The WORST episodes of The Incredible Hulk
Every episode of The Incredible Hulk ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Goodbye Eddie Cain
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/23/1981
A 1940s-style detective can't explain why a corpse is found in his office; except that it may be related to an extortion plot, a mysterious gardener, and a green creature.
#2 - Half Nelson
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/17/1981
David travels to Baltimore where he befriends a midget wrestler who has a habit of telling tall tales. Unfortunately, one of those tales gets David in trouble with mobsters.
#3 - Two Godmothers
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1981
David is kidnapped by a trio of convicts who have escaped from a women's prison. The situation becomes even more complicated when one of the women goes into labor.
#4 - The Harder They Fall
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/27/1981
David survives an automobile accident, only to be paralyzed from the waist down. Therefore, he is told that he may never walk again.
#5 - On the Line
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/11/1980
David becomes an arson suspect, and is drafted to help extinguish a forest fire.
#6 - Triangle
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/1981
An irate lumber baron becomes a threat to David's relationship with a young woman, and tries to force David out of town.
#7 - The Confession
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/4/1979
An inexperienced reporter is assigned to help Jack McGee with his pursuit of the Hulk; then, to McGee's dismay, she does a story about a shy man who claims to be the Hulk's alter-ego.
#8 - Danny
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/15/1981
David attempts to help free a woman and her infant son from a gang of thieves. But one of the thieves is not willing to let that happen.
#9 - Never Give a Trucker an Even Break
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/28/1978
While working for a female trucker, David is involved in her quest for revenge against the hijacker that stole her fathers rig.
#10 - Long Run Home
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/1/1980
David is befriended by a motorcyclist, who inadvertently gets him mixed up in a gang-related conflict.
#11 - A Rock and a Hard Place
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/29/1980
In Atlantic City, FBI agents catch David with contraband shipments belonging to a gang of thieves, and insist that he be an informant until the gang is apprehended. David has no choice but to cooperate with both sides since both are aware of who he is; the FBI agents know that he is David Banner, while the elderly woman, who is one of the thieves, is aware that he becomes the Hulk.
#12 - The Disciple
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/16/1979
In a follow-up to "Another Path," David visits his friend Li Sung to hopefully find a cure to his transformations. But the old philosopher is now dying and looking for a successor in his practices; the candidate for his leadership is a student, a police officer coping with the recent murder of his father.
#13 - Fast Lane
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/16/1981
Unbeknownst to David, the car that he is renting happens to be filled with stolen money. To make matters worse, David ends up being pursued by the thugs who are trying to fetch the loot.
#14 - Deathmask
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/1980
A serial killer is stalking the college where David is working; then a misunderstanding leads to David's arrest. And while he figures out the real identity of the killer, the townspeople form a lynch mob.
#15 - Kindred Spirits
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/6/1979
When artifacts are discovered on an indian reservation which indicate the existence of a Hulk-like being 30,000 years ago, David joins the expedition to find out if there is a link to his problem...or possibly a cure.
#16 - Jake
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1979
As a medic for a rodeo, David discovers that an aging cowboy has a serious health condition that could prove fatal; meanwhile, the cowboy's younger brother is mixed up with a gang of cattle thieves.
#17 - The Antowuk Horror
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1978
David works at a hardware store in a resort town, where business is receding. But when an argument with the store's depressed, widowed owner, Harlan, brings on the Hulk's appearance, Harlan and his friend quickly see the possibilities of what the publicity could do for the town. So they set about re-creating their own "monster" to draw in the tourists. But the scheme ends up endangering Harlan's own young daughter.
#18 - Proof Positive
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1980
A new publisher takes over the National Register, and decides to rid the newspaper of any questionable stories. This new policy affects Jack McGee's search for the Hulk, so McGee is put under pressure to prove that the Hulk is real.
#19 - Another Path
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1978
David believes a Chinese philosopher's nerve control techniques can help him control the Hulk.
#20 - A Solitary Place
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/24/1979
David finds tranquility in the wilderness in Baja, Mexico. However, that is soon hindered by the arrival of a doctor running from a vengeful man whose daughter died under her care.
#21 - The Psychic
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/22/1980
A woman with psychic powers identifies David as the Hulk's alter-ego. While the Hulk is a suspect in the slaying of a teenager, the woman predicts that Jack McGee will be murdered by the real killer unless our hero intervenes.
#22 - Ricky
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1978
While working at a New Mexico race track, David helps a race car driver's retarded brother.
#23 - Rainbow's End
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1978
When David learns of a vitamin that supposedly calms wild horses, he gets a job at the San Remos horse track hoping it can help him too.
#24 - A Child in Need
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1978
David is working as a gardener in a suburban school, where he befriends a boy whom he notices is covered in bruises. The school nurse informs David that it's not the first time it's happened, and he soon suspects that one of the boy's parents is abusing him. With no-one willing to listen or help, David sets about putting the situation right himself.
#25 - 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.