Shark Bytes

The Incredible Hulk is one of my all time favorite shows. Bill Bixby was perfect as Bill Bixby. Lou Ferrigno made a great Hulk.
I do think the TV movies they did in the late 80's was horrible thoe. Return of The Incredible Hulk was ok,but the 2nd movie Trial Of The Incredible Hulk was downright awful.The Hulk doesnt even show up for the climax of the movie. The Death of The Incredilbe Hulk was bad too.I laughed at the scene where Dr.Banner was watching The Hulk on a video tape and he saids he has never scene it before.I guess Banner was suffering memory loss as Banner has scene the Hulk lots of times threw out the shows run,such as the episode Married and The episode Metamorphosis.

I used to watch TIH when I was a kid, and started watching them again on Sci-Fi(I believe they were trying to tie-in to the crappy 2003 film). I take the show for what it was, corny, campy entertainment. My favorite episode was when Banner was on some drug that gave him an evil side, he was trying to nail some 18year-old chick, who had an absentee merchant seaman for a father.

This show never jumped the shark. It remained exciting and intriguing.

I only have two complaints.

1- There was never a cure.

and

2- Jack McGee never received the closure, nor the big story, he deserved. Plus, he never found out David Banner was the Hulk.

As for the show itself, it's still one of my favorites.

Didn't give two cents for the show, just watched every week to see Jack "McGee" Colvin. My God was he sexy. Forget the Hulk ripping out of his clothes, it was Jack's clothes I wanted to rip off.

This show was all about a green muscleman beating the crap out of average-sized men. Great family entertainment.

This show was all about Ferrigno. He had the right look that was believable to the kids (the primary audience for this show). I don't think Bixby in the role of Banner contributed much to the success of the show- the Banner character wasn't of much interest to the kids. I think Bixby's enduring television role was Eddie's Dad in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", which was on prime time when I was a kid.

This show was so repititious. The only reason kids watched it was to see Ferrigno flex and throw things. Sort of was a 1970s version of Friday night wrestling.

it went to junk after the eposode the first part one and two david meets his rival the demented del frye and his equally demented creature by rights this should have been the last either david should have made a cure or frye's creature should have killed him

I think the whole point of producer Ken Johnson's idea for the show was that to follow the marvel comic literally would have made for a show that could not last. My guess is, he was right about that. The comic and the show are two different entities, but I don't think that lowers the enjoyability quotient of either.

As this show was in some ways too far removed from the characters created by Marvel Comics, I am sadly going to vote jumped on day one.

I'd've loved to see that, too. I think there could have been some really good eps coming out of the idea of McGee catching up to Banner, and what might have happened from there. I wish the series could have gone on for another season or two to have allowed that to take place (maybe).

Dr. Banner in this show was quite a slacker. Instead of trying to find a cure, he chooses to be homeless. I wanted to see McGee catch up to Banner and convince Banner try to deal with his Hulk persona, instead of trying to run away from it.

Yeah, absolutely. Jack Colvin was a really good actor, and I would have loved to see McGee developed to another level on the series. It's too bad it was cancelled before that could happen.

This was such a depressing show to watch. The superhero is reduced to a bigfoot type legend who's secret identity is a loner homeless person.

I was hoping that the writers would take the story lines to more interesting levels. Never happened.

It seem plausable that McGee would evolve into a more supporting sidekick type character, since he seemed to be the only mainstream person who believed the Hulk existed. It got old with McGee chasing the Hulk, with McGee still thinking the Hulk is a "killer". Surely McGee would have noticed that the Hulk was benefiting the good guys and only harming the bad guys.

There are some indications in some of the episodes near the end that he does begin to suspect just that, but the show was abruptly canceled before anything came of it.

There are rumors that Ken Johnson, the producer, planned to have McGee discover David Banner's identity, and then have events take place that would have forced McGee to have to go on the run with Banner, and been his ally in helping Banner find a cure. But the three sequel tv movies after the Hulk's cancellation did nothing with this, and of course, McGee's character--oddly--wasn't even in the final two movies.