The Incredible Hulk Episode Guide

Season 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Season 1

1. The Incredible Hulk (2 hrs) Premiere Movie (Original airdate November 4, 1977)
When Doctor David Banner is unable to rescue his wife from their burning car, he begins to search for a way to tap into the hidden strengths that all humans seem to possess. An accidental overdose of gamma radiation does something more, however - it turns him into a huge, green-skinned creature whenever he gets angry.
David's colleague, Dr. Elaina Marks, is killed in a lab fire after David turns into the Creature, and reporter Jack McGee sees it for the first time and assumes - incorrectly - that he was responsible for the tragedy. David Banner is believed dead and begins his search for a cure while McGee makes capturing the Creature his goal.


2. Death In The Family aka The Return of the Incredible Hulk (2hrs) Premiere Movie (Original airdate (November 27, 1977)
David discovers his new employer administering a questionable drug to her crippled stepdaughter, a young heiress he has befriended. This leads to a stressful situation which prompts David's metamorphosis into the Creature, who rescues the girl from one danger after another as hired killers, bloodhounds and a helicopter pursue them.

3. The Final Round (Original airdate March 10, 1978)
After a boxer named Rocky rescues David from muggers, Rocky gets David a job at his gym. David tries to help Rocky when he discovers Rocky's (and his) boss is a drug dealer.

Job: Janitor
Alias: David Benson


 
4. The Beast Within (Original airdate March 17, 1978)
While working at a zoo, David finds a female scientist doing genetic research, which could help him stop his unwanted transformations into the Hulk.
 
Job: zoo worker
Alias: David Bradburn

 
5. Of Guilt, Models, and Murder (Original airdate March 24, 1978)
After a transformation as the Hulk, David awakens in a room with a dead model and fears he may have killed her.
Job: corporate assistant
Alias: David Blain

 
6. Terror in Times Square (Original airdate March 31, 1978)
David discovers a murder plot while working in a Time Square arcade, where the owner is being extorted to pay for protection.

Job: arcade worker
Alias: David Blake

 
7. 747 (Original airdate April 7, 1978)
David boards a flight to visit another doctor whom he thinks might have some information which might help him with his problem. But, when the pilot and stewardess drugs the rest of the crew in an attempt to bail out of the airplane with stolen property, David and a young boy named Kevin try to land the jetliner.
Job: none
Alias: David Brown

 
8. The Hulk Breaks Las Vegas (Original airdate April 21, 1978)
While working in a casino, David helps a Las Vegas reporter with a gambling scandal, only to discover that the reporter is Jack McGee's partner.
Job: casino worker
Alias: David ?


9. Never Give a Trucker An Even Break (Original airdate April 28, 1978)
While working for a female trucker, David is caught up in her quest for revenge against the hijacker that stole her fathers rig.

Job: none
Alias: David ?
 
10. Life and Death (Original airdate May 12, 1978)
David helps a pregnant woman, and on their way to the hospital, they discover a plot to steal babies for DNA experimentation.
Job: none
Alias: David Bernard


11. Earthquakes Happen (Original airdate May 19, 1978)
Banner poses as top physics doctor to infiltrate a research complex, in order to access some gamma-ray equipment that may just be able to cure him of his green alter ego. He is about to start the attempt of reversing his condition when an earthquake strikes, blowing his cover, causing mass destruction and devastation, and setting off an impending core melt-down...

Job: Impersonates Doctor Robert Patterson
Alias: poses as Dr. Robert Patterson
 
12. The Waterfront Story (Original airdate May 31, 1978)
Banner is working in a dock tavern in Galveston, Texas, where he befriends the owner, a Union President's widow, whose husband was killed under suspicious circumstances. The woman is being pestered by a shady businessman standing for replacement President to endorse his election campaign and he is willing to go to any lengths necessary to win the election.

Job: tavern worker
Alias: David Barton

Season 2

13. Married aka Bride of the Incredible Hulk (Part 1) (Original airdate September 22, 1978)
Banner finds love with a psychiatrist who has a problem of her own.
Job: none
Alias: David Benton

 
14. Married aka: Bride of the Incredible Hulk (Part 2) (Original airdate September 22, 1978)
David and Carolyn marry, but a typhoon rushes toward them.

Job: none
Alias: David Benton
 
 
15. The Antowuk Horror (Original airdate September 29, 1978)
David is working as an odd-job man in a hardware store in a quiet backwater town, where business is receding and business is moving away. But when an argument with the store's depressed, widowed owner, Harlan, brings on an appearance from the Hulk, Harlan and his best friend quickly see the possibilities of what the publicity could do for the town, and set about re-creating their own "monster" to draw in the tourists. But the scheme ends up endangering Harlan's own young daughter...


Job: handy-man at Harlan Bates' Store
Alias: David Barton
 

 
16. Ricky (Original airdate October 6, 1978)
While working at a New Mexico race track, David helps a race car driver's retarded brother.

Job: works at race track
alias: David ?


 
17. Rainbow's End (Original airdate October 13, 1978)
When David learns of a vitamin that supposedly calms wild horses, he gets a job at the San Remos horse track hoping it can help him too.

Job: works at horse track
Alias: David Bishop


18. A Child in Need (Original airdate October 20, 1978)
David is working as a gardener in a suburban school, where he befriends a boy whom he notices is covered in bruises. The school nurse informs David that it's not the first time it's happened, and he soon suspects that one of the boy's parents is abusing him. With no-one willing to listen or help, David sets about putting the situation right himself.

Job: gardener
Alias: David Baxter
*Note: Although first shown as part of the second season, this episode was originally made as a first season episode (hence first season version opening music). Some re-runs follow the original production order (as opposed to original broadcast order), thus showing it amongst first season episodes.


 
19. Another Path (Original airdate October 27, 1978)
David believes a Chinese philosopher's nerve control techniques can help him control the Hulk.

Job: none
Alias: David Brahmer


20. Alice in Disco Land (Original airdate November 3, 1978)
While working in a disco club, David tries to help a teenaged alcoholic who is being exploited.

NOTE: job: bartender
alias: David ?

 
21. Killer Instinct (Original airdate November 10, 1978)
David works for a football team, believing that the team's doctor might have a way to restrain his aggression. In the meantime, he befriends a football player who happens to have a short temper.

Job: assistant trainer
Alias: David Burnett

22. Stop the Presses (Original airdate November 24, 1978)
When David's picture is taken by a tabloid photographer, he must stop the photograph from being published.

Job: restaurant dish washer
Alias: David ?


 
23. Escape From Los Santos (Original airdate December 1, 1978)
David and a young widow are pursued by corrupt police officers who are trying to frame them for the murder of the woman's husband.

Job: none
Alias: David Brown

24. Wildfire (Original airdate January 17, 1979)
David works as a roustabout on an oil rig which happens to be the target of a saboteur.

Job: Roustabout
Alias: David Blinkman


25. A Solitary Place (Original airdate January 24, 1979)
David finds tranquility in the wilderness in Baja, Mexico. However, that is soon hindered by the arrival of a doctor running from a vengeful man whose daughter died under her care.

Job: none
Alias: David Bailey


 
26. Like a Brother (Original airdate January 31, 1979)
While working at a car wash in a black neighborhood, David befriends a co-worker who is being exploited by a drug lord.

Job: works at a car wash
Alias: David ?


27. The Haunted (Original airdate February 7, 1979)
Strange events begin to occur as David helps a young woman move back into the house where she lived as a child. He soon learns that it may have something to do with the woman's deceased twin sister, who drowned many years before.


Job: all around handy man
Alias: David Barrett


28. Mystery Man (Part1) (Original airdate March 25, 1979)
A car accident leaves David with amnesia and his face covered in bandages, which conceal his identity from Jack McGee. And while en route to see a specialist, the plane that David and McGee are in crashes.


Job: none
Alias: John Doe
job: none
 
29. Mystery Man (Part 2) (Original airdate March 9, 1979)
After surviving a plane crash in the mountains, Jack McGee and a facially bandaged David must flee the area before a forest fire threatens their lives. In the meantime, David gradually regains his memory.

Job: None
Alias: John Doe

 
30. The Disciple (Original airdate March 16, 1979)
In a follow-up to "Another Path," David visits his friend Li Sung to hopefully find a cure to his transformations. But the old philosopher is now dying and looking for a successor in his practices; the candidate for his leadership is a student, a police officer coping with the recent murder of his father.

Job: none
Alias: David ?
 
31. No Escape (Original airdate March 30, 1979)
When David is picked up for vagrancy, he is placed in a police van where he encounters a man who envisions himself as an Ernest Hemmingway-type freedom fighter. But when a fight provokes David's transformation into the Hulk, our hero escapes, inadvertently freeing the mentally ill patient in the process.

Job: none
Alias: David Baron


 
32. Kindred Spirits (Original airdate April 6, 1979)
When artifacts are discovered on an Indian reservation which indicate the existence of a Hulk-like being 30,000 years ago, David joins the expedition to find out if there is a link to his problem...or possibly a cure.

Job: works on archeological team
Alias: David Barton


 
33. The Confession (Original airdate May 4, 1979)
An inexperienced reporter is assigned to help Jack McGee with his pursuit of the Hulk; then, to McGee's dismay, she does a story about a shy man who claims to be the Hulk's alter-ego.

Job: janitor
Alias: David Benton / David Beamon
 

 
34. The Quiet Room (Original airdate May 11, 1979)
After discovering that a doctor is using mentally disturbed patients as guinea pigs for mind-control tests, David finds himself confined in the same institution where he is employed.

Job: psychiatric attendant
Alias: David Balland
 
 
35. Vendetta Road (Original airdate May 25, 1979)
David meets a vindictive "Bonnie and Clyde"-type couple who are blowing up gas stations. The stations they are targeting belong to a corporation responsible for the death of the young man's father.

Job: none
Alias: David Brennen
 

Season 3

36. Metamorphosis (Original airdate September 21, 1979)
A rock star who sings for a Kiss-like group becomes suicidal after one of her fans is injured during a concert performance.


Job: physical therapist
Alias:


 
37. Blind Rage (Original airdate September 28, 1979)
An accident at a chemical warfare research station causes blindness for both David and a friend.

Job: Dry-cleaner's counter man
Alias: David Blair


38. Brain Child aka Odyssey (Original airdate October 5, 1979)
A gifted teenager runs away from a scientific institute, and approaches David for help in locating her mother.

Job: none
Alias: David Barnes


39. The Slam (Original airdate October 19, 1979)
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.


Job: prisoner #1124
alias: David ?

 
40. My Favorite Magician (Original airdate October 26, 1979)
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 fiancé.

Job: dishwasher & magician's assistant
Alias: David Barker
*The title of this episode is meant to be a clever reference to the 1963 television series My Favorite Martian, in which this episode's guest star, Ray Walston (Jasper the Great), co-starred with Bill Bixby.


 
41. Jake (Original airdate November 2, 1979)
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.
 

Job: medic
Alias: David ?


 
42. Behind the Wheel (Original airdate November 9, 1979)
David becomes a taxi driver for a cab company whose owner is on the verge of losing the business to a greedy loan shark.

Job: cab driver
Alias: David ?

 
43. Homecoming (Original airdate November 30, 1979)
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.


Job: None
Alias: None


 
44. The Snare (Original airdate December 7, 1979)
In an episode inspired by the popular story "The Most Dangerous Game," David is the quarry of a psychotic hunter on a remote island.

Job: none
Alias: David Bennet


45. Babalao (Original airdate December 14, 1979)
In New Orleans, David works for a young physician who tries to convince everyone that a local witch doctor is a con artist.

Job: Doctor
Alias: David ?


46. Captive Night aka Hostage Night (Original airdate December 21, 1979)
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.

Job: cashier
Alias: David ?

 
47. Broken Image (Original airdate January 4, 1980)
Thanks to look-alike criminal named Mike Cassidy (also played by Bill Bixby), 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!
 

Job: apartment caretaker
Alias: David Bowman


 
48. Proof Positive aka Nightmare (Original airdate January 11, 1980)
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. Therefore, McGee is put under pressure to prove that the Hulk is real.


*NOTE: Bill Bixby does not appear in this episode, but is "substituted" with a stunt double for the pre-Hulk-out climax.
 
49. Sideshow (Original airdate January 25, 1980)
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.

Job: stage manager
Alias: David Burns

 
50. Long Run Home (Original airdate February 1, 1980)
David is befriended by a motorcyclist, who inadvertently gets him mixed up in a gang-related conflict.

Job: none
Alias: David ?

 
51. Falling Angels (Original airdate February 1980)
The orphanage that David is working at has become a crime school, where two orphaned girls are being trained into thievery.

Job: handy man
Alias: David Banister

 
52. The Lottery (Original airdate February 15, 1980)
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 decides to use the money in a scheme to hopefully earn a larger profit.

Job: None
Alias: David Becker

53. The Psychic (Original airdate February 22, 1980)
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.

Job: bagger
Alias: David ?
 
 
54. A Rock and A Hard Place (Original airdate February 29, 1980)
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 leads the gang is aware that he becomes the Hulk.

Job: handy man
Alias: David Brennen

55. Deathmask (Original airdate March 14, 1980)
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.

Job: library assistant
Alias: David Brent

 
56. Equinox aka Masquerade (Original airdate March 21, 1980)
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.

Job: librarian
alias: David Beldon

 
57. Nine Hours (Original airdate April 4, 1980)
To save the lives of a reformed gangster and a kidnapped boy, David turns to an alcoholic ex-policeman for help.

Job: orderly
Alias: David Breck

 
58. On the Line (Original airdate April 11, 1980)
David becomes an arson suspect, and is drafted to help extinguish a forest fire.


Job: volunteer firefighter
Alias: David Brown

 

Season 4

59. Prometheus (Part 1) (Original airdate November 7, 1980)
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.

Job: none
Alias: none


 
60. Prometheus ( Part 2) (Original airdate November 14, 1980)
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.

Job: none
Alias:

 
61. Free Fall (Original airdate November 21, 1980)
David finds himself caught in a feud between a skydiver and the son of a crooked politician.

Job: ?
Alias: David Blake


62. Dark Side (Original airdate December 5, 1980)
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!

Job: none
Alias: David ?

 
63. Deep Shock (Original airdate December 12, 1980)
After surviving an electrocution at a power plant, David gains the ability to foresee events; some of which involve the Hulk.

Job: power plant worker
Alias: David Benton

 
64. Bring Me the Head of the Hulk (Original airdate January 9, 1981)
A rival publisher of McGee's newspaper hires a mercenary to kill the Hulk.

Job: none
alias: David Bedford


 
65. Fast Lane (Original airdate January 16, 1981)
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.

Job: none
alias: David Brendan

 
66. Goodbye Eddie Cain (Original airdate January 23, 1981)
A 1930's-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.

Job: gardener
Alias: David Benedict

67. King of the Beach (Original airdate February 6, 1981)
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.

Job: dishwasher
Alias: David Bennet
 
*NOTE: Hulk star Lou Ferrigno has dual roles in this episode, not only as the Hulk but also as the body-builder.

 
68. Wax Museum (Original airdate February 13, 1981)
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.

Job: works in a wax museum
Alias: David Beckwith


 
69. East Winds (Original airdate February 20, 1981)
Unbeknownst to David, the apartment he is renting in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood contains the gold that gangsters are seeking.

Job: none
Alias: David Barrett

 
70. The First (Part 1) (Original airdate March 6, 1981)
David discovers the legend of another Hulk, and investigates in the hope of creating a cure for himself.

Job: none
Alias: David Barr

 
71. The First (Part 2) (Original airdate March 13, 1981)
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 the latter causes more carnage!

Job: none
Alias: David Barr


 
72. The Harder They Fall (Original airdate March 27, 1981)
David survives an automobile accident, only to be paralyzed from the waist down. Therefore, he is told that he may never walk again.

Job: none
Alias: David Blackwell
 
 
73. Interview With the Hulk (Original airdate April 3, 1981)
A hapless reporter steals Jack McGee's latest tip on the Hulk, and ends up getting an interview with David Banner.

Job: none
alias: David Butler


74. Half Nelson (Original airdate April 17, 1981)
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.
 
Job: none
Alias: David ?


75. Danny (Original airdate May 15, 1981)
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.

Job: none
Alias: David ?


 
76. Patterns (Original airdate May 22, 1981)
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.

Job: garment factory assistant
Alias: David Barr

 

Season 5

77. The Phenom (Original airdate October 2, 1981)
David befriends a rookie baseball player who gets mixed up with a crooked sports agent.
 
Job: None
Alias: David Beddiger

78. Two Godmothers (Original airdate October 9, 1981)
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.

Job: laundry truck driver
Alias: David ?


 
79. Veteran (Original airdate October 16, 1981)
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.

Job: none
Alias: David Barnes

 
80. Sanctuary (Original airdate November 6, 1981)
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.

Job: caretaker
alias: David ?

 
81. Triangle (Original airdate November 13, 1981)
An irate lumber baron becomes a threat to David's relationship with a young woman, and tries to force David out of town.

Job: lumberjack
Alias: David Bellars

82. Slaves (Original airdate May 5, 1982)
After being captured by an ex-convict, David is forced to work as a slave in a gold mine.

Job: None
Alias: David Becker

 
83. A Minor Problem (original airdate May 12, 1982)
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.

Job: none
Alias: David Bradshaw

 

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