The Incredible Hulk

Bill Bixby portrays scientist David Banner, who, while doing research on the incredible feats of strength accomplished by some individuals during moments of stress, is exposed to a massive dose of gamma rays. He feels no ill effects, but the first time he loses his temper afterwards, he is transformed into a bizarre man-beast nearly seven-feet tall with enormous strength. When his anger subsides, he returns to his original appearance. Part 1 of 2.

With the aid of a fellow researcher, Banner tries to reverse the process which has upset his chemical makeup. Their efforts are thwarted by a nosy reporter specializing in sensationalism, with tragic results. Part 2 of 2.

"Death in the Family", a two-part Incredible Hulk episode, recounts the further adventures of David Bruce Banner, a scientist whose radiation experiments turned him into a homeless wanderer/raging beast, looking for a cure for the ray's monstrous effect. After Banner is presumed dead from a laboratory explosion, he is free to search for a cure for his affliction, a change in his metabolism which sends him from his normal, average visage into that of a powerful, seven-foot monster when he is enraged. It becomes difficult for him not to get angry after he discovers a young woman being victimized by her widowed stepmother in order to gain control of her fortune.

A beautiful girl, Julie, has been crippled since the accident which also caused the death of her father, in part two of "A Death in the Family". Banner's suspicions are aroused when he sees the stepmother and her physician administering a questionable drug to Julie. He stays on at Julie's ranch to keep an eye on her until the foreman, at the stepmother's orders, fires him and bodily tries to oust him from the premises. Enraged, Banner turns once again into the raging Hulk, spiriting Julie away. The appearance of the Hulk again puts the indomitable reporter McGee on his trail.

In his continuing quest for a cure to the strange malady which turns him into a monstrous creature whenever he gets angry, research scientist David Bruce Banner finds himself in trouble in Philadelphia. In the City of Brotherly Love, Banner is rescued from a pair of muggers by a down-and-out prizefighter. Banner is concerned when he discovers that his new-found friend is mixed up in a shady dope operation that could spell his death. The Rocky-like contender has his heart set on a championship but it takes the Hulk to show him that he is not a contender.

David Banner gets a job at a zoo and finds a lovely young scientist proceeding with the genetic research he had started before being forced to become a homeless wanderer. Banner's interest in the experiments on research animals at the zoo creates a suspicion which is explained when he learns he has stumbled into the middle of a smuggling operation. Banner has to become the Hulk to save himself and the unsuspecting scientist from being victims of their own experiments.

David Banner suspects he might actually be a killer after he emerges from one of his blackouts as the Hulk at the scene of a murder. Haunted by the fear he may have killed a beautiful young model during his transformation as the Hulk, Banner returns to the scene of the crime and gets a job as a playboy's valet. The job almost ends up with Banner a prisoner in a car headed for a trash compactor.

David Banner's search for a cure to the malady which turns him into a monstrous creature whenever he gets angry takes him to New York where he is unable to avoid his transformation after he gets involved in a Times Square skimming operation. While working in a Times Square arcade, Banner is warmly accepted by the owner and his daughter. The relationship is short lived after he has to resort to the Hulk to save his friends from a murder plot.

Bill Bixby is reunited with his former co-star, Brandon Cruz, in the story of a jetliner in trouble. The young Cruz guest stars as Kevin, who plays the only passenger on the plane with any knowledge of flying. He and the Hulk have to try and bring the jetliner to a safe landing after the plane's crew is disabled.

While working in a Las Vegas casino, David Banner aids an investigative reporter working on a gambling scandal and is put in the position of also helping his nemesis, McGee. When the reporter is injured in a murder attempt, he asks Banner to pass his information on to his friend McGee. Banner manages to avoid facing McGee, but, as the Hulk, ends up saving his life.

After David Banner does a favor for an attractive girl, he finds himself in the middle of a vendetta she is waging to get her father's tanker truck back from high-jackers. When he and the girl are trapped by the high-jackers, Banner's wrath transforms him into the Hulk for a confrontation with the huge diesel.

David Banner offers himself for experimentation to a doctor working with DNA research in the hopes that he will be cured of his Hulk affliction. Instead, he has to resort to the Hulk to save his and a new mother's life. When Banner meets a defensive and very pregnant young woman on the way to the hospital for his volunteer research, he little suspects that both their lives will soon depend on his ability to protect them through the tremendous strength of the Hulk.

David Banner impersonates a scientist inspecting a nuclear research facility to get access to its gamma ray equipment, but his attempts to reverse his own radiation are interrupted by an earthquake. A nuclear plant, a subject of controversy because it is built over an earthquake fault, holds Banner's hopes to rid himself of his over-radiation. His masquerade as a safety expert is discovered before he can complete his experiment, but his super strength as the Hulk saves his and some of the plant's staff's lives when the earthquake hits.

Working in a small bar on the Galveston, Texas waterfront, David Banner becomes involved in a battle for control of the local dock workers' union as two men vie for the presidency. The young widow of the union's last president, whose death remains an unsolved mystery, befriends David and when her life is endangered, the Hulk surfaces to resolve the past and present problems.

While working at the race track in New Mexico, Banner's professional instincts are aroused by the plight of a race driver's brother, a man with developmental disabilities. His attempts to help him are met with resistance until the Hulk surfaces to save the brother after he is goaded into driving a defective car in the demolition derby.

Taking a brief respite from his search to find a cure for his strange disease, David Banner finds refuge as a school gardener. David wins the confidence of a 10-year-old student who seems to be highly accident prone. To David, however, the bruises indicate frequent beatings and he is convinced the child is a victim of abuse inflicted by one of his parents. When he is attacked by the irate father, The Hulk surfaces to protect both David and the child.