| Title |
Director(s) |
Writer(s) |
Original Airdate |
Episode # |
| "Pilot" |
Kenneth Johnson |
Kenneth Johnson |
November 4, 1977 |
1 |
| An accidental overdose of gamma radiation creates a mutation in David Banner's DNA, and, whenever he becomes angry, it causes him to metamorphose into a seven foot, green hulking creature. A reporter, Jack McGee, begins investigating claims of a giant monster; his investigation leads to Banner's laboratory. An explosion in the lab kills friend Elaina Marks; McGee, who dubs the creature "the Hulk", believes the Hulk killed David also. Unable to explain the truth, nor control his transformations, David leaves to try and find a cure for himself. |
| "A Death in the Family" |
Alan J. Levi |
Kenneth Johnson |
November 27, 1977 |
2 |
| David is still on the run from Jack McGee and the authorities with everyone believing that he was killed along with Elaina. Still trying to find a cure, David accidentally finds himself in the middle of a plot to kill a young, crippled girl. He manages to save her life, and provide her with help so that she can walk again. |
| "Final Round" |
Kenneth Gilbert |
Kenneth Johnson |
March 10, 1978 |
3 |
| David finds his way into Delawre, and into the friendship of Henry "Rocky" Welsh, an aspiring boxer. David discovers that Henry, unknowingly, has been trafficking heroine for the boxing promoter. The promoter, to stay out of prison, arranges a deadly fight for Henry. David, caught trying to find evidence against the promoter, transforms into the Hulk and saves Henry. |
| "The Beast Within" |
Kenneth Gilbert |
Karen Harris & Jill Sherman |
March 17, 1978 |
4 |
| David begins working at a zoo where research is being conducted on animal aggression. David learns that a corrupt zoo official has been smuggling diamonds, within the animals, into the zoo. A young scientist is framed for the animal deaths, and David is locked in a cage with an aggressive gorilla. |
| "Of Guilt, Models and Murder" |
Larry Stewart |
James D. Parriott |
March 24, 1978 |
5 |
| After waking up, from a transformation, at the scene of a murdered model, David tries to piece together the events of the previous night. David is hired as an assistant to the model's employer, and he uses his new job to investigate the other models who may be linked to the murder. |
| "Terror in Times Square" |
Alan J. Levi |
William Schwartz |
March 31, 1978 |
6 |
| David begins working in a New York arcade, and quickly develops a friendship with the owner and his daughter. When the owner refuses to pay any further protection fees, the crime boss decides to make him pay. |
| "747" |
Sigmund Neufeld Jr. |
Thomas Szollosi & Richard Matheson |
April 4, 1978 |
7 |
| David boards a Boeing 747 plane to travel across the country in pursuit of a cure for his metamorphosis. The pilot and the flight attendant have planned the theft of a priceless Egyptian exhibit from the plane's cargo. After dealing with the pilot and flight attendant, David is forced to land the plane during one of his transformations into the Hulk. |
| "The Hulk Breaks Las Vegas" |
Larry Stewart |
Justin Edgerton |
April 21, 1978 |
8 |
| When an investigative reporter is injured by the mafia, for details about their illegal activities, David becomes his only chance at exposing them. David must deliver his evidence to Jack McGee, who is still tracking the Hulk's movements across the country. |
| "Never Give a Trucker An Even Break" |
Kenneth Gilbert |
Kenneth Johnson |
April 28, 1978 |
9 |
| A group of hijackers steal a semi-truck from a young woman's father, and she makes plans to steal it back. David becomes mixed up in her plans, and is forced to transform into the Hulk to save both their lives. |
| "Life and Death" |
James D. Parriot |
Jeffrey Hayden |
May 12, 1978 |
10 |
| While on his way to volunteer for a DNA experiment, David meets a young pregnant woman who is also hitchhiking. The two share a ride to the same town where the young woman explains her plans to give up her child for adoption. David learns the doctor involved in the illegal adoption, is the same one experimenting on him, and that he is stealing the babies for his own experiments. |
| "Earthquakes Happen" |
Harvey Laidman |
Jim Tisdale & Migdia Varela |
May 19, 1978 |
11 |
| A nuclear power plant contains powerful gamma radiation equipment, and David poses as a doctor to gain access to it. While experimenting with the machine, an earthquake occurs and massive cave-ins in the facility. With the reactor about to explode, David leads a group of survivors through the facility, before transforming into the Hulk and turning the cooling system on to cool the reactors. |
| "The Waterfront Story" |
Reza Badiyi |
Paul M. Belous & Robert Wolterstorff |
May 31, 1978 |
12 |
| Now in Texas, David is working as a bartender for a widower boss. It turns out that the widow's late husband was murdered, because someone wanted to take control of a dock worker's union. David manages to find the true murderer, but must still leave town to avoid being found by Jack McGee. |
| Title |
Director(s) |
Writer(s) |
Original Airdate |
Episode # |
| "Married" |
Kenneth Johnson |
Kenneth Johnson |
September 22, 1978 |
1 |
| David travels to Hawaii to meet a doctor who can help with his condition, but discovers she is in the terminal stages of a disease only he can cure. With the pair working in close proximity, love begins to bloom with tragic results. Feature length episode |
| "The Antowuk Horror" |
Sigmund Neufeld Jr. |
Nicholas Corea |
September 29, 1978 |
2 |
| After encountering the Hulk, the citizens of a struggling resort town invent their own "monster in the woods" as a tourist attraction, drawing the attention of Jack McGee and a merciless big game hunter. |
| "Ricky" |
Frank Orsatti |
Jaron Summers |
October 6, 1978 |
3 |
| David befriends a mentally challenged young man who is goaded into driving a defective car in a demolition derby. |
| "Rainbow's End" |
Kenneth Gilbert |
Karin Harris & Jill Sherman |
October 13, 1978 |
4 |
| David meets a native-American man whose medicinal herb brew helped calm troubled race horse Rainbow's End in the hope it can help him, but somebody doesn't want the horse to race. |
| "A Child in Need" |
James D. Parriott |
Frank Dandridge |
October 20, 1978 |
5 |
| Working as a groundsman at a elementary school, David takes matters into his own hands to help a young boy who he suspects of being abused by his father. |
| "Another Path" |
Joseph Pevney |
Nicholas Corea |
October 27, 1978 |
6 |
| David meets a blind Chinese philosopher called Li Sung who may be able to help him control the creature, but encounters problems with a former student and friend of Li Sung who has perverted the old man's teachings. |
| "Alice in Disco Land" |
Sigmund Neufeld Jr. |
Karen Harris & Jill Sherman |
November 3, 1978 |
7 |
| David gets a job at a disco and meets a young dancer who is under the influence of alcohol. |
| "Killer Instinct" |
Ray Danton |
William M. Whitehead & Joel Don Humphreys |
November 10, 1978 |
8 |
| David becomes an assistant to a football trainer with success in curbing agression and must help a football player with a violent past. |
| "Stop the Presses" |
Jeffrey Hayden |
Karen Harris & Jill Sherman |
November 24, 1978 |
9 |
| While helping out at an Italian restaurant David discovers that his photograph has been taken and that it is going to be printed in the newspaper. This catches the attention of Jack McGee who is prepared to hunt the Hulk down. |
| "Escape from Los Santos" |
Chuck Bowman |
Bruce Kalish & Philip John Taylor |
December 1, 1978 |
10 |
| David and a woman are wrongly convicted of the murder of the woman's crime-fighting husband by a corrupt Sheriff. |
| "Wildfire" |
Frank Orsatti |
Brian Rehak |
January 1, 1979 |
11 |
| The oil rig which David is working on is set ablaze by a saboteur. |
| "A Solitary Place" |
Jeffrey Hayden |
Jim Tisdale & Migdia Varela |
January 24, 1979 |
12 |
| Hoping to avoid situations which leads to his transformation into the Hulk. David isolates himself in a remote forest, and begins to live there temporarily. But his peaceful camping site is disturbed by the arrival of a female fugitive who was wrongly convicted of letting one of her patients die. |
| "Like a Brother" |
Reza Badiyi |
Richard Matheson & Thomas E. Szollosi |
January 31, 1979 |
13 |
| While working at a car wash in a black neighborhood, David befriends the younger brother of co-worker who is being exploited by a drug lord. |
| "The Haunted" |
John McPherson |
Andrew Schneider |
February 7, 1979 |
14 |
| David helps a woman renovate her family's old house. But strange events start to occur. |
| "Mystery Man, Part I" |
Frank Orsatti |
Nicholas Corea |
March 2, 1979 |
15 |
| Caught in a car accident which badly injures his face and causes amnesia, a bandaged David is befriended by Jack McGee, who's unaware of "John Doe's" real identity. |
| "Mystery Man, Part II" |
Frank Orsatti |
Nicholas Corea |
March 9, 1979 |
16 |
| With a slowly recovering David and Jack McGee surviving a plan crash, the pair are then forced to flee a forest fire. |
| "The Disciple" |
Reza Badiyi |
Nicholas Corea & James G. Hirsch |
March 16, 1979 |
17 |
| David revisits Li Sung in San Francisco and must help his star pupil, a young police officer out for revenge after his father has been killed by a criminal. |
| "No Escape" |
Jeffrey Hayden |
Ben Masselink |
March 30, 1979 |
18 |
| After being arrested for vagrancy, David encounters a mentally ill man who believe himself to be Ernest Hemingway. After accidentally freeing the man as the Hulk, David races to save him from hurting himself and others. |
| "Kindred Spirits" |
Joseph Pevney |
Karen Harris & Jill Sherman |
April 6, 1979 |
19 |
| David meets an old student working on an archaeological dig on a Native-American reservation which has found evidence of a previous Hulk-like creature. |
| "The Confession" |
Barry Crane |
Deborah Davis |
May 4, 1979 |
20 |
| Jack McGee is unwillingly saddled with a inexperienced junior reporter, who discovers and writes a story about a small, timid man claiming to be the Hulk. |
| "The Quiet Room" |
Reza Badiyi |
Karen Harris & Jill Sherman |
May 11, 1979 |
21 |
| After discovering a doctor at hospital he's working is performing experiments on the patients, David is falsely locked up by him as insane. |
| "Vendetta Road" |
John McPherson |
Justin Edgerton & Michael McGreevey |
May 25, 1979 |
22 |
| David encounters a "Bonnie and Clyde"-style couple enacting a explosive vendetta against a gas company. |
