INCREDIBLE HULK, THE SEASON 2
The second season of The Incredible Hulk returns with the same
cast as season one!!
Starring as David is Bill Bixby, and as the Hulk, Lou Ferrigno!
Also as main characters throughout the series are Jack Colvin
and Ted Cassidy(voice only)!
EPISODE # 1: MARRIED(Sept. 22, 1978):
David goes to Hawaii to see a Psychologist to see if she can
help him rid him of his affliction through hypnosis! They fall
in love and get married! Things don't go swimmingly!
Guest starring the wonderful Mariette Hartley(Star Trek: TOS
episode "All Our Yesterdays", Earth II, Perry Mason: The Case
Of The Telltale Talk Show Host), Rosalind Chao(Star Trek: TNG
& DS9, Mulan)! A-
EPISODE # 2: THE ANTOWUK HORROR(Sept. 29, 1978):
This is a lousy episode! All about a man with a small dick
puching around others ust because he's down and out!!!
Anyway, David's in a small "resort" town where said man and
others are trying to keep their little town going! Of course
David gets aggrivated and out comes Hulk, and the town gets
the idea of using the sighting as a tourist attraction that
goes awry! The dude is wary of the relationship between David
and his 12ish daughter, who seems to be smitten with David!
The girl and David are the only reason to watch this episode!
Guest starring here is William Lucking(Star Trek: DS9 - 3 episodes,
Star Trek: ENT episode "Bound"), Lance LaGault(The A-Team) & Dennis
Patrick(Dark Shadows)! C
EPISODE # 3: RICKY(Oct. 06, 1978):
David gets a gig at an Auto racetrack and befriends a mentally
challenged boy/man who gets into trouble unknowningly! Ricky
gets swayed by some bad dudes and things go quite wrong!!
Mickey Jones does phenomenal here as Ricky!!
Guesting here is Gerald McRaney(Simon And Simon) & Gordon Jump
(WKRP in Cincinatti)! B+
EPISODE # 4: RAINBOWS END(Oct. 13, 1978):
David gets work at a race track where he's trying to find out
about a treatment that a Native American has come up with to
calm down horses! He promptly gets embroiled in a racing
scandal!!
Guest starring here is Craig Stevens(Peter Gunn)! A
EPISODE # 5: A CHILD IN NEED(Oct. 20, 1978):
While working at a school David runs across a boy who's been
getting beat up at home! Very disturbing episode!!
No real name guest stars here! A-
EPISODE # 6: ANOTHER PATH(Oct. 27, 1978):
While "hitchiing" a ride on a truck, David runs into a
Chinese master who he implores to help him learn the
ways! And while together they find that one of the old
man's colegues has turned to the dark side!
Guest starring here are Maco(Conan The Barbarian, Conan The
Destroyer, The Sand Pebbles)! A-
EPISODE # 7: ALICE IN DISCO LAND(Nov. 03, 1978):
David's now working in at a disco when he recognizes one of the
girls there as one that he used to spend time with when she was
a child! Her problem,she's become an alcoholic and those at the
disco are mad when she says she wants to quit drinking and leave
the disco scene!!
A depressing episode!!
Guest starring Marc Alaimo(Star Trek: DS9 as Gul Dukat, Total
Recall, 4 episodes of Star Trek: TNG), Brion James(The Fifth
Element, Blade Runner, 48 Hrs.)! B+
EPISODE # 8: KILLER INSTINCT(Nov. 10, 1978):
David is a "ankle wrapper"(LOL, never heard of this before)!
He's discovered that one of the players has a psychological
problems and tries his best to help him out!!
Guest starring here is Denny Miller(Wagon Train)! A
EPISODE # 9: STOP THE PRESSES(Nov. 24, 1978):
David's working at a pizza joint when a sleeze rag "reporter"
breaks into the place, plants rotten food, and takes a bunch
of pictures! Unfortunately they also took pictures of David!!!
Guest starring Pat Morita(Karate Kid movies, Mulan, Mulan II,
Happy Days) B+
EPISODE # 10: ESCAPE FROM LOS SANTOS(Dec. 01, 1978):
David is hitching through Califoria and gets picked up by the
police in Los Santos! There he meets up with a woman who's in
jail supposedly for killing her husband!
Starring here are Shelly Fabres(The Donna Reed Show, Coach, singer:
Johnny Angel, 3 Elvis movies) & Dana Elcar(McGyver)! A
EPISODE # 11: WILDFIRE(Jan. 17, 1979):
No, not an acutal wildfire, but the name of an oil rig that's
being saught after by some not so upright gentlemen!!!
Guest starring here is John Anderson(Psycho, Star Trek: TOS episode
"The Survivors")!! A
EPISODE # 12: A SOLITARY PLACE(Jan. 24, 1979):
David's hiding out in Mexico in the wilderness whee he feels
he can stay away from sorces that can trigger his friend!
Even though he's all alone, naturally a woman comes along who
happens to be a doctor too! She's running away because she's
been accused of killing a man's daughter(by the man) and she
just wants some solitude herself! Oh, and of course, along
coomes McGee!!
Guest starring Katherine Leagh Scott(Dark Shadows)! A
EPISODE # 13: LIKE A BROTHER(Jan. 31, 1979):
David's working at a car wash and makes friends with a
few of the guys that work there(all black) and he tries to
help them out!
Guest starring Ernie Hudson(Ghostbusters, Quantum Leap[2022])! A
EPISODE # 14: HAUNTED(Feb. 07, 1979):
A woman(what else) gets David to help her move into her
new/old house! It's the place she grew up in and it appears
to be haunted by her dead sister!!
Guest starring Jon Lormer(Star Trek: TOS episodes "The Cage",
"The Return Of The Achrons" & "For The World Is Hollow And
I Have Touched The Sky")! A
EPISODE # 15: MYSTERY MAN - PART 1(Mar. 02, 1979):
David has a car accident and loses his memory! And of course
McGee is there to find out what's up!! They wind up on a plane
heading for a doctor that McGee knows to try and help John(David)
get his memory back!!
Guest starring Don Marshall(Land Of The Giants, Star Trek:
TOS episode "The Galileo Seven")! A
EPISODE # 16: MYSTERY MAN - PART 2(Mar. 09, 1979):
Continued from the previous episode, as if surviving a car
crash and a plane crash wasn't enough, now the boys are being
threatened by a forest fire!!!!
No known stars here!!! A
EPISODE # 17: THE DECIPLE(Mar. 16, 1979):
This is NOT Bill Bixby's show!! This was a pilot for a show
starring Gerald McRaney & Rick Springfield about policemen
who take different routes to try to clean up their town! The
series neveer happened! As others have said at IMDb.com, this
shows police in a very bad light some very stereotypical portayals
of the Oriental community!!
Maco returns to reprise his role as Li Sung, Gerald McRaney also
returns in a different role, Rick Springfield(better known as
a singer[Jessie's Girl] and Stacy Keach Sr.(Get Smart)!!! A
EPISODE # 18: NO ESCAPE(Mar. 30, 1979):
David gets mistaken for a transient(which I guess he kinda
is) and gets trhown into a police van along with a man who
thinks he's Ernest Hemmingway!! They both escape(thanks to
the Hulk) and David then realizes that he needs medical
attention that he's not getting instead of psychiactric
help!
Guest starring here are THE Jack Kirby(Yup THAT Jack Kirby,
creator, writer and artist for MNAY or the biggest names in
comics: Captain America, The Fly, The Fantastic Four, Doctor
Doom, Thor, Iron Man, The X-Men, Black Panther, Silver
Surfer and of course THE HULK)! Also here are Sherman Hemsley
(The Jeffersons, All In The Family) & Skiip Homier(Star Trek:
TOS episodes "Patterns Of Force" & "The Way To Eden")!! A
EPISODE # 19: KINDRED SPIRITS(Apr. 07, 1979):
David joins up with an excavation party in Navajo land who
are tyiing to prove that there was an 'incredible hulk' in
ancient times! Some of the local Navajo are against this and
threaten the lives of many people to stop them!
Guest starring here are Kim Cattrall(Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered
Country, Sex And The City, Mannequin, Big Trouble In Little China),
Whit Bissell(The Time Machine[1960], Star Trek: TOS episode "The
Trouble With Tribbles", The Time Tunnel, The Creature From The
Black Lagoon)!! A
EPISODE # 20: THE CONFESSION(May 04, 1979):
A lonely man "confesses" that he's the Hulk!!!
Guest starring here are Markie Post(Night Court, The Fall Guy,
There's Something About Mary), Barry Gordon(Star Trek: DS9 episode
"The NAgus", VOY episode "Author, Author", TMNT[Voice])!! A
EPISODE # 21: THE QUITET ROOM(May 11, 1979):
A not-so-helpful psych doctor is doing experiments on his
patients that are quite disturbing!!!
Guest starring here is Vince Howard(Star Trek: TOS episode "The
Man Trap"), Joanna Miles(Star Trek: TNG episodes "Sarek" &
"Unification - Part 1"! A-
EPISODE # 22: VANDETTA ROAD(May 25, 1979):
David stubles into a small town that is in the midst of a
war caused by a couple who blame the whole town for the
death of his father!!!
Guest starring here is Morgan Woodward(Star Trek: TOS episodes
"Dagger Of The Mind" & "The Omega Glory")! A-
SPECIAL FEATURES:
The only special on this second season DVD set is an
episode from the third season!!!
From a reviewer at IMDb.com:
THE INCREDIBLE HULK series was much like the series KUNG
FU -- a sympathetic humanitarian and seemingly meek outcast
rights wrongs using his very special abilities. However,
THE INCREDIBLE HULK ran for 5 years with only three regular
cast members. I am not sure if any other long running TV
drama ever had a smaller cast.
Interestingly, Bill Bixby's COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER
co-star Brandon Cruz appeared in the first season of the
HULK in the episode "747."
Bixby oozed charm and charisma, and made believable the
idea that he could so easily win trust and find employment
in a new town each and every week.
The music was exceptional. Among the best Hollywood TV
has ever produced. - Pro Jury