The Incredible Hulk: The Complete Second Season
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Hit the road again with mild-mannered scientist David Banner (Primetime Emmy Award nominee Bill Bixby) as all 22 Season Two episodes of The Incredible Hulk smash onto DVD for the first time! After accidental exposure to gamma radiation causes him to transform into the uncontrollable and enraged Hulk (Lou Ferrigno), Dr. Banner travels from town to town seeking a cure. Along the way, he finds action-packed adventures that require his heroic abilities and his alter ego's immense strength and power. Joining his quest are guest stars Pat Morita, Gerald McRaney, and Mariette Hartley in the role that won her Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Featured in this must-own 5-disc set are incredible bonus materials, including an all-new on-camera interview with producer Kenneth Johnson and more.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #22550 in DVD
- Brand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)
- Released on: 2008-06-03
- Rating: Unrated
- Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
- Formats: Dolby, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Subtitled in: English
- Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
- Running time: 1114 minutes
Customer Reviews
great set for a great show
I love this show. The DVD set is great. The discs are clearly marked and organized and the directors commentary on the season's opening episode, "Married" is very informative and insightful. If you love the show, this is a great set to own.
HULK SMASH! THE MISADVENTURES OF THE INCREDIBLE HULK ALA 70'S TV STYLE!
The Incredible Hulk TV show was a pretty loose adaption to the classic Marvel comic hero, but the show did have heart. Bill Bixby has always been likable enough, but the FX and silly contrived situations to make Banner turn into the Hulk are laugh out loud funny!.....I mean how many times can this gifted Doctor bang his thumb with a hammer or fall clumsily, so that he can get mad and HULK OUT!?
Hey, if your a fan of the series you really don't care about the goofy-ness of this show. I deduct one star because some of the chapter breaks are sloppy, making it hard to skip the intro without missing some of the show and there should be more extras. This season the Hulk fights a fake Bigfoot, martial arts experts, tackles the Chicago Bears..eh Cougars? and ends up in a demolition derby! The DVD has a very good transfer and some interesting extras.
A Definte Upgrade To Season 1
THE INCREDIBLE HULK's 1978-79 Season is awesome and a definte upgrade to the Hulk's 1st Season, especially since this show was pretty much just starting to crawl during it's First Season even though The Incredible Hulk was an instant smash when it made it's debut on CBS in the Spring of 1978, but this show was definetley walking by the time it started it's Second Season, which was when I started watching this show religiously every week on CBS.
As a matter of fact, this 1979-1979 Season takes me all the way back to memory lane when THE INCREDIBLE HULK was on CBS's Friday night line-up starting with WONDER WOMAN at 8PM followed by THE INCREDIBLE HULK at 9PM topped off by DALLAS at 10PM, which was of course before THE INCREDIBLE HULK was moved to Wednesdays around January of 1979, which was of course before CBS had moved THE INCREDIBLE HULK back to Fridays making it part of CBS's Friday night line-up again in March of 1979.
Therefore, when CBS moved THE INCREDIBLE HULK back to Fridays, CBS's new Friday night line-up was kicked off by THE INCREDIBLE HULK at 8PM followed by THE DUKES OF HAZZARD at 9PM, topped off by DALLAS at 10PM.
It was also interesting seeing
-Gerald McRaney before he was even famous when he guest starred in both "The Disciple" episode and the "Ricky" episode, which was of course before his co-starring days on SIMON & SIMON, MAJOR DAD, and TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL
-Sherman Hensley in the "No Escape" episode during his co-starring days as George Jefferson on THE JEFFERSONS
-Singer Rick Springfield in "The Disciple" episode before he became famous and before his hit song "JESSIE'S GIRL" was even released
-Shelley Fabares in the "Escape From Los Santos" episode before her co-starring days on COACH
-Pat Morita in the "Stop The Presses" episode before his co-starring days on HAPPY DAYS and THE KARATE KID
-Jerry Douglas in the "A Solitary Place" episode during his earlier co-starring days as John Abbott on THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS
-Lance LeGault in "The Antowuk Horror" episode before his co-starring days as the overzealous Col. Decker on THE A-TEAM and before his co-starring days as Col. Green on MAGNUM, P.I.
-Julie Cobb before her co-starring days on CHARLES IN CHARGE
-Bill Lucking in "The Antowuk Horror" episode before his co-starring days as Col. Lynch on THE A-TEAM
-Kim Catrall in the "Kindred Spirits" episode before she was even a star
-Thalmus Rasulala in the "No Escape" episode before his co-starring days as Capt. Bolz on THE NEW DRAGNET and after his co-starring days on the sitcom WHAT'S HAPPENING
-Howard Morton in the "Vendetta Road" episode before his co-starring days on GIMME A BREAK and THE MUNSTERS TODAY
-A. Martinez in the "Kindred Spirits" episode before his co-starring days on SANTA BARBARA, GENERAL HOSPITAL, ONE LIFE TO LIVE, and PORT CHARLES
-Markie Post in "The Confession" episode before her co-starring days on NIGHT COURT and THE FALL GUY
-Morgan Woodward in the "Vendetta Road" episode during his co-starring days on DALLAS
-Dana Elcar in the "Escape From Los Santos" episode before his co-starring days on MACGYVER
-Dennis Holahan in the "Alice In Disco Land" episode before his co-starring days on GENERAL HOSPITAL
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Additionally, this season had a lot of cool and touching episodes like "A Child In Need", "Alice In Disco Land", "Married", and "Mystery Man", because in the "Mystery Man" episode, it's a 2-parter episode when David Banner(Bill Bixby) loses his memory after a fatal car wreck and then later gets lost in the forest with the persistent newpaper reporter Jack McGee(Jack Colvin)after David & McGee survive a plane crash in the woods while they try to rejog David's memory as they struggle to stay alive and be rescued while showing us scenes from previous episodes from The Incredible Hulk's first 2 seasons describing McGee's obsession with the Hulk & how it got started while David tries to put the pieces of the puzzle together while having flashbacks of his involvement of his ghaslty ordeal with the Hulk by using clips from The Incredible Hulk's 1st and 2nd Seasons, including scenes from the pilot episode.
In the "Married" episode, while searching for a cure to his horrendous infliction with the Hulk in Hawaii; David ends up meeting and marrying a terminally ill scientist(Mariette Hartley) who is dying who was potentially his only hope to cure his relentless affliction with the Hulk, which has a tragic conclusion when Dr. Caroline Fields(Mariette Hartley) dies in David/The Hulk's arms at the end of this episode leaving David as a widower again.
In the "Alice In Disco Land" episode, while working at a bar, David helps a teenager battle her drinking problem by helping her turn her life around at the conclusion when she wins the disco dance contest at a bar that was illegally serving liquor to minors, which ends up going out of business at the end of this episode.
In the "A Child In Need" episode, while working as David Baxter as a gardener at an elementary school; David helps out a physically abused child(Dennis Dimster) by later helping the boys father(Sandy McPeak) come to the realization at the end of this episode that he is a child beater who was also abused as a kid & needed professional help and ends up going to rehab at the end.
This season also takes me back to memory lane when CBS's motto was "Turn Us On", since that was the motto on CBS from the Fall of 1978 thru the Summer of 1979.
It's just too bad that Universal didn't add a more sophisticated bonus episode from The Incredible Hulk's 3rd Season, like the "Proof Positive" episode for instance or even the "Metamorphosis" episode instead of using the "Homecoming" episode for the bonus episode on this DVD.
So I highly recommend THE INCREDIBLE HULK's 1978-79 Season to anybody who watched this show religiously every Friday night on CBS like I did.




