The Incredible Hulk (TV Series)

:For information about the comic book series entitled "The Incredible Hulk", please see Hulk (comics).

Made-for-TV movies

Three episodes of the series appeared first as stand-alone movies, but were later split into one-hour length for syndication. Two were produced as pilots before the series officially began in 1978.

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Stand-alone movies - Syndication - 1978

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• The Incredible Hulk (pilot) - 1977
• Death in the Family (pilot)- 1977
• Bride of the Incredible Hulk (season 2 premiere "Married" parts 1 & 2) - 1978

After the cancellation of the television series in 1982, three television movies were produced with Bill Bixby reprising his role as Dr. Banner, all of which aired on NBC.

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1982 - Television movie - NBC

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• The Incredible Hulk Returns - 1988 David Banner meets a former student who has a magical hammer that summons the god Thor. Set up as a possible pilot for a live action television series that would loosely be based on the Marvel Comic book hero named Thor. Thor was played by Eric Kramer.
• The Trial of the Incredible Hulk - 1989 David Banner meets the blind lawyer named Matt Murdock and his masked alter ego; Daredevil. The Incredible Hulk and the Daredevil battle the Kingpin of Crime. Daredevil was played by Rex Smith, while John Rhys Davies played the Kingpin. This was also set up as a possible pilot for a live action television series that would loosely be based on the Marvel Comic book hero named Daredevil.
• The Death of the Incredible Hulk - 1990 David Banner falls in love with a Eastern European spy and saves two kidnapped scientists. The film ends with The Hulk taking an apparently fatal fall from an airplane.

Despite the apparent death of The Hulk in the 1990 film, more Incredible Hulk television movies where planned to help launch a pilot for She-Hulk and Iron Man. There was also talk about doing a television movie with the cast from the 1977-1979 live action Amazing Spider-Man television series in the mid-80s. However, all such projects were cancelled when Bill Bixby died of cancer in November 1993.

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She-Hulk - Iron Man - Amazing Spider-Man

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