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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".

  • The First (2)
    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

  • The Snare
    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

  • Prometheus (1)
    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

  • The Psychic
    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

  • Prometheus (2)
    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

  • The First (1)
    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

  • The Incredible Hulk
    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

  • Mystery Man (2)
    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

  • Homecoming
    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

  • A Child in Need
    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

  • Interview with the Hulk
    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

  • Mystery Man (1)
    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

  • Deathmask
    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

  • 747
    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

  • Equinox
    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

  • The Slam
    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

  • Broken Image
    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

  • Bring Me the Head of the Hulk
    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

  • King of the Beach
    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

  • The Harder They Fall
    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

  • Stop the Presses
    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

  • The Quiet Room
    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

  • Nine Hours
    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

  • Terror in Times Square
    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

  • Married
    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