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The Best Episodes of The Incredible Hulk Season 3

Every episode of The Incredible Hulk Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Incredible Hulk Season 3!

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

Season 3 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "The Incredible Hulk" season 3 is "Metamorphosis", rated 7.1/10 from 202 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Metamorphosis" aired on 9/21/1979 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Blind Rage".

  • Metamorphosis
    7.1/10 202 votes

    #1 - Metamorphosis

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1979

    A rock star who sings for a Kiss-like group becomes suicidal after one of her fans is injured during a concert performance.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Blind Rage
    7.0/10 176 votes

    #2 - Blind Rage

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1979

    An accident at a chemical warfare research station causes blindness for both David and a friend.

    Director: Jeffrey Hayden

    Writer: N/A

  • Brain Child
    7.1/10 183 votes

    #3 - Brain Child

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1979

    A gifted teenager runs away from a scientific institute, and approaches David for help in locating her mother.

    Director: Reza Badiyi

    Writer: N/A

  • The Slam
    7.5/10 180 votes

    #4 - 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

  • My Favorite Magician
    7.0/10 196 votes

    #5 - My Favorite Magician

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1979

    David works as the assistant of a magician, only to get mixed up in a situation involving the magician's estranged daughter and an ex-girlfriend with a questionable fiance.

    Director: Reza Badiyi

    Writer: N/A

  • Jake
    6.8/10 174 votes

    #6 - Jake

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1979

    As a medic for a rodeo, David discovers that an aging cowboy has a serious health condition that could prove fatal; meanwhile, the cowboy's younger brother is mixed up with a gang of cattle thieves.

    Director: Frank Orsatti

    Writer: N/A

  • Behind the Wheel
    7.1/10 174 votes

    #7 - Behind the Wheel

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1979

    David becomes a taxi driver for a cab company whose owner is on the verge of losing the business to a greedy loan shark.

    Director: Frank Orsatti

    Writer: Rick Rosenthal, Todd Susman

  • Homecoming
    8.1/10 208 votes

    #8 - 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

  • The Snare
    8.6/10 260 votes

    #9 - 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

  • Babalao
    6.1/10 174 votes

    #10 - Babalao

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/1979

    In New Orleans, David works for a young physician who tries to convince everyone that a local witch doctor is a con artist.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Captive Night
    7.2/10 179 votes

    #11 - Captive Night

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/21/1979

    While working the night shift at a department store, David and his co-workers end up being held hostage by two brothers who want to rob the place.

    Director: Frank Orsatti

    Writer: N/A

  • Broken Image
    7.5/10 194 votes

    #12 - 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

  • Proof Positive
    7.0/10 188 votes

    #13 - Proof Positive

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1980

    A new publisher takes over the National Register, and decides to rid the newspaper of any questionable stories. This new policy affects Jack McGee's search for the Hulk, so McGee is put under pressure to prove that the Hulk is real.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sideshow
    7.0/10 173 votes

    #14 - Sideshow

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/25/1980

    David is hired as a stage manager at a carnival, and learns that the sideshow's mind-reader has been blamed for a series of misfortunes.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Long Run Home
    7.1/10 165 votes

    #15 - Long Run Home

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/1/1980

    David is befriended by a motorcyclist, who inadvertently gets him mixed up in a gang-related conflict.

    Director: Frank Orsatti

    Writer: N/A

  • Falling Angels
    6.9/10 164 votes

    #16 - Falling Angels

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/8/1980

    The orphanage that David is working at has become a crime school, where two orphaned girls are being trained into thievery.

    Director: Barry Crane

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lottery
    7.0/10 163 votes

    #17 - The Lottery

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/15/1980

    When David is unable to collect the money he won in a lottery, he sends a friend to collect it for him. But unfortunately, without David's consent, the friend, who is a former con artist, decides to use the money in a scheme to hopefully earn a larger profit.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Chris Bunch

  • The Psychic
    8.4/10 220 votes

    #18 - 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

  • A Rock and a Hard Place
    6.9/10 161 votes

    #19 - A Rock and a Hard Place

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/29/1980

    In Atlantic City, FBI agents catch David with contraband shipments belonging to a gang of thieves, and insist that he be an informant until the gang is apprehended. David has no choice but to cooperate with both sides since both are aware of who he is; the FBI agents know that he is David Banner, while the elderly woman, who is one of the thieves, is aware that he becomes the Hulk.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Deathmask
    7.9/10 194 votes

    #20 - 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

  • Equinox
    7.7/10 176 votes

    #21 - 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

  • Nine Hours
    7.4/10 161 votes

    #22 - 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

  • On the Line
    6.9/10 153 votes

    #23 - On the Line

    Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 4/11/1980

    David becomes an arson suspect, and is drafted to help extinguish a forest fire.

    Director: L.Q. Jones

    Writer: N/A