Here I am eating dinner and for some reason this episode crossed my noggin. Just that quick I realized, this is professor hulk in it's own cheesy way. I'm sure that's not what they were trying to do but that's what I got from it. Can't believe I didn't see that back then.
@@izzy3166 they do, but he’s not constantly transforming, he’s stuck in between. I just found it a little too obtrusive. I know what they were going for but it felt like I had tinnitus lol
I can remember watching this episode of The Incredible Hulk for the first time as a child. It was, and still is, so awesome and phenomenal to this day. This absolutely blew my mind with David being stuck in mid transformation.
Yes that is one of my favorite episodes along with the Bad Hulk/ Good Hulk. The saddest for me dealt with losing the 3rd wife who has the severe migraines
Ric Drasin actually did a video of his time playing the Demi Hulk here. He tells the story of how he made off with the contact lenses he wore for the show and even has a shot of the lenses sitting in their case. Great video, by the way. Thank you!
When I was about 12 I could never figure out how Banner had the face of Bixby but the muscles of Lou in this episode. It was decades later I found out they did it by having 3 actors play the hulk, the 3rd one being Banner stuck half way but with good editing the face still looked like Bixbys. Thanks for the video. I love reliving this part of my young life
This and the pilot episode were my favorites of the entire series, and I loved the series. Like in the pilot film, Kenneth Johnson incorporated elements from the original Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein films. I loved those little touches and references to the old classic films.
Definitely one of the best episodes which comes about as close to the comic book involving the military. I know Kenneth didn't want to copy the comic book but this was as close as it could get.
Thank you for this video my friend I loved to revisit my favourite tv show , I was about 3 years old when I started to watch this classic so dear to me and so many , this Hulk will be regarded forever as the ultimate Hulk due for unmistakable perfect actors choice in between Bixby and Ferrigno, they gave Hulk a unique tenderness sensibility and charisma impossible to ever be equally matched again ! One of a kind tv series bonding and bridging late 70’s and early 80’s in a way that only us who were there will understand, this show passed the decade torch over from 70’s to new age 80’s , it’s an American iconic historic statement of a golden era of comic cartoon tv series like no other !
As many times as I watched the Prometheus episodes ( one of my favorites by the way ), I always thought that it was too bad David didn’t get a sample of the meteor since it messed with his transformations which probably would’ve lead to a cure.
Laurie always seems to play like a damsel in distress lol... first she couldn't walk then blind. Anyway I really love the hulk show, since I was a kid from the 80s. Bixby and Lou were brilliant. The best version of banner and hulk.👍🏻💯 Good video mate.
I sure do. It’s one of the classics from that TV show! Arguably one of the best episodes! And one of the few that established a real enemy for the Hulk outside of jack McGee who is more of a Frenemy than anything! Too bad they didn’t do another episode with Prometheus or got canceled before they could do one because this easily could’ve been a follow up!
Thanks, you know I remember back in the day that the Hulk at some point had switched to Wednesdays from Fridays, then back to Fridays. Maybe you missed it then. 😀
Lou was noticeably even more massive/muscular than previous seasons...could have played the HULK well into the 1990’s based on his bodybuilding-show appearances.
@@MikeWalkerSBC Geez, when they had him trapped in Death of the Incredible Hulk, he just looked so massive and so powerful. When he bent that steel pole and looked at the camera, me immediate reaction is oh gosh I'm next!
Wow! I found another Demi-Hulk fan! I thought I was the only Demi-Hulk fan. For decades I've always thought that the DEMI-HULK could have been kept as a SPIN-OFF Marvel character. Bodybuilder, Ric Drasin pulled off the Demi-Hulk masterly. The studios succeeded in giving Drasin a Bill Bixby 'look' to his face. Masterful. Drasin is only 6'0" tall but the camera crew was able to portray the Demi-Hulk as something more like 6'3", reasonable since the comic book Hulk is supposed to be 7'0". Having the Demi-Hulk as a spin-off character had some advantages. The Demi-Hulk retained much, if not all, of his human intelligence and reasoning. He could speak and think, although these capabilities seem to be somewhat limited. But the advantage was that the Demi-Hulk retained his humanity and was aware of it. The Hulk was animalistic whose intelligence was little better than a smart orangutan although Hulk seemed to retain some semblance of human emotion and feeling. There would have to be a new storyline invented to promote the Demi-Hulk. Perhaps David Banner managed a partial cure for his transformation. Or else an entirely new scientist character would have to be invented, say, a man who was trying to follow rogue scientist David Banner's research. The Demi-Hulk would continue on his own new path of adventures, maybe combating evil and helping the weak and defenseless. This would be possible as the Demi-Hulk has his David Banner memories, can talk and reason up to a point but not as far as Doctor Banner. The Demi-Hulk would probably still burst out of his human-size clothing as Doctor Banner was around 5'11" at best compared to the 6'3" or 6'4" Demi-Hulk. But since Demi-Hulk can still reason and think, he might carry around a handy stash of big man's clothing that he can quickly slip into, for example, a set of black, comfortable gym sweats that look stylish but can be slipped on fast. Demi-Hulk wears underwear that is very flexible and will stretch when he grows. I do not know if the Demi-Hulk character is copyrighted. Otherwise any author or artist could create their version of the Demi-Hulk. I am not a copyright lawyer so I don't know these things.
One of my favorite episodes. It showed Hulk getting stronger the angrier he got inasmuch as he pushed that large water diverter back up against what would be tons of pressure. Also the in-universe inspiration for the theme music/transformation music she went on to write, well, to me anyway.
1) C"est ma série préférée. 2) L"episode en deux parties et trop - trop génial et c"est bien la transformation à moitié homme et hulk . C'est excellent 👍👍.
There should be mention. Lou asked for more money to play the Hulk. The demi-Hulk was the studio’s way of “showing” Lou he could be replaced. They planned on the demi-Hulk being in more episodes. Lucky for you & me. They realized the show remained popular because of the Hulk (Lou).
And the explanation as to why this meteor seemed like it was being piloted: nonexistent. They needed to make it plausible that the Hulk would be mistaken for an alien, so they had a couple non-committal throw-away lines. [paraphrasing] "That thing almost kinda seems like something might be piloting it, but maybe not." I guess we're just meant to assume the "maybe not" part for ourselves and write it off as some cosmic fluke. I dunno. _They_ forgot about it by the middle of the 2nd episode, so we should too, I guess.
I always thought that the meteor was actually drawn to Earth, rather than piloted, like metal drawn to a magnet. The presence of gamma radiation in the prehistoric Hulk from an earlier season (or Del Frye's Hulk from 1951) could have started attracting the meteor from deep space. Because there is no gravity in space, the meteor would have continued heading generally toward Earth even in the absence of a gamma irradiated creature. The prolonged existence of Banner's Hulk (roughly three years at the time of this episode) would have brought the meteor back on a direct course for Earth. The Earth's rotation and other natural factors caused it to crash near Banner instead of right on top of him. At least that's the theory I came up with in high school in the late '80s when I caught this episode on a rerun.
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This was one of my favorite episodes (2 parts, but 1 story so calking it one episode) when it came out. Not so much for what was there as for the potential and what I was waiting for. It gave us hope aliens would be encountered (especially we hoped Marvel aliens; my buddy was positive the 7-Million Dollar Man actor was a Kree or Skrull, lol). It was exciting to see Hulk and Banner face the government itself, making us think it would become more of a General Ross manhunt situation from then on, with all the hi-tech and action that involved. Some even hoped the radiation and altered change would lead to a speaking Hulk like in the comics. And I was the one lone soul who somehow thought maybe it would lead to a Doc Samson (forget how I saw that working out, but was sold on it being the in-between stage or at least that actor). So, as exciting as it was, rewatching it is just a reminder of how pale it is compared to our own dreamed up version.
@@tvcrazyman leave it to the goverment guys not listening to Jack McGee about how to handle the hulk.....he told them if you charged in there to attack him he would react...the dam fools tried to put him to sleep shooting darts at him.........but it just angered him.............typical goverment guys they never listen to us commen people...🤣🤣😂😂...... McGee after all this time chaseing the hulk learned how he would act when threatened.
When David was stuck halfway, you’d never know when he’d actually change to the full hulk until the clothes started ripping lol & I think this is the first and only time in the series where the hulk is in boxers instead of regular shorts for some reason
In the comic book at least for a while when Banner transformed his purple pants would tear off completely and The Hulk would be left wearing only purple low-rise jockey briefs.😅
I remember reading about this in history class. Apparently, there was a celebration honoring Andrew Jackson's defense of New Orleans, the Canadians burning Washington and the British going home again, in Utah, when the Hulk made his way to the meteor impact site a few minites before the meteor impacted or something..
Actually it was an amphibious British expedition of Royal Army infantry and Royal Marines, about 9,000 total, who marched upon Washington D.C. The nation's capital was under the command of an incompetent Secretary of Defense. The American militia, comprising the majority of the defenders, broke and ran in panic upon being fired upon by the disciplined, well-trained, determined Brits. The American rout became known sardonically, as the, "Bladensburg Races". That disparaging title came from the Americans, not the Brits. In retaliation for the Americans burning the capital, York, of Ontario, then known as, Upper Canada, the redcoats burned down the first White House, but first dining upon the sumptuous roast chicken dinner set out for President Madison and his intrepid wife, Dolly. Other buildings in the city caught fire. But things didn't go well for the British. According to history, some kind of freak windstorm descended upon the city, as if it was retribution from Above. It caused casualties among the British raiders. The British never intended to occupy Washington D.C. permanently. But the devastating freakish windstorm hurried the British evacuation to their boats. The War of 1812, aka, The American War, as known in Canada and Britain, would continue on until 24 December 1814, when both sides signed an armistice in Ghent, Belgium on the basis of quo antebellum, thus ending the conflict, which both sides felt had stalemated and neither wished to continue.
Another argument for allowing the Hulk (Ferrigno) to gradually begin speaking in future episodes. He didn't have to speak in the "Me Hulk" manner, like the comics. The Demi-Hulk was a physical enhanced but mentally impaired version of Banner. At the height of anger, the Hulk could have growled, snarled, etc ... as he calmed down, he could have spoken like the Demi-Hulk ... confused, and searching for the correct words.
When Magee was talking to him in his halfway state, the clos ups seemed to have David s face, the far away shots looked like lou without all the Hulk look.
This Hulk (Bruce's father) broke the freakin multi-ton hydraulic press ! 😡 We are talkin 100's of tons of pressure ! WOW, I thought Bruce's Hulk was immensely strong. Let's not 4get Dell Frye
According to Drasin, the Hulk t.v. show's producers sent Drasin to a hairstylist who gave Drasin's hair the Bill Bixby look. It cost $150,....($780 in todays dollars)
Fun fact: The explosion scene at the end of Prometheus #2 is taken from the film Operation Crossbow starring the great Sophia Loren and George Peppard, who later played Hannibal Smith on The A-Team on NBC.
Very good vid. thank you. You didn't mention Carol Baxter as Dr. Charlena McGowan. She also played an entirely different character in S2 E13 Haunted. She was said to play Renee Stevens in the end credits (in 1978) and even when Googled today. In fact she played Renee's sister Becky. The episode highlighted mental illness. She played the part brilliantly. She even wrote one of the Hulk episodes S4 E10 Wax Museum which also dealt with mental illness; and guest starred Christine Bedford, Ben Hammer and Max Showalter.
Excellent vid! This was one of my favorite shows as a kid. In this episode, do you recall if David retained any of the Hulk's strength when he was stuck in mid-transformation?
When I first saw that I thought that Lou Ferrigno was that faces and Bill Bixby with a transformation so demi play as banner transformation green makeup
FUN FACT: According to bodybuilder, Ric Drasin, who played the Demi-Hulk in the long shots, he was sent by the show's producer to visit the studio barber stylist that required him to get a $150 ($740 in today's dollars) hairstyle to match Bill Bixby's just for this episode.
Remember this special one it took a lot from a story from the comic counter part there is something about this 2 parter that could have gone further and granted the Hulk a very different personality a smart Hulk or perhaps a deadlier version or more there's was a general in this that could have been Thunderbolt Ross and maybe a couple of friends from the pages of the comic book it was fantastic and had a different view on those Hulks that came later in the years that followed but this series did help swan the MCU and the end of this classic cult series to me didn't end it was just one of many different versions of the Hulk series in comics and television the show had emotion and was so much more it was the fact that they had a incredible actor who knew what they wanted to say his talent sold the franchise for years but was he the first choice as David Banner? BILL THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK.
Writer, Producer and Director Kenneth Johnson has said himself on numerous occassions that Bill Bixby was his first and only choice to play David Banner.
One of the most comic-y episode (I recall had read as a kid a comic when Hulk was trapped in a similar metal trap :)) Anyhow, not my best episode personally (prefer the First from the same season) but a nice once.
This video makes me wish that all of the Marvel characters that came to life on 1970s t.v., Spider-Man (Nicholas Hammond & Shinji Todo), Captain America (Red Brown), Doctor Strange (Peter Hooten), with all their respective supporting casts, would've become regulars on THE INCREDIBLE HULK (1977-1982) after Bill Bixby left in 1981. Ferrigno could've stayed on & Jack Colvin could've become more central. They could've filled-out maybe an extra season with the other Marvel characters on the hunt. But I guess different production companies.
I kind of think they weren't as big on superhero teamups back then as they are now. It seems like a logical thing to do for ratings though. It sure worked for the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman until they separated onto other networks. I would have loved to see a Marvel Team-up back then.
@@tvcrazyman WOW! I didn't know THE BIONIC WOMAN had ever moved to a network other than T6MDM. The idea I had was that TIH could've possibly got in another, GOOD, season. Even without Bixby. And we saw way too little of Cap't America & Dr. Strange.
@@tvcrazyman Me, too. This Cap was basically Wonder Woman, Linda Carter, with a shield & motorcycle (instead of an invisible jet). And, of course, The Super Soldier Syrum, instead of an Amazonian prowess. Maybe Wonder Woman, 1975-1979, burned-out the concept?
I just met Lou Ferrigno today at comic con and made a photo with him he is my fav Hulk and the best Hulk in my opinion
One of my favorite episodes
This episode was the closest we ever got to see the Hulk talking! Prometheus and The First were the best episodes of the series.
Here I am eating dinner and for some reason this episode crossed my noggin. Just that quick I realized, this is professor hulk in it's own cheesy way. I'm sure that's not what they were trying to do but that's what I got from it. Can't believe I didn't see that back then.
If this Demi Hulk went up against "The First" old man Hulk he'd have gotten shredded into pieces.
@@Alejandro8Mariono way you can say this is more cheesy that smart hulk... the hulk that can't even smash... the fem*nist hulk...
@@Alejandro8Mariothere's no comparrioson between the 2.
@@Alejandro8MarioNo he was not professor Hulk. He barely had intellect as Demi Hulk. It was hard for him to think how is that a professor.
Always liked how the transformation sound would stay on, while Banner was stuck in mid transformation, like if something wasn’t right.
I liked how in The First when he was trying not to transform, the effect was playing in the background until he couldn't resist anymore.
@@DavidNicholson101 One of my all time favorite Hulkouts of the series, The First.
I’m the opposite, I found it incessant in an otherwise excellent episode.
@@jameskingman1227 You failed to realize that both the sound and the transformation go hand in hand.
@@izzy3166 they do, but he’s not constantly transforming, he’s stuck in between. I just found it a little too obtrusive. I know what they were going for but it felt like I had tinnitus lol
I can remember watching this episode of The Incredible Hulk for the first time as a child. It was, and still is, so awesome and phenomenal to this day. This absolutely blew my mind with David being stuck in mid transformation.
Yes that is one of my favorite episodes along with the Bad Hulk/ Good Hulk. The saddest for me dealt with losing the 3rd wife who has the severe migraines
I felt the same way
Kudos also to where they decided to keep that transformation sound all the way through the two-part episode
Ric Drasin actually did a video of his time playing the Demi Hulk here. He tells the story of how he made off with the contact lenses he wore for the show and even has a shot of the lenses sitting in their case.
Great video, by the way. Thank you!
I appreciate it!
Do you all remember this episode, "Prometheus" from the fourth season Incredible Hulk premiere?
'Prometheus' was one of the best two-part episodes of the series that introduced some interesting 'what if' scenarios in the show.
Agreed!👍
I think the "Married" and "Mystery Man" two-parters were good as well.
And The First!
@Dale Henderson Not fond of "Married" but the ending of the 2nd part was sad.
Prometheus was probably my favorite episode of the whole show and I love how well they pulled off David’s mid-transformation look. Great episode!
Half david and half the hulk was pretty cool to throw together
When I was about 12 I could never figure out how Banner had the face of Bixby but the muscles of Lou in this episode. It was decades later I found out they did it by having 3 actors play the hulk, the 3rd one being Banner stuck half way but with good editing the face still looked like Bixbys. Thanks for the video. I love reliving this part of my young life
This and the pilot episode were my favorites of the entire series, and I loved the series.
Like in the pilot film, Kenneth Johnson incorporated elements from the original Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein films.
I loved those little touches and references to the old classic films.
Using Katie Prange again. She's great.
@@vgsr7435 Laurie Prange.
Definitely one of the best episodes which comes about as close to the comic book involving the military. I know Kenneth didn't want to copy the comic book but this was as close as it could get.
There’s to many episodes l love ,but over all lm a hard core Lou Ferrigno HULK fan always
Thank you for this video my friend I loved to revisit my favourite tv show , I was about 3 years old when I started to watch this classic so dear to me and so many , this Hulk will be regarded forever as the ultimate Hulk due for unmistakable perfect actors choice in between Bixby and Ferrigno, they gave Hulk a unique tenderness sensibility and charisma impossible to ever be equally matched again ! One of a kind tv series bonding and bridging late 70’s and early 80’s in a way that only us who were there will understand, this show passed the decade torch over from 70’s to new age 80’s , it’s an American iconic historic statement of a golden era of comic cartoon tv series like no other !
As many times as I watched the Prometheus episodes ( one of my favorites by the way ), I always thought that it was too bad David didn’t get a sample of the meteor since it messed with his transformations which probably would’ve lead to a cure.
My favorite episode
Laurie always seems to play like a damsel in distress lol... first she couldn't walk then blind. Anyway I really love the hulk show, since I was a kid from the 80s. Bixby and Lou were brilliant. The best version of banner and hulk.👍🏻💯 Good video mate.
One of My Favorite Two-Part Episodes, and You Described It Very Well! Congratulations On The Launch Of Your Book - Liberty Ace!!!!
Thanks! I appreciate it! 😀
@@tvcrazyman No Prob. We need more fun these days, thank You for giving us some!!
I sure do. It’s one of the classics from that TV show! Arguably one of the best episodes! And one of the few that established a real enemy for the Hulk outside of jack McGee who is more of a Frenemy than anything! Too bad they didn’t do another episode with Prometheus or got canceled before they could do one because this easily could’ve been a follow up!
Lol. Oh how I had loved to hate that Jack McGee!
I can't remember this episode going to have to try and find it and watch it another awesome share my friend 😀
Thanks, you know I remember back in the day that the Hulk at some point had switched to Wednesdays from Fridays, then back to Fridays. Maybe you missed it then. 😀
Lou was noticeably even more massive/muscular than
previous seasons...could have played the HULK well into the 1990’s based on his bodybuilding-show appearances.
If you think he's big here, go watch 1988's The Incredible Hulk Returns!
@@MikeWalkerSBC Geez, when they had him trapped in Death of the Incredible Hulk, he just looked so massive and so powerful. When he bent that steel pole and looked at the camera, me immediate reaction is oh gosh I'm next!
@@DavidNicholson101 😄😄😄😄
Where's Thor😆
This is a great episode but as a kid it scared me to death! Especially when he gets stuck during his transformation
By far……one of the BEST 2 part episode of The Incredible Hulk!!
This one of my favorite episodes, when David was stuck mid transformation. As a kid, couldn't figure out how they got Bill Bigsby so swole.
It's one of my all-time favorite episodes of the series! Thank you for sharing.
RIP Ric , thanks for the vid 🙏🏻
Wow! I found another Demi-Hulk fan! I thought I was the only Demi-Hulk fan. For decades I've always thought that the DEMI-HULK could have been kept as a SPIN-OFF Marvel character. Bodybuilder, Ric Drasin pulled off the Demi-Hulk masterly. The studios succeeded in giving Drasin a Bill Bixby 'look' to his face. Masterful. Drasin is only 6'0" tall but the camera crew was able to portray the Demi-Hulk as something more like 6'3", reasonable since the comic book Hulk is supposed to be 7'0".
Having the Demi-Hulk as a spin-off character had some advantages. The Demi-Hulk retained much, if not all, of his human intelligence and reasoning. He could speak and think, although these capabilities seem to be somewhat limited. But the advantage was that the Demi-Hulk retained his humanity and was aware of it. The Hulk was animalistic whose intelligence was little better than a smart orangutan although Hulk seemed to retain some semblance of human emotion and feeling.
There would have to be a new storyline invented to promote the Demi-Hulk. Perhaps David Banner managed a partial cure for his transformation. Or else an entirely new scientist character would have to be invented, say, a man who was trying to follow rogue scientist David Banner's research.
The Demi-Hulk would continue on his own new path of adventures, maybe combating evil and helping the weak and defenseless. This would be possible as the Demi-Hulk has his David Banner memories, can talk and reason up to a point but not as far as Doctor Banner.
The Demi-Hulk would probably still burst out of his human-size clothing as Doctor Banner was around 5'11" at best compared to the 6'3" or 6'4" Demi-Hulk. But since Demi-Hulk can still reason and think, he might carry around a handy stash of big man's clothing that he can quickly slip into, for example, a set of black, comfortable gym sweats that look stylish but can be slipped on fast. Demi-Hulk wears underwear that is very flexible and will stretch when he grows.
I do not know if the Demi-Hulk character is copyrighted. Otherwise any author or artist could create their version of the Demi-Hulk. I am not a copyright lawyer so I don't know these things.
"Stupid bees! Hulk smash puny bees!"
That was my favorite episode.
This and “the First” were my favorite episodes.
'Prometheus' is a brilliantly crafted and fascinating Episode of THE INCREDIBLE HULK TV Series !
Nice post…… really enjoyed your videos and insights of the episode I remember that one especially the 2nd part
This episode and The First are my favorite Hulk episodes!👍💪🤢
One of my favorite episodes. It showed Hulk getting stronger the angrier he got inasmuch as he pushed that large water diverter back up against what would be tons of pressure. Also the in-universe inspiration for the theme music/transformation music she went on to write, well, to me anyway.
1) C"est ma série préférée. 2) L"episode en deux parties et trop - trop génial et c"est bien la transformation à moitié homme et hulk . C'est excellent 👍👍.
Ric Drasin and his stories about the golden age of bodybuilding era are great.
11-1-22 thank you TV Crazy man, I saw this episode in 1981, I have that episode in my DVD incredible Hulk series.
I say this is also as close as the Hulk came to comic levels. He takes 8 military grade darts and isn't fazed, and lifts that monster hydraulic press.
Until you realize that "military grade" means that it was made by the lowest bidder 😂
Prometheus two-parter is still one of my episodes to date😃
There should be mention. Lou asked for more money to play the Hulk. The demi-Hulk was the studio’s way of “showing” Lou he could be replaced. They planned on the demi-Hulk being in more episodes. Lucky for you & me. They realized the show remained popular because of the Hulk (Lou).
Very interesting.
Brilliant two-parter, really enjoyable.
And the explanation as to why this meteor seemed like it was being piloted: nonexistent.
They needed to make it plausible that the Hulk would be mistaken for an alien, so they had a couple non-committal throw-away lines. [paraphrasing] "That thing almost kinda seems like something might be piloting it, but maybe not." I guess we're just meant to assume the "maybe not" part for ourselves and write it off as some cosmic fluke. I dunno. _They_ forgot about it by the middle of the 2nd episode, so we should too, I guess.
I always thought that the meteor was actually drawn to Earth, rather than piloted, like metal drawn to a magnet. The presence of gamma radiation in the prehistoric Hulk from an earlier season (or Del Frye's Hulk from 1951) could have started attracting the meteor from deep space. Because there is no gravity in space, the meteor would have continued heading generally toward Earth even in the absence of a gamma irradiated creature. The prolonged existence of Banner's Hulk (roughly three years at the time of this episode) would have brought the meteor back on a direct course for Earth. The Earth's rotation and other natural factors caused it to crash near Banner instead of right on top of him. At least that's the theory I came up with in high school in the late '80s when I caught this episode on a rerun.
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The first time you get to hear Hulk express himself. Love that he hates his Banner side when he sees his reflection
No, it was still Banner, while hating what he became, a Demi Hulk
When I was a kid I thought he was demi Hulk because he got stung by the bees.
I never thought of that. 😀
This was a good episode
This was one of my favorite episodes (2 parts, but 1 story so calking it one episode) when it came out. Not so much for what was there as for the potential and what I was waiting for. It gave us hope aliens would be encountered (especially we hoped Marvel aliens; my buddy was positive the 7-Million Dollar Man actor was a Kree or Skrull, lol). It was exciting to see Hulk and Banner face the government itself, making us think it would become more of a General Ross manhunt situation from then on, with all the hi-tech and action that involved. Some even hoped the radiation and altered change would lead to a speaking Hulk like in the comics. And I was the one lone soul who somehow thought maybe it would lead to a Doc Samson (forget how I saw that working out, but was sold on it being the in-between stage or at least that actor). So, as exciting as it was, rewatching it is just a reminder of how pale it is compared to our own dreamed up version.
I would have loved to see Doc Samson show up. 😀
I could easily see Marty Markham as a Doc Samson(like) character. Reminiscent of the $7M man.
@@tvcrazyman leave it to the goverment guys not listening to Jack McGee about how to handle the hulk.....he told them if you charged in there to attack him he would react...the dam fools tried to put him to sleep shooting darts at him.........but it just angered him.............typical goverment guys they never listen to us commen people...🤣🤣😂😂...... McGee after all this time chaseing the hulk learned how he would act when threatened.
@@kjk7611 Monte Markham.
@@stephenalanmoore7278 Oh, thx.
When David was stuck halfway, you’d never know when he’d actually change to the full hulk until the clothes started ripping lol & I think this is the first and only time in the series where the hulk is in boxers instead of regular shorts for some reason
In the comic book at least for a while when Banner transformed his purple pants would tear off completely and The Hulk would be left wearing only purple low-rise jockey briefs.😅
I remember reading about this in history class. Apparently, there was a celebration honoring Andrew Jackson's defense of New Orleans, the Canadians burning Washington and the British going home again, in Utah, when the Hulk made his way to the meteor impact site a few minites before the meteor impacted or something..
Actually it was an amphibious British expedition of Royal Army infantry and Royal Marines, about 9,000 total, who marched upon Washington D.C. The nation's capital was under the command of an incompetent Secretary of Defense. The American militia, comprising the majority of the defenders, broke and ran in panic upon being fired upon by the disciplined, well-trained, determined Brits.
The American rout became known sardonically, as the, "Bladensburg Races". That disparaging title came from the Americans, not the Brits.
In retaliation for the Americans burning the capital, York, of Ontario, then known as, Upper Canada, the redcoats burned down the first White House, but first dining upon the sumptuous roast chicken dinner set out for President Madison and his intrepid wife, Dolly.
Other buildings in the city caught fire. But things didn't go well for the British. According to history, some kind of freak windstorm descended upon the city, as if it was retribution from Above. It caused casualties among the British raiders. The British never intended to occupy Washington D.C. permanently. But the devastating freakish windstorm hurried the British evacuation to their boats.
The War of 1812, aka, The American War, as known in Canada and Britain, would continue on until 24 December 1814, when both sides signed an armistice in Ghent, Belgium on the basis of quo antebellum, thus ending the conflict, which both sides felt had stalemated and neither wished to continue.
I love the show it came on in the 90s on the Syfy channel
Love this one
Another argument for allowing the Hulk (Ferrigno) to gradually begin speaking in future episodes. He didn't have to speak in the "Me Hulk" manner, like the comics. The Demi-Hulk was a physical enhanced but mentally impaired version of Banner. At the height of anger, the Hulk could have growled, snarled, etc ... as he calmed down, he could have spoken like the Demi-Hulk ... confused, and searching for the correct words.
THE BEST EPISODE
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I am literally wearing an old Gold's Gym t-shirt right now as I watch this!
It's the only one I have and haven't worn it in a while. Cool coincidence.
Very informative recap, mate. Comic looks good too
Thanks
When Magee was talking to him in his halfway state, the clos ups seemed to have David s face, the far away shots looked like lou without all the Hulk look.
Tv version of professor hulk! 💪➕🙇
Kind of was I guess, but he was a bit more monstrous than the Professor Hulk I think.
My favorite episode.
I love all the transformations 😅😅
This Hulk (Bruce's father) broke the freakin multi-ton hydraulic press ! 😡 We are talkin 100's of tons of pressure ! WOW, I thought Bruce's Hulk was immensely strong. Let's not 4get Dell Frye
According to Drasin, the Hulk t.v. show's producers sent Drasin to a hairstylist who gave Drasin's hair the Bill Bixby look.
It cost $150,....($780 in todays dollars)
2:00 Throws bee's nest onto nice family having picnic lol
This is my favorite episode
Fun fact: The explosion scene at the end of Prometheus #2 is taken from the film Operation Crossbow starring the great Sophia Loren and George Peppard, who later played Hannibal Smith on The A-Team on NBC.
Very good vid. thank you.
You didn't mention Carol Baxter as Dr. Charlena McGowan. She also played an entirely different character in S2 E13 Haunted. She was said to play Renee Stevens in the end credits (in 1978) and even when Googled today. In fact she played Renee's sister Becky. The episode highlighted mental illness. She played the part brilliantly. She even wrote one of the Hulk episodes S4 E10 Wax Museum which also dealt with mental illness; and guest starred Christine Bedford, Ben Hammer and Max Showalter.
He's like the earliest version of Smart Hulk.
Loved the video huge hulk fan
Lol. As a kid, I use to think that the bees made him into a Demi Hulk.
This was my all time favorite of the episodes.👌
Great video ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My favorite
Excellent vid! This was one of my favorite shows as a kid. In this episode, do you recall if David retained any of the Hulk's strength when he was stuck in mid-transformation?
Yes, he seemed to be stronger than his completely human side.
Yes. He was, maybe, half as strong, half the stamina, half the threshold to pain.
He even growled while he was in his half-Hulk/half-human condition. He did so when he and Katie were at the meteor site at the end of Part 1.
The picture photo shot at table is Ric Drein as own pit Ric Corner show on TH-cam which has pass always 👍🏆
When I first saw that I thought that Lou Ferrigno was that faces and Bill Bixby with a transformation so demi play as banner transformation green makeup
El episodio que más me gustó. fue diferente a las otras cuando yo era niño
Great video brother
THIS WAS AN AWESOME EPISODE, THIS AND THE ONE WITH THE OTHER HULK!!GARY BAILEY KING OF DARKNESS
Since,the transformation never stopped halfway, it was understandable that David was confused, scared, and angry.
Yeah, compared to now, The episodes were campy, but the series paved the way for the Hulk today!!!
At one point you thought that Ben Stiller went to the gym!!!!
Yes and he also grew six inches taller while doing it. 😀
@@stephenalanmoore7278the name of the is Rick Drasin bodybuilder
Basically Prometheus was Shield.
Demi Hulk is scarier than full hulk.
Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out that in this situation anger and rage would not be triggered.
Thanks!
FUN FACT: According to bodybuilder, Ric Drasin, who played the Demi-Hulk in the long shots, he was sent by the show's producer to visit the studio barber stylist that required him to get a $150 ($740 in today's dollars) hairstyle to match Bill Bixby's just for this episode.
Remember this special one it took a lot from a story from the comic counter part there is something about this 2 parter that could have gone further and granted the Hulk a very different personality a smart Hulk or perhaps a deadlier version or more there's was a general in this that could have been Thunderbolt Ross and maybe a couple of friends from the pages of the comic book it was fantastic and had a different view on those Hulks that came later in the years that followed but this series did help swan the MCU and the end of this classic cult series to me didn't end it was just one of many different versions of the Hulk series in comics and television the show had emotion and was so much more it was the fact that they had a incredible actor who knew what they wanted to say his talent sold the franchise for years but was he the first choice as David Banner? BILL THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK.
Writer, Producer and Director Kenneth Johnson has said himself on numerous occassions that Bill Bixby was his first and only choice to play David Banner.
One of the most comic-y episode (I recall had read as a kid a comic when Hulk was trapped in a similar metal trap :)) Anyhow, not my best episode personally (prefer the First from the same season) but a nice once.
"The Bees, no not the bees"!!!
My fave ep! My only question was how did the door get back on? Later, she answers it for the military men!
That's a great question. I think I missed that blooper 😀
@@tvcrazyman Don't worry. I have the DVD collection and it took me many years to catch that! Lol!
I like this
and this was before the
MCU PROFESSOR HULK
version
Everyone thought that demi hulk was savage joe fixit lol
ZO GOOD
Two Parter Looks Like A Tv Movie
You know what the Demi Hulk reminds me of? What the MCU Hulk would become in Avengers: Endgame.
So that what it would have been like if the TV Hulk talked 🤔
How great it was to be young enough to think he might have found a cure, when in real life that would have ended the show. 😄
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Half a hulk face. Shout out to Patrice O'Neal.
This video makes me wish that all of the Marvel characters that came to life on 1970s t.v., Spider-Man (Nicholas Hammond & Shinji Todo), Captain America (Red Brown), Doctor Strange (Peter Hooten), with all their respective supporting casts, would've become regulars on THE INCREDIBLE HULK (1977-1982) after Bill Bixby left in 1981. Ferrigno could've stayed on & Jack Colvin could've become more central. They could've filled-out maybe an extra season with the other Marvel characters on the hunt. But I guess different production companies.
I kind of think they weren't as big on superhero teamups back then as they are now. It seems like a logical thing to do for ratings though. It sure worked for the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman until they separated onto other networks. I would have loved to see a Marvel Team-up back then.
@@tvcrazyman WOW! I didn't know THE BIONIC WOMAN had ever moved to a network other than T6MDM. The idea I had was that TIH could've possibly got in another, GOOD, season. Even without Bixby. And we saw way too little of Cap't America & Dr. Strange.
@@kjk7611 I loved the Captain America TV movies. They definitely should have given him a full series.
@@tvcrazyman Me, too. This Cap was basically Wonder Woman, Linda Carter, with a shield & motorcycle (instead of an invisible jet). And, of course, The Super Soldier Syrum, instead of an Amazonian prowess. Maybe Wonder Woman, 1975-1979, burned-out the concept?