Season 1
Driven by rage. Pursued by an investigative reporter. Wanted for a murder he didn't commit. No one ever said it was easy being green.
Synopsis
The Incredible Hulk (1977), Season 1 is the sci-fi drama you can watch online on iFILM — 12 episodes of the live-action series that put Bill Bixby and bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno in the roles years before Marvel's movies existed.
Scientist David Banner overdoses on gamma radiation in a lab accident and comes away cursed: whenever rage or pain takes hold, he swells into a green creature he can't control or remember. From the pilot onward he's a fugitive. The world thinks he's dead, a tabloid reporter named Jack McGee keeps picking up his trail, and Banner drifts across the country under a string of fake surnames — working a ranch, cornering for a boxer, waiting tables at a waterfront tavern. Every episode drops him in a new town with new strangers in trouble, building to the moment his shirt finally rips apart.
The season runs on a quiet drifter-helps-the-helpless formula, carried by Bixby's sad, restrained performance rather than effects. It lands for anyone who loves seventies sci-fi and the human drama buried inside a comic-book premise. Stream The Incredible Hulk Season 1 online on iFILM.
12 episodes
S1·E1The Incredible Hulk
A troubled scientist's accidental overexposure to gamma radiation curses him with the tendency to change into a bestial green brute under extreme emotional stress.
S1·E2The Return of the Incredible Hulk
David meets a young woman who can't walk. He gets work on her family's ranch and discovers her doctor is slowly poisoning her. After he reports his suspicions to the girl's mother he finds himself the target of a vicious manhunt. AKA Death in the Family for syndication.
S1·E3Final Round
David 'Benson' is saved from a couple of muggers by a boxer nicknamed 'Rocky' and becomes his friend and corner-man. Unfortunately the young man suffers from high blood pressure and is being used to ferry drugs by an unscrupulous manager.
S1·E4The Beast Within
David 'Bradburn' is researching control methods for animal aggression with a female doctor at a zoo. She gets into trouble when new animals keep dying from a mysterious illness.
S1·E5Of Guilt, Models and Murder
David 'Blaine' takes a job as a valet to investigate the murder of a model that the Hulk is being blamed for. We get to see different accounts of the murder in flashback. But which one really happened?
S1·E6Terror in Times Square
David "Blake" is working at an arcade in Times Square, where everybody pays off "Uncle Jason". David finds out two elderly men are planning to take matters into their own hands.
S1·E7747
David 'Brown' is flying from San Francisco to Chicago only to find out some of the crew are plotting to steal the Egyptian artifacts on board.
S1·E8The Hulk Breaks Las Vegas
David is working as a card shill in Vegas when he learns his Casino owning boss is crooked. To complicate matters, the people holding the evidence are acquaintances of Jack McGee.
S1·E9Never Give a Trucker an Even Break
While hitchhiking, Banner is picked up by a young woman desperate to get her rig back from the men who stole it from her.
S1·E10Life and Death
David 'Barnard' subjects himself to an experimental DNA test but finds out his doctor's accomplices are gathering newborn babies for similar research.
S1·E11Earthquakes Happen
Banner uses forged documents to take the place of safety inspector Robert Patterson in order to get access to Gamma ray inversion equipment at a power plant when an earthquake hits.
S1·E12The Waterfront Story
David 'Barton' works in the kitchen of a tavern on the waterfront and helps the young widow who owns it to fight pushy union men.
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