Bixby's acting was phenomenal in the "Dark Side" episode playing the "evil" Banner!

@@dannyboyy8465 Agreed. My favorite was The First Part 1 and 2.

@@jrewing1512 Mine too. That old evil hulk was scary as heck to me as a kid.

@@dannyboyy8465 And watching David witnesses the cure he so desperately want all the years destroyed made his transformation gut wrenching. Bill Bixby made David's plight to be free from his curse moving and made him sympathetic and a tragic hero.

RIP BILL BIXBY. If another actor had been cast as David Banner you wouldn't have got the respect and professionalism Bixby bought to the character. What makes the Incredible Hulk so special? It could've treated the Hulk as a joke or a kiddie show character. Instead, they chose to explore the Hulk in a realistic way. TRUTH I would love to see a continuation of the series. I think it would work, because as you said, it was ahead of the times. Now, they'd be able to take the realism and down to Earth angle to new places which the original couldn't explore. "Trial of the Incredible Hulk" was the closet to a modern and some would a depressing version where you see Banner is homeless and basically a victim of the Hulk. The Hulk keeps him alive. Yes. But also is a curse. The Incredible Hulk is a tragic story if you remove all the comic book elements.

Freddy-You're right about Bix-gone too soon.

​@@davidaston5773That's like Get Smart. Barbara Feldon once stated that Tom Poston was originally cast as Max before the role went to Don Adams. Being cast as Byron Glick on The Bill Dana Show made him the perfect choice for Max, and I can't imagine 99 being as adoring of Poston as she was of Adams.

Great info@@KevinMiller-xn5vu. I NEVER knew all that. Curious the world of acting and casting.

​@@kevinmiller6380 Today is his 90th birthday. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT????😮

Agreed.

Are you saying this was his natural manifestation of his own suppressed anger?

@@seensay2132 Most likely, yes. His mother died when he was a boy, and he always blamed his father for not letting a doctor stay on the grounds. So he rebelled and went into medicine. Then the death of his wife, Laura, during a car accident that he felt was his fault. Six months following the accident, compound that anger with the knowledge that he himself had the potential for that hidden strength that all humans have - more so than the others he and Elaina interviewed - only to be unable to call on it because there was a low sunspot gamma activity that day. That had to only add to his own self-hatred of himself and feeling of powerlessness. People ripped away from him because he could not save them. The mind can be greatly affected by so much trauma, this much survivor's guilt, after a while.

@@Artisan1979 it all adds up, doesn’t it lol!

@@Artisan1979 Eh could be, but I think he's too level headed to let that control him, I think all this would have happened regardless, I mean he was a doctor/scientist, he experimented with medicine, if you're saying it was all in his mind and imagining it, that's pretty ridiculous.

@@Mrd9960 Humans only use 10% of the brain power. Emotion can affect somebody so traumatically without them even realizing it.

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Mike Davis-Yep. That was the CBS lineup on Friday nights when I was a boy of 12 when The Incredible Hulk debuted in 1977.

So classic The incredible hulk 👊

I know that line heard that 100 of times ;)

I believe you mean that doctor. Now let me tell you something. I don't scare off easy and I'm going to get my story.

Boanoite

'I missed the part where that's my problem'

McGee's such a pest. It'd serve him right if he got David angry.

I think he was afraid that the Dr would run more tests figuring out that he transforms into a hulking green creature and that also he would transform after having his premonitions or a nightmare in the hospital. That's why he wanted to leave.

The Hulk did!! Lol

When he turned green he was classified as an illegal, so we did.

@@branmichaluk445 haha, good one!! I think......lol

The company he worked for, since he was only in the hospital due a workplace accident at the start of the episode

J R paid for it lol

That episode was "The Harder They Fall"

Professor Ken-Look at it this way-after Banner was electrocuted, he could see into the future.

It's a curse to him. He Transforms against his Will.

Deep Shock from Season 4

Season 4 Episode 3