Incredible Hulk Complete Series Blu-ray Review 

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The audio commentaries by Kenny Johnson are fantastic. He really comes fully prepared and gives you a ton of behind the scenes stories and production info. A great listen all around!

My Dad always talks about how, back when he was in college, he loved watching this show with his friends and he recently talked about how he would love to watch it again. I'm gonna get him this set for Christmas!

The Incredible Hulk is my number one all time favorite TV series for life. While I have other favorite shows, none will ever top the Hulk as my number one. Bill Bixby was my childhood idol and hero, who sadly, I never got to meet. But I have had the honor of meeting Lou Ferrigno quite a few times over the years. I loved watching the Hulk on Friday nights as a kid, and that must have stayed with me, because even today, while I have the complete series on DVD, plus the reunion movies, and even though I can watch them anytime I want, I still like to save them and watch my Incredible Hulk TV series DVDs on Friday nights. I even remember my first episode. It was late in the short first season in the spring of 1978. It was the episode Never Give a Trucker An Even Break. It guest starred Jennifer Darling from the Bionic Shows and it was a controversial episode because it used stock footage from the 1971 thriller movie, Duel. And even though it pissed off Steven Spielberg, that episode made me a fan of the Duel movie itself. My first Hulkout was in the phone booth and David Banner yelled "I DON'T HAVE TWENTY FIVE CENTS!". I am a lifelong Hulkaholic. 👍👍😃😃

That 2 hour pilot is incredible…no pun intended 😉 Love this show. weird question, Heath. Do you work for Kino Lorber? You seem to get everything they release haha!

Kenneth Johnson, the Executive Producer and creator of the tv series has said his inspiration for the show was Les Miserables, with Dr. Banner being pursued by newspaper reporter Jack MacGee , being the show's counterparts to Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert. The man on the run being hounded by officialdom type of story is a theme that recurs in popular culture such as the immensely popular 1960's tv show, The Fugitive and The Invaders.

Agreed, Universal looks good even on DVD when played back through the 4K player.

Sweet! Really appreciate you doing the review on this, going to pick it up asap, definitely will use your link. Haven't watched the series in a while but caught the first pilot movie about a decade ago and was amazed at how well it held up, just a great all around movie.

I remember watching Lou furigno get interviewed by mr.Rogers

My guess about the Edward Norton exclusion is that the movie is obviously not being promoted anymore even though it was made by Universal. Those DVD’s were probably coming out around the time that the 2008 movie came out.

Missed opportunity that it doesn't come in a ripped denim slipcase.

Didn't even know this was on Blu ray. Despite being a 90s kid I grew up with this through reruns and it's very nostalgic. I've never met anyone else who enjoyed it though, sadly.

Thanks for this amazing review. My order of it should arrive today. I’ll pay extra attention to the Season 1 discs because of your heads up on the stacking.

I grew up on this show as well and am stoked to see this come out. I have the DVDs and was eyeing off that nice French Blu ray set with the book but it was expensive and of course the book is in French so I never pulled the trigger. But I don't need to worry about it now as I can get this to add to my Night Stalker, Night Gallery and I Dream of Jeannie nostalgia fests! Who says physical media is dead!

Yes I always felt sorry for him at the end of a story..

The TV show has more then a passing resemblance to The Fugitive.

Iv always been disappointed that the show was cancelled so suddenly that it never got a proper ending with McGee finding out that Banner was alive and Banner being cured.

This TV Series was a really great show. Kenneth Johnson wanted to create a different version of the Hulk, as he really didn't like the comic book version, and he wanted to create a more serious version of Banner and the Hulk, he told Stan Lee, that the Hulk shouldn't talk in my show, and Stan agreed, because he also thought it would look and sound silly with the seriousness tone of the show. I think that he did it good, and I like it better than the movies later on in the 2000s.

it would be great to have a blu ray release of the reunion movies

Thanks for reviewing this. Classic tv series, my favorite version of the character.

Magnum PI is the one I want on Blu ray out of all my childhood favorites but they are so darn expensive. Maybe rightfully so but I really think the only people who can afford to drop £80 (that's British pounds) on a series is probably someone single with lots of expendable income. I'm married with two kids and if I told my wife I'd paid £80 for a picture upgrade on a show I already have on DVD she would hit the roof. So nice picture quality or not, I choose to pay the mortgage this month!

Hi Heath. Great showcase and overview of this set. One of my favorite shows growing up and now on my wishlist. Hope you and your family have a Happy Thanksgiving!

just ordered mine. thanks

Love the Incredible Hulk.................

I remember my dad tivoing episodes of this when I was a little kid and I went crazy for this. Definitely gonna pick this up now.

Another TV iconic show is Wonder Woman on Blu-ray. That is a great improvement over the DVD releases.

The only thing that is missing is Bill Bixby's Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which is still a mystery to this day.

My all time favorite TV show! PS: For future reference, Heath will be filing his Hulk series in section H of his collection, located under the Apple tree in his front yard. 😂

In Australia i did not have a colour TV in 1978 I watched this weekly on a Astor 25 inch TV black and white it looked great on a big TV 25 inch was big in 1978

Wow, fantastic review! I want to buy this series as well as the TV movies. Prefer this over the MCU Hulk. Hoping to buy The Magician as well, love Bill and Lou.

Awesome review. 😎

Fantastic 😍 well done 👍🏾.

I have this set on blu ray as well , one thing I hadn't noticed until your review its says 2 feature movies , But in fact there is and it is included , 3 films last being Married aka (bride of the incredible hulk) second season opener. I love my this version , they did a nice job cleaning up the picture. I do wish the blu ray had new extras , I was a little disappointed other then that it was well worth the cost , good review , I too recommend it

Got it the first week it was out good pickup 👌

Nice video man 😎!

Just wondering - Does this set have the same number of discs as the Fabulous Films set (reg B)?

Loved the series when I was a kid, although was at such a young age I basically only watched for the Hulk segments. Looking forward to re-watching it and appreciating the other aspects, even if it is basically The Fugitive in another form (not a bad thing). Pity they didn't do the cases green like some of the Hulk animated movies, but still a great set to pick up.

Surprised you think the body building stuff hasn't aged well. Ferrigno was massive and his height was 6ft 5 which I think was a decent height over the average guy.

I Prefer this version of the Hulk to the movies, I want this boxset!!

My season 1 blu ray is even more strange because it has 4 trays, even though it has only 3 discs.

I'm in the middle of watching my complete series DVD boxset of this right now, and honestly, it looks great. I'm watching them on a blu-ray player that has 4K upscale, and a 4K TV (which I believe also upscales DVDs to 1080p, but I might be wrong about that). So maybe that's why. But since Universal didn't actually go back and do a new scan of these and just put them on blu-ray discs, I'm really on the fence as to whether or not this would be worth the purchase for me.

I already have two copies of the series and all the movies, DVD, and digital on my MacBook. I'm ok w/o Blu-ray, but thanks for the review!

Great video! You mentioned selling your old dvds to finance the blu rays. I’m thinking of doing the same. Do you sell your old media on eBay/ Craigslist yourself? Or do you just trade them in to a local shop?

Currently available on the market are the German edition (the oldest perhaps), the UK edition, the French edition and the American one. Which is the best?

Good review, I agree with everything you said, and the Blu-ray set has a prominent place on my shelf. As you can gather from my username and avatar, I'm a big fan of this series, and I really looked up to David Banner as a surrogate father figure. Shame it was cancelled prematurely, though I have a head canon story that brought proper closure to the unresolved plot and fate of Banner. The reunion movies were largely disappointing and misguided to be honest.

One of the best shows ever!

dose anyone know if "Married " is broken down parts 1 of 2 or sae 90 minutes please let me know

How does the picture quality compare to the Fabulous box set which was a little dark

I usually replace the case if I pick this up I might grab a new case that's better for the first season

The Ed Norton Incredible Hulk movie was not Disney, it was Universal, Disney did not own the character yet. Disney still has yet to make a solo Hulk movie. Stay tuned, I am sure Disney will make a solo Hulk film eventually, I think they are in the early planning stages of one.

That show is so cheesy but it is still my favorite 70s television series. My favorite spoken line from the series was when a black dude at the car wash sees the Hulk and says, "Now thats what I call a colored man".

I hate it when DVDs gets stacked, or the type that has their own tray, but still overlap with another disc.

Great review, is it pillar boxed or full screen?

The Edward Norton Hulk movie is actually Universal, not Disney.

Do you happen to know if these transfers are the same ones that are on the elephant import set?

The uk dvd set had booklets in them. The bluray I'd not with the episode titles in the sleeves. Shame that

Do you own or have you reviewed the Elephant Films release of the Blu Ray of this series?

Love the show. I have the blu ray set but maybe it’s just mine but the pilot on disc 1 of season 1 has audio sync issues when hearing the audio commentary. It’s severely delayed. I don’t know how to contact Universal for a replacement or if this is something going on with all copies of this set.

Paused at 0:47 Having the BEAUTIFUL DVD set, and the movies already on DVD... Heath will need to do some convincing to upgrade. Take it away, Heath! 0:48

This is the only Incredible Hulk I like I did not like to follow up movies and I don't like the movies in the 2000's.

The Edward Norton movie was a Marvel production but distributed by Universal so kind of a Disney movie but that bonus feature would be promoting something Universal owns

I just purchased a brand new, still sealed set of this on Ebay. Would you believe that disc 3 (in my set, disc 3 was on top of disc 2, on the hub, instead of vice-versa) has multiple scratches on it, just like you touched upon as being a possibility. I watched the blu-ray in its entirety, expecting it to freeze up or skip... but miraculously, it played without issue. Even though a scratched disc DOES bother me, the important thing is that it plays okay. I mean, to try to return it for a replacement set, I'd run the risk of having the same thing happen again. In your experience, if a blu-ray has scratches, yet somehow, its playback is unaffected, does that mean the disc will probably be okay for the long haul... or will it likely start freezing up at some point, in the future? It's too bad that, for multiple disc sets like this, it's not possible to purchase individual blu-rays to replace whichever one(s) are defective. Oh, well. I'll just be thankful that in my case, the blemish is merely cosmetic and not dysfunctional. (I was under the impression that IF a blu-ray did manage to get scratched, it would almost assuredly render it unwatchable?) 💿

Is this an all new remaster by Universal or the same blu ray version that was released in Europe a few years ago?

I bought that blu ray boxset a couple of yrs ago 😂

Not sure Disney has the Norton film, it's actually not included on Disney+

You rather have stack discs or sliding discs from digi-book?

Too be honest going from the DVDs to this blu-Ray set is not a huge upgrade. I’m sorry. I did a comparison. Look to Time-Life’s release of The Six Million Dollar Man complete DVD set (those were remastered apparently) to the newly released Shout blu-ray set, and it IS night and day. The T-L DVD release from 2010 look like VHS transfers. I kid you not. Either way, if one is truly an Incredible Hulk fan they’ll probably want to pick this up. I just wished these looked noticeable better.

I have the dvd box set but do you think the Blu-ray is better quality?

I need this set in my collection. Might have to wait till after Xmas though... Everyone save me a copy!! :P

I'm getting this for my dad because we used to watch it on streaming and it's been hard to find! So I just wanted this set that I will never loose. I was wondering, how is the video quality? I've heard it can be really dark at scenes, is this true?

I understand the first season has 4 discs, not 3 discs, in the original DVD sets. Why then, go to 3 discs on this Blu-ray set?

But "the Incredible Hulk" isn't a Disney movie. Unlike Iron Man 1, 2, Captain America, Thor, and Avengers Assemble which Disney got from Paramount, Universal still owns the Hulk film. But with that film not leading anywhere for them I can see them not wanting to bring it up. Although they won't let Disney have the streaming rights to it, so they still care about it in some way.

The Incredible Hulk movie (with Norton) as released by Universal wasn't it? i.e. rather than it being a Disney movie.

please verify if " married "" is finally broken down as parts 1 and two or same 90 minutes before loosing contact with kenith by email I made my complaint about that

I know the final movies (the ones not in the set) better than the show, but I liked that too. Will have to put this on the wish list.

Actually, Lou Ferrigno is not average height at all. He's 6'5" The reason that he looks small is the fault of the cinematographer. It's a problem that I even noticed as a kid. Lou Ferrigno is a huge guy but somehow they always managed to minimize his size on camera.

No French audio, sadly. The voices of the childhood are gone...

10:25 He's not much taller? I guess everyone else on set was 6'5".

This set is garbage compared to the French Elephant Films release