Incredible Hulk

Incredible Hulk ( The Incredible Hulk ) is a American Televised series into six 95 minutes FilmsTv, 79 47 minutes episodes. adapted by Kenneth Johnson according to the cartoon éponyme of the Marvel Comics and diffused between the November 4th 1977 and the May 12th 1982 on the network CBS. In France, the first Telefilm incredible Hulk, as well as the third " titrate Mariés" profited from an exit to the cinema under the titles Incredible Hulk (1979) and Hulk returns (1980). The series, as for it, was diffused starting from the December 20th 1980 on TF1.

Synopsis

Traumatisé after the death of Laura his wife, whom it could not save of the flames of an car accident, Dr. David Bruce Banner studies the influence of the stress on the physical force with an assistant, Dr. Elaina Marks. During one night of storm, he thinks of having found the solution and, pressed to obtain a result, plays itself the guinea-pigs, but the experiment turns badly, and he is lengthily exposed with Gamma radiations. The effects of this accident are catastrophic: as soon as the scientist is irritated or panics, its " force primitive " takes the top and it is transformed into a greenish monster and violent one. As soon as the animal calms itself, humanity takes again its rights and Banner becomes again normal, having very forgotten acts of its aggressive double. David and Elaina make experiments to cure it but the laboratory explodes and Elaina dies.

The journalist McGee Jack, witness of the drama, see the creature with Elaina in the arms. It writes an article in its newspaper under the title: incredible Hulk kills two people . Conscious of the danger which represents its instability of character David Banner decides to be made pass for dead and takes the road by seeking a remedy hopelessly has its curse. It is obliged to change identity in each city and of living odd jobs to pay food, hotel room, and clothing of replacement (because with each transformation it is found in pants). But in each city which it crosses Banner comes to assistance of the people in difficulty and the inhabitants discover the compassion of David and the fury devastator of Hulk.

But it is necessary for him to be very careful and to go more and more quickly, because the journalist Jack McGee tracks blindness his alter ego, convinced that it is responsible for his death and that of Dr. Elaina Marks. McGee wants to capture it at all costs to make " of it; for its journal" the discovery of the century; it ends up discovering that it is about a man who transforms himself into Hulk. It does not have then cease to seek to discover its true identity.

Distribution

Bill Bixby (VF: Daniel Gall) : David Bruce Banner
Lou Ferrigno: Incredible Hulk
Jack Colvin: Jack McGee

Rewards

Emmy Award 1979 : Better actress in drama series for Mariette Hartley in Telefilm 3: Married (Married).

List seasons

Telefilms 1 + 2 (1977)

Incredible Hulk ( The Incredible Hulk ) 90mn (left with the cinema in 1978 pennies the title: Incredible Hulk)
The Incredible Hulk: " Death in the Family " 95mn (new in France) Exit only in DVD in the box season 1 in 2007 in VO.

First season (1978)

1 (1- 1) : Last round ( Final The Round )
2 (1- 2) : The Prisoners ( The Beast Within )
3 (1- 3) : Murder with female ( Off Guilt, Models and Murder ) the
4 (1- 4) : Terror with Time Public garden ( Terror in Times Square )
5 (1- 5) : 747 ( 747 )
6 (1- 6) : Las Vegas ( The Hulk Station-wagons Las Vegas )
7 (1- 7) : The insane Truck ( Never Give has Trucker year Even Break )
8 (1- 8) : A baby ( Life and Death )
9 (1- 9) : Seism ( Earthquake' S Happen )
10 (1-10) : Clandestine loading ( The Waterfront Story )

Telefilm 3 (1978)

Incredible Hulk: Married - 93min ( Married ) left with the cinema in 1979 pennies the title: Hulk Revient.

Second season (1978 - 1979)

11 (2- 1) : The Monster ( The Antowuk Horror )
12 (2- 2) : Ricky ( Ricky )
13 (2- 3) : Drastic remedy ( Rainbow' S End )
14 (2- 4) : A child in danger ( has Child Is Need )
15 (2- 5) : The Return of the Master ( Another Path )
16 (2- 6) : Delirium ( Alice in Disco music Land )
17 (2- 7) : Instinct of the crime ( Killer Instinct )
18 (2-8) : Hulk with the one ( Stop the Presses )
29 (2-9) : Escape with Los Santos ( Escape from Los Santos )
20 (2-10) : Sabotage ( Wildfire )
21 (2-11) : The Recluse ( has Solitary Place )
22 (2-12) : As a brother ( Like has Brother )
23 (2-13) : Obsession ( Haunted )
24+25 (2-14+15) : The Man mystery " in 2 partie" ( Mystery Man - Share 1+2 )
26 (2-16) : The Disciple ( The Disciple )
27 (2-17) : The Escape ( No Escape )
28 (2-18) : The Tomb crowned ( Kindred Spirits )
29 (2-19) : The Confession ( The Confession )
30 (2-20) : The soundproof Room ( Calm The Room )
31 (2-21) : Vendetta ( Vendetta Road )

Third season (1979-1980)

32 (3- 1) : Hallucinations ( Metamorphosis )
33 (3- 2) : Furious madness ( Blind Rage )
34 (3- 3) : Exceptionally gifted ( Brain Child ) the
35 (3- 4) : The Tomb ( The Slam )
36 (3- 5) : The Merchant of illusion ( My Favorite Magician )
37 (3- 6) : Rodeo ( Jake )
38 (3- 7) : To save Majestic ( Behind the Wheel )
39 (3- 8) : The Return ( Homecoming )
40 (3- 9) : The Trap ( The Snare )
41 (3-10) : Babalao ( Babalao )
42 (3-11) : Prisoners in the night ( Captive Night )
43 (3-12) : Double face ( Broken Image )
44 (3-13) : Nightmares ( Proof Positive )
45 (3-14) : Mirror of the heart ( Sideshow )
46 (3-15) : The Motorcyclists ( Long Run Home )
47 (3-16) : Fallen angels ( Falling Angels )
48 (3-17) : The Lottery ( The Lottery )
49 (3-18) : Premonition ( The Psychic )
50 (3-19) : Dear Amies ( has Rock'n'roll and has Hard Places )
51 (3-20) : The Assassin prefers the blondes ( Deathmask )
52 (3-21) : Equinox ( Equinox )
53 (3-22) : The Good neighbors ( Nine Hours )
54 (3-23) : The Share of fire ( One the Line )

Fourth season (1980 - 1981

55+56 (4- 1+2) : Prométhée " in 2 partie" ( Prometheus - Share 1+2 )
57 (4- 3) : In freefall ( Free Fall )
58 (4- 4) : Nonconclusive experiment ( Dark Side )
59 (4- 5) : Pandémonium ( Deep Shock )
60 (4- 6) : Died or sharp ( Bring Me the Head off the Hulk ) " realized by bill bixby"
61 (4- 7) : Fast track ( Fast Lane )
62 (4- 8) : Without resentment Eddie Cain ( Goodbye Eddie Cain ) " realized by jack colvin"
63 (4- 9) : The King of the beach ( King off the Beach )
64 (4-10) : The wax Museum ( Wax Museum )
65 (4-11) : East wind ( East Winds )
66+67 (4-12+13) : Certified copy " in 2 partie" ( The First - Share 1+2 )
68 (4-14) : The Difference ( The Harder They Fall )
69 (4-15) : Confidences of Hulk ( Interview with the Hulk )
70 (4-16) : On the boxing ring ( Half Nelson )
71 (4-17) : The Son of Rachel ( Danny )
72 (4-18) : Street of the mode ( Patterns )

Fifth season (1981-1982)

73 (5- 1) : Blow of circuit ( The Phenom )
74 (5- 2) : The Two godmothers ( Two Godmothers )
75 (5- 3) : The Veteran ( Veteran )
76 (5- 4) : Right of asylum ( Sanctuary )
77 (5- 5) : Possession ( Triangle )
78 (5- 6) : The Slaves ( Slavic )
79 (5- 7) : State of alert ( has Minor Problem )

Telefilms 5/4/6 (1988 to 1990) 7th cancelled

1988 : the Return of incredible Hulk (The Incredible Hulk Returns) with THOR.
1989 : the Lawsuit of incredible Hulk (The Trial off the Incredible Hulk) with DAREDEVIL (realized by bill bixby).
1990 : the Death of incredible Hulk (The Death off the Incredible Hulk) realized by bill bixby.
1993 : the Great Return of Incredible Hulk (The great return off the incredible hulk) cancelled.

Series televised of Animation

There exist also two animated series, new in France:

The Incredible Hulk : series in 13 25 minutes episodes diffused of September 1982 to September 1984 on the network NBC.
The Incredible Hulk : series in 21 episodes 25 minutes diffused of the September 8th 1996 with the November 23rd 1997 on the network UPN.

Film

2003 : Hulk carried out by Ang Lee
2008: Hulk 2 realized by Louis Leterrier, with Edward Norton (in turning)

DVD

Incredible Hulk: The Return of incredible Hulk and the Lawsuit of incredible Hulk (May 6th, 2003) ASIN B0000844JI
the Death of incredible Hulk (June 18th, 2003) ASIN B00008YM12
Incredible Hulk: pilots 1 and 2 (July 1st, 2005) ASIN B00009MELH
Incredible Hulk: season 1 (October 18th, 2007) ASIN B000T5QEOM

Information box season 1

In the box this the 2 pilot finds; incredible the hulk + Death in the Family (in VO) As well as the episode " Mariés"

episode 747 in VO.

Y' has that the VF - put aside Death in the family + 747 in VO (series remasterized)

Anecdotes

At the beginning the actor Richard Kiel, the giant of 2m18 of the Spy who liked me + Moonraker (2 James Bond), had begun the turning of Hulk but at the time of its first scene where it breaks a tree Kenneth Johnson found that it was not muscular enough. A few days later Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno were auditioned for the role of Hulk, but Arnold with its 1m88 was too small and it was Lou Ferrigno which obtained it, thanks to its 1m96.

the sworn enemy of Hulk, the journalist McGee Jack, was creates according to Javert, the police officer of the " Misérables"

After its first diffusion in 1978, the series described by the magazine " Starlog" like " One of the series more prometteuse"

Bill Bixby prohibited his/her son from looking at the series, to prevent that it is afraid by seeing his father transforming itself into a terrible green creature.

the make-up applied to Lou Ferrigno to transform it into Hulk lasted 2:30.

In the comic, the alter-ego of Hulk fore-mentioned Bruce Banner. On the other hand, for the series, David Bruce replaced which had, according to the creators, of the too homosexual connotations.

to avoid perspiring too much, which could remove the make-up of Hulk, Lou Ferrigno passed the majority of its time in roulotte of turning cooled.

Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno appeared on the screen together 3 times during all the duration of the series. episode " Marié" where Banner tries to tighten a trap with Hulk in a dream. - " The King of the plage" where Banner helps a young person body-builder played by ferrigno. - " Hallucinations" or banner doped sees hulk esseyer to kill it.

Lou Ferrigno carried green slippers during the external scenes.

Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno had an arrangement: each one was not to look at what the other had turned, in order to keep the atmosphere of the series.

Because of deafness partial of Lou, during the turning of an episode it did not hear the " half-compartment! " of the realizer and jetta an actor with the other end of a part, and sent it to the hospital following the shock.

Lou Ferrigno rose the every day to 5:00 of the morning to make 2:00 of exercises before turning.

the character Jack McGee played by Jack Colvin will never arrive to captured Hulk and will thus discover never but Banner be always in life and that it be incredible the hulk.

McGee Jack tracked Hulk with a gun tranquillizing for elephant for captured.

on several occasions Banner and McGee falls almost nose to nose and Banner owes its safety only with one coincidence. Examples:

(Las Vegas - season 1) banner this concurrently to finds in a car with McGee him unconscious and McGee with almost be pilot of the transformation of hulk into banner.

(the baby - season 1) banner and McGee this crosses in a corridor of hospital and banner makes pretense boir with the automatic tap of the corridor for hidden its face.

(Seism - season 1) Banner is made pass for a doctor and while going to entered from a laboratory Jack McGee if finds and wants to make an interview of the doctor and by it seeing of back calls it and Banner continuous of market far in front of for step that McGee way her face.

(clandestine Loading - season 1) banner and McGee this crosses in the street and Banner arrette and made pretense of arranged its sock in its boot for avoided.

(Grooms - season 2) McGee knocks on the door of a residence and looks at elsewhere and Banner opens the door and by seeing McGee closes again it quickly.

(Hulk with the one - season 2) banner and McGee this finds in the same elevator and Banner this mask behind the races + Hulk this transformed into banner concurrently to McGee which doped by its gun tranquillizing for captured Hulk.

(the man mystery - season 2), amnesic Banner has the face dissimulated under a thick binding following an car accident and must spend several days only with McGee in the drill (it is in this episode which McGee will discover that hulk is not only one simple monster but a man who this transforms into Hulk.

(to save Majestic - season 3) McGee assoit in the taxi that banner led and banner this mask the face with a cap and glasses.

(Double face - season 3) banner succeeds misled McGee in this fesant to confuse with a gangster who had the same face that him with a moustache because McGee had seen the face of banner and had spoken to him and the croyer thus always in life although David said to him that it be not banner.

(Equinox - season 3) banner is protected by a costume at the time of a dressed up festival gift McGee essait removed mask,… etc

Bill and Brenda Benet which be his wife in the life had played together in an episode of Hulk in episode 18 of season 3: Premonition .

the woman of Lou makes an appearance in death of incredible Hulk (the blonde with the counter of the bank which speaks with David Banner.)

Lou Ferrigno was to leave the series at the end of the 3rd season, because it regularly received threats, and challenges in the street by imbeciles.

Bill Bixby owed carried out the continuation of the death of incredible Hulk in 1993 pennies the title " the great return off the incredible hulk" always with Lou ferrigno and Jack Colvin, but the project was cancelled because of its death.

In the film Hulk of 2003 two winks are made with the series: Lou Ferrigno holds the role of a watchman, and Nick Nolte is called David Banner.

Lou Ferrigno must make an appearance in Hulk 2 in 2008.

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