 1979-11-02
As a medic for a rodeo, David discovers that an aging cowboy has a serious health condition that could prove fatal; meanwhile, the cowboy's younger brother is mixed up with a gang of cattle thieves.
7. Behind the Wheel
Air Date: 1979-11-09
David becomes a taxi driver for a cab company whose owner is on the verge of losing the business to a greedy loan shark.
8. Homecoming
Air Date: 1979-11-30
While visiting his sister and father for Thanksgiving, David must help salvage the family farm from a plague and a crooked developer; in addition, he tries to resolve the bitterness between himself and his father, whom he blamed for his mother's death many years before.
9. The Snare
Air Date: 1979-12-07
After being invited to a remote island, David becomes the quarry of a psychotic hunter.
10. Babalao
Air Date: 1979-12-14
In New Orleans, David works for a young physician who tries to convince everyone that a local witch doctor is a con artist.
11. Captive Night
Air Date: 1979-12-21
While working the night shift at a department store, David and his co-workers end up being held hostage by two brothers who want to rob the place.
12. Broken Image
Air Date: 1980-01-04
Thanks to look-alike criminal, David becomes a victim of mistaken identity, and is pursued by the police and a vindictive gang. An attempt to leave town is hindered by Jack McGee, who is shocked to discover that David Banner might still be alive!
13. Proof Positive
Air Date: 1980-01-11
A new publisher takes over the National Register, and decides to rid the newspaper of any questionable stories. This new policy affects Jack McGee's search for the Hulk, so McGee is put under pressure to prove that the Hulk is real.
14. Sideshow
Air Date: 1980-01-25
David is hired as a stage manager at a carnival, and learns that the sideshow's mind-reader has been blamed for a series of misfortunes.
15. Long Run Home
Air Date: 1980-02-01
David is befriended by a motorcyclist, who inadvertently gets him mixed up in a gang-related conflict.
16. Falling Angels
Air Date: 1980-02-08
The orphanage that David is working at has become a crime school, where two orphaned girls are being trained into thievery.
17. The Lottery
Air Date: 1980-02-15
When David is unable to collect the money he won in a lottery, he sends a friend to collect it for him. But unfortunately, without David's consent, the friend, who is a former con artist, decides to use the money in a scheme to hopefully earn a larger profit.
18. The Psychic
Air Date: 1980-02-22
A woman with psychic powers identifies David as the Hulk's alter-ego. While the Hulk is a suspect in the slaying of a teenager, the woman predicts that Jack McGee will be murdered by the real killer unless our hero intervenes.
19. A Rock and a Hard Place
Air Date: 1980-02-29
In Atlantic City, FBI agents catch David with contraband shipments belonging to a gang of thieves, and insist that he be an informant until the gang is apprehended. David has no choice but to cooperate with both sides since both are aware of who he is; the FBI agents know that he is David Banner, while the elderly woman, who is one of the thieves, is aware that he becomes the Hulk.
20. Deathmask
Air Date: 1980-03-14
A serial killer is stalking the college where David is working; then a misunderstanding leads to David's arrest. And while he figures out the real identity of the killer, the townspeople form a lynch mob.
21. Equinox
Air Date: 1980-03-21
While working at a private island owned by a spoiled heiress, David is asked to join a masquerade party which Jack McGee attends uninvited. Meanwhile, someone is out to kill the heiress.
22. Nine Hours
Air Date: 1980-04-04
To save the lives of a reformed gangster and a kidnapped boy, David turns to an alcoholic ex-policeman for help.
23. On the Line
Air Date: 1980-04-11
David becomes an arson suspect, and is drafted to help extinguish a forest fire.
1. Prometheus (1)
Air Date: 1980-11-07
After being exposed to the radiation of a meteor that had just crashed to the Earth, David's transformation back from the Hulk stops midway, leaving him half-Hulk/half human.
2. Prometheus (2)
Air Date: 1980-11-14
David's half-Hulk/half-human condition leads a military group called Prometheus to believe that he is an alien, so they capture him, and then send him to a lab for study.
3. Free Fall
Air Date: 1980-11-21
David finds himself caught in a feud between a skydiver and the son of a crooked politician.
4. Dark Side
Air Date: 1980-12-05
In one of his latest experiments, David's attempt to control the Hulk backfires. He inadvertently releases a darker personality, causing the Hulk to be more violent--and potentially capable of murder!
5. Deep Shock
Air Date: 1980-12-12
While working at a power plant, David survives an electrial accident that gives him the ability to foresee events--including violence by the Hulk. Meanwhile, as the plant faces possible lay-offs, David befriends a co-worker who has a heart condition.
6. Bring Me the Head of the Hulk
Air Date: 1981-01-09
A rival publisher of McGee's newspaper hires a mercenary to kill the Hulk.
7. Fast Lane
Air Date: 1981-01-16
Unbeknownst to David, the car that he is renting happens to be filled with stolen money. To make matters worse, David ends up being pursued by the thugs who are trying to fetch the loot.
8. Goodbye Eddie Cain
Air Date: 1981-01-23
A 1940s-style detective can't explain why a corpse is found in his office; except that it may be related to an extortion plot, a mysterious gardener, and a green creature.
9. King of the Beach
Air Date: 1981-02-06
A body-builder gets signed up in a body-building contest, only to be at odds with some questionable people who are involved in the competition.
10. Wax Museum
Air Date: 1981-02-13
With David's help, a woman tries to reopen her wax museum, which was nearly destroyed by a fire. But the task isn't easy, in part because the woman has hallucinations that are brought on by a questionable drug that she is taking.
11. East Winds
Air Date: 1981-02-20
Unbeknownst to David, the apartment he is renting in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood contains the gold that gangsters are seeking.
12. The First (1)
Air Date: 1981-03-06
David discovers the legend of another Hulk, and investigates in the hope of creating a cure for himself.
13. The First (2)
Air Date: 1981-03-13
David's attempt at a cure is hindered by the other man's exposure to radiation, which revives the murderous Hulk persona the man was cured of many years before. Now, David must produce enough antidote to cure both himself and the other man before more carnage occurs.
14. The Harder They Fall
Air Date: 1981-03-27
David survives an automobile accident, only to be paralyzed from the waist down. Therefore, he is told that he may never walk again.
15. Interview with the Hulk
Air Date: 1981-04-03
A hapless reporter steals Jack McGee's latest tip on the Hulk, and ends up getting an interview with David Banner.
16. Half Nelson
Air Date: 1981-04-17
David travels to Baltimore where he befriends a midget wrestler who has a habit of telling tall tales. Unfortunately, one of those tales gets David in trouble with mobsters.
17. Danny
Air Date: 1981-05-15
David attempts to help free a woman and her infant son from a gang of thieves. But one of the thieves is not willing to let that happen.
18. Patterns
Air Date: 1981-05-22
David becomes business partners with the owner of a struggling clothing factory in New York City. Unfortunately, however, the promotion spells trouble when loan sharks enter the picture.
1. The Phenom
Air Date: 1981-10-02
David befriends a rookie baseball player who gets mixed up with a crooked sports agent.
2. Two Godmothers
Air Date: 1981-10-09
David is kidnapped by a trio of convicts who have escaped from a women's prison. The situation becomes even more complicated when one of the women goes into labor.
3. Veteran
Air Date: 1981-10-16
A disturbed man is plotting to assassinate a politician who was once a Vietnam war hero. So when David discovers evidence of the plot, he must warn the authorities before it is too late--even if it means risking his freedom.
4. Sanctuary
Air Date: 1981-11-06
While working as a caretaker at a convent, David poses as a minister in order to protect a wounded boy who has been smuggled into the United States from Mexico.
5. Triangle
Air Date: 1981-11-13
An irate lumber baron becomes a threat to David's relationship with a young woman, and tries to force David out of town.
6. Slaves
Air Date: 1982-05-05
After being captured by an ex-convict, David is forced to work as a slave in a gold mine.
7. A Minor Problem
Air Date: 1982-05-12
David enters a small deserted town that has been affected by bacteria. Now he must find an antidote for those who have been exposed to the plague--including himself.
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Rating
7.2/10
Release Date
1977-11-04
Episodes
82 (5 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
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Production Companies
Universal Television