INCREDIBLE HULK, THE SEASON 3
The third 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: METAMORPHOSIS(Sept. 21, 1979):
David helps a couple of gals, out one who's a singer, who have
a car accident and winds up with a job helping out around the
show that she puts on!! The singer's sister is a real piece of
work and is quite overbearing, to say the least! The whole act
are just out for themselves and certainly not the girl!!
BTW, the music here sucks!!!!!!
Guest starring the wonderful MacKenzie Phillips(One Day At A
Time, American Graffeti, More AG), Charles Napie(Star Trek: TOS
episode "The Way To Eden", Star Trek: DS9 episode "Little Green
Men"!!)! A-
EPISODE # 2: BLIND RAGE(Sept. 28, 1979):
A cannister with chemicals in it leads and starts blinding
people!!!! This exposes a military cover up!!
No real names here! B+
EPISODE # 3: BRAIN CHILD(Oct. 05, 1979):
This is really a weak story! A very intellegent girl has
been dropped off at an intitute for intelligent people but
as she's grown she wans to be with her mother! This gets
david marked as kidnapper! But the mother wants nothing to
do with the girl for reasons unknown!
Guesting here is June Allyson(The Glen Miller Story)! C+
EPISODE # 4: THE SLAM(Oct. 19, 1979):
David gets tossed in jail for vagrancy and picking an
apple! Pretty dumb stuff here!! The prison wardon is a
Napoleon wannabe!!
Guest starring here is a returning Marc Alaimo! A
EPISODE # 5: THE FAVORITE MAGICIAN(Oct. 26, 1979):
Ray plays an escapee from a sanitarium who thinks he's a
famous magician(which he pulls off pretty well) and he gets
David involved! It turns out that his daughter is looking
for him! Also going on it an old love interest od Ray's
who's getting married and he wants to stop it as he thinks
the man she's marrying is a gold digger!! Oh, and he has
some breathing and heart problems!
The fun part is the reuniting of Ray and Bill after having
starred together in My Favorite Martian!!
Guest starring the great Ray Walston(My Favorite Martian,
The Sting, Paint Your Wagon, Star Trek: TNG episode "The
First Duty", Star Trek: VOY episodes "In The Flesh", "The
Fight", Picket Fences), Scatman Crothers(Musician, The
Harlem Globetrotters On Gilligan's Island, Chico And The
Man), Bob Hastings(Batman annimated series as Commissioner
Gordon, McHale's Navy)! A-
EPISODE # 6: JAKE(Nov. 02, 1979):
David's at the rodeo now in Texas and he's helping out an
old rodeo rider who just needs one more big payout to help
out his little brother and his gambling problems!
Guest starring here are L.Q. Jones(The Mask Of Zorro[1998),
The Virginian, Stay Away Joe)! A-
EPISODE # 7: BEHIND THE WHEEL(Nov. 09, 1979):
Taxi's are the name of the game here!!! David gets in the middle
of a power struggle between a small cab company that he works for
and a loan shark!
This was filmed during the "gas crises" in the late 70s(anohter
political ploy to get Jimmy Carter out of office), showing
the long lines for gas which was real!
Ester Rolle(Driving Miss Daisy, Good Times, Maude, My Fellow
Americans)!! B+
EPISODE # 8: HOMECOMING(Nov. 16, 1979):
David goes home for Thanksgiving and tries to help his sister
solve a bug problem! It brings back memories of his past and he
turns into the Hulk in front of her! She then makes it her
mission to try to help him, but he, as the Hulk, goes after
his father who he blames for his mothers death!
This is quite touching!!
Guest starring here is DIANA MULDAUR(Star Trek: TOS episodes
"Return To Tomorrow" & "Is There In Truth No Beauty?", Star
Trek: TNG Season 2, McCloud)! A+
EPISODE # 9: THE SNARE(Dec. 07, 1979):
David meets a dude at the airport and they get into a chess
game! David's flight is cancelled and the dude invites him to
his private island for the night which turns into a match for
David's life, as the dude is a hunter and he's tired of hunting
animals and decides to hunt much larger and more dangerous
game - man!!
Guest starring Bradford Dillman(Court Martial, many guest starring
roles) B+
EPISODE # 10: BABALOA(Dec. 14, 1979):
It's medicine vs. voodoo here in good old New Orleans! Kinda
silly really in these days and ages!
Guesting here is Louise Sorel(Star Trek: TOS episode "Requiem
for Methuselah")!! A
EPISODE # 11: CAPTIVE NIGHT(Dec. 21, 1979):
Some bubling theives decide to rob a store arter hours, with
one of them having worked there previously to "case the joint"!
Of course this is where David is working now and handles the
whole thing, as the Hulk! Kind of a silly episode!
Guest starring here is Mark Leonard(Star Trek: TOS, TAS & TNG
as Spock's father, Here Come The Brides), Anne Lockhart(Star
Trek: CONT episode "What Ships Are For", Chicapo Fire, Battlestar
Galactica, Andela's older sister), Parley Bear(The Adventures Of
Ozzie And Harriet)!! B
EPISODE # 12: BROKEN IMAGE(Jan. 04, 1980):
So David runs into - himself!! A hood looks just like Banner
which gives him the idea to bump off David and make police
think it's him!! Incredibly boring!!
No known stars here!! B
EPISODE # 13: PROOF POSITIVE(Jan. 11, 1980):
Strange episode. David's not in this hardly at all! It's all
about McGee and his new publisher! She wants to change the
newspaper to a legit one, and wants him to stop with his
obsession about the Hulk! She doen's believe in it at all!
No known stars here! A-
EPISODE # 14: SIDESHOW(Jan. 25, 1980):
A very depressing episode!!
Again no names here!! D
EPISODE # 15: LONG RUN HOME(Feb. 01, 1980):
David as a biker? Whod'a thunk!!
I'm beginning to think that the show had run out of money for
the lack of stars in this this season! Again, no one here!! Strangely
it went on another 2 and a half years!! B-
EPISODE # 16: FALLING ANGELS(Feb. 08, 1980):
David gets involved with an orphange that's really just a fron
for burglery!!
The girls here aren't, they're 20 and 27!!
Pobably the best line in the whole show here: "At least he could
have opened the doors!! LOL!!!
No known stars here!!! A
EPISODE # 17: THE LOTTERY(Feb. 15, 1980):
David stops a mugger from robbing a newstand and the two
become friends! They wind up with a lottery ticket that
actually ends up winning, but neither one of them can turn
it in for reasons that become obvious later!
Guest starring here is Peter Breck(The Big Valley, Maverick)!! A
EPISODE # 18: THE PSYCHIC(Feb. 22, 1980):
Betcha can't guess what this one's about! After a boy is hurt
David thinks that he's responsible and decides it's time to
give himself up! Meanwhile, a psychic happens to touch David
and realizes that he's the Hulk! She tries to contact McGee
to turn him in!
This is actually one of the better episodes!!
No one here! A
EPISODE # 19: A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE(Feb. 29, 1980):
David gets hired by a sweet old lady who just hapens to also
be a moll!! And the FBI is out after her, through him!!
Guest starring here are John McIntire(Wagon Train, The Virginian),
and his wife, Jeanette Nolan(The Virginian, The Man Who Shot Libery
Vallence, Psycho) & Eric Server(Battlestar Galactica)!! A
EPISODE # 20: DEATHMASK(Mar. 14, 1980):
There's a serial murderer killing girls at a college that David
just happens to be at! And of course he gets pegged for the
murders!!
Guest starring here are a returning Gerald McRaney and Don
Marshall! A
EPISODE # 21: EQUINOX(Mar. 21, 1980):
McGee is hanging around a dock(who knows why), and David just
happens to be there, trapped by a woamn who has everything she
wants except David! Kinda weak episode and pretty silly!!
Guest starring here is Paul Carr(Star Trek: TOS episode "Where
No Man Has Gone Before")! B
EPISODE # 22: NINE HOURS(Apr. 04, 1980):
David lives in a dump where he's made some friends! He's working
at a hospital where a gangster who's going to tell the Feds all!
Some of his associates aren't about this and decide they're going
to keep him quiet by kidnapping the kid that lives in David's
building to force David to help them out to get access to the
old dude!!!!!
Guest starring here is a returning Mark Alaimo! A-
EPISODE # 23: FIRE LINE(Apr. 11, 1980):
David gets drafted, not for the service but for fighting a fire!
The fire was set Which he winds up being the culprit! It all
winds up bringing the beast out in David! Of course McGee shows
up!!!
Katheen Lloyd(Magnum P.I., Babylon 5 episode "The
Deconstruction Of Falling Stars") guest stars here!! A-
SPECIAL FEATURES:
ON DISC 5:
BEHIND THE SCENES
REMEMBERING "The Incredible Hulk":
An incredible insight to Bill Bixby and the
making of The Hulk!!
A PREVIEW OF THE NEW HULK MOVIE!!
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