Dr. Bruce Banner Tries To Experiment On Himself | The Incredible Hulk 

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Best Ever

For real.

And Bill Bixby will ALWAYS be Dr David Banner

@@heatherratliff1813 Thank you. Didn't put that but you are right. Mr. Bixby was the perfect actor for that role. Mild-mannered, peaceful pacifist who wanted nothing more than to stay calm.

Oh yeah you got that right he even looked like him

For always

Facts

And Lou Ferrigno will always be the best choice to play the Hulk.

R.I.P. BILL BIXBY AND TED CASSIDY (NARRATOR AND VOICE OF THE HULK)

Yes I felt like I was watching Godzilla emerge from the shadows of the smoke but in this case is rain and hulk. This scene was badass.

I definitely Agree

The perfect character establishing intro shot.

Yes great catch! It added to the Hulk rage. Matched it perfectly

I have a marvel A2 size hulk comic from the 70s with the cover depicting that scene. Not sure what was first I’ll have to the date on it but it was just as awesome especially at that size

This wasn't a low budget show

@@eq1373 correct, during it's heyday the series was the most expensive too produce. Most shows of the time like Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century used stock footage in their battles. With the hulk, the special effects and the makeups used on Bixby and Ferrigno were costly. So they would usually go overbudget, it hurt them alot because they couldn't afford big name stars like Carry Grant, Elizabeth Montgomery, both big fans of the show. I could of seen Montgomery as Elaina Marks in the pilot. Or as Doctor Caroline Fields in the 2 hour, second season premiere, Married. Both she and Bixby were on the same game shows of the 70s. So they had great chemistry together.

This wasn't a low budget show clown

@@TheVoid24 the money they spent on the Promethius episode must have been enormous

@@jamesbrice6619 yeah idk I wasn't there lol

Its not cgi it lou he plays hulk

@@gillianwilson7469 and Lou Ferrigno actually flipped that car under his own strength; no cables involved 😱

@@sirmojo4537 yes of course he did he was a body builder

@@sirmojo4537 the machine that was supposed to give him the assist broke, so Lou did it himself.

Lol...same here. I was 7 years old too. I remember talking about this show the next day at school with some other kids who saw it too for the first time. Ahhh...the 70's. Good times.

My son was 3 and we had prepared all week for this. When the Hulk finally appeared my son was terrified and ran out of the room. Prepared another week to get him to watch week 2. When my granddaughter, 3, gets mad she pounds on the sofa and says "Hulk smash!" We still love her when she's angry.

I was also 7 years old!

I was 9-years old at the time when this came on.

I also was 7 when this awesome movie premiered. 1977 was a great year to be a kid. I got to see Star Wars for my 7th birthday, just six months earlier. 🙂

Time fly’s

At the end when the Hulu saved Elaina she died in the Hulk"s arms!

49 and still loving it.

@@scottdahlberg4890 I'm almost 56 and still loving it. I've got seasons 3-5 on DVD; need to get myself seasons 1-2.

SAME!

Man, I love it too. I watch it all the time

I was born in 2002 so I was around 6 when I first watched the pilot, and my god I couldn’t sleep for a week the Hulks growling terrified me as a kid to the point I’d hide under my covers and refused to leave my room until my parents turned it off. About 10 years later I watched it again and I was absolutely obsessed with it I binged all 5 seasons and to this day I still think this is by bar the best Hulk ever put to screen. Something about the Avengers hulk seems to supernatural and otherworldly but Lou’s hulk seemed more human and down to earth but still incredibly powerful and scary when he was on screen.

Dude I’m 21. And I remember watching this show with my mom who introduced this to me! I remembered being terrified and excited when I saw the pilot episode! I’m glad I’m not the only young person who loves this series!

It’s actually David Banner, in this series

@@tl7091dty I know that, technically the same just a mild name change.

I love the fact that David sensed that something was wrong within him but proceeded to change the tire.

@@3912James The music, the special effects--it just revels in primal rage!

I!Agree With All Of You About This One!

@@3912James How do you know?

@@kevinmiller6380 Look at his facial expression at the start of the transformation and how he looked spaced out before he remembered that he had to remove the flat tire. He even admitted that something was happening to his soon to be wife Carolyn in Part 1 of Married.

The machine that was supposed to give Lou Ferrigno the assist in flipping over the car had broke, so Lou did it by himself.

@@BrotherDerrick3X Holy f**k.

FACT!!!!

@@perryegolson833 Lou was a world's strongest man competitor He also lifted a transmission in another episode by himself

same here

At 7:50 I’m thinking “sh*t’s about to hit the fan”

Rich Tannis-Yeah, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, with Fredric March as Jekyll.

Who hasn't wanted to beat the crap out of at least one of their cars? I probably screamed like the Hulk at a few cars even.

If you were to see the scene after this one where he encounters the little girl at the lake, it's literally taken from the 1931 Frankenstein movie (both were distributed by Universal, so this was not a coincidence). However, in that movie, the monster actually throws the little girl into the lake. In this scenario, the little girl is frightened of the Hulk, tries to row away from him but panics and falls into the lake. The Hulk tries to save her by pushing a huge tree into the lake. By the way, in one shot that has the Hulk looking up the tree, the overhead shot of the Hulk is actually Richard Kiel, the original actor who was supposed to play the character. So, even in this very early encounter, the Hulk is already showing the side of his compassion and concern, especially when it comes to little children.

"Monster movie" is right.

100%

This one is more realistic.

YOU'RE SPOT ON ABOUT THE MUSIC SCORE, PARTICULARLY WHEN DAVID IS EXPERIMENTING ON HIMSELF IN THE LAB. (0:00-3:48)

I know that's right as a grade schooler back then

Oh man, me too. I still love this show so much.

What are you, the narrator? 😏

@@mrwoods22 No, just a fan of the show. 🤣

@@ScreenBlaster13 my favorite all time show!😁

@@mrwoods22 Lol! That was funny, man!

Banner and Dr Marks we're interviewing people who had experienced unexplained phenomena of excessive strength during times of stress. Banner later learned that with each of these incidents, there was high levels of gamma radiation present. However, on the day of the car accident with his wife, there was low gamma activity. This is what led to his experimenting on himself by taking a gamma injection. When he went into the gamma lab, his original intent was to only take an injection of 300,000 units. But the machine wasn't calibrated properly, and he ended up taking an injection of 2 million units. It was this overdose that led to his metamorphosis

and the music of Joe Harnell, don't forget that!

So was Banner, LMBO

Same here

@Omar T Uh-huh!!

Me too I definitely agree with you and your comments too I'm with you all the way

Mine too

Along with Werewolf tv series (1987) starring John J. York.

I never owned a car but as a kid I always imagined being angry and turning into the hulk and destroying the car 😂

Yup, especially when you are trying to take off a rusted bolt and it breaks. This scene is what I am thinking about every single time.

I think the idea of roadside assistance was thought about after ppl saw dis episode and it became pretty clear we all could use the Hulk or at least someone to help out when a stupid car breaks down in the middle of a road during a lightning storm! Brilliant! 😅😃☺

I always wanted to do this to my 2007 Pontiac G6 years ago! It was a royal pain in da ass that car! 😅🤣😝

Whenever i scrapped my knuckles changing a puncture. ..i know how he felt

And he will die.

@@jrewing1512 Actually, Bill Bixby was planning to do another movie called, The Rebirth Of The Incredible Hulk.

​@@generalshockwavekingpin326oh yeah that's funny someone told me after the Death of the incredible Hulk that he was gonna come back again.

My mom introduced me this show when it use to be on Netflix. We would watch an episode every weekend. I’m 21 years old and I love this show so much!

The show always took itself seriously and not tongue in cheek. The few shows where they brought in another "creature" (remember Thor?) were fun but nearly as dramatic and therefore moving.

@@1950Grendel I remember the episode with the “other Hulk”. I believe it was a two parter and involved an older man who had the same affliction. His personality was decidedly darker than Banner, thus his Hulk was a lot more savage and deadly. The man actually enjoyed it! I remember how disturbing that creature was…more realistic than an Abomination from the comic book.

@@scottmoore1614 dell Frye

@@scottmoore1614 imagine if they did show abomination

@@foamfan7593 It would have been cool if Abomination had been a true “abomination”…more like something out of a horror film.

A marvellous story! And I'll bet your brother still remembers that to this day, hahaha! Thank you for sharing this.

Also, don’t try to change a tire during an electrical storm

@@kgrkid I know right Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. LOL HAHAHAHA

@SSJ4GAWD Hell yeah! haven't u?

You shouldn't need the show to know not to do it. Dr. Banner and every other scientist out there would do well to heed the warning in the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story!

If I could get it to do what it did to Banner I would soak it up as much as I could LOLOLOL

agree

I remember that episode. And the fact that he was actually scared to the point of panic. Remember it's extreme emotions that trigger the transformation. Whether it be anger or fear or extreme sadness. There was a time where he went up against another guy who was an evil version of the hulk. And he had the antidote to his cure. And he destroyed it so that way nobody can get it including Dr banner. David was filled with extreme rage and sadness at the same time because he felt his only hope was gone and that's when he transformed and battled that evil version of the hulk. Look it up sometime.

Hey just to let ya know if you want to see the whole series again they have it out on d.v.d. I should know I have the entire box set of all 4 seasons of the show and I also agree it was great seeing again I grew up watching this show back in the 80's watching Dr. Banner try to find a cure for what was happening to him and always trying to stay out of trouble though sadly trouble always had a habit of finding him though with that huge bounty Magee put on him didn't help matters as I remember in one episode this guy who was like a big game hunter or a mercenary wanted to kill the Hulk for over a million dollars.

Yeah!Kids Young And Old!Haha!

This and the first with old man hulk were the best episodes of series

It still gets me and I still love it

7 feet

Me too

Loved as as a kid and love it as an adult

Love "The Death Of The Incredible Hulk" quote.

If anybody's interested, they have 2 of his Hulk movies on the Tubi app for free. The Trial Of The Incredible Hulk and The Return Of The Incredible Hulk.

@@wiglafsfilms8418 ohhh i have that DVD And have owned it for nearly 20 years now. My grandpa bought it for me at a pawnshop back then. I would watch them over and over late at night. Damn there was some good memories back then

@Diana Barry Prometheus.

Were you kind of hoping the dentist secretly zapped you?

It should have been Dr David banner that's who the show is about

She passed the hell out

In later episodes he did hulk out while driving, or just not enough change for the pay phone. That first time though...like the first time for everything...have to break through that ceiling. Not knowing what is coming just keep building and building then suddenly crossing that point of no return...and a sudden rush of raw power and strength and endorphins

What you're saying makes sense but his anger level needed a snapping point. He was frustrated and disappointed bordering on anger all the way up to the change but he was consumed with trying to figure out why it didn't work up until the tire. That was the last straw.

He was angry...but he needed the emotional commitment (attempting and failing to change the tire) in order to change into the Hulk (remember the people David and Elaina studied? Each of them demonstrated untapped strength - aided by gamma ray sunspots - as a result of getting extremely angry over the possibility of failing the task at hand - saving a boy from a burning car, knocking down a thick door, carrying a wounded soldier to a place of safety despite nursing an injury/injuries).

We all know it was low Gamma activity the day his wife was killed in the car accident but man can anyone imagine what would of happened if the gamma activity of the sun was high I mean really high like higher than what David had discovered with all those people he interviewed and he hulked out right there trying to get his wife out of that car man that would have been nuts you know what I mean.

@@scotsmith2391 Remember the episode '747' where he was onboard an airplane and he hulked out twice the first time in the cargo hold and the second time sitting in the pilots seat trying to land the plane without knowing the planes hydraulic lines were severed earlier which is why he was having trouble with the control stick and he hulked out right there and a kid he met before came in and saw the Hulk sitting in the chair and the kid had to help the Hulk land the plane now that was an interesting situation David found himself in and I remember one funny situation David found himself in was in one episode where I think he was a cab driver or something and he had a passenger who was pregnant and suddenly went into labor and he tried to get the gas stations attendant's attention but the guy ignored him and closed a door on David's hand if I remember that part correctly and David hulked out right there and the Hulk got the guy and dragged him out to the car and another one that was really funny was when David got involved in a black market for babies and he hulked out and saved both a woman and her baby that David met and became friends with earlier and what was really funny about that one was the Hulk picked up the baby and looked at it and actually grinned at how cute the baby was now that was funny seeing the Hulk smile.

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Bixby refused to do the show if it couldn’t be done as realistically as possible. He fought very very hard to make the show as adult oriented because he knew that if they captured the children and the adults they’d strike gold. He also wanted to legitimize television and comic books and he couldn’t do that if they went cheap or corny on the hulk.

Will, you took the words right out of my mouth. I was and am still mesmerized when I watch this. Seeing him bend that tire iron and then flipping the car is just so truly incredible. I love seeing it over and over

CGI would make it worse, CGI has no organic qualities or power

it's a Classic because it has no CGI effects!!

@@alfulci6914 Unfortunately, as great as Lou Ferrigno is, he's no longer credible as the Hulk when playing him physically. CGI is the only way to do the Hulk justice.

@@filthycasual8187 unless if they can find another individual in today's age who's just as built like Lou was in his prime.

The cgi is b.s.. This works without any modern day technology. We grew up on this and still love it and definitely appreciate it the way it is.