Thursday, April 5, 2007

The Incredible Hulk - 70s TV Series

The Incredible Hulk TV Series

Based from fictional character superhero created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby and first appeared in Marvel Comic Universe in May 1962, The incredible Hulk action TV series was produced and hit the small screen in 1978 with starring concept where Bill Bixby as Dr. David Banner and Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk. With the same story concept from the comic books where Dr. Banner exposed from gamma radiation, when he feel under abnormally high emotional stress, transform himself into a strong, scary, green-colored monster called Hulk. Many changes have been made from this series produced/written by Kenneth Johnson oppose on comic book, some where Dr. Robert Bruce name changed to 'David' and profession as nuclear physicist into medical doctor/researcher, rather than being exposed to atomic explosion into gamma rays by laboratory accident, and some major characters were dropped all for sake of realism.

Brilliant/genius scientist Dr. Bruce Banner suffer trauma from loss of his wife in a car accident, he conduct a research, a strange phenomena of gamma radiation where humans can temporarily gain superhuman levels of strength, so he bombards his body to test and prove his theory with higher dose of radiation but nothing happens and he initially considered the experiment failed. On heavy rainstorm evening while driving home, he got flat tire where got injured with lug wrench, the stress, pain and anger triggers him into his first transmogrification - whitish-green color eyes, giant 7-feet tall muscular and powerful monster with bright green skin – after he destroy whatever threatens him, he morphs back to normal human with amnesia and tattered clothing. Banner drifts from place to place, using different identities while trying to find cure for his condition, but making him angry now has mind control, he uses his incredible power to deal with people problems, fight crimes and catch bad guys without killing anyone.

The Incredible Hulk action TV series was aired from March 1978 until May 1982, completed 5 seasons with 83 episodes, catch now on DVD.

The Incredible Hulk DVD at TV Shows on DVD


The Incredible Hulk Casts:
  • Lou Ferrigno ............... The Incredible Hulk
  • Bill Bixby ............... Dr. David Bruce Banner
  • Diana Muldaur ............... Dr. Helen Banner
  • Jack Colvin .............. Jack McGee
  • Michael Santiago ................ Father Costa
  • Gerald McRaney ................ Chief Frank Rhodes
  • Marc Alaimo ............... Captain Holt
  • Billy Green Bush ............... Sheriff Carl Decker
  • Victoria Carroll ............... Rose

1 Comment:

blogsurfer said...

This comic books is a great one. But as years passed, some parts of the comic book Incredible Hulk has been changed. But still the original comic book from Marvel comic books
and the first Incredible Hulk tv action series was the best of all.