Thanks for adding that . As a young boy sat on the setee with me mum we both cried at the end of every episode . Sad at the time , now one of the most wonderful childhood memories I have !
@@richardwaddington2038 glad to help. It would make the Hulk himself cry if he ever heard it. Not the MCU pansy variant of the Hulk, the real Hulk off the books pages, the one who becomes Maestro, he would ball his eyes out.
I'm from Indonesia and i grew up watching this show. I can still remember everytime the show ends He always end up walking alone on the highway waiting for someone to pick him up for another great adventure with sad theme song
You're absolutely right about that. I was 7 years old and it was my favorite TV show. When that piano music started I almost came to tears because that music was so hauntingly sad and of course it meant the show was over. Until next week. 😁
I go to this little convention here in Florida it always happens in the month of February is called pensacon and almost every year Lou ferrigno is there I say hi to him all the time what a nice guy he is that all the way my fellow brother in Christ that's what he is I love Lou ferrigno
Bill and Lou, the very BEST version of Banner and the Hulk. And when the credits rolled, you didn't stick around for another scene, you stuck around to hear the music and see "David" walk off to another place with sympathy for what he was going through.
The Death of The Incredible Hulk broke me as a kid. I was in tears and unconsolable. Even now I get misty eyed at that scene and have a hard time watching it, due in part to how much the series and movies helped me to learn how to do the right thing even if you are treated unkindly. Being misunderstood just because you look different and can seem scary until you get to know someone. Thanks guys for bringing these movies back into the conversation.
I was already 20 years old when this came out. I thought it was a great end to a great character. I was hoping that a son of the Hulk series would come from it.
Honestly, if not for the budget or it not getting off the ground, I would adore to see what they could've done with the comic daredevil outfit or the yellow suit!
I still think the transformation scene from the Incredible hulk show is better than the new movie stuff. When bill bixby's eyes would glow green it was the best , you knew what was about to happen .
Here I am crying like a baby over someone I never met, only ever saw on TV, and who's been gone for thirty years. Thank you, Bill. You brought me joy almost every week of my life for a long time. If you hadn't done what you did, my childhood wouldn't have been as fun. Getting to see the Hulk rough up some jerk who had it coming was a wonderful source of catharsis for me. And I was very happy to see the TV movies. They were great. BTW this video forgot to mention that Stan Lee had his very first cameo in The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, where he was a member of the jury!
Only, his name was never David, nor is it even Bruce! But the character actual name is Dr. Robert Bruce Banner! I hope one day they actually bring out that fact!
The Donald Blake character was true to comics at the time...granted he and Thor inhabited the same body & swapped back & forth, but the character did exist.
Didn't Thor give up on the Don Blake persona by 1988? His "civilian identity" was construction worker Sigurd Jarlson: Thor with glasses and a ponytail.
umm....no. the live action don blake was a MESS. while the character was indeed in the comics, the tv depiction was WAY off base. for one thing, Blake WAS thor..they were not two different people. it was all part of the curse Odin lay on him to teach thor humility. originally, if he let go of his hammer for more than 60 seconds, he would turn back into his mortal persona. he never got to summon himself like he was a Pokemon.
So crazy the Banner and Black Widowship really began in the (Edit: ) 90's MCU. Maybe the avengers one was a nod to that because no one was expecting that one.
I fell in love with the Incredible Hulk when I was 12 (34 years ago), after I'd already loved Marvel from "Spider-man and His Amazing Friends" and my brother's comic book collection. I've watched the series over and over and often come back. I guess it's no surprise that I met all live-action Spider-man movies with bated breath and that I've been an MCU fanatic from day one. At my husband's household, comics were banned. At mine, they were life, so I dragged him and my teenage son along into the MCU. When he was itty bitty, my boy was so excited to meet Lou Ferrigno at a comic con. Though Charlie Cox IS and ever will be Daredevil to me, I still love revisiting this version of Daredevil. This video was awesome. I'm so happy to know that Bix was as great as he seemed in the show.
Awesome! We are right near the same age obviously from the shows you mentioned. I'm so rooted in my Marvel obsession from back then that I remember watching Spider-Man short clips on the Electric Company(PBS) Those shows are a great childhood memory for me
Wow! The pure nostalgia with all of this. And so much I didn't know living in that era. This was a well done video that highlights the ups and downs of the television/movie mechanics and what people have to endure. But, it also shows the passion and ferocity that if people want to truly get something done, it's possible to happen. And the opposition that can extinguish any and all due to this being a business in the end. Alas, rest in peace Bill Bixby. We knew then how great you were. We are extremely thankful. And you will never be forgotten.
@@johnsterizer lou is supposed to play his universe hulk at some point I think mixed with prosthetics and CGI , but hopefully rex and Eric come back as variants too
Daredevil would've been a great show for that period of episodic television. You'd have Matlock-type courtroom drama and Kung Fu-like (the David Carradine show) fight scenes for the superhero stuff. Nice episodic villain of the week type deal, would've been so quaintly awesome.
Well said! Vincent D'Onofrio absolutely kills it as Kingpin, but I'm now going to have to look up Rhys-Davies' version. Seeing Gimli as Kingpin should be a... cross-dimensional experience.
Man, The Hulk was my favorite hero when I was a kid and I absolutely loved this show. When The Death of The Hulk ran I absolutely cried myself to sleep that night. It was like losing 2 friends at the same time between the power and character of Lou Ferrigno and the heart and soul of Bill Bixby
I love telling young people "Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry." Most don't get it and it just makes it funnier when they don't.
It will always be the hulk in my eyes, theyve never managed to get it right since! Too much CGI shit not enough practicality to the hulk they just wanna keep making him look bigger and madder (or turn him into a one shot by thanos simp) Id have loved to have seen lou as hulk again
@@OdinSmilesRavensLaugh72051 really theirs looks way more monstrous, not that crappy and dusty ass 80's looking plastic model. That motherfucker look scary to you? LMAO bro can't even jump long distances, throw boulders. Imagine if Thanos showed up in that show, he'd be dead.
I'm almost 50 years old and i still love all these old Marvel tv shows and tv movies so now when i watch this new Marvel Universe it's just my inner child saying WOW Marvel finally kept their universe expanding and intertwining together - awesome sauce 😍.
Time may have forgotten this proto-MCU, but I didn't. The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Daredevil, I remember it all, watching all the TV movies as they came out.
Just like The Fugitive the main character always did the morally right thing despite the consequences to himself. And Jack Magee was a real counterpart to Lt. Gerard from The Fugitive. Relentlessly pursuing the reluctant hero. I truly love both of those shows.
My favorite thing with the first Hulk team up movie was when I moved to LA and was working in the Spelling Building. It's mostly known on TV as being the setting for D&D Advertising. But while working there I realized it was also the building where David Banner's lab was. The first big Hulk/Thor throwdown was literally filmed in the lobby. Amazing.
Thank you so much for sharing. This was my MCU and although it was less comic accurate we had to take what we could get. If you watch those old movies and the Incredible Hulk series, you can see that they made an impact which influences the modern MCU. “Don’t make me angry! You won’t like me when I’m angry!” Was Bill Bixby’s iconic line that has made it into canon Hulk lore. It is amazing so I am so appreciative of this look back.
I was born in 1981. As a child I loved everything, “Comic”. This really takes me back to being a kid and watching these. Thanks for this upload. I’ll be beaming with nostalgia the rest of the day.
The Lonely Man... what a tune. I loved this series, the production values were at least as good as other shows of the time but the acting was just brilliant.
As I was watching No Way Home, I thought the only missed opportunity was having the 70's TV Spidey included. As the movie was ending, during that final scene in the donut shop, I thought the older patron in the background was going to be Nicholas Hammond. Alas....
I just watched The Trial of the Incredible Hulk with one of my friends before She-Hulk began. It holds up incredibly well, and it almost makes me want to go back and watch the entire series. And also really wish they had made that Daredevil show, it would've been sick. I hate that corporate shenanigans were what prevented it. Imagine if this universe kept going to this day and could be traced all the way back to the 70s.
Thanks for the memories. I think I watched every episode of The Incredible Hulk and Spiderman. I know I watched all the made for TV movies and the Death of the Incredible Hulk was the first movie that I remember crying to. Lou and Bill were perfect and I love that they got cameos in the Hulks later movies.
Well, 53-year-old me definitely lived through watching all those Marvel and Hulk shows, and I thoroughly enjoyed this program, thanks! It was nice to see recent interviews with all you actors from the shows too! (I was also a Street Hawk fan, Rex!)
How gutting for Stan and the actors to work so hard over several years to get this train rolling, only for faceless executives in a boardroom to kill it all off. Stan must have had balls of steel to keep coming back. Excelsior! Indeed.... only forward. Thanks for this insightful video - people need to know and appreciate the back story.
Eric Allan Kramer actually looks like, if the show was done today, he would have been able to bulk up very similarly to Chris Hemsworth. He could have been a good Thor if the character in the show was not so goofy/over the top cartoony.
Great documentary. I loved this show. What a wonderful tribute to a great series of shows with great people. This original universe undoubtedly played a role in creating the MCU.
The Netflix Marvel shows are the modern equivalent of these I'd say. These were a bit more lighthearted and family friendly however. People forget how successful the Incredible Hulk was: my dad had no interest in American comic book characters at all but he absolutely loved the show; that broad appeal (not least due to the excellent Bill Bixby) was the main reason for its great success. Something that is not lost on the movie makers today; you need to cater to the comic fans, yes, but they know that most of the money will be made from the hoards of movie fans who are not really comic fans. A tightrope walk they don't always get right.
That Hulk was already barely at Cap strength, so Thor seemed like a joke in most of that TV movie. I made an, the Death of the Hulk, was by falling from a helicopter. Of course it didn’t kill him, but that really disappointed me when I was a kid.
I was just re-watching Return the other day, and I still think that the network should've made a Thor show. Eric Allen Kramer was so amazing in the role, just as John Rhys-Davis was spot-on perfect as the Kingpin. It's a damn shame.
In the UK, the show was a massive ratings winner. I used to crush this show all the time. Never understood why they chose to change his name from "Bruce" to "David" (must be a copyright thing) but the show was wicked. Big respect to the late, great Bill Bixby as David Banner. Great documentary.
They called him David so he wouldn't be confused with Batman's Bruce Wayne. Too many Bruce's at the time I suppose despite the 11 year difference of Adam West and Bill Bixby on television.
It's crazy how daredevils black costume was pioneered in this film before Frank Miller wrote the comic. That's awesome
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"The Hulk" was the best TV show in his time and "The Lonely Man" was the perfect ending theme. Lou Ferrigno was (is) the perfect Hulk and Bill Bixby the perfect Banner. And this video is a gem!
It was a bit like the setup for Kung Fu, except it had a genius loner, who’d eventually get hurt very badly, the Hulk out to save the day, instead of teaching a lesson and using Kung Fu! 😆 Knight Rider was that guy, with endless resources and money, along with an AI super car. 😄
I remember these movies very well. The cheesiness of Thor, the amazing action of Daredevil, the scene chewing villainy of Kingpin. I was sorely disappointed that Daredevil wasn't put into production as a series. I also remember being very disappointed that Nicholas Hammond's Spider-Man didn't make an appearance in the movies. It was such a natural crossover possibility, even while the two shows were in production, yet it never came to pass. Fans WANTED crossovers. There were even talks about having a DC Justice League movie in the 80s starring Lynda Carter, Christopher Reeve, and Michael Keaton. The demand for it got particularly fierce in 1990 when John Wesley Shipp's Flash came to TV. But again, studio politics prevented it. Finally, some folks wised up and took a chance with a connected universe in 2008, and the rest is history. Everyone in all the studios and at Marvel who worked against or just failed to support such crossovers in the 70s, 80s, and 90s must be kicking themselves pretty hard after the MCU has taken in enough money to buy several small companies. Now, all we need is for some multiversal magic in the MCU to allow Lou Ferrigno to play Smart Hulk in a cameo. Lou's Smart Hulk next to Ruffalo's Smart Hulk would make for a great scene. And Lou wouldn't even need to wear a mocap suit!
@@NiggletFarm Amazing. Every word you just said was wrong. But with a screen name like that, you're obviously just a troll posting shit to rile people up from the safety of your mommy's basement.
@@NiggletFarm mumble mouth? Lou had a series of ear infections as a infant and had about 80% hearing loss. When you can't hear speech development is severely impeded.
I totally remember this era and was so psyched as a kid watching all this as I am an adult with the current shared universe. I'm sure Fiege is influenced by this era.
As a kid I absolutely LOVED those Hulk/Thor/Daredevil TV movies - I was so dashed when nothing ever came of them. And yes, Bill Bixby will be terribly missed. He was kind of a giant of 60s, 70s, and 80s Television.
Absolutely. Bixby was a godsent for the Incredible Hulk and really treated the whole thing with all the care and dedication it deserved. He even had an episode with hid Ex-wife which was bitter sweet (it was the episode with the Psychic woman who could see into the future). It must have been difficult for both but they really made this one of the best episodes.
This video is AWESOME. The interviews in particular were fantastic, and it was great to hear from the actors and screen writer, finally giving them some of their due. GREAT JOB.
"The Incredible Hulk" was appointment TV for my family. We all plopped down onto the couch every week to watch The Green One. And I had a young girl crush on Bill Bixby. 😊 (We also enjoyed Spider Man.)
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I used to love the 70's Hulk, Superman, Batman etc. Great childhood memories while going through a very rough growing up. Compared to the utter garbage we have to swallow now... I'm happy we have dvd's/bluray's and the likes to relive those great moments.
Idk what it is about Bill Bixby that made him so memorable and impactful, maybe his demeanor or just the way he looked and spoke but I think he was such an incredible actor
He had a youthful Dad-Like appeal coming off the earlier Eddie's Father hit show that made him a shoe in. Plus he was getting his ass kicked 2 times every show for sympathy factor. Bixby was about as good as TV actors were back then...if you could believe that. He maintained a projected intellect, not geeky, and still very 1970s masculinity. That along with really Great Hair, is why he was Great. Ya just like the guy.
A couple of pointless addendi: According to the Marvel Database, the Hulk series and thus this early “MCU” take place on Earth 400005. Also, I don’t think the arguable soul of the show, Jack Colvin as reporter Jack McGee, was mentioned in the video. McGee appeared in 53 of the show’s 82 episodes and his final appearance was in the “Return of…” movie wherein he also hoped to get the scoop on Thor - he would’ve been great as the main character if they had made a TV version of the “Marvels” comics miniseries. And in a reversal of the usual scenario, the TV character was recently revamped in the comics as reporter Jacqueline “Jackie” McGee by writer Al Ewing and artist Joe Bennett in the incredible 2018-2021 series “The Immortal Hulk”.
Bixby was always a class act, from start to his sad finish During the run of The Incredible Hulk there was an episode where Ray Walston guested and Bill rolled out the red carpet for him. Truly a classic TV show…. Don’t forget they reused that wonderful line from the original show in the first movie… Don’t make me angry…… If they can make a movie with multiple Spidermen, why not a movie with multiple Hulks?
wow, great video. LISTEN, I know, I know that Bixby's Hulk show wasn't the comics version BUT IT WAS STILL great and man, the stories were well written. And later, when they DID NEED action, they gave Hulk more power. Proof: the two parter story where they "captured" hulk and kept him inside a compound. But it didn't work. "McGee" the reporter was also spying and got into the secret compound and met the hulk. Bixby made Banner a great character developed person. Then there was Thor and other things TONGUE IN CHEECK but it WAS FUN!!
That Lou Ferrigno Hulk was more easy on the eyes than those cgi versions..in a perfect world we could hv gotten someone like Lou to play an actual Hulk. Still gutted a bit that Bruce became David. Wished Daredevil and Thor gets to be in a movie together with Hulk back then with these actors.
GREAT video, folks. Thank you for making and sharing this. The death (of you know who) sticks in my memory since I saw it those many years ago (music included). It was very sad. I consider myself lucky to have grown up with this first live-action MCU!
I grew up watching The Incredible Hulk show and remember every TV movie they had and to this day it's still my favorite Hulk ever. When Bill Bixby died in real life, I mean that hit me hard. I watched him in My Favorite Martian, Courtship of Eddie's Father and again, my favorite, The Incredible Hulk. He was a great actor and this was just a great show.
I would absolutely love to find some of these movies again and rewatch them. I actually enjoyed seeing the The Incredible Hulk with that Thor as well as seeing him interact with Daredevil and Fisk. It was nice. I wish I could have seen the death though.
I started watching reruns of The Incredible Hulk in 99 right after I graduated high school. Great show. I really enjoyed watching it. Sometime in the last ten years, I bought a used copy of one of the seasons of The Incredible Hulk on dvd.
Unpopular opinion: Rex Smith would've been as great as Michael Keaton was as Batman had he had the chance to play Batman. And he would indeed be the Sean Connery for the Batman franchise
I watched the hulk/daredevil about 10 years ago and I remember being thoroughly impressed with that daredevil. It was great, he had his fight scenes and everything. Great acting and story. That kingpin was hilarious to me tho
I’d go as far as to say 1990 captain America would’ve fit well within this universe. Throw Dave’s Nick Fury agent of shield and Lungren’s Punisher in there and you’ve got a unique Avengers lineup.
That was awesome. I remember 'Stan Lee's Soapbox' in the 'Bullpen Bulletins' page of Marvel comics of the day. He announced the Hulk movie with an appearance by Thor and you could tell he was over the moon. He spent so long trying to transition those characters to screen. This recap of the early Marvel TV work is great, what a treat.
