The BEST episodes of The Incredible Hulk
Every episode of The Incredible Hulk ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Incredible Hulk!
Dr. David Banner, a physician and scientist, accidentally overdoses on gamma radiation during an experiment to tap into the hidden strength that all humans possess. Now, whenever he becomes angry or outraged, a startling metamorphosis occurs: he transforms into a massive, green-skinned creature of primitive rage known as the Hulk. Banner wanders across the country, using assumed names and taking odd jobs, searching for a cure to his condition while trying to stay one step ahead of Jack McGee, an investigative reporter obsessed with capturing the "beast."
#1 - The First (2)
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/13/1981
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 more carnage occurs.
#2 - Married (2)
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1978
David 'Benton' travels to Hawaii to meet Dr. Carolyn Fields (Mariette Hartley), a psychologist whose technique might help control the Hulk. However, Dr. Fields is in the terminal stages of a disease that the Hulk could help cure. With the pair working in close proximity, love begins to bloom with tragic results.
#3 - The First (1)
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/6/1981
David discovers the legend of another Hulk, and investigates in the hope of creating a cure for himself.
#4 - The Waterfront Story
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/31/1978
Banner is working in a tavern on the docks 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, running to become the new President, to endorse his election campaign and he is willing to go to any lengths necessary to win the election.
#5 - Broken Image
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/1980
Thanks to look-alike criminal, 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!
#6 - East Winds
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/20/1981
Unbeknownst to David, the apartment he is renting in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood contains the gold that gangsters are seeking.
#7 - Prometheus (1)
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/7/1980
Prometheus Part 1 of 2. 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.
#8 - 747
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/7/1978
David boards a flight to visit another doctor whom he thinks has information that 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.
#9 - Stop the Presses
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1978
When David's picture is taken by a tabloid photographer, he must stop the photograph from being published.
#10 - Free Fall
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/1980
David finds himself caught in a feud between a skydiver and the son of a crooked politician.
#11 - A Minor Problem
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/12/1982
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.
#12 - Wax Museum
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/13/1981
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.
#13 - King of the Beach
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/6/1981
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.
#15 - Homecoming
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/1979
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.
#16 - Wildfire
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/17/1979
David works as a roustabout on an oil rig which happens to be the target of a saboteur.
#17 - The Snare
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/1979
After being invited to a remote island, David becomes the quarry of a psychotic hunter.
#18 - Escape from Los Santos
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1978
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.
#19 - Dark Side
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/5/1980
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!
#20 - Prometheus (2)
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/1980
Prometheus Part 2 of 2. 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.
#21 - Metamorphosis
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1979
A rock star who sings for a Kiss-like group becomes suicidal after one of her fans is injured during a concert performance.
#22 - Vendetta Road
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/25/1979
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.
#23 - The Quiet Room
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/11/1979
David 'Balin' is working as an orderly at Valley View Sanatorium. After discovering that a surgeon is using experimental mind control, he unwillingly becomes a patient himself.
#24 - Earthquakes Happen
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/19/1978
Banner poses as a top doctor in physics 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.
#25 - Life and Death
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/12/1978
David helps a pregnant woman, and on their way to the hospital, they discover a plot to steal babies for DNA experimentation.