The Incredible Hulk (TV series)

The Incredible Hulk was a U.s. television series, loosely based on the Marvel Comics comic books published by the Hulk. The series ran from 1977 to 1982 and was broadcast by TROS in the Netherlands from 1979 to 1983 and repeated by SBS 6 in 2006 and 2007. Main roles were there for Bill Bixby as Dr. David Banner and Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk alter ego Banners. The show was created by Kenneth Johnson.



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[hide] *1 Development  ==Development[ Edit] == Beginning 1977 offered Frank Price, head of Universal Television, producer and writer Kenneth Johnson to make a television series based on one of the cartoon characters of Marvel Comics. Johnson did not initially agreed, but later came back on this decision and began writing a television series around the character the Hulk.
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 Story
 * 4 episodes List
 * 4.1 season one (1977-78)
 * 4.2 second season (1978-79)
 * 4.3 season three (1979-80)
 * 4.4 season four (1980-81)
 * 4.5 season five (1981-82)
 * 5 the end of the series
 * 6 television films
 * 7 Trivia
 * 8 external links

Johnson based his series only loosely on the comics. So he changed the name of Dr. Bruce Banner to Dr. David Banner, and left a lot of important characters from the comics away. Johnson also changed the series more realistic the Hulks origin of exposure to gamma radiation to a lab accident. The Hulks alter ego no longer a nuclear physicist, but a doctor/researcher. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == For the role of Dr. David Banner Johnson chose veteran television actor Bill Bixby. Bixby first wanted to opt out, but changed his mind after having read a few of the scenarios. In addition, chose Johson Jack Colvin for the role of Jack McGee, a reporter who pursued the Hulk everywhere.

The most difficult task that Johnson had was finding the right actor to play the Hulk himself. Actor Richard Kiel was first hired for the role, but he turned out during the first recordings unsuitable as the Hulk. The Hulk had to namely credible, scary and strong. Actor Lou Ferrigno finally got the role. ==Story[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The origin of the Hulk was in the television series other than in the comics. In the television series is a/wetenschapper doctorDavid Bruce Banner, who is traumatized by the loss of his wife by a fatal car accident, and his feelings of guilt about the fact that he was unable to save her. He begins with a search for a strange phenomenon in which people temporarily get a tremendous force in emergency situations. He was especially obsessed with the question of how could that others who had experienced a similar traumatic experience had been able to save themselves or their loved ones, even under heavy emotional pressure, but not himself. He finally came to the conclusion that high radiation levels of gamma radiationfrom sunspots be the cause. To prove his theory, he proposes to expose yourself to miss a dose of gamma radiation to see if this is indeed superhuman strength.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Outdoor Banners know to is the equipment changed, which he gets a much larger dose of radiation administered than planned. First, does he think his experiment has failed. However, that night if he gets a flat tyre and ends up throwing out the band at his attempt to swap out, the pain sure he turns into the Hulk.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Startled by this change tries to find a cure Banner. But through the intermediary of the curious reporter Jack McGee failed Banners research and submit a laboratory explosion in debris. At the blast comes to collegawetenschapper, and Banners from Banner itself is also thought that he is dead. Banner yet, but is forced to flee.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The series centers on whole to Banner, which is becoming flight from place to place, different identities, and desperately trying to find a cure takes against his changes. He also used the power of the Hulk to the problems of the people he meets to fix. Everywhere he is followed by McGee, who necessarily wants to write a story about the mysterious monster that according to him is a threat to everyone. ==Episodes list<span class="mw-editsection" len="361" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Season a (1977-78)<span class="mw-editsection" len="364" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Season two (1978-79)<span class="mw-editsection" len="365" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Season three (1979-80)<span class="mw-editsection" len="365" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Season four (1980-81)<span class="mw-editsection" len="365" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Season five (1981-82)<span class="mw-editsection" len="365" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==The end of the series<span class="mw-editsection" len="366" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1981, while the shooting for season five were underway, CBS made known to the series will stop due to a small change in the viewing figures and the budget. According to rumors he wanted Bill went Bixby's contract, and like to go with other series. CBS sent the already filmed episodes still out. ==Television films<span class="mw-editsection" len="358" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Three episodes of the series were first released as stand-alone TV movies, but were later split into episodes of an hour for the series itself. Two of these films were made as pilot episodes, before the series began.
 * Pilot
 * Death in the Family
 * The Final Round
 * The Beast within
 * Or Guilt, Models & Murder
 * Terror in Times Square
 * 747
 * The Hulk Breaks Las Vegas
 * Never Give a Trucker an Even Break
 * Life And Death
 * Earthquakes Happen (Original Title: Nuclear Cave-in)
 * The Waterfront Story
 * Married (Double Episode)
 * The Antowuk Horror
 * Ricky
 * Rainbow's End
 * A Child in Need
 * Another Path
 * Alice in Disco Country
 * Killer Instinct
 * Stop the Presses '
 * Escape from Los Santos
 * Wildfire
 * A Solitary Place
 * Like a Brother
 * Haunted
 * Mystery Man (Double Episode)
 * The Disciple
 * No Escape
 * Kindred Spirits (Original title:Legacy)
 * The Confession
 * The Quiet Room
 * Vendetta Road
 * Metamorphosis
 * Blind Rage
 * Brain Child
 * The Slam
 * My Favorite Magician (Original title: The Magician)
 * Jake
 * Behind the Wheel
 * Homecoming
 * The Snare
 * Babalao
 * Captive Night
 * Broken Image
 * Proof Positive (Original title: Nightmare)
 * Sideshow
 * Long Run Home
 * Falling Angels
 * The Lottery
 * The Psychic
 * A Rock and a Hard Place
 * Deathmask
 * Equinox
 * Nine Hours
 * On the Line
 * Double Exposure (Not filmed)
 * Prometheus (Double Episode)
 * Free Fall
 * Dark Side
 * Deep Shock
 * Bring Me the Head of the Hulk
 * Fast Lane
 * Goodbye, Eddie Cain
 * King of the Beach
 * Wax Museum
 * East Winds
 * The First (Double Episode)
 * The Harder They Fall
 * Interview With The Hulk
 * Half Nelson
 * Danny
 * Paterns
 * The Phenom
 * Two Be The Godmothers
 * Veteran
 * Sanctuary
 * Triangle
 * Slaves
 * A Minor Problem (Last episode of the series)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A few years after the series was discontinued again three television movies were made. Bixby and Ferrigno again played their characters from the series. These films were:
 * The Incredible Hulk (pilot)- 1977
 * The Return of The Incredible Hulk -1977 (first appeared in the series under the name Death in the Family)
 * Bride of the Incredible Hulk (appeared in the series as the two-hour episode "Married")

Banner meets a former fellow student who possesses a magical hammer that the Thunder God Thor can be sued. This film was intended as the basis for a television series about Thor, but which was never created. Banner meet the blind lawyer Matt Murdock and his alter ego Daredevil. This film was also intended to serve as a basis for a new television series, this time on Daredevil. The Daredevil in this movie is much more in line with its Thor comic book version than in the previous film. Had Stan Lee in this film also makes a cameo appearance as one of the jury members at Banners lawsuit. Banner falls in love with an Eastern European spy and red two kidnapped scientists. At the end of the film, Hulk from the plane to his death. <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Despite the death of the Hulk at the end of the last movie, there were even more Incredible Hulk movies planned. For instance, there are still movies are made in which She-Hulk and Iron Man had supporting roles. All of these projects did not go through because Bill Bixby died of prostate cancer in November 1993. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * The Incredible Hulk Returns - 1988
 * The Trial of the Incredible Hulk - 1989
 * The Death of the Incredible Hulk - 1990
 * The series took 500,000 à $ 600,000 per episode to make. Given the value of the dollar back then, and now the value of the dollar that amounts to a modern amount of 1.5 million to $ 1.8 million.
 * For the transformation scenes in which the Hulk rips his clothes wore out Lou Ferrigno always clothes that were a size too small, so that he could tear easier.
 * Kenneth Johnson originally wanted the Hulks skin color change from green to red. This because according to him would anger the Hulks red symbolize much better. This idea fell through because Stan Lee do not agree was.
 * Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno acting techniques learned and arranged that he got his own caravan.
 * The latest Hulk movie, with Edward Norton as Bruce Banner and Liv Tyler as Betty Ross. The Incredible Hulk (film) was released in 2008.
 * Bill Bixby played a double role in Broken Image, of course, as Dr. David Banner and as villain Mike Cassidy.
 * Lou Ferrigno played a double role in King Of The Beach, of course as The Incredible Hulk and as Carl Molino, a close friend of Dr. David Banner