Bill Bixby was to David Bruce Banner what Robert Downey Jr. is to Tony Stark. It's a pity we lost Bill, and he will always be fondly remembered as the best Dr. Banner, IMHO.
Oh, my God! I have a lot of good memories of watching tv as a kid on Friday nights! My sister, my cousin and would get together to watch The Incredible Hulk, and The Dukes of Hazzard. We would have hot dogs, Ranch Style beans, and potato chips with Coca-cola for dinner! When Dallas would come on it was time for my cousin to go home, then my sister, and I would have to get ready for bed. We would always get up early on Saturdays for cartoons! Those were the days! 🤠👍🏻💓
Still remains, along with "Star Trek: The Next Generation," my favorite show. I'm 44 now but never grew out of it. In fact, I like it more NOW than when I was a kid.
2:01 "After a number of deaths get pinned on Banner..." Technically the deaths were pinned on the Hulk including Banner's death. The public believed Banner was killed in a fire. Nobody believed that Banner killed anyone as I recall.
This show was so big in France....so many TV series were purchased from the US and, in the 80s, this practically exploded. A golden age, really, for Hollywood.
It was Kenneth Johnson who wanted to take a different approach with the material. Bixby was his only choice, but Bill scoffed until he read the script Johnson had written.
I remember watching this show at 6 years old & it was my favorite show which came on Saturday night . I also remember being scared of the Hulk but grew to respect his humble nature that would help the helpless.
I was the same age when The Incredible Hulk premiered. We had a console TV and whenever David began to "hulk out" and I saw those white(yes they were white, not green) eyes, I would hide beside the TV thinking the Hulk could reach out and grab me. But he was definitely more scary looking in the first two TV movies because he had that neanderthal forehead.😆
I absolutely loved the hulk when I was a kid in the 80's. In fact my brother and I entered a fancy dress contest, we both went as the hulk My brother came in second place. I'm really liking your vids, your content is spot and well made, I look forward to watching them, regards from England.
Of all the abandoned ideas you mention, I think the 2-hour series finale idea is the one I would've liked to see the most. I wanted to see the moment that Jack McGee realized that "John Doe" was David Banner. I wanted to hear that conversation the two of them had once all the chips were on the table. I wanted to get past the mind-numbingly repetitive procedural elements of the guest characters of the week, and get back to the story of the guy we'd been following. But it just never happened. The formula was set in stone, and few-to-no deviations could be tolerated. It's like nobody ever noticed that the best episodes were the ones where something _different_ happened. He's stuck with an injured McGee while (VERY conveniently) wearing a full face bandage and having lost his memory. He's stuck half way between Banner and the Hulk. These were the best because they led us to believe that something about the status quo might possibly change. But the only thing that ever really changed was that Jack started calling him "John", low-key acknowledging continuity with that face-bandage 2-parter. That was as much continuity as networks would tolerate, back in the day. If it wasn't mentioned in the opening credits sequence, it wouldn't be relevant info going forward. I tell ya one thing, though. I was re-watching some episodes a few years back, and there's one where David meets a psychic woman (even though he doesn't believe in it) who apparently touches someone and sees the way they're gonna die... or maybe just their future in general. I forget. But at the end of the episode, she hugs David good-bye (as guest characters tend to do) and she sees something that makes her look very sad and full of pity. We don't get to see this particular psychic vision (unlike every other vision she'd had in the episode) but her reaction fits 100% perfectly with the end of The Death of the Incredible Hulk TV movie. Like, this man's life will be one long tragedy... and then it will end that way too. I know there's little chance anybody was thinking of the events of that particular episode when they wrote the teleplay for the TV movie, like a decade later, but I like that it fits as well as it does.
@@ooOmegaSupremeoo The most pointless thing to do on the Internet is have a disagreement with somebody because every one is entitled to there own opinion and i respect what you say but i disagree, The marvel Films in particular the CGI Makes them look like cartoons, It's awful but the more accepting the audience the more garbage they will get away with. Take iron mans suit in the first film it was awesome a lot of work was clearly put into it..A couple of films in & it looks like they just don't care anymore. And the Hulk Is nothing more than a cartoon Character that breaks the immersion of the film.
I think that if the show had a good-looking CG enhanced Lou-Ferrigno (make him a little taller and add actual morphing transformations), it would be just as good of a show, even a little better. I don't think CGI is bad, you just have to have a good, compelling story behind it
Facts are skewed in this vid: 1988 Return film - Thor is played by Eric Kramer - Steve Levitt is Don, the fellow scientist. Elaina Marks character in the pilot is not a journalist, she's a fellow scientist at the institute where Banner works.
I recently heard an interview with Ferrigno and he said the Hulk appears at the exact same time in every episode. The host was taken aback and asked if he was serious, Lou replied, "yes". I have never checked to verify.
The Incredible Hulk was a classic TV show they don't make it like this anymore these other Incredible Hulk remake will never touch the original TV series and Bill Bixby was the right person to play Dr. David Banner may you rest in peace 🙏.
It's also the stories themselves - bucket-loads-of-CGI doesn't equal engaging stories, in fact when used badly it can just be quite lazy and distance the viewer IMO.
Great video, @JonnyBaak. Although I was too young to quite remember the original UK broadcasts, I really enjoyed the series when I saw it for the first time when it was repeated here in the late 1980s. (And a bit of trivia you might already know: The only time Lou Ferrigno ever spoke as the Hulk was for a TV Times magazine advertisement in the UK). I'm quite anti-CGI in that I think it is overused and lazily used in modern cinema - "amazing effects" can't ever replace "good story". Whilst by today's standards, Ferrigno covered in green paint seems tame, it was forgivable for the stories and commitment that went with it. I don't think the series would have remotely survived without Bill Bixby's performance - he is so down to earth and likeable, inner sadness but carried off with a quiet dignity and always putting other's wellbeing before his own. The series was actually a bizarre juxtaposition, with Banner's down-to-earth intervening in whatever drama of the week, and then suddenly the comicbook-like appearance of the Hulk to deal with villains. And yet, somehow it worked. I never took to the three 1990s TV movies - they seemed cheap, lazy, a bit dated, and mostly boring unsubtle backdoor pilots for other shows, but at it's best, the original series is still very watchable. It's like 'The Fugitive' (from which the series borrows a lot) with the Jolly Green Giant thrown in.
The 2-hour series finale that Mr. Johnson had planned. I ain't going to lie. Kind of wish could have seen that come to pass. I bet it would have made for excellent TV drama.
The Incredible Hulk TV series is my number one all time favorite TV series for life and until my death. Bill Bixby was my childhood idol and hero and was my ultimate role model in his portrayal of Dr David Banner. Sadly, I never got to meet him. He died from Prostate Cancer when I was a senior in college. I have been blessed to have met Lou Ferrigno quite a few times over the years. The first episode I ever saw was the season one episode Never Give a Trucker an Even Break, which was written around stock footage from Duel, a low budget TV movie that was the debut of Steven Spielberg as a director. And I've been hooked ever since. :) I am a lifelong Hulkaholic.
This was and always wil be my favorite show it aired when l was 2-6 a small child l remember this came on Friday nights from 7-8pm l liked it so much my father use to tape it on vcr back in late 70s and early 80s l still like it today bill bixby and jack colvin performance kept the show going dr. David banner just couldn't help his self but had a lot love for people along came his problem turn into the incredible hulk
It was also a time where TV heroes had moral fiber, unlike now. There are no heroes on TV now, only favorite characters. No role models, only fantasy roles and identity politics. TIH is the BEST superhero show ever!
Lost Age Comics the only heros we have nowadays are on the walking dead😎well come to think about it Daryl Dixon is pretty badass!!!👍😎💀☠🤢but it would be awesome to have Daryl Dixon HULK ---OUT,but unlike the T V who only growls Dixon's HULK would growl as well but he'd also say-I ain't nobody's bitch!!!💪🤢🤢🤢😎👍
11:18 I first saw this VHS in the kid’s section of the video I store. I naturally rented it and was stunned at the adult content of Banner’s wife being killed in a car wreck.
Richard Kiel is seen briefly in the opening credits. Also, Stan Lee appeared in cameos in the Marvel films that were based on characters he created, which is why he was not in movies such as Ghost Rider I and II
The Incredible Hulk also had some comedic moments as well. Like in "Death in the family" when the Hulk came unto an old man. The man offered him a chicken drumstick and the Hulk ate EVERYTHING. "My god! He ate the whole thing bones and all"! And when he was the hulk in a department store and began falling in love with a green female manequin.
I wish that this show would have lasted a lot longer because it was such a fantastic show and it would have been cool to see She hulk . I'm glad they chose Bill bixby and Lou ferrigno excellent choices for the show
I loved Bill Bixby's version of Banner. Him and Jack Colvin were the best of the show. Jack McGee is my favorite TV Show villain, and to me was the biggest star of the show.
A totally epic show and adaptation version for TV. One of the best show openers in history. The legendary SFX and soundtrack during the transformation and the "lonely man" piano solo for Banner still resonate today. I bought the DVD series collection during the pandemic and have been in heaven watching those episodes.
Boris Karloff felt the same way about portraying the Frankenstein creature. He believed he should not speak and was not that happy with the second film, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN when he was given dialogue. By Karloff's 3rd outing as the creature (SON...) he was silent once again. But interestingly enough Shelley's original novel of Frankenstein gives vast prose to the creature half way through the novel.
The "gay" connotation to the name is actually just a myth. Johnson said that alliterative names meant it was obvious you were watching a comic book. So, David was chosen from Ken's son's name. Also, Eric Kramer played Thor. Steve Levitt played Donald Blake.
@@gratefuljr Stan had a poor memory and liked to play up popular myths. Johnson said it was because the name was alliterative. The gay angle was likely, according to many historians, the result of a Jim Shooter penned scene in the Savage Hulk magazine wherein two gays dudes at a YMCA try to rape Banner in a shower.
Even since the original series being in production it was widely reported Bruce was changed to David for supposed 'gay' connections. Various excuses were given through production - one of them (as repeated in a UK annual that I still have) suggests that David instead of Bruce was a simple "mistake" but wasn't realised in time before production had started. Yeah right!
Take it from me, As a guy named Bruce this connotation came about in the 70's When a bitch named Anita Bryant who was an anti-gay activist made a comment "if man was suppose to be gay God would have created "Adam and Bruce"!, The name stuck and to this day I still hear jokes about it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bryant
Elena wasn't a reporter, she was a scientist. Otherwise, good vid. For all it's 70s cheese, it's still a highly entertaining series, and the Return of the Incredible Hulk is amongst my favourite films.
Thanks for another video, I really enjoy them, especially since I grew watching most of these shows, The Hulk was one of the best, almost as good as The Night Stalker
This video was awesome to watch! I still love The Incredible Hulk TV series very, very much!! One of my all-time favorite shows ever!! I have so many fond memories of watching the show on Friday nights along with The Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas on CBS. Ironically, I'd always wanted a Hulk/Spider-Man crossover movie, as a kid, not knowing that it was actually discussed! Damn, that would've been absolutely awesome. I really, really enjoyed watching this video, you have a new subscriber!
Bixby's costar Brendan Cruz from the Courtship of Eddie's Father was in an episode. In the animated versions of the Hulk from the 60's until now he does talk. No talking worked great for the show. Captain America had a couple movies on CBS while Dr. Strange only had one.
Stan Lee did cameos in every Marvel film except one . . . the 2015 reboot of Fantastic Four. And as Stan Lee said, he didn't get a cameo and that movie flopped so that tells ya something. They never left him out again.
Love this show hulk my favorite shows next wonder woman six million dollar man bonic woman i could talk all other shows in the 80s to all my favorite the Incredible Hulk is my best show Captain America and Spiderman Doctor Strange what the Hulk is my favorite
Before I started reading comic books I used to believe that the TV show origins of the Hulk we're the same as the comic book origins of the Hulk and when I read the Hulk comics for the first time along with watching the cartoon series Marvel superheroes I was confused
Elaina Marx was Banner’s friend and fellow scientist. She was killed when the lab exploded due to Jack MaGee meddling. Mariette Hartley was Banner’s second wife. Wife number 1 was killed in the car accident that set becoming the Hulk in motion. “While trying to tap the hidden strength that all human’s have.” Said Ted Cassidy at the shows beginning every week.
You got some things wrong in this video. Thor was played by Eric Kramer in The Incredible Hulk Returns, not Steve Levitt. Plus the second pilot Death In The Family was never released theatrically
Personally, as a BIG FAN of "The Incredible Hulk" TV series of 1977-82 and the subsequent three TV movies that came after, I always felt that there should be a similar TV series involving the "She-Hulk" because I would like to see a female bodybuilder play the green-skinned amazon and some other actress play her alter-ego, "Jennifer Walters," as well. Furthermore, I would even love to see the exact origin story of the "She-Hulk" based on the very first issue of the "Savage She-Hulk" comic book series from 1979 that would be uniquely convincing to viewers like me.
While I do love Dr. David Banner, my absolute favorite character on The Incredible Hulk, is Jack Mcgee! I absolutely love this man, and it made me SOOOOOO mad that he never had a girlfriend! Even if she only lasted one episode, it would still be better than nothing! There were episodes where David "got some", why couldn't they extend that courtesy to Jack?
Good review man. I have the complete series. It’s my favorite version of the hulk. My favorite episodes of the whole series Pilot Death in the family Final round Of guilt models and murder Terror in Times Square The hulk breaks Las Vegas Stop the presses Mystery man The confession The snare Captive night this and the snare are the only two on my list not to feature Magee. Broken image Proof positive The physic Equinox Prometheus The first Interview with the hulk
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Bill Bixby was to David Bruce Banner what Robert Downey Jr. is to Tony Stark. It's a pity we lost Bill, and he will always be fondly remembered as the best Dr. Banner, IMHO.
IDK, man. I like Mark Ruffalo as Banner an awful lot. But Bix was my first Banner. I loved that show.
@@andreaforce9850 Mark Doesn,t Come Close To Bixby
It's a pity he lost his real first name😆
Can you imagine Bixby alive today and making a cameo in a Avengers movie or one of the 2 Hulk movies of the early 2000's ?
@@robertouttamyndx4400 Man, that would've been beautiful!
Oh, my God! I have a lot of good memories of watching tv as a kid on Friday nights! My sister, my cousin and would get together to watch The Incredible Hulk, and The Dukes of Hazzard. We would have hot dogs, Ranch Style beans, and potato chips with Coca-cola for dinner! When Dallas would come on it was time for my cousin to go home, then my sister, and I would have to get ready for bed. We would always get up early on Saturdays for cartoons! Those were the days! 🤠👍🏻💓
This was an incredible show. Both Bill Bixby and Lou Ferigno did an excellent performance. It was a major success!
I!Agree With You About This One!Chris!
the writers a d directors marked it worse later !
it was a very beautiful tv show I was 10 years old as I watched the incredible hulk tv .
Bill Bixby was the heart of the show.
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ABOUT BILL BIXBY AS DAVID BANNER!
God rest Bill Bixby's soul
I never got tired of the Hulk outs !!
The Same Here!
Man I love watching The incredible hulk I grew up watching it as a child
Lou Ferrigno got so angry that he lifted a car. He really is the Hulk.
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ABOUT LOUFERRIGNO AS THE INCREDIBLE HULK!
All these tv shows back in the day had great music
I remember the feature pilot on TV when I was a kid. The first transformation scared the shit out of me!!!!!
Same here! Glad that I'm not the only one that was afraid. 😁
Just a Fan of Nerd Culture As a kid I had nightmares the hulk coming after me.
@@jerryirick8953 Same here. Remember the nightmare scenes in the desert??
Lou Ferrigno, being an Olympia level bodybuilder, had to maintain that physique, which was a career in itself. You don’t just stay that size.
HE STILL HAS IT TOO! He doesn't even look a tiny bit older either. It is so weird. Green is the fountain of youth apparently.
Actually Right About LouFerrigno As The Incredible Hulk!
One of the BEST tv shows of the 70's!
Still remains, along with "Star Trek: The Next Generation," my favorite show. I'm 44 now but never grew out of it. In fact, I like it more NOW than when I was a kid.
Lou got bigger in tv movies at 40 and still looks incredible to this day.
2:01 "After a number of deaths get pinned on Banner..." Technically the deaths were pinned on the Hulk including Banner's death. The public believed Banner was killed in a fire. Nobody believed that Banner killed anyone as I recall.
The closing song played at the end of every episode, I still remember it.
This show was so big in France....so many TV series were purchased from the US and, in the 80s, this practically exploded. A golden age, really, for Hollywood.
I loved this show when I was a kid.
The theme should have been mentioned. It is haunting and iconic.
The Best Storyline between Hulk. Bill Bixby & Lou Ferrigno are Great.
It WAS in fact convincing, due mainly to the fact that Ferrigno was an unbelievably enormous body builder.
Best show of my childhood
Loved it as a kid and still as an adult those white eyes still freak me out 👍
Bixby really "humanized" the character. Ferigno was great as the Hulk, as well. And it's best that he didn't speak.
😠 Puny God 😡
FAkZ........PERIOD...
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It was Kenneth Johnson
who wanted to take
a different approach
with the material.
Bixby was his only choice,
but Bill scoffed until he read
the script Johnson had written.
Erik Allen Kramer was Thor in The Return Of The Incredible Hulk, not Steve Levitt. Levitt played Donald Blake in that film.
I remember watching this show at 6 years old & it was my favorite show which came on Saturday night . I also remember being scared of the Hulk but grew to respect his humble nature that would help the helpless.
I was the same age when The Incredible Hulk premiered. We had a console TV and whenever David began to "hulk out" and I saw those white(yes they were white, not green) eyes, I would hide beside the TV thinking the Hulk could reach out and grab me. But he was definitely more scary looking in the first two TV movies because he had that neanderthal forehead.😆
I absolutely loved the hulk when I was a kid in the 80's. In fact my brother and I entered a fancy dress contest, we both went as the hulk My brother came in second place. I'm really liking your vids, your content is spot and well made, I look forward to watching them, regards from England.
Love that show the hulk scared me senseless as a kid but i had to watch it great tv
Of all the abandoned ideas you mention, I think the 2-hour series finale idea is the one I would've liked to see the most. I wanted to see the moment that Jack McGee realized that "John Doe" was David Banner. I wanted to hear that conversation the two of them had once all the chips were on the table. I wanted to get past the mind-numbingly repetitive procedural elements of the guest characters of the week, and get back to the story of the guy we'd been following. But it just never happened.
The formula was set in stone, and few-to-no deviations could be tolerated. It's like nobody ever noticed that the best episodes were the ones where something _different_ happened. He's stuck with an injured McGee while (VERY conveniently) wearing a full face bandage and having lost his memory. He's stuck half way between Banner and the Hulk. These were the best because they led us to believe that something about the status quo might possibly change. But the only thing that ever really changed was that Jack started calling him "John", low-key acknowledging continuity with that face-bandage 2-parter. That was as much continuity as networks would tolerate, back in the day. If it wasn't mentioned in the opening credits sequence, it wouldn't be relevant info going forward.
I tell ya one thing, though. I was re-watching some episodes a few years back, and there's one where David meets a psychic woman (even though he doesn't believe in it) who apparently touches someone and sees the way they're gonna die... or maybe just their future in general. I forget. But at the end of the episode, she hugs David good-bye (as guest characters tend to do) and she sees something that makes her look very sad and full of pity. We don't get to see this particular psychic vision (unlike every other vision she'd had in the episode) but her reaction fits 100% perfectly with the end of The Death of the Incredible Hulk TV movie. Like, this man's life will be one long tragedy... and then it will end that way too. I know there's little chance anybody was thinking of the events of that particular episode when they wrote the teleplay for the TV movie, like a decade later, but I like that it fits as well as it does.
My younger brother met and took a picture at the Hartsfield Atlanta Airport with Lou Ferrigno. Bill and Lou did a great job.
Lucky You!
Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk was far far better than the CG Nonsense we have now.
plus, being deaf, he was able to play confused and not understanding all in his facial expressions.
No, he wasn't. Cgi is much better.
@@ooOmegaSupremeoo The most pointless thing to do on the Internet is have a disagreement with somebody because every one is entitled to there own opinion and i respect what you say but i disagree, The marvel Films in particular the CGI Makes them look like cartoons, It's awful but the more accepting the audience the more garbage they will get away with.
Take iron mans suit in the first film it was awesome a lot of work was clearly put into it..A couple of films in & it looks like they just don't care anymore. And the Hulk Is nothing more than a cartoon Character that breaks the immersion of the film.
I think that if the show had a good-looking CG enhanced Lou-Ferrigno (make him a little taller and add actual morphing transformations), it would be just as good of a show, even a little better. I don't think CGI is bad, you just have to have a good, compelling story behind it
Agreed 100 percent
When these were new I never missed a show. I have copies of the movies they spoke of. Those were the days for me and my 2 boys. : )
Facts are skewed in this vid: 1988 Return film - Thor is played by Eric Kramer - Steve Levitt is Don, the fellow scientist. Elaina Marks character in the pilot is not a journalist, she's a fellow scientist at the institute where Banner works.
He was a spiritual man fighting the good fight. I loved how he was pushed around then at rhe right time hed have super powers to fight. I loved that .
Which of us who were not kids during this time didn't tune in every week and watch this show faithfully?
I think every male would like to thank you for the pic of Lynda Carter at 0:51. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Oh hell yeah,I just scrolled down to make that same comment
Or lesbian.
Yes, Sir!! Had major crushes on her and Joanna Cameron, back in the day. 👌
And who can forget the sad music at the end of each episode.
I recently heard an interview with Ferrigno and he said the Hulk appears at the exact same time in every episode. The host was taken aback and asked if he was serious, Lou replied, "yes". I have never checked to verify.
The Incredible Hulk was a classic TV show they don't make it like this anymore these other Incredible Hulk remake will never touch the original TV series and Bill Bixby was the right person to play Dr. David Banner may you rest in peace 🙏.
Maybe it’s my nostalgia goggles but I prefer the Ferrigno Hulk over the MCU version.
It's also the stories themselves - bucket-loads-of-CGI doesn't equal engaging stories, in fact when used badly it can just be quite lazy and distance the viewer IMO.
Same
Jeenkz, I agree 100%
I was born in 2005 and I loved the hulk I had the whole collection of this I watched it every day
Great info, yes I grew up with it but around early 80s. I still watch now when I can
What an excellent tribute to the Incredible Hulk!
I love this channel!!!
The Same Here About The Incredible Hulk!
Great video, @JonnyBaak. Although I was too young to quite remember the original UK broadcasts, I really enjoyed the series when I saw it for the first time when it was repeated here in the late 1980s. (And a bit of trivia you might already know: The only time Lou Ferrigno ever spoke as the Hulk was for a TV Times magazine advertisement in the UK). I'm quite anti-CGI in that I think it is overused and lazily used in modern cinema - "amazing effects" can't ever replace "good story". Whilst by today's standards, Ferrigno covered in green paint seems tame, it was forgivable for the stories and commitment that went with it.
I don't think the series would have remotely survived without Bill Bixby's performance - he is so down to earth and likeable, inner sadness but carried off with a quiet dignity and always putting other's wellbeing before his own. The series was actually a bizarre juxtaposition, with Banner's down-to-earth intervening in whatever drama of the week, and then suddenly the comicbook-like appearance of the Hulk to deal with villains. And yet, somehow it worked.
I never took to the three 1990s TV movies - they seemed cheap, lazy, a bit dated, and mostly boring unsubtle backdoor pilots for other shows, but at it's best, the original series is still very watchable. It's like 'The Fugitive' (from which the series borrows a lot) with the Jolly Green Giant thrown in.
Hulk came out in 1977 and Conan wasn't released until 1982.
The 2-hour series finale that Mr. Johnson had planned. I ain't going to lie. Kind of wish could have seen that come to pass. I bet it would have made for excellent TV drama.
Yeah
The Incredible Hulk TV series is my number one all time favorite TV series for life and until my death. Bill Bixby was my childhood idol and hero and was my ultimate role model in his portrayal of Dr David Banner. Sadly, I never got to meet him. He died from Prostate Cancer when I was a senior in college. I have been blessed to have met Lou Ferrigno quite a few times over the years. The first episode I ever saw was the season one episode Never Give a Trucker an Even Break, which was written around stock footage from Duel, a low budget TV movie that was the debut of Steven Spielberg as a director. And I've been hooked ever since. :) I am a lifelong Hulkaholic.
This was and always wil be my favorite show it aired when l was 2-6 a small child l remember this came on Friday nights from 7-8pm l liked it so much my father use to tape it on vcr back in late 70s and early 80s l still like it today bill bixby and jack colvin performance kept the show going dr. David banner just couldn't help his self but had a lot love for people along came his problem turn into the incredible hulk
John, same for me - always was and always will be my favorite show too. I love it still and I watch it a lot.
It was also a time where TV heroes had moral fiber, unlike now. There are no heroes on TV now, only favorite characters. No role models, only fantasy roles and identity politics. TIH is the BEST superhero show ever!
Lost Age Comics the only heros we have nowadays are on the walking dead😎well come to think about it Daryl Dixon is pretty badass!!!👍😎💀☠🤢but it would be awesome to have Daryl Dixon HULK ---OUT,but unlike the T V who only growls Dixon's HULK would growl as well but he'd also say-I ain't nobody's bitch!!!💪🤢🤢🤢😎👍
Elana Marx wasn't a reporter, she was a fellow scientist who worked with the David Banner character.
11:18 I first saw this VHS in the kid’s section of the video I store. I naturally rented it and was stunned at the adult content of Banner’s wife being killed in a car wreck.
Richard Kiel is seen briefly in the opening credits. Also, Stan Lee appeared in cameos in the Marvel films that were based on characters he created, which is why he was not in movies such as Ghost Rider I and II
The Incredible Hulk also had some comedic moments as well. Like in "Death in the family" when the Hulk came unto an old man. The man offered him a chicken drumstick and the Hulk ate EVERYTHING. "My god! He ate the whole thing bones and all"! And when he was the hulk in a department store and began falling in love with a green female manequin.
That Was Hilarious 😂 😃 😄 😁 🤣 😸 😂 😃 😄 😁 🤣 😸 😂!
I remember this particular cover on TV Guide magazine in the late 70's or 1980.
Show ran 1974 to 1979 and 3 TV movies later.
I wish that this show would have lasted a lot longer because it was such a fantastic show and it would have been cool to see She hulk . I'm glad they chose Bill bixby and Lou ferrigno excellent choices for the show
I loved Bill Bixby's version of Banner. Him and Jack Colvin were the best of the show. Jack McGee is my favorite TV Show villain, and to me was the biggest star of the show.
So True!
A totally epic show and adaptation version for TV. One of the best show openers in history. The legendary SFX and soundtrack during the transformation and the "lonely man" piano solo for Banner still resonate today. I bought the DVD series collection during the pandemic and have been in heaven watching those episodes.
Boris Karloff felt the same way about portraying the Frankenstein creature. He believed he should not speak and was not that happy with the second film, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN when he was given dialogue. By Karloff's 3rd outing as the creature (SON...) he was silent once again. But interestingly enough Shelley's original novel of Frankenstein gives vast prose to the creature half way through the novel.
The "gay" connotation to the name is actually just a myth. Johnson said that alliterative names meant it was obvious you were watching a comic book. So, David was chosen from Ken's son's name. Also, Eric Kramer played Thor. Steve Levitt played Donald Blake.
Lost Age Comics I thought Stan Lee said in an interview that the producers were chanting Bruce to David because Bruce was seen as a gay name
@@gratefuljr Stan had a poor memory and liked to play up popular myths. Johnson said it was because the name was alliterative. The gay angle was likely, according to many historians, the result of a Jim Shooter penned scene in the Savage Hulk magazine wherein two gays dudes at a YMCA try to rape Banner in a shower.
Even since the original series being in production it was widely reported Bruce was changed to David for supposed 'gay' connections. Various excuses were given through production - one of them (as repeated in a UK annual that I still have) suggests that David instead of Bruce was a simple "mistake" but wasn't realised in time before production had started. Yeah right!
Urban myth.
Take it from me, As a guy named Bruce this connotation came about in the 70's When a bitch named Anita Bryant who was an anti-gay activist made a comment "if man was suppose to be gay God would have created "Adam and Bruce"!, The name stuck and to this day I still hear jokes about it!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bryant
the death of the incredible hulk also introduced black widow who started to have a romance with banner before he died.
Elena wasn't a reporter, she was a scientist. Otherwise, good vid. For all it's 70s cheese, it's still a highly entertaining series, and the Return of the Incredible Hulk is amongst my favourite films.
Thanks for another video, I really enjoy them, especially since I grew watching most of these shows, The Hulk was one of the best, almost as good as The Night Stalker
This video was awesome to watch! I still love The Incredible Hulk TV series very, very much!! One of my all-time favorite shows ever!! I have so many fond memories of watching the show on Friday nights along with The Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas on CBS. Ironically, I'd always wanted a Hulk/Spider-Man crossover movie, as a kid, not knowing that it was actually discussed! Damn, that would've been absolutely awesome. I really, really enjoyed watching this video, you have a new subscriber!
Oh me too!! I still watch the hulk on dvd all the time, love the show!!!!
@@dbbanner I'm sure that you do watch the show all the time. It's obvious that you're a Hulk fan, considering your name. That's awesome!! 👍
The best incredible hulk ever.
Bixby's costar Brendan Cruz from the Courtship of Eddie's Father was in an episode.
In the animated versions of the Hulk from the 60's until now he does talk. No talking worked great for the show.
Captain America had a couple movies on CBS while Dr. Strange only had one.
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!
Ferrigno later got a Hearing Aid that worked! As it was turned on,He started to Cry! It worked Great! He now wears it!
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!
Stan Lee did cameos in every Marvel film except one . . . the 2015 reboot of Fantastic Four. And as Stan Lee said, he didn't get a cameo and that movie flopped so that tells ya something. They never left him out again.
I hid under the bed when he changed to the Hulk lol !
This is literally the Wikipedia article! I love it!
Aside from ever needing new pants he spent a FORTUNE on clothes.
We are clearly the same age or very close to it. Great work.
Richard Kiel as hulk would have been interesting too !
Love this show hulk my favorite shows next wonder woman six million dollar man bonic woman i could talk all other shows in the 80s to all my favorite the Incredible Hulk is my best show Captain America and Spiderman Doctor Strange what the Hulk is my favorite
What aboot Dukes of Hazzard
Before I started reading comic books I used to believe that the TV show origins of the Hulk we're the same as the comic book origins of the Hulk and when I read the Hulk comics for the first time along with watching the cartoon series Marvel superheroes I was confused
Bill Bixby was awesome. Much missed
Thor in the Incredible Hulk returns was played by Eric Kramer
Steve Levitt played Donald Blake, Thor was played by Eric Allen Kramer
Elaina Marx was Banner’s friend and fellow scientist. She was killed when the lab exploded due to Jack MaGee meddling. Mariette Hartley was Banner’s second wife. Wife number 1 was killed in the car accident that set becoming the Hulk in motion. “While trying to tap the hidden strength that all human’s have.” Said Ted Cassidy at the shows beginning every week.
I!Agree With All Of You!
Jack Kirby was the co_ creator of the Hulk btw.
imagine how different this show would be if it were remade in the 2020s
Much less heart , intelligence and soul more CGI, over the top action and political messages lol.
Hi Jonny on your intros you have playing in the background the theme of the Gerry Anderson classic 'UFO'. Any chance of a video on that series?
Amazing
LouFerrigno Looks Great As The Incredible Hulk!
You got some things wrong in this video. Thor was played by Eric Kramer in The Incredible Hulk Returns, not Steve Levitt. Plus the second pilot Death In The Family was never released theatrically
Also in the death of the incredible Hulk, Hulk turns back into Banner after he hits the ground, not before.
Great review of a great show.
Got the entire series on DVD!!
Personally, as a BIG FAN of "The Incredible Hulk" TV series of 1977-82 and the subsequent three TV movies that came after, I always felt that there should be a similar TV series involving the "She-Hulk" because I would like to see a female bodybuilder play the green-skinned amazon and some other actress play her alter-ego, "Jennifer Walters," as well. Furthermore, I would even love to see the exact origin story of the "She-Hulk" based on the very first issue of the "Savage She-Hulk" comic book series from 1979 that would be uniquely convincing to viewers like me.
While I do love Dr. David Banner, my absolute favorite character on The Incredible Hulk, is Jack Mcgee! I absolutely love this man, and it made me SOOOOOO mad that he never had a girlfriend! Even if she only lasted one episode, it would still be better than nothing! There were episodes where David "got some", why couldn't they extend that courtesy to Jack?
Good review man. I have the complete series. It’s my favorite version of the hulk. My favorite episodes of the whole series
Pilot
Death in the family
Final round
Of guilt models and murder
Terror in Times Square
The hulk breaks Las Vegas
Stop the presses
Mystery man
The confession
The snare
Captive night this and the snare are the only two on my list not to feature Magee.
Broken image
Proof positive
The physic
Equinox
Prometheus
The first
Interview with the hulk
This is basically just the wikipedia article
Great Vid, keep up the good work..!
fascinating thank you - was funny to see Lou on Donald Trump's the Apprentice series!
Good video but a few things were wrong he mentioned. Fans of the series will spot the mistakes
Actually Eric Kramer played Thor in the Incredible Hulk Returns Brother.
Thor was played by Erik Kramer. Not Jon levitt. He was Donald Blake
That is the sexiest picture of Linda Carter as Wonder Woman I've ever seen,it's preventing me from unpausing it😉
If only they could have done a crossover with The Nightmare Man
There’s a great interview on RUclips of Bill Bixby
They don't make tv like this anymore. TIH was one of the best series ever. Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno were the perfect choice for their characters.
Narrator of the Opening was Lurch aka Ted Cassidy.
TedCassidy As Lurch!
Interesting. I never heard of a possible joint movie with the Hulk and Spiderman. A missed opportunity for sure!