8.7/10 261 votes#1 - The First (2)
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 3/13/1981
David's attempt at a cure is hindered by the other man's exposure to radiation, which revives the murderous Hulk persona the man was cured of many years before. Now, David must produce enough antidote to cure both himself and the other man before more carnage occurs.
Director: Frank Orsatti
Writer: N/A
8.6/10 261 votes#2 - The Snare
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/1979
After being invited to a remote island, David becomes the quarry of a psychotic hunter.
Director: Frank Orsatti
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 254 votes#3 - Prometheus (1)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 11/7/1980
After being exposed to the radiation of a meteor that had just crashed to the Earth, David's transformation back from the Hulk stops midway, leaving him half-Hulk/half human.
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Writer: N/A
8.4/10 220 votes#4 - The Psychic
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/22/1980
A woman with psychic powers identifies David as the Hulk's alter-ego. While the Hulk is a suspect in the slaying of a teenager, the woman predicts that Jack McGee will be murdered by the real killer unless our hero intervenes.
Director: Barry Crane
Writer: Karen Harris
8.4/10 221 votes#5 - Prometheus (2)
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/1980
David's half-Hulk/half-human condition leads a military group called Prometheus to believe that he is an alien, so they capture him, and then send him to a lab for study.
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Writer: N/A
8.4/10 264 votes#6 - The First (1)
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 3/6/1981
David discovers the legend of another Hulk, and investigates in the hope of creating a cure for himself.
Director: Frank Orsatti
Writer: N/A
8.2/10 18 votes#7 - The Incredible Hulk
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/4/1977
A troubled scientist's accidental overexposure to gamma radiation curses him with the tendency to change into a bestial green brute under extreme emotional stress.
Director: Kenneth Gilbert
Writer: Kenneth Johnson
8.1/10 233 votes#8 - Mystery Man (2)
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 3/9/1979
'John Doe' and McGee bond while keeping ahead of the forest fire and a pack of wolves. After transforming into the Hulk, Banner regains his memory and when McGee witnesses a second transformation, he finally realizes the Hulk is not a green creature full time.
Director: Frank Orsatti
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 209 votes#9 - Homecoming
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/1979
While visiting his sister and father for Thanksgiving, David must help salvage the family farm from a plague and a crooked developer; in addition, he tries to resolve the bitterness between himself and his father, whom he blamed for his mother's death many years before.
Director: John McPherson
Writer: Andrew Schneider
8.0/10 267 votes#10 - A Child in Need
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1978
Working as a groundskeeper at an elementary school, David 'Baxter' suspects one schoolboy of being a victim of child abuse.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 182 votes#11 - Interview with the Hulk
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 4/3/1981
A hapless reporter steals Jack McGee's latest tip on the Hulk, and ends up getting an interview with David Banner.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10 245 votes#12 - Mystery Man (1)
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 3/2/1979
Banner has lost his memory after a car crash. With his face wrapped in bandages, he accepts Jack McGee's proposition to see a specialist. Unfortunately, their plane goes down in the woods and Jack injures his legs. Now it is up to David to get them out of there.
Director: Frank Orsatti
Writer: N/A
7.9/10 195 votes#13 - Deathmask
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/1980
A serial killer is stalking the college where David is working; then a misunderstanding leads to David's arrest. And while he figures out the real identity of the killer, the townspeople form a lynch mob.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 337 votes#14 - 747
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/7/1978
David 'Brown' is flying from San Francisco to Chicago only to find out some of the crew are plotting to steal the Egyptian artifacts on board.
Director: Kenneth Gilbert
Writer: Kenneth Johnson
7.7/10 177 votes#15 - Equinox
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/21/1980
While working at a private island owned by a spoiled heiress, David is asked to join a masquerade party which Jack McGee attends uninvited. Meanwhile, someone is out to kill the heiress.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 181 votes#16 - The Slam
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1979
David is arrested for vagrancy, and is sent to a prison camp run by a cruel warden. But when the appearance of Jack McGee prevents David from exposing the conditions of the camp to the press, his fellow inmates turn against him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 195 votes#17 - Broken Image
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/1980
Thanks to look-alike criminal, David becomes a victim of mistaken identity, and is pursued by the police and a vindictive gang. An attempt to leave town is hindered by Jack McGee, who is shocked to discover that David Banner might still be alive!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 165 votes#18 - Bring Me the Head of the Hulk
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 1/9/1981
A rival publisher of McGee's newspaper hires a mercenary to kill the Hulk.
Director: Bill Bixby
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 188 votes#19 - King of the Beach
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 2/6/1981
A body-builder gets signed up in a body-building contest, only to be at odds with some questionable people who are involved in the competition.
Director: Barry Crane
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 167 votes#20 - The Harder They Fall
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 3/27/1981
David survives an automobile accident, only to be paralyzed from the waist down. Therefore, he is told that he may never walk again.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 235 votes#21 - Stop the Presses
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1978
David is washing dishes at Bruno's Restaurant, whose owners are being targeted by a sleazy journalist from The National Register. When Banner's picture is taken, he has to break into the building where Jack McGee works to get it back.
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 194 votes#22 - The Quiet Room
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/11/1979
David 'Balin' is working as an orderly at Valley View Sanatorium. After discovering that a surgeon is using experimental mind control, he unwillingly becomes a patient himself.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 162 votes#23 - Nine Hours
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/4/1980
To save the lives of a reformed gangster and a kidnapped boy, David turns to an alcoholic ex-policeman for help.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 304 votes#24 - Terror in Times Square
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/31/1978
David "Blake" is working at an arcade in Times Square, where everybody pays off "Uncle Jason". David finds out two elderly men are planning to take matters into their own hands.
Director: Larry Stewart
Writer: Justin Edgerton
7.2/10 637 votes#25 - Married
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1978
David 'Benton' travels to Hawaii to meet Dr. Carolyn Fields, a psychologist whose technique might help control the Hulk. However, Dr. Fields is in the terminal stages of a disease that the Hulk could help cure.
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Incredible Hulk
Every episode of The Incredible Hulk ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Incredible Hulk!
During an experiment gone bad, radiation turns a scientist into a raging green behemoth whenever he becomes agitated. Unable to control his transformations, David Banner searches for a cure as he crosses the country, fugitive-style, with a dogged tabloid reporter on his trail.
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDrama
Network:CBS
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Incredible Hulk" is "The First (2)", rated 8.7/10 from 261 user votes. It was directed by Frank Orsatti and written by N/A. "The First (2)" aired on 3/13/1981 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Snare".