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!
David Banner is a research scientist trying to find a way to tap into the hidden strength that all humans possess. Then, one night in his labratory, an experiment went wrong, causing him to be overexposed to gamma radiation. Now, whenever angered or distressed, the mild-mannered scientist finds himself transforming into a powerful seven-foot green creature known as The Incredible Hulk. The Hulk is guided by David's personality, dealing with whatever distresses David. But unfortunately, David has no control over the creature's actions. Nor can he remember what he had done during his Hulkish states. He travels around the country in search of a cure, while taking various odd jobs under different aliases.
#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 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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!
#5 - 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.
#6 - Of Guilt, Models and Murder
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/24/1978
After a transformation as the Hulk, David awakens in a room with a dead model and fears he may have killed her.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - My Favorite Magician
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1979
David works as the assistant of a magician, only to get mixed up in a situation involving the magician's estranged daughter and an ex-girlfriend with a questionable fiance.
#14 - 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.
#15 - Sideshow
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/25/1980
David is hired as a stage manager at a carnival, and learns that the sideshow's mind-reader has been blamed for a series of misfortunes.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - Babalao
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/1979
In New Orleans, David works for a young physician who tries to convince everyone that a local witch doctor is a con artist.
#19 - Captive Night
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/21/1979
While working the night shift at a department store, David and his co-workers end up being held hostage by two brothers who want to rob the place.
#20 - Equinox
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/21/1980
While working at a private island owned by a spoiled heiress, David is asked to join a masquerade party which Jack McGee attends uninvited. Meanwhile, someone is out to kill the heiress.
#21 - 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.
#22 - The Slam
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1979
David is arrested for vagrancy, and is sent to a prison camp run by a cruel warden. But when the appearance of Jack McGee prevents David from exposing the conditions of the camp to the press, his fellow inmates turn against him.
#23 - 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!
#24 - Mystery Man (1)
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/2/1979
A car accident leaves David with amnesia and his face covered in bandages, which conceal his identity from Jack McGee. And while en route to see a specialist, the plane that David and McGee are in crashes.
#25 - Nine Hours
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/4/1980
To save the lives of a reformed gangster and a kidnapped boy, David turns to an alcoholic ex-policeman for help.