The Incredible Hulk

In the special two-part season premiere, David Banner finds romance and marriage with a lovely psychiatrist (guest star Mariette Hartley) who tries to cure the affliction which turns him into the Hulk whenever he gets agitated, while Banner tries to help her with her own burden. Continuing his search for relief from his malady, Banner journeys to Hawaii to enlist the expertise of Dr. Fields, who has developed new uses for hypnosis in therapy. His arrival at the institute in which she works coincides with her departure for a leave of absence. Following her to her home, Banner discovers her in the midst of a seizure caused by her own affliction.

In saving the life of a beautiful psychiatrist (guest star Mariette Hartley) involved in hypnosis therapy, David Banner is able to enlist her aid in trying to save his. As their mutual dependence grows amid the splendors of the Hawaiian coastline, romance and love blossom. They marry, each knowing their life together is fraught with perils and certain heartbreak. When the island is swept by a typhoon at a crucial moment in the new couple's lives, their destiny rushes to a conclusion which neither of them can control, in part two of the season premiere.

After David Banner's presence in their town results in a brief glimpse of the Hulk, some of the townspeople realize that the creature is what the town needs to put it back on the map. Ignoring the obvious dangers from trophy-hunting tourists, an ersatz Hulk is sent to stalk the surrounding hills.

David Banner searches out a trainer who has achieved remarkable success with a vitamin formula in calming a troublesome racehorse in the hope that the medicine might be effective in quieting the Hulk within him. Employed at the racetrack, Banner soon has to put his quest secondary to his job of protecting the horse from an embittered employee. Guest stars Craig Stevens, Gene Evans, Michelle Nichols and Ned Romero.

A chance encounter with a Chinese philosopher puts David Banner on a different path while trying to overcome his affliction. Banner recognizes that his new friend's lessons are based on controlling the automatic nervous system and hopes he can learn to control the Hulk. Instead, the Hulk helps save the wise man and preserve his beneficial influence on his San Francisco community. Mako guest stars.

While working in a disco, David Banner is drawn to an obviously troubled dancer. It soon is apparent that she was once a child with special meaning to him and is now being exploited by the unscrupulous owner of the dance palace. It takes the Hulk to free her from the owner, but Banner's compassion to help her overcome her own problem.

Looking for help for himself, David Banner signs on as an assistant trainer with a professional football team because its physician is studying aggressive behavior patterns. Instead of getting aid, Banner has to resort to the Hulk to restrain a troubled player's need for winning at any cost.

While working in a restaurant that is the subject of a fraudulent expose by the National Observer, David Banner is included in a photograph taken in the establishment. Fearing exposure, he breaks into the publication's headquarters, giving McGee a face-to-face meeting with the Hulk.

While hitchhiking on his way to Phoenix, David Banner is given a lift by a policeman. He finds the ride is right to the police station and a cell alongside a lovely woman (guest star Shelley Fabares) being railroaded for the murder of her crime-fighting husband. It takes the Hulk to get them out of jail so they can get to the proper authorities and prove their innocence.

David Banner is working as a roustabout on a wild-cat oil rig when sabotage sets the new well ablaze. While engaged in a strategic task to put the burning well out, Banner is attacked by the saboteur. His consequential metamorphosis into the Hulk saves the well and the owner's life. Christine Belford, John Anderson and Billy Green Bush guest star.

Seeking respite from the tension which often triggers him into becoming the Hulk, David Banner isolates himself in a remote area, but his tranquil existence is interrupted by the arrival of an attractive woman fugitive who insists on joining his camping place. As their early suspicions of each other turn to mutual respect, their lives are torn apart by the arrival of Jack McGee, on the trail of the two of them.

While working in a car wash, David Banner befriends a co-worker and is drawn into the battle between him, his ill brother, a crusading preacher and a dope supplier, conflict it takes the Hulk to resolve.

After answering an ad for a driver/rider, David Banner helps a young woman move to a new city and stays on to help her get settled in the house she left many years ago after the drowning of her twin sister. It takes the Hulk to unravel the bizarre plot that has the remaining sister scheduled for the same fate. Carol Baxter guest stars.

In the first half of a two-part episode, intrepid headline hunter Jack McGee, and David Banner, suffering from amnesia from an earlier accident, are the only survivors from a plane crash in a remote area. Banner attempts to save himself and carry the injured McGee to civilization as nature's forces fight against him.

In the concluding half of a two-part episode, David Banner tries reaching civilization with the injured McGee when a forest fire engulfs them. Banner is forced into his Hulk metamorphosis to save their lives which reveals to McGee a new insight on his quarry.

Still hoping for control of the Hulk that is within him, David Banner again pursues the tranquility which Li Sung advocates and is a very concerned participant when the elderly gentleman hands over the leadership of his cult to a police officer recovering from a police action which had shaken his faith. Rick Springfield, Gerald McRaney and Mako guest star.

David Banner is picked up for vagrancy and placed in a police van with a man who envisions himself as an avenging freedom fighter betrayed by his wife and doctor. Banner turns into the Hulk and destroys the van. The man escapes and Banner has to track him down and see that he is back in custody. James Wainwright, Mari-Clare Costello and Sherman Hemsley guest star.

After a scientific experiment exposes artifacts which point to a prehistoric Hulk-like creature, David Banner grasps onto the slim chance that further exploration may uncover clues to his own Hulk. Rebellious Native Americans, on whose land the digging is taking place, a woman from Banner's past, and the indomitable McGee add to the perils of the search. Kim Catrall guest stars.

Jack McGee is incensed at having another reporter hanging on his coattails even though it is an attractive woman. They trail the Hulk to a medical center where he was last seen and where a lonely young man works who confesses to being the Hulk. Markie Post, Barry Gordon and Richard Herd guest star.

While working in a sanitarium, David Banner is at first impressed at the success a doctor is having with his patients, then alarmed as he realizes the doctor's technique is through mind control. When Banner reports his discovery, the doctor puts him in restraint waiting for the next available operating room. Joanna Miles and Philip Abbott guest star.

David Banner helps end the hostilities between a young couple seeking revenge and the company which the husband thinks is responsible for his father's death. Banner is rescued by the young couple just before they blow up a gas station in which he has taken refuge. He then has to convince them that their hope for life and justice lies with legal procedures rather than the rash vendetta they are waging against an oil company.

While searching for the cause of a friend's strange illness, David Banner is exposed to the same contaminate that felled his friend. A cure seems impossible when the station's authorities try to cover up the incident.

David Banner is arrested for vagrancy and sent to a work camp where his fellow prisoners accuse him of being an informer. Banner's initial acceptance turns to animosity after he is unable to help them present their grievances to the press due to McGee's presence. It takes the Hulk to overcome the stigma of Banner's apparent defection to the side of the corrupt prison officials and to bring the conditions at the camp to the attention of the public. Charles Napier, Julius Harris, Marc Alaimo and Robert Davi guest star.